>>59055747I'd say a number of the older Pokémon games are "deeper" (and I'm not saying they're deep, I'm just saying relatively speaking) to BW. What people mistake for being deep is presentation and story focus. The actual writing is very, very blatant. Like that other guy said, this is the game where the guys saying they're looking for Pokémon rights and liberation gang up on and beat up a Munna in the first 20 minutes of the game. Every single time Ghetsis and Team Plasma appears, it has to play evil, ominous music. This is the game with this unironic dialogue. It tries to present itself as something more while being like this the whole way through. No, the sages randomly dropping philosophy quotes doesn't mean anything, any pseudo-intellectual teenager can do the same thing.
B2W2 doesn't put on any of these pretenses and legitimizes part of Team Plasma. They can actually acknowledge that there are abused Pokémon in that game instead of treating every single member like a strawman so the player can understand they're EEEVIIIILLL and have no arguments.
