>>57924966>I pity those who need to use hate as a motivation to play a video game, much less one aimed at children as "Babby's Firstest (J)RPG".I don't think this is necessarely the case. A lot of people liked Blue because of his bantz and the fact he was always a step ahead of you meant that he talked the talk and walked the walk. Yes, taking him down is also about humbling him but this isn't unseen in other vidya that give you a rival (first one that comes to mind is Vergil DMC).
I personally always thought the reason why GameFreak doesn't really want to do the asshole rival again is because Blue is Blue and repeating him just wouldn't be the same... and frankly I am inclined to think this even more after Hop was like Hau but worse and annoying to fight. Even Gladion and Silver are too samey.
Making rivals too similar to ones they wrote before is never a good idea. They know that if they tried to make a friendly guy with powerful bantz wouldn't hit the same anymore.
But now I remembered that Kieran counts as a rival and maybe most players do want to be moved by spite and want to humiliate their bullies. Meh.
