Evaluating the story of every major Pokemon game from generation 1-7

Pokémon is probably one of the most interesting examples of an RPG that doesn't need a particularly compelling plot to be successful and the series' huge following is just proof of that, but with Sword and Shield on the way I really like it. made me wonder about all the different things. that its predecessors were right and wrong, so I set out to play all the main

game

s in the franchise, which in my opinion spans eight different

game

s. In this video I will cover the writing of the various stories throughout these games and give my thoughts on what was done well and what could have been done better, this covers the amount of fun I have with the stories, how well How well the dialogue is written and how well the characters and rivals interact with you, of course, a lot of these ideas are going to be obviously subjective, but I think that's to be expected with this type of evaluation.

It's also good to note that I'm going to be playing the original versions of these games, which means no remakes or enhanced editions. Nothing of that. My reasoning for this is that I don't really want to compare these games as they were released without new revisions or additions to the game's plots, so without further ado, let's jump into the

story

of the first Pokémon Red and Blue. Red is this fascinating example of an RPG that was extraordinarily well received without having an amazing

story

to tell was practically unheard of at the time because turn-based RPGs tended to rely heavily on having an amazing story to tell.

At this point, we were already past the era where Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy brought something new to the table, so the plots could be relatively basic. I guess you could argue that the anime filled in the blanks in some ways, but I really can't imagine Final Fantasy 6 being released with almost no plot alongside an anime and getting the big bucks. Of the success that Pokémon had it goes without saying that reading the story and the plot elements were quite basic. It will definitely be memorable if you grew up with it if the game mechanics didn't support the story.

I think it would be pretty safe to say that the plot would be considered nothing special, although you start out as a little boy who is immediately thrown into a world where no bad people exist besides cartoonish villains, are given your first Pokémon, and then sent off to start. . By filling a new technological device with information about the rest of them, it's easy enough to keep saying that adults don't care if a little boy runs away to a world of monsters to capture them and use them as war machines to fight others. monsters in these games, but applying any kind of real-world logic at this point is an exercise in futility;

In any case, you have free rein to proceed as you see fit, but the important thing is to collect all the gym badges to face the monsters. Elite Four and defeat your absolute chat of a rival Gary-oke or Blue or whatever you really call him for this video. I'll call him Blue now. Blue is pretty much the epitome of what a rival should be at least in my eyes. As much as it's easy to go along with his anime presentation of being completely cocky, he tends to give the player a lot more advice on how to proceed rather than just being enraged by their loss and goes beyond that, actually the guy is almost always one step away. ahead of you and constantly work to improve and improve and continue to test and challenge yourself to make sure you are also ready to take on certain challenges.

He really is the perfect example of how a rival should feel at least. at that point, the dialogue is naturally quite primitive and not very convincing, but I think it serves its purpose quite well as a self-confident boy. I'd love to delve into how bad I feel when Game Freak drops the ball on my rivals and subsequent games. but I'll save that for when I get to the later games, as I mentioned before, the first Pokémon games of their time were such a rare phenomenon that they put the RPG plot elements second to the mechanics and as such tend to to letting the player just walk away and do whatever while occasionally making them rain by using the big bads to physically impede their progress towards the Elite Four, so the actual plot is pretty basic as far as any real substance after fight with your rival doing a task for Professor Oak and passing through Brock, you reach the tunnels where Team Rocket shows up and then, finally, Cerulean City.

I think the first dialogue I found with these guys is this guy says yeah, we're all evil. Right, I mean, honestly, Team Rocket is one of the dumbest criminal groups and they're pointless in almost

every

way, their specialties tend to include blocking vital progression paths and being a general nuisance to society that the police are sure to He doesn't seem to understand. involved and when they do it is to tell you how many problems they have with Seam Rocket. It's particularly interesting when you think about things like the lieutenants' speech about having served in a Pokémon war that stuck out to me even as a kid because I had just done it.

I didn't think of that application at the time when you think about it, although if these great monsters with powers that rival or surpass modern war machines were discovered and tamed in today's world, you can bet your ass that the United States will amass the most powerful . in some kind of underground private facility and when you start considering government organization of a war as a possibility, it makes the whole Team Rocket part of the story even more ridiculous and how inept they and the police force are. The plot of Pokémon Red is just this weird idea that kids can do anything they set their minds to, while adults are baffled by how poorly they've trained their own Pokémon, of course there are some amazing settings like Lavender City. in the Pokémon tower and all the cool things. ideas that arise from those concepts, my question regarding all of this is the idea of ​​the Silph scope, which allows these previously intangible ghost Pokémon to be seen, fought and captured in the same way that you have to infiltrate the Team HQ Rocket to obtain this seemingly patented piece of technology to be able to see even these three ghosts in the game is really distracting when you consider the number of ghost type trainers in the game, including Agatha from the elite, for now I guess you could spin this on the another direction and Well, all of these coaches are average and very attuned to the ghosts around them through extensive practice, which is a good headcanon to work with, but it also begs the question of what the average coach sees when a Ghost type Pokémon comes out of one of these. medium trainers and that's the main problem regarding the speculation with these previous

pokemon

games, these answers weren't there because that's how many of these games were back then.

I'm sure there's even unconditional support for that make-up-your-own-answer mentality. Some groups out there, Team Rocket, hold the old man hostage, who in turn holds the poké flute used to advance in the game hostage, but to get that far without a pokey doll, you need the Silph scope of the Rocket's hideout. The biggest problem is how dumb Team Rocket is in their response to a kid's SWAT team operations. They give vital information when they lose. They throw key objects on the floor. They are simply useless in almost

every

way. Unfortunately, this trend follows the series for a while.

A long, long time and it's really annoying as an adult to replay these games because as a kid I didn't care and in fact I thought Giovanni was kind of intimidating and he really still has a wise appearance, but man, after juggling this circus of clowns like they are nothing, that intimidation factor is just lost and this feeling really continues until Team Rocket's final act, the cilco, which builds a company that Team Rocket apparently just decided, yeah, we'll take care of this now , even the employees are like No, I really don't know what to do. This really shouldn't work this way without some kind of police involvement, but hey, I guess they don't need to bother when two kids can walk in and just ruin the joint.

I don't know why Blue was here waiting to ambush you, but you he lets it be known that you're good at taking on Team Rocket's boss after his defeat and then sets his sights on the Pokémon League, maybe he was grabbing the gym badge. from Giovanni here before he leaves after defeating the big boss, he talks about all the Pokémon that belong to Team Rocket and that will come back, whatever that means, he will go back to self-build and fight me again, but you know, I don't understand why Blaine is there. hide the secret key to his gym and the burnt shell of a mansion this is like a strange pokémon trainer test in Kanto why are all the people who follow Blaine around his trainer in his gym are thieves and maniacs?

What about the jugglers and tamers who follow him? kogas ninja school I feel like these types of trainers were designed before being placed in specific gyms, but I think the most disconcerting part of all is concluding Giovanni's character arc, this guy looks and acts like an evil mafia boss and somehow it also runs. They're used to running a League gym, his gym has been closed until now, which was apparently totally fine with the League. I guess he retired to reform Team Rocket, but then you beat him again and he was like, well, he was going to try to do it. get the gang back together but you stopped me here's your badge here's a TM Team Rocket is defeated forever and I'm going to go study Pokémon from now on what place sucks but yeah that's it for Pokémon Red, Go to the league where you are. blue for the second to last time, it's going well, that battle let me loose, you need some practice man, but you know what legend, of course, that tune changes for the first time when you defeat him as champion.

It's the first time he really reacts to losing to you. The other times he's been pretty positive about his loss and then focuses on his next goal, but apparently this was the last straw and can you blame the guy, he was champion for probably a few hours and then on top of that oak, stop by to scold him. Wow, you were just champion and you blew it, God, I'm disappointed and it's all because you don't love your Pokémon, what a disappointment, anyway, that's the plot of Pokémon Red, it's not particularly fantastic in any capacity, but I think everyone We knew going into this that I at least hope Pokémon Silver starts us off in the same way as Red, albeit much more directly there.

It's not a song and dance where you have to be escorted back to the lab because you stepped on some grass or an instant battle with your rival, it tries to get you out into the world with your starter as soon as possible of your choosing. your starter and then you walk out quite curiously, a red haired guy is looking towards the lab and he picks you up like a bowling ball when you approach him so it's okay. I assume you sent to meet the professor's friend, mr. When you arrived Pokémon, you were given an egg, which is particularly interesting to me only because in this world an egg is a crazy discovery that requires express delivery and inspection by a Pokémon Authority.

Professor Oak is also here and inspects you to make sure that you are indeed a little boy before handing out another piece of really advanced technology. When you think about it, adults in this world are really strange in an almost deliberately naive way. In reality, this only gets more complicated when Professor Elm frantically calls you and explains that emergencies happen and you have to come back immediately little boy adult calling the little boy for help something doesn't add up anyway it turns out the redheaded fool who he threw you as cannon fodder before he broke into the lab and stole a Pokémon type which counteracts yours, no man could stop him from doing this apparently even though the local police actually existed and did a little investigation when he arrived, this guy is ours rival for the game, and again not a horrible antagonist compared to later rivals, breaks into the lab and steals. his Pokémon and basically like a control can to be attracted to.

I get it after you find out what happened, they send you off to do whatever you want, which basically means go collect badges again. Gym leaders and silver tend to add a little more flavor. the game's background without expanding too much, for example, the first gym leader shouts out my dad's prized Pokémon bird when you defeat him, which is really strange to me because it means that this kid has the official ability as an authority figure to give you a real official Badge that affects many different aspects of a coach's life. This thatkids handing out badges is only further exemplified by people like Whitney, who is actually the worst gym leader in any Pokémon game and ironically calls you kid while crying.

Her eyes widen because she lost, she mentions that she got into Pokémon training because she was the most popular, which is even more absurd because she's giving up 12 and a half percent ability to challenge the Elite Four. I don't know, maybe I am. Putting too much importance on the Elite Four and what they represent, maybe most people in Johto see it as some kind of private Country Club and don't really think about it, but when it's the end goal of the game, it seems very important. Why are these royal children guarding something with so much value?

Maybe there's an adult test where, as the first Gym Leader, Dad steps in when someone arrives with obviously tougher and more experienced Pokémon, but then how do you explain something like the Ghost Gym Leaders quest? ? power that is interrupted when you show up and smoke. The guy from his ghost gang has been training so hard that he has psychic powers and you just walk in and beat up the poor guy, he even admits to you that you've seen more than him which just doesn't add up but again, I don't know, maybe Maybe I'm thinking too much about it, you continue. along your route to the gym and Team Rocket shows up again being evil for seemingly no reason.

I mean, don't get me wrong, they are definitely an atrocious group as they always have been. I mean, they're just cutting off slow lines and selling them for tons of money, but their main motive seems to be just to be idiots to everyone. I guess in this case they are actually making money off the lines, at least I still find it strange that there are actually police officers in this world, but They don't do anything to stop Team Rocket in any way, what they will do is stop you in a public route and wonder what you are doing and then fight you, at least the slow ones with their tails cut off can decorate the city.

As bad dragon merchandise after rescuing them as you progress, the game's main legendary Pokémon is repeatedly mentioned as the protector of everything, although no one seems to know what it is or what it's called. I know it's a decision to preserve the mystery in some way. but you gotta realize that you threw that damn thing on one of the covers of these games, especially when you have a guy in the tin tower sitting there telling you that you need a rainbow wing to make the Pokémon appear, coolest mystery though . Here are the 3 legendary dogs that reside in the burning tower and run out when you reach them.

It's a curious contrast between hearing everything about a legendary Pokémon and what it represents before meeting it or just leaving it completely mysterious and giving the player a bare minimum. knowledge about it I think I actually like discovering a legendary item with an overworld sprite instead of knowing everything beforehand, even if that's not really relevant to writing a good story from here, it's a little more interference from Team Rocket where you get mugged for 1000 fun Pokémon dollars and force Magikarp to evolve, meet up with Lance from the previous game and go do some street justice on these suckers, starting with old Lance here, beaming with excitement at this guy and then tossing it aside like he was trying to. capture a Pokémon with your body there are a lot of people who jump into this game this plot isn't exactly super compelling it basically boils down to Giovanni hiding after being hit by red in the events of the previous game his followers are just doing whatever Evil things they can possibly manage to do until he's ready to take over again, but again, these guys are cartoonishly evil to a point that doesn't even make sense a lot of times Lance is pushing for all the love for your Pokémon and having compassion for them. . they schedule like it's a really brave stance and these ding-dongs are just running around with no motivation beyond let's be bad and even then they volunteer information like they've been trained to give it or something I just don't do.

I don't understand how I have to search for the HMS among seemingly random civilians, but these rocket grunts are like, hey, by the way, you need passwords to open the doors, maybe you should ask Bill if he knows. Don't know. I guess it's a step up from the Pokémon Red plot, but just a little, it's a little annoying that these buffoons somehow managed to take over a radio tower just to go Hey guys, where's our boss? They miss their boss when they finish running from place to place to finally stop these guys from potentially affecting Pokémon with this almighty radio wave signal, the guy leading the group says oh right, we'll stop apparently, it really was that Easy When you're finally done beating Team Rocket, it's time to collect the last badge. except this dragon gym leader tells you that she doesn't accept your victory when you defeat her, instead she explains that you have to go to the dragon cave behind the gym to retrieve a fang and prove that you defeated her.

It's not just a fluke, it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in this game and I'm honestly surprised they managed to overcome their own bad storytelling by taking this girl who claims to be the best dragon master in the world and then having She threw a tantrum because she lost, I mean you were just fighting alongside Lance from the Elite Four, but yeah, the win was a fluke and she's the best in the world, which I think with half the gym leaders being completely incompetent when it comes. to managing the awarding of badges, which is literally half of her job.

Finally I can specify what bothers me so much about this whole experience. When I walked past all the gyms dressed as Pokémon red, I always felt like the gym. The leaders stood together as if they were wise adults and beating them was a task even when it wasn't with this absolute circus of badge collecting. I felt like the whole experience was cheapened by these whiny, proper, arrogant people who honestly had no rights. handing out badges in the first place, I mean, for God's sake, you just navigated the cave after her, grabbed the Fang, and then she follows you and says, yeah, there you go, so let's touch on the rival a little more. this game just to make a little comparison between it and blue, apparently the official name is silver, so we will choose that silver is extremely anime.

He hates the weak so much that he wants to destroy every person or Pokémon he considers weak. Interestingly, this includes the Team. Rocket fused them together as extremely weak people who have come together individually to form something that is artificially strong and honestly he's not wrong when he loses to you, he says it's his Pokémon's fault for being too weak and then storms off and continues on as well. calling you a weak person after you repeatedly hit him over and over again, so this guy has some problems, eventually you start drilling it into his head that he's not as strong as he thinks he is and he starts to wonder if Lance was right when he told him he needed do it. he treats his Pokémon better at the end of the game, he's still trying to be the best in the world, but he's accepted that he needs to treat his Pokémon better to do so, as much as I enjoyed blue as a rival.

I think Silver's arc is a lot. rather well written and interesting, yes blue is a bit of a jerk but silver goes from being a full blown punk to someone who learns to improve and be more compassionate but as far as the game's plot goes that's everything for Pokémon Gold and silver, you defeat the Elite Four, they tell you how compassionate you are and all that jazz. It's actually quite impressive to see that Kogas made it to the Elite Four and that Bruno has advanced further. The plot is a step up from Pokémon Red and Blue and actually tries to tell more of a story, even if it stumbles quite a bit along the way because, honestly, Team Rocket just cutting off Pokémon's tails and generally treating Pokémon as trash makes them villains, even if their whole structure and plan is completely silly, it's actually kind of ironic and funny because I was probably the worst trainer I could be because I was constantly letting my Pokémon get attacked because I was trying to gain some traction from them.

XP, but I didn't care enough to heal myself. them I am absolutely the epitome of everything Lance was preaching or at least that's how I played during the silver version. I know there's more to the game and that you can go and collect all the Kanto badges, which is honestly an amazing move on the game's part. It's strange, but I think I've rambled on enough about one game already, so let's move on to Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. Now Pokémon Sapphire was my favorite version for most of my life, but it's been a while when your character survives the moving truck and doesn't.

Don't get crushed and your mother starts gushing about the move, this game actually looks like it's going to have a bit more of a plot element than the previous games as she goes on to talk about how your father actually exists as a noted sword trainer. of Pokémon. the plot element is only further exemplified when you have to go meet Professor Birch's daughter before you can continue. I mean, it's written like a cardboard cutout but they're drying out. I was hoping that you would be a good salt and that we could be friends. Oh, this is nonsense, isn't it?

I just met you, so she runs off to help her father and quickly teleports to a different route just as her father is attacked by a wild Pokémon. The infamous Pokémon professor apparently couldn't handle a level to put Jenna on. and didn't think about having a Pokémon of his own to help him with his studies, you are then sent to find his daughter who quickly fights you, you both run back to Birch who makes sure you are underage to give you a pokedex and then sends you out into the wilderness to protect more traveling professors in their research efforts, so after running to Petalburg you discover that your father is actually a gym leader.

I really like this concept because the game not only shows that you have a father for once, but it also makes him seem pretty important and even allows you to challenge him sometimes in the future. That's a big decision too because it would be a little anticlimactic to destroy your father right away. The rival also decides to introduce Wally at this point. Wally really exists. I guess he's kind of a secondary rival. Don't know. He starts off as a kid who has no experience with Pokémon, which of course is the perfect way for the game to deliver.

You get yet another tutorial by watching him catch a Pokémon and then being told to go collect all the badges as usual. As you make your way through the large regulation bug forest, you encounter a research executive who has been joking around. He is then chased by a member of Team Aqua or Magma, depending on which version you are playing, the growl continues on the guy handing in some research papers and the executive hides behind the kid and asks for help, you hit the guy and by Of course, he alludes to what they'll do next by telling you that they're planning something in Rustboro, for some reason, nothing means bad as much as telling people where you're doing bad things.

In any case, I find myself in the first gym to face another young, fresh-out-of-school Gym Leader. I guess I'm still trying to understand the gym system in these games and it could be from region to region because Brock seems to be an older guy with a lot of wealth. of experience compared to the average kids into young adults who are running around and yet in the next two games the first few gym leaders are younger and basically say they are using their dad's Pokémon or are fresh out of school, so I guess in theory it's totally realistic that someone would just come in with a level forty spin and beat this poor Geodude girl into a grandma, after collecting her badge she'll witness the guy she beat before that he escapes with what he actually managed to steal, apparently both cell phones. and police don't exist in Hoenn because this guy ran into a crowded office building armed with nothing but a foot and a half tall puppy and stole some important goods when they chased him, apparently he also took a hostage bird.

I don't know, I don't know either, but it's impressive. I mean, a winged creature can probably go higher and hold it like a dog. I guess it's weird, well it doesn't really work for him because I don't know. You really care about the hostages and he returns the goods and the bird to you, you are rewarded with another big ball from the great ball god for your efforts, the executive then takes you to the top of the office building he works in to meet you as the president, who sent you on a couple of errands in exchange for a map, a map that they simply give away in other games. 99 child labor sure is cool, at least it actually gives you one of thebetter elements of the game when you return.

Arriving in Dewford I made my way through the fighting gym where the leader makes a lot of references to water for some reason, I'm not entirely sure why maybe he just wanted to be a water gym leader, then you hand him a letter to Steven. which is in the back of a cave and tells you that you're destined to be great and all, from here you set sail for Slateport, where a flock of Team Aqua members hang out outside the museum until you find a specific person and talk. he's told that the captain you're trying to deliver the goods to is somewhere else, and then all the Team Aqua grunts managed to get into the museum.

This is funny to me because this bunch of dumb evildoers basically lined up. I paid the entrance fee and then waited in the museum until you showed up to deliver the goods to the captain after defeating them. His boss arrives to reprimand them. fight you and leave you with the parts they came here for. Gamefreak writes some fascinatingly simple characters anyway, their old Archie goes on to tell you that team aquas' goals are basically to expand the ocean like less land, more ocean, okay, move on to the next one. In the city you meet Mae again and I wasn't fully prepared, although she is much nicer than the last two rivals, she will completely decimate you if you are not prepared, which I definitely wasn't.

It's also worth noting here that there is a man who has 100% lost children in his basement, which he considers the house of tricks. I couldn't find a way to call the police to report this, but he gave me candy for making it through his trick house, so I guess it's okay, later. We find Wally standing outside the third gym with his level 16 Ralts. He's really ready to kick ass, but his uncle insists he's not ready, so I kick his ass to show him that his uncle is right beyond that. The bike shop owner in this game is meaningless and he just gives you a bike.

I find the increasing indulgence of bike shop owners a little funny because in the first game they want to get paid. you like a million dollars, then in the second game they needed the publicity so they gave you one to help them with that and then in the third they say oh wow your shoes are dirty, well here's a bike after traveling around some towns. Head to the meteorite falls where Team Aqua is terrorizing a scientist into giving them a meteorite for their plan, except this time their counterpart Team Magma shows up to try to stop them, of course your character just lets them. push you to your side and run away.

Okay, I guess the first guy with Devon Goods should have done that, but anyway, if you can evaluate what Team Magma wants based on Team Aqua's stupid goals, then you probably wouldn't be too surprised if they want more land and less water. What a strange set of goals to create a group of humans. I mean, honestly, Team Rocket at least wants to like they don't know world domination or something. These guys just want more water or more land. I have referred to them as evil a few times. times, but I mean they're a little silly, we give things more water, actually the water Pokémon will be happy and you'll give people more places to swim, you'll stop their plan to deactivate an active volcano, actually, no It's like that.

Doesn't sound like a bad plan given the village below, but hey, yeah, you stop him and then move on and hope those guys don't get buried in lava when you get back from the gym, he might run over to give you something. glasses to help you cross the desert here is my continued observation about Mae. She may be the best trainer on the surface, but she's damn ruthless and completely undermines any reasoning you might have for challenging gyms by saying the reason you're challenging them is to defeat her and then she tells you she's going to beat your father like he's a ruthless man, so you run back to Petalburg to beat your father before May can and honestly, it's more anticlimactic than I thought it would be, I mean.

The type uses three normal-type Pokémon, two of which are the same. She didn't expect to lose to you, but she gives you your badge and tells you that Wally's parents want to see you when you arrive, while her father gives you surf to express his gratitude. with how much you helped him, in a rather strange way he phrases it as this is not a bribe anyway, you can cross the next fragment of the map where the aqua team is trying to take over the weather, this time the weather you know the same previous situation. Really talking about the same old situation, May hits you right after you've dealt with an entire building of people and the nearest Pokémon Center is actually in the same direction you're heading, at least this time she gives you a fly Honestly, Mae really understands.

More arrogant as time goes on, in a more passive and aggressive manner than her previous rivals, she continues to tell you that you are not going to beat her and even attributes your victories and your desire to become stronger to the fact that she decided to fight you. Previously, anyway, let's move on to what the aqua team is doing real quick. Meanwhile, they go to Mount Pyre. What are they doing in Mount Pyre taking this red orb what is it for? I don't know, but this old lady says, "You can." Don't take it can't be separated from the blue orb and my character says, "Fortunately, Team Aqua always tells you what they're doing or you'll follow us to our secret base in Lilycove City located near the eggs at 8:00." if you see the wailmer line just head northwest, this chase continues in the next areas and you always know where the aqua team is because they keep telling you, but you must find a way to get to them, this means getting the next badge gym and then visiting Steven again will give you another useful item when you finally reach Team Aqua.

Archie is somewhat surprised that you beat him again before he reveals the orb he stole to awaken the ancient Pokémon Kyogre when Kyogre wakes up from his big nap. it just starts wreaking havoc on the surface causing a torrential downpour to start in Siddappa' less and starts spreading throughout the house, so Team Aqua is there happy right now, of course not, this is too much, we wanted water, but we weren't expecting that much. Water Man I can't believe how much water is going through Are you kidding me? I do not know what to do. This plot is breaking me again.

Team Rocket was one thing, but holy hell, so now you have to go fix all this. As usual, you head to the Cave of Origin, a cave rumored to be the origin point where all life began. The 8th Gym Leader and Steven take you there after noticing you have the blue orb. Since before you face the powerful ancient pokémon in a really cool battle, there is no dialogue, there is no interference, it is just you in this powerful ancient pokémon, one revered for its power and deserving of the utmost respect, so after blinding to eternal hell.

We put Kyogre in an ultra ball and gave him a cute nickname which is a naughty boy when you come out of the cave. That's all. I legitimately expected Team Aqua and Magma to be with Wallace and Steven. In fact, I can imagine it like wow. You did it, the sky cleared up, awesome job, we've learned our lesson, come challenge me right now, but yeah, it's still the same out here. I was actually wondering if I broke a sequence by escaping, but it actually turns out to be the big celebration. it's just Steven standing outside the gym and saying yeah good job, also the gym leaders waiting and this is really it for most of the story.

If you're me, you decide to travel through Victory Road without flashlights, escape ropes, or repellents because you're a fucking idiot and at the end you meet Wally for the last time, buddy. I beat Wally so badly before he became a good trainer, like the last time I saw him was when he had a level sixteen Ralts and nothing more. So seeing him with an actual team of 45 Pokémon blew my mind, of course after this it's just your standard Pokémon League story. Oh, you're so compassionate towards your Pokémon. What a great bond you have.

I can't believe we still have an Elite. Four consisting of trainers who only use a certain type of Pokémon and also made Steven the champion because who else would he be? It was cool when Lance helped you with gold and silver because you already knew who he was before he even showed up and so challenging him was much more meaningful in the end because he was a true ally fighting side by side with you and he was this legend from the previous game . Steven was just a glorified item giver and someone who kept showing up around.

If you want to have a quick chat, I'll say that his team composition was much better than Lance's, although I still understand how people always make it to the Pokémon League champion chamber after defeating the champion because it happens in every game. I mean, there are people standing. outside to check badges before you can move in, but maybe being a professor negates that requirement, overall I'd still play the sapphire plot over the previous two entries, although at this point we're splitting hairs, the bad guys in this game they definitely have more. of a clear goal, even if it's really stupid, but I'd be remiss if I left out the fact that Ruby actually changes the villains' minds, which is pretty cool, as difficult as it was in the game's narrative, does better than the last two games which is always a good thing, maybe as a rival she's probably the weakest in terms of how she was written just because she doesn't really have a character arc she just does what she's always done been doing.

I would say wali. she has more ambition and ends up being someone to compete with and Mei was more of a researcher who occasionally showed up to train with you. I think it would have been a lot more interesting if he had appeared more in the middle and basically taken over more. Instead, the battles next to the plate are Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the first of the Nintendo DS games in the series, this guy's name is Rowan, guess what people call him, Professor Pokémon, what an honor, de Anyway, you start this game by watching a news story. report something documentary about the angry red Gyarados that makes your friend here angry and ready to go, see something like that at the local lake Berry definitely has a nosy, hyperactive type of personality, sure reminds me of blue in a way yeah Blue once considered you a friend rather than a rival, so you're walking to the lake in a man shaped like a miniature human centipede, the technology is really advanced.

Visiting the lake is the Pokémon professor and his anime partner, both of whom are forgetful. in the fact that they just leave this briefcase full of things in the tall grass, well, here are old barrels who want to check it, but your character silently warns him about the dangers of being in the tall grass, assures you that nothing will happen and you two leave. Check it out, the Birdemic occurs in two Lee stars that come flying at the speed of sound because apparently Lee stars are carnivorous or overly protective or just like Canadian geese anyway, the girlfriend before returning to get the case discovers that you two They've released a couple of Pokémon from inside and then leave in a huff when you return to town.

Rouen stands there and looks at the two of them before leaving, you can keep your Pokémon and your mom gives them to you. some shoes to run to the next town and talk to Rowan about what happened when you arrived, you are escorted to the lab and the professor does the standard age check to make sure he is giving a pokedex to a child before sending you to your Here Dawn takes it upon herself to tell me that the red buildings, the Pokémon Center, and the blue buildings, the Mart, even though I rejected the adventure information at the beginning of the game, are still as different as the beginning of Diamond seems to be. , it really ends simply.

Being his usual self, there are no signs of death yet in this one, but you do get a bit of interaction from your mother before she tells you to fuck off. I know it's not supposed to be like this, but her toy registry seems really fake. Wow. I can't believe that happened. I hope you have fun on your adventure. Anyway, you head back to San Jem and then Tutorial City, where you're encouraged to visit the school there and then go learn about the basics. game in exchange for such a Pokémon watch, it's a very strange promotional model, but I guess we'll pretend it's a well-written device to teach newcomers about the game, then you move to a real town that has a gym and a gym.

The leader just left. I really don't like it when I arrive in a city and the gym is simply not available for the challenge until you complete some kind of obligation. Okay for critical story elements, but this is just the first gym in the gameand apparently this guy is gone. to mine right when you showed up, that makes it look like there's some kind of crucial task the leader needs to perform or supervise in the mine, but he's literally hanging between two rocks waiting for someone to come so he can show us. We explain how crushing works. rocks, let me repeat how to spell this.

Ah if you could get that gym badge from this town you could smash rocks like this of course you would have to beat the leader first that would be me and then he just walks away why did this happen? Because new players between sapphire and diamond are very incompetent, but they would never have been able to figure out how Rock Smash worked without a tutorial from the leader. I hope they teach me how to slash and surf too anyway, this living miner helmet goes back to his gym and then you can smash him to get the first badge.

This guy is shocked that he got defeated by someone with no badges even though it's literally half of his job, so it's time. To comply with the latest version of Team Rocket Team Galactic, their goal when you first see them seems to be to extort Rowan's research notes from them because they apparently want to know how to harness the evolutionary energy that a Pokémon exudes when it evolves even though they evolve. guys seem to be swinging the bad boy, bull cut number 5, their goal seems to be the least stupid one yet, unfortunately, their methods are average, the only real difference seems to be that the bull cut team here talk like mooninites, They basically constantly explain their plans are the same way Aqua and Rocket did, although these guys definitely seem to be a lot more depressed when they lose, they complain that the Pokémon they have with them are boring after you defeat them, which seems imply that they don't increase their In any case, these guys want to take advantage of the electricity that the wind power plant produces for unknown reasons, so after you eliminate their boss, they leave and head to the next area they are terrorizing, then After this you meet Cynthia, who is definitely not the Lance/Stephen of this game and you definitely won't see her again, she gives you a slash, which of course requires the second Gym Leaders badge to use outside of battle. .

Fortunately, the second gym leader here waits outside his own gym to tell people that I need to beat all the trainers inside before fighting them. What a good person waits all day for the coaches instead of just having the information guy at the front telling people okay so first game goes for bikes second game promotion third game dirty shoes How do we get a bike in this hostage rescue game? Yeah, apparently Team Rocket is an entire building here dedicated to stealing other people's Pokémon, like I'm not even joking about all this. The purpose of the building is to research the internet and take Pokémon from civilians.

The building has spikes. Most grunts actually have no idea why Galactic is doing what they are doing. Some of the grunts continue to save the future by discovering. a new energy source to use others say they need as many Pokémon as possible to achieve their goals and the commander of this building says his leader will rule all sin. Oh, either way, after you return the bike shop owners, you get a new Pokémon. bike and the whole building just goes away like this the purpose of the building was 100% nefarious and then it just gets abandoned again there are no police in Pokémon there is no intervention most of the adults are pretty helpless there are no government officials Jenny is a lie, I am the law speaking the law, this blue-haired man is also unhappy with how society has turned out.

I don't know who he is or what he's going to do, but he's very upset anyway. Gym Leader Holmes is missing, there's no explanation, he's just not there. she stands outside the contest hall and then stands still like an energy, so she moves on to the next city if you want to progress. Luckily, Berry shows up to get his butt pounded daily and give you info on where the next available gym is. clearing the local flavor of the

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tower and gathering hm strength from the old lady at the top, you move on to Vale Stone, the gym leader here insists that she has no idea why she has been made gym leader and after fighting She can only repeat that. feeling after this I'm going to the big swamp, but unfortunately it's 500 US dollars and I don't have that kind of money, so I'm going to talk to this guy, instead he tells me not to follow him, but I do. anyway, when I catch up to him he tells me not to follow him again, except this time he paid Berry to run up to me to see how my training was going, so I throw his Pokémon like it's an Olympic event and then he continues telling me.

He told me that he should really keep chasing that fleeting bowl cut because no one who's a good person runs away like that and then runs away like that, only further cementing his place as a galactic spy. I continue chasing this guy all over the area hitting him strategically. the smaller kids he's throwing my way until he finally turns around and fights me, god I wish he'd been level 70 after all that, anyway I let the guy go for some reason and then there's Cynthia again, she gives me everything. box of Tylenol Extra Strength to help the ox with headaches who blocks the path and then gets mauled as he walks away, that was strange, but at least that's the last time I know I'll see her after giving her the warm milk. and cookies for the Psyduck squad that are handed out as Cynthia arrives one last time to give you something to give to her grandmother.

I assume she can fly, but apparently she just doesn't want to talk to her grandmother, so I go to do it for her and her grandmother tells me that there is a man in the middle of the city proclaiming loudly that he is going to blow it up with a bomb, no one is doing nothing about it, so I go to do something about it and he just leaves, I guess shortly after this. you get a little insight into the origin of the Sinnoh region and the idea that a Pokémon God existed a long time ago with three other Pokémon opposing the god to keep the world in balance or something and then blue-haired Cyrus walks by again to tell me.

Name her and give me his business card, so after checking a couple more, I met up with Barry in the library where Don and Rowan were also. Rowan goes on to explain that he is doing a lot of research and nothing really helps the research reach validity like investing. in child labor, so he will send you to one of three lakes to study a legendary Pokémon, the other two were sent to two other lakes to study their own legendary Pokémon, since the plans are presented in earthquakes and everyone is dragged outside by sniffing them. in the air something Rowan is able to easily verify that this was not a simple earthquake a sailor comes running to confirm this since the news apparently travels extraordinarily fast supposedly a bomb exploded in the lake you were supposed to go to now let me collapse and Explain the seriousness of this situation because the earthquake was felt here and the explosion occurred here.

So what does this mean? It means Barry will go to his lake and you will go to yours. Surely this means that Dunn and Rowan Join these two kids to watch this act of terrorism, right, yeah, I gotta get to that other leg, buddy, dawn asks, will you be safe, right, God, it better be. or there will be a dead child in your hands, professor, I don't know. what kind of sentence do they have for this kind of negligence in this lawless land, but you better pray it's Swift, the old man arriving, the lake surely exploded like a dying Pokémon, everywhere exploded, that's pretty brutal, so dumb as Galactic, they have a clear or semi-clear goal and are now showing how far they are willing to go to achieve it, so my legendary lakes are gone and visiting Dawn's doesn't produce much better results since Galactic has also mined the Legendary Pokémon. there, so the only one left here is Barry's, although Mars insisted that they have captured all three Triforce Pokémon and are now ready to make a wish soon either way.

I march north to collect the seventh badge and then infiltrate the lake, I think one of the things that bothers me most about the story in the Pokémon games is the complete lack of personality that your human shell exhibits, since I understand which is supposed to be a blank kid where you project your own type of personality onto them, but there are these little cases where you try to get something pushed and all an adult has to do is stand there and walk away. Now we won't let anyone in until they finish doing what they're trying to do and it just doesn't make sense to me. because my character doesn't even feel real in the context of the world he inhabits, he just feels like a drone.

I don't know, at the end of the day it's just a plot for a Pokémon game, but I feel like that's what it would be like. It doesn't take much effort to make this story make a little more sense. I mean, you're making me play it, why not make it a little more believable? Anyway, I take my badge and then I'm allowed back into the lake. where one of Galactic's commanders replaced my turn to beat up Barry, since Mars said it's too late for me to do anything because this elaborate blockade of - grunts has really complicated my rescue operation, so I return to Vale Stone.

To confront the criminal enterprise that is Team Galactic, the head of Team Galactic gives me a master ball because he gave up his emotions and his brain cells. You may be trying to stop me from achieving my goals, but I don't feel anything and therefore the part. Where you beat me doesn't mean anything, you can also free those legendary Pokémon we kidnapped. The rest of Team Galactic can use Pokémon as tools, but instead I make their power my own. I don't know what that means, but I can only imagine that he is absorbing the power from him. power to become some sort of ultimate Jojo character, Sega Saturn also doesn't know what his boss is doing because at least he asks why he would let you roam free and release the Pokémon anyway, the Pokémon are released, but Saturn tells you that .

Syrus is now on his way to ride the crown to do something with the power he extracted from the ancient enslaved Pokémon, so I climbed back up the mountain and performed more massive slashes than I cared to count until I finally reached the top, right? ready for this so this guy frees dialga basically the god of time who helped in the creation of sin oh the three lake pokemon were the ones who kept dialga under control it's the only reason Team Galactic them enslaved to harness his power cyrus here wants to destroy the world and create a new one where he is the god and ruler, so we've basically reached Kefka levels of villainy, but the execution might be the worst I've ever seen because you made this guy evil. guy who wants everything to start over with him as leader and then says yes, goes ahead and releases the three Pokémon that kept God in check.

Also here you have a master ball to help you catch God. What's going on? Why are the three Pokémon you released coming? to help you, so yes, Cyrus wants to fight again because I taught him to feel the emotion of anger, but this time all his Pokémon have evolved for someone who doesn't care about anything, including Pokémon, his golbat sure liked it. enough to evolve. in crobat anyway he loses and then leaves after saying that one day he will become God, yeah nothing to worry about better let him go at dawn and Rowan goes up the mountain to tell me that Dialga seems upset maybe even sad due to the circumstances. that he was lured by Team Galactic Don tells me that Dialga seems to be waiting for me specifically and then I have to give him everything I have.

I like to imagine that my character nodded and then slowly turned around walking towards this monster. God of a Pokémon before throwing a master ball at it. Good thing Cyrus didn't need a master ball at all after this. Rowan tells me that he has never been more excited in his life than when he shot a ball with a 100% catch rate. to a god and Don tells me how brave Rowan was for going to the top of the mountain to cheer on my partner while I was facing a crime boss and God in a possible fight that would end the world, what a brave guy that Professor Rowan, so I think.

We are ready to conclude all this, but before we face the Elite Four, we must first face the eighth gym leader, he apparently has been a little upset and bored because he keeps easily defeating all the challengers in his gym. This was told to me by one of the four elite members in the city, this guy is fuckingAnnoyed, all you had to do was tell me once, but then he repeats that he really wants me to show the leader a good fight like three times. for some reason, wow, big shot, you're a tough guy, well, you're a big, tough guy, you didn't face the gym leader here, big shot, you gotta blow his dick off, ha ha, with your Pokémon, like this Do just that and actually meet up with Jasmine, one of the former Gold and Silver leaders.

It's always nice to see callbacks to older versions of Pokémon. I enjoy very much. It's pretty much the same old ending from here, although Berry shows up for one last warm kick in the ass. -up for the Elite Four and surprisingly, in a twist that not even M Night Shyamalan could pull off Cynthia is the Pokémon League Champion. Wow, you're really branching out with these stories, eh, Game Freak, but yeah, kudos to you for how. I worry as a trainer and what a brilliant strategist I am when the reality is that I basically rammed my Pokémon headfirst into a wall until they passed out and barely grazed them because the worst teacher in the series so far somehow smuggles himself in the chamber of champions. like any other game except this time you are welcomed to the last room as if you were Professor Oak and that's it, Diamond's story really isn't a good showing, again these stories are very close to each other and how good or Bad as they are, I would have done it.

Saying that the diamond story is probably just below sapphire, maybe above silver, I don't know, that's really it, it's not very good so far, so I never played Pokémon black or white. I also played white, but only because both. It really intrigued me and it was on sale at Best Buy 20 books anyway, I picked the black one here and I don't really know what's going on but this is the biggest story I've ever seen in a Pokémon game and it's in the introductory scene even before you press the start button, so it seems like a pretty good game from a narrative perspective, so far you start off by meeting the newest flavor of Professor Pokémon, one who is actually a younger woman, which is great to see Professor Juniper.

It actually completely speeds up the initial game process, this is an incredible quality of life change, especially when this is your fifth consecutive return, Cheran is the smart and focused one and Bianca is the dumb and clumsy one, the two allow you choose your Pokémon first. and then you have to pay for having a room trashed in a Pokémon battle, which is a nice touch. The game also makes your mom seem like a real person commenting on when she had her first Pokémon battle and all that stuff. incredibly impressed with the beginning, a flock of bats flying near Bianca's father actually forbids her from going on an adventure at such a young age, there is a real dynamic between the characters, even if they are quite cliche, you have the know-it-all who shouts everything before The Professor May End and the clueless one who is here to help explain things to the player through her, it's not like she's reading Hemingway's musings, but it's a welcome change for the better after everyone gathers in Route 1.

They teach you how to catch a Pokémon and then send you on your way. First you have to do a small contest to see yourself as the largest number of Pokémon. At the end of this little route, the top number appears to be 3, so I caught it too early to be deposited furry dogs and win the contest. I didn't get anything for it. The main means of mobile communication seems to be a phone that always has a video feed, at least that's what they think after they teach you about the Pokémon centers that the game's villains create.

They already know it themselves, but this is what so far they don't seem like villains, at least not yet. In fact, the only thing that informs you that they are the group you will most likely face is the fact that they are called Team Plasma and the music that playsAs the guy in charge makes a speech, brings us here, gathers a group of people in the city and basically says that it's wrong for Pokémon to be enslaved in pokeballs and that they will never be the same as long as humans use them the way they do. is literally the most compelling and realistic argument I've ever heard from a group of Pokémon villains, but then they just pack up and leave, that's all they do, there's no hostile, evil takeover, there's no demands for the People give up their Pokémon, there is no world domination. proclamations is just a speech and walks away shortly after a kid in the crowd walks up to you and your friend and says he can hear your Pokémon talking, no one knows what that means exactly, but the guy's name is a letter, so he's probably a weirdo too.

The hair color is almost identical to the sister who was giving the speech earlier, so while the game is getting a lot of points for a cohesive plot, the predictable twist is pretty weak, so when you calmly arrive at Sin City, the gym leader, is of course far away. for the gym I don't like this way of delaying the game at all and everyone knows it now, but I'm going to be a little more lenient here just because of all the good things that have been done in the game so far, basically, you They said the leader went to school here and then of course when you get there the leader is no longer there, you must have missed him.

Wow, what a surprise, you fight your friend and then go back to the gym to the leader. Now he's hanging out, he's basically assessing what type your starter Pokémon is and then informing you that you'll be facing the Pokémon he's weak against. I actually really like the idea of ​​three Gym Leaders, it teaches the player the hard way about type advantage and disadvantage, so leaving the first gym leads you to an encounter with one of Junipers' assistants. . She basically tells you that she needs something called dream mist, which is a mist that is used to show dreams to people or something like that in order to get this mist.

You need to find a mushara or a mana and get it from them. This is where Team Plasma comes in again, so you have these two grunts that come in and start kicking this mana around to try to get it to expel something. from their dream fog, but it's a great compelling reason to win people over and give these villains a purpose that someone might think about and even see themselves joining their side and then just throw it out the window, we want to free all the Pokémon because we see them as equals and we will even abuse them to make this happen, yeah okay so these guys are basically just PETA anyway, you move to the next town when some members of Team Plasma come running and Bianca follows shortly after together with a child.

Apparently, the entire Templar arm is using crazy people who use them, they failed the boy's Pokémon and now it's up to you and Charon to rescue him. Their reasoning is that a Pokémon will never be as happy as it could be in the clutches of a trainer, so they're going to steal the Pokémon to avoid that reality Now, if this were their full moment, it would be easy to say: oh, their intentions are good, but they're wrong, but I mean, a couple of them just kicked a small Pokémon earlier, so yeah. I don't know, maybe those two were particularly egregious, but I guess we'll see that you eventually get to the next town only to find yourself and again n doesn't make any sense to me and I really don't know if it's supposed to. nervous or whether it will make sense later, but the way it's written is incredibly frustrating.

He babbles about basically wanting what Team Plasma wants, but he's more eccentric. I guess he then insists on another Pokémon battle to test you. I guess I don't understand why. This guy's goal is to stop people from using Pokémon the way they do, but then he does it himself. He even says that he needs to train harder to gain more power and/or capture the legendary Pokémon Zekrom after you destroy the second gym leader. The husband runs down the stairs after they're done fighting to inform them that Team Plasma is trying to steal bones, but why do they completely steal this Dragonite's skull and then just bounce off leaving Lenora to react like an Oblivion Guard?

What's going on? Yeah. I don't know, I feel like I was easily impressed with the plot and ideas of Pokémon Black because they seemed to be more thought out than the previous entries, but honestly, this plot is already wearing thin, I mean, at the end of the day. Plasma is still a bunch of Pokémon villains and that basically means that no matter how much they improve the story ideas, they're still going to be a bunch of little wait-and-see cases of how did they do it or why did they do it? The visiting gym leader meets up with Leonora and she fills a minute with the stolen skull and the plasma chaser in the forest and it's just a big wild goose chase that has you fighting the same kind of grunts you've been fighting in the past. previous games while They say the same kind of things You're a kid You can't beat me I'm just stalling so the rest of us can escape, of course, they don't escape because the guy with the skull is standing in a In the clearing in the forest, after you got the skull back a guy comes in and looks more important and introduces himself as one of the seven sages of Team Plasma so basically we're Zelda, now he's not fighting you yet because the guy he said he was was going to wait in the exit decided not to do his job and follow you after you did all the work and then the second gym leader comes in right after the explanation after Team Plasma leaves, that's boy, those guys were fast, huh, I don't know .

I know it's hard to overlook a lot of nonsense, even more so when the plot seems to be taken much more seriously than usual in a Pokémon game. Don't get me wrong, the dynamic between the gym leaders talking to each other and having real interests and interactions with each other is definitely a big step in the right direction, but it's hard to rule out things like, oh man, those guys were so fast, I mean Come on, just give them a flying Pokémon which is literally the easiest way for them to get it. away without it sounding silly or right, a really doable story and turning the person who took the skull into the police for once, maybe he can escape at some point and become a character who actually matters and tries to get revenge or something , that?

What caught my attention is the fact that Gorham basically says that Team Plasma will no longer tolerate your interference even though two of these people are Gym Leaders. I don't know why that caught my attention, but it's almost like he was indirectly implying that Gym Leaders have some kind of authority as law enforcement officers or something, maybe he was just referring to their power, although he also mentions that Gets is trying to win people over with just words, but the rest of the wise men are taking Pokémon directly from people. Alright, we can finally move on to the next city and challenge the next gym after talking to your friend who got to the gym before you and this is happening again, it's making me do things before I can challenge the gym leaders again.

My patience has already worn thin with this story, especially since it's literally the exact same thing you did before the last town where they stole a Pokémon, this time it was from Bianca, oh no, you chase them, find them standing outside because it's really good to hide and then. you eventually get Bianca's Pokémon back, they also tell you the exact same thing as before the ancient dragon hero spoke to the ancient dragon you formed Nova, now they want to bring it back so they can reshape the world. This plot sounds semi-familiar, come on? Dude, just a little imagination, that's all I asked for, anyway, you wipe them out and then head to the Honey Nut Cheerios gym to clean that up too.

Then Bianca challenges you to a battle because someone told Gamefreak to make sure there was a Mandatory Minimum of six hundred and seventy-three rival gym battles in this game, but wait, there's more. Sharon also wants to point her sweaty finger at you before being crushed in battle. Fortunately, after this is over, you can make it white. Yeah, okay, I was already going there, but. First I had to walk to the bottom of Big Sea City for some fun, healing Pokémon time and then come back because my friends are and Juniper stops me after the desert to give me ultra balls.

Sharon goes to catch a new Pokémon Bianca goes to find a musical theater, I get a bike for beating the plasma members, then Bianca drags me against my will to the musical theater to dress up with my Pokémon, then Bianca's father comes to take her away Because it's not like his daughter is alone on a potentially dangerous adventure, you know, kind of like a half-decent worried parent. I mean, it's not like she's an adult, but yeah, this guy sure is an idiot. I guess, in fact, we know it is. an asshole because the gym leader of this town comes up and says hey, you're going on a little adventure no matter what your dad saysI'm also a model ah well if she's a model what am I going to say eh I don't Jim she's a model yeah well on with my real underage child journey honestly although there's not really a lot of dangerous things involved in becoming at a big name trainer, anyway, well whatever, let's challenge the gym leader, wait, let's talk to finish, guess what guys and it's.

The king of Team Plasma, after your romantic Ferris wheel ride with him, challenges you to another battle and then turns into an anime before leaving. Now it's Gym Leader time and then it's Charenton again. At least you can meet the Innova league champion below. He seems like a pretty calm guy and basically questions your friends' motive for simply getting stronger. I think what bothers me the most about Sheren is that he, yes, he's a know-it-all know-it-all and that's fine, but he continually loses to you and says the exact same thing. Same thing every time, why can't I beat you?

Then the gym leader of this city calls the gym leader of the next city and tells him that two trainers want to fight, let me run this one for you, the gym leader of the next one. The city physically controls the bridge between these two cities, there is no other way to reach it from land unless you travel further north or sail across the sea, but it gets better because right after the gym leader lowers the bridge, the One way bridge has a path towards you. Blame me for letting Team Plasma escape because we requested passage because these Neanderthals couldn't seal a one-way exit.

I don't get it, man, but the important thing is that you guys showed up and then Team Plasma escaped. "Shoot guns in Texas, so you know what happens next. I have a great Team Plasma, so I can challenge Big Tex here. Look, there has to be a point where I look at the game as a children's game, right?" TRUE?". I'm sure a lot of people grew up with this story and think it's surprising because they were at an age where this kind of lack of plot cohesion was totally fine, maybe it was their first Pokémon game.

I guess if you look at it that way, I'm just being an idiot for criticizing the plot so much, but I mean it doesn't take much for this to make a little more sense. I just don't feel like a series should be approved just because a portion of its audience or kids, I mean I think I was 19 when this one came out, sort of, honestly I'm as excited about Sword and Shield as someone well into my adulthood to despite the potential problems the games are rumored to have and I would love to be able to follow the plot and not have it be absurd to the point where I no longer care.

Sorry, I thought there will be a point here where I think I should clarify or try to clarify. why am I being so harsh on the plot of a pokemon game anyway cherán joins me for this pain in the ass and I'm actually surprised he hasn't come to challenge me to a battle but you do all the heavy lifting . this fridge and then meets you when you finally find the plasma members. The most peculiar thing happening here is the mere fact that this may be the first time I've seen any kind of law enforcement in a Pokémon game.

Basically, all of the workers you just defeated place these grunts in a line, including the wise men. Cheran says the smartest thing I've heard him say in the entire game, that plasma limbs are a waste of oxygen, of course, just before this, he said too. that separating people in Pokémon is the same as no Pokémon, so it kind of dampens the big cerebral moment, but yeah, this is all for nothing because it shows up with less people than we just fought and captured and then convinces the gym leader. to free people from him, the guy who berated us for letting Team Plasma escape and then says sorry, they're fillers, we did it.

He clears some nets from a cave, but not before Bianca stops you to have a battle as required by Pokémon Black's contractual obligations. When you enter this cave, you can see and why can't I go somewhere in this game as a saint? What's even more absurd is the fact that n has two ninjas that appear next to you, walk you four steps, and then leave. Why is everything involving n so unnecessarily edgy after n tells you some vague nonsense about how you've been chosen by Team Plasma? he tells you that Gets wants to meet you halfway through the cave.

The Shadow Triad uses his highly skilled abilities to escort you across a bridge and then tell you to keep moving. Thanks guys. I hope Plasmas pays you well. It's all nonsense and it dares you to do it. a battle at the end of the cave and then ponders the idea that he might not be winning because he doesn't want his Pokémon fighting friend to come if he shoots everyone with a gun that no one can use weapons anymore, then admonishes the teacher Juniper for using it to back up the Pokedex and then just leaves after Juniper says she respects his opinion but still has hers.

I feel like I'm in hell, playing this game like I just want to go challenge a gym, I just want to go challenge a gym without anything else happening before or in between. I don't mind the idea of ​​these gym leaders having personalities and conversations with you, but there is always immediately some sort of task you must complete before you can challenge them, this particular leader goes on to tell you that she was flying her plane when she saw a Pokémon. sick at the top of a tower. She must have been flying very close to that tower.

To realize that there was a sick Pokémon on me, what made these moments of having the gym leader walk you somewhere or help you do something was that it happened so rarely that I don't object to being introduced to the leader beforehand. getting to discover her personality and all, but it feels a lot less special when it happens with every gym leader or so. I mean, this scenario also happened in Pokémon Silver when Ampharos was at the top of the lighthouse and the gym leader. He wouldn't fight you until you helped him get medicine.

I guess the difference here is that the leader heals the Pokémon and it flies away before you even get there and you can ring a bell that reflects your character depending on its sound after facing it. take down the leader in our gym and then stumble and again, this time interrogate your first Pokémon to see how good a trainer you are. He also denounces Pokémon battles, saying that people justify battles to get to know each other better. has fought you several times with the express intention of getting to know you better, the logic is there, the follow through just isn't there.

He basically goes on to say that he wants to change the world, but not by force, and then mentions that he's going to do it. To awaken a legendary Pokémon to change the world, probably by force, I think this part of the story is followed by another Cheran battle because hey, they both got a new badge, although everything appears again to complement them both in the battle. Jaron. he gets irritated by the praise because he lost the battle and everyone there basically tells him to grow up and accept the compliment which he really enjoyed. I feel like excessive battles are the way writers deliver important tools like HMS and all that.

I get what they're talking about here because honestly sometimes just finding a random guy in a house to get an important HM to continue is a little obtuse and I guess trying to incorporate an important future figure into the story and at the same time Giving the player a key item can be difficult. Simply finding an HM in the middle of an underwater passage like what happened in Sapphire feels excessive because it's excessive when combined with a lot of other battles that don't give you a key item afterwards, anyway, Big Tex is waiting. for you inside the mountain and basically tells you more or less that the gym leaders got together to try to find out where Team Plasma was, which definitely affirms them even more as people who deal with villains, which is cool, ironically , also tells you no.

I don't want to involve you two kids in Team Plasma's affairs, which is literally the exact opposite feeling I had before when he ordered them to chase you so he can fight you, but then the most magical thing ever happens I walked . straight to a gym without any interference and then this gym leader walks out of the gym and notices that the Shadow Triad is hanging out and then he calls them and then the Shadow Triad goes to the Dragon Spiral Tower and the damn holy gym leader tells Sharon that she'll have to wait to challenge the gym until after dealing with this the game has been redeemed ten out of ten five stars Grammy Grammy Grammy but now she's heading to Dragon Spiral Tower, which It is said to be the birthplace or current location of The legendary Pokémon has apparently never set foot in it until now, when you go through all the plasma people and wait at the top.

I thought the game was going to be a Diamond rehash at this point, but it actually takes control of the legendary Pokémon. and then he tells you to look for the other to see if you are worthy of opposing him. It seems like this is bad advice to give someone if you're trying to achieve your goal, but maybe he's trying to play it all off differently. because the guy is a bit weird after this, Jaron actually discovers the answer to his question, which surprised me because it really seemed like he was going to follow Ipoh's path and not find out for a long time or ever. so after emptying an entire vending machine of soda and lemonade, it's time to see where this is all going and slide into the relic castle, home of the restaurant, at least that's what I hoped would happen, but the Pokémon doesn't. is here and the whole damn trip through this sandy hellhole was for nothing, but at least you learn a few new bits of information that seemingly directly challenge you as a show of force that's basically used to assert dominance and willpower. boy I gotta respect the power play after this lot of detours you get a call from Juniper saying something big is happening in that green city but nothing happens they just had what you're looking for and the relic castle all time, but no one knows how to use it so we have to go meet the latest gym leader to find out.

This is one of those times when the extracurricular battle doesn't need to happen at all. Bianca is standing there, wishing you luck and all that. then you leave to go to the bridge that leads to where the last gym leader is and suddenly she comes up to you in this frozen wasteland and asks you to fight because she wants to become a researcher, come on, we were right at each other and I came straight up here and you were literally right behind me as I crossed the bridge, the shadow triad collects their next paycheck by escorting you, this time you can be eight steps away, so I assume they were given overtime, they quickly harass you gets that continues to develop the idea that n wants to put his ideals on the line against yours and beat you that way.

This is the smartest villain who basically says that you should hand over the stone that houses the legendary Pokémon, so what is all this really about? it comes down to this gullible kid who wants to get everyone to stop using Pokémon to fight their battles and separate them from humans so they can achieve perfection or whatever and then you have a villain who has been pulling the strings since birth and basically plans to conquer the region using n's ideals to get everyone else to give up their Pokémon willingly, while Plasma is still allowed to use his own Pokémon, so Lora continues to crowd here while the dragon-type gym leader explains to you that once Upon a time. the two dragons were one and was used to create a region along with the twin heroes.

Now it's established several times that these two heroes are twins, but then they say older brother and younger brother, so I don't know what that is. but basically the two beginnings didn't agree with each other, they fight and then the dragons split into two halves. Here's another strange part of the story. The first dragon and his hero wanted to usher in a new and better world. The second dragon and the hero wanted him. To usher in a good new world, I've read this script over and over again several times and it makes as much sense as the first time because it seems like both heroes wanted exactly the same thing.

Incoherent plot points, other than the dragons they fought. Over and over again until they were exhausted and the twins came to the conclusion that neither side was right, but then their children got into a fight and this time their legendary Pokémon Larry David, everything you know about a region no longer exists. exists, so they created a new one. Anyway, I collect the final badge and am directed to the path of victory. The final plan right now is to defeat the current champion and then defeat me, so Alder returned totake your place in the Pokémon League and now I'll think. figure out what's going on with all that, so after crawling through the Pokémon League and I mean crawling, I finally make it to Letter and Alder, who apparently just finished their fight and won and with their victory causes a damp castle to rise from the floor.

It's actually a cool scene, it's a little muffled by Cherán running because he just won the league right after you. I guess what I mean is how much you can sit here and justify Bianca sneaking up on you right after she saw her. Saying she maybe she took a little longer to like. I don't know how to sleep or eat or whatever. I'm pretty sure I would have seen Sheren running around doing the same thing as me either way. Now they have presented me with a challenge. by N in his castle, but before this, six of the seven sages are waiting for you and start babbling some cryptic nonsense before letting you know that they won't be totally incompetent for the entire game and will eliminate you right now. you can make it to the end, but then the gym leader team arrives in full force.

This is really amazing. I mean, I've been stabbing at the plot of this game for a while, but it's really cool to see some Gym Leaders really coming together for the taking. detect a threat, it's easily the most interaction with them we've seen in the series at this point, so this is what this all boils down to, it says that 100% has been manipulating N by bringing him in sick or abused by Pokémon that had been hurt directly from horrible trainers and masterminds watching him and making him think that people in Pokémon are like oil and water, meanwhile Team Plasma has been using Pokémon that they've been releasing from random people and working too hard to do things like build the castle, this is all while they have been preaching to the rest of the population that Pokémon and trainers should separate with the plan of stepping over everyone else to rule the region after the trainers have started following this idea, they are basically a much more sinister and organized Team Rocket and that's Excellent, as much pain as I've given this plot for its various holes, Team Plasma is the best group of villains I've seen in any Pokémon game so far.

One small detail I've noticed is the disparity between plasma grunts that some appear to be. Absolute fanatics who truly believe that all Pokémon will be separate from all people, some are tuned into the idea that Team Plasma and Getz specifically will take over the reign of your Nova once they control the minds and hearts of everyone else, which will make them give up their Pokémon. grunt who points out that he thinks Pokémon are just tools and another who admits that they have grown attached to their Pokémon. One of the grunts even goes on to say that Team Rocket and Galactic draw too much attention to themselves, I guess in reference to them constantly taking over entire cities, but the biggest story point of the game actually comes from visiting the room. final.

It is here that we learned that the sport of basketball exists in the Pokémon universe. Do you think there are Pokémon teams that play basketball? Okay, let's finish. this thing once and for all, so you meet him and he calls Zekrom after a deliberate restaurant comes out of his stone and looks at you where and encourages you to try to capture him, so I throw the ball he can't miss and I give him my new friend, a cool nickname after this, it's finally time to fight, he finishes, a pretty fair guy from start to finish and he heals you before the fight starts, unfortunately for him, he can't fight particularly well, but it was still a great fight shortly after this loss.

Gets comes in and berates him a lot. I know I've called him a lot of names, but I think Ket probably hit him twice as hard, calls him a useless monster, damn son, and then confronts me after confirming what we did. I basically found out after his defeat, Alder and Sharon picked him up and then took him away, where he tells you about his horrible childhood and why he thought the way he thought. Here's the part where I half apologize. I am one hundred percent. I'm sure there are Slash War people watching this who are furious at me for trashing the plot of this game multiple times and I could have easily deleted that review, but I think a lot of it still stands.

The plot of Pokémon Black and White is easily the best in Pokémon. Plot of the game we've had so far, there are many obstacles in the way because things don't make sense, pure tedium; how frequent the interruptions were and I still maintain those complaints. I think Game Freak rebounded masterfully with this plot. even if it was Sam, I predict I really enjoyed watching him and going from this edge, Lord weird in my eyes, to discovering his background and watching him grow after being exposed to the truth, it was all very anime, but hey, I like a good anime.

I enjoyed the beginning and the end of Pokémon Black much more than I expected. What the bar was set so low in the previous entry. I wish the middle didn't have so much padding or at least I wish the padding wasn't so absurd. Sometimes I think almost everything in black and white is leaps and bounds ahead of any previous entry and at the end of the day I can't really blame him too much for his failure in the next Living Hell episode I'm here for. evaluate White 2's story so White 2 starts off with the same sort of thing as Black, but this time you have the option to refuse to receive a Pokémon for the secret ending.

These types of questions actually appear three times in the span of two minutes, where you have no choice in your answer, but people ask you anyway, even the green hat Logan asks if you will help them before giving you his Pokémon, but yeah, you're basically recruited by Juniper, whose first name is apparently Arya, to join the Children's Legion and scour the land to fill the Pokedex. Your rival friend's name is Hugh and so far. he's just kind of an amalgamation of all the rivals you've ever seen, he wants to get stronger, he tells you to get stronger, he wants to travel, he also demands the pokedex demands, but yeah, a pretty standard start after emphasizing that he really you want to almost kill a Pokémon first.

Ideally, you should be able to catch him so he can't limp away. Bianca lets you move on before Alder interrupts you. This guy apparently goes out of his way to be anything but helpful and can constantly be found just hanging out. on cliff ledges waiting for unsuspecting trainers, he takes you to train, I guess, but not before handing the map of the other city to Hugh. It's at the ranch where we see Hugh's personality become a little more unique when the couple that owns the ranch notices his Pokémon is missing, they mentioned that he's probably playing somewhere, but Hugh turns it around and basically assumes it's happened.

The worst case scenario, which isn't exactly a normal reaction, would be like someone saying that their cats are usually in a certain part. from the house and he's just not around at the moment and someone loses their mind, starts fervently searching for him anyway, as it turns out there's a member of Team Plasma who chased the dog into the woods where they were closing in to capture him. or whatever, thank god some horrible, horrible traumatic event happened to Hugh because it wouldn't have bothered me if he didn't force me to watch, so yeah, there's your introduction to plasma in this game, a grunt dressed as the new Team Rocket trying to do things that are Reminds me of Team Rocket, luckily for Hugh's anxiety my character is mute so no one finds out about the incident.

After all, you have to train a little to learn about the advantages and disadvantages of the type. Jump off a cliff again to give you some berries and then. let's meet Sharon Sharon is the newest gym leader in the region and sports the base badge with Multi Pokémon, a severe downgrade in my opinion from the first gym in the last game, but this answers some questions I've had about the structure from the series gym. The gold and silver Kantos leaders, all monumentally enhanced, cheran definitely defeated the Elite Four. Ori took advantage of the chaos and rushed and lied anyway.

She definitely had a pretty strong team before the Elite Four and now she has a pretty weak and basic Pokémon team. Run the gym in the first city. I guess it also varies from region to region because my mind goes back to the more inexperienced trainers who were gym leaders in previous games. Either way, white one and two seemed to really develop the Innova region's gym system. more than other games did for their regions in the series at this point Sharon even mentions how strange it is to not use her usual equipment to fight rivals like the first gym leader, now it's time to mention the second gym leader that can come as a shock after what black put the player through and yes there was still some informative tidbits I was given along the way but my opponent didn't challenge me 20 times or force me to follow a different route through the story than It's a breath of fresh air, who knows how long this will continue, but I was relieved that the part of the story came after the gym leader, for once, with Roxy, she is angry at her father, who is the captain of a ship and also wants to pursue a career in acting, but pursuing this dream will make people who needed to take the ship to different places be late, so she runs off to the gym where you can challenge her right away and then she leaves to look for her father later anyway, I head to The Movie Studio here because, well, a recruiter who saw my battle with Roxy makes me do it, then they demand that I watch some kind of Pokémon movie and a gym in the that the leader's father fights and loses against the former seventh gym. leader of the previous game after that the player is forced to create the movie correctly, which I was honestly not interested in, but again I had no choice, but I left shortly after an encounter with Team Plasma, for the second time I They explained that they were betrayed by their ex. king two years ago and they are struggling to stay relevant like a rocket in gold and silver, they take off after their defeat and you chase them down as is tradition, they tell you where they are trying to go next when you defeat them and explain that they need to do it . take a boat from Burbank, so head to the town of Castella on your big chase and you'll get a free bike from a clown. apparently getting a bike is just a vital signs monitor of reasons that wax and wane, in any case we're back to normal.

Burg isn't in his gym, imagine he's chasing plasma and so am I I guess, so he goes to the sewers, where Hugh arrives like a damn paladin to try to hunt down the plasma demons, some other weirdo shows up out of the blue. nothing after. defeating some plasma grunts plus Berg, who moves into his gym, so after absolutely embarrassing the poor guy in his newly renovated gym, I ran into the weirdo from earlier whose name is colress man. I understand everything trying to do what is important. people stand out, but what the heck is wrapped around the head of this seemingly colorful scientist?

His whole purpose as a scientist is to get as much power out of Pokémon as possible. He sees the way you and the Elite Four treat your Pokémon with kindness and how the Pokémon seem to get stronger, but then he wonders if there is another way, which is a little worrying. He shows off one of his experiments where he makes a barricade of rock crabs move out of the way by giving them energy and then mentions that it would be a lot easier if someone could just talk to Pokémon, but surely no one like that exists anyway, you fight him and he gives you some of his platonic protein and then you move on after beating up the fourth gym leader you encounter.

Hugh, who is actively engaging Team Plasma, growls. My favorite part of this is he asks them what they're doing here and they're like standing still. Plasma growls that he looks like he's some kind of arbiter of justice and apparently it's all because his little sister's Pokémon was taken a few years ago, after crossing the bridge to Drift Vale we get a little more information about the situation from Team Plasma, apparently the ones who are still wearing the medieval chain mail and the ones who look more like Team Rocket are following the gets, so I guess the Templars are the good guys in this one, we find out more about this after the tall Inquisitor hugh comes flying in at mach 10 and just decimates this poor guy before he can challenge the gym leader here or move on from the drift.

Generally, you have to go meet with one of the ancient seven sages or maybe he is still considered one, but what we know for sure is that he has loyalty to n and is actively trying to care for the Pokémon that have been separated from the trainers.during Team Plasma Sampson, so up until this point I thought this was going to be another gold and silver situation where Plasma had resorted to being particularly egregious. for no apparent reason other than the lofty, boring goal of taking over the world, but I really like this split. I just wish the members of X Team Plasma would actually rename themselves to something other than X Team Plasma.

It's a bit silly even from a lower perspective. wearing the exact same clothes is when they were terrorists and they used more or less the same name anyway they gave you in Zorua which is awesome and then Arthas comes here to continue berating X plasma for doing what they did before and Then he He storms off to the next gym, so after going to that gym myself, they take me to the new Pokémon World Tournament site and force me to participate. Apparently Cheran was also called in for this, which probably means he'll be involved. In the plot of this game too, after winning the tournament by defeating the huge Aaron and colress, a Team Plasma grunt runs out, Hue is chasing him as always, as is Cheran, so we are on another wild goose chase that in reality ends with us discovering that plasma. is using a ship as a base of operations after defeating 12 trainers with one or two Pokémon each, the shadow triad actually does something useful and teleports us off the ship before it leaves, but not before a of the stages of the last game come out and look for us. angry at Charon and explained that plasma plans to use the legendary dragon to do what he was trying to do before, so this means two things: one, the sages are divided between old plasma and new plasma and two, it's still a lot of fun to tell them. everyone what their intentions are.

The plan is so other people can try to stop them all in black and white. The plot two is much tamer than the last adventure and I'm okay with that and I mention this now instead of later because the amount of plot related events are much further apart and feel much less filler in this game As much as they seem to push the player in the last few so far, it seems that most of the time the events tend to simply introduce new mechanics. and things to do instead of intense story elements, for example in the amount of time between the last encounter with Team Plasma in their ship and my last encounter, which I'm about to mention, Iran through the cave of loaded stone surpassed the sixth

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meeting. with Juniper and flew towards Len Thomas where it was very briefly mentioned that my goal was to meet with the Dragon Gym Leader to get answers and during this it wasn't like we landed on LAN Thomas only to find a barricade of plasma grunts that everyone decided to run away and I have to check every house for them, no, I basically kept going through mountainous switchbacks in Delaware.

Hugh fights for me for the first time in a long time and then arrives at the next town where I am briefly told. about the legendary Pokémon that crashed into the planet in a meteor before coming out, freezing Pokémon and people and eating them. He's a cool legendary now, so I'm supposed to ask Raiden about this other legendary Pokémon, as well as the two dragons from the last game. but before I can go there, Hugh and I meet again at Plasma, where one of the wise men explains his views on Pokémon and trainers and thinks it would be interesting to see civilization stripped from a time when Pokeballs couldn't.

They existed to contain Pokémon. Honestly, that's a more interesting reason than seeing the same tired guy wanting to take over the world just because, after crossing this amazing bridge, encountering a wild legendary Pokémon, and being told how much fun my Pokémon are having despite that they are all Kayode, he said. wandering around legendary Pokémon and defeating Drayton in his remodeled gym. I'll sit down with Gym later and discuss the black and white events, but in addition to the things we already knew, he also mentions that there may have been a third Dragon who was What was left of Zekrom's split with Reshiram was called Kirin, while at this point it's just speculation how solid the fact is that Drayton has something called DNA splicers that are supposedly used to split and cure them from Zekrom or Reshiram or both, I don't know, but it's about this time when the Team Plasma flies in their Final Fantasy airship and just drives Agha like eternal hell out of this city.

They are apparently after the DNA splicers and begin searching for their location in the now frozen city, so later. In some battles the sage here tells you that he is leaving because it is very cold, not only is this guy fully dressed for the weather but he is also the reason why the cold is so strong, on top of this he is organizing a ice pokemon party. and then goes on to say that he wants to achieve the glory of a frozen wasteland more or less and any constant complaining about the cold is fine anyway, after the wise men to feed Raiden run inside his gym to introduce you to the DNA splicers that you decided to retain. up your hand as a link before the magic ninja brigade steals them, so the chase begins, but not before defeating the eighth Jim, apparently what you're looking for is Marlon, the man named after a fish , you won't find it. whatever he wants, he's named after a fish, we like the worst tone he ever did, but most importantly any gym leader.

This girl's dress is comfortable and easy to wear and I really don't like the way Marlon talks. I'll be at the gym, okay? Don't just look strong, you're really strong. I'm going to choke after finally conquering the Innova regions badges again. It's time to move forward towards the end of this. Cole rests gives me a thing that does something and then I have to move into a giant chasm, except it's blocked by - grunts who are really good at ignoring me and talking about their plans, so I go to the cave by the sea where the device Cole gave me becomes useful when moving an entire chasm. rock crab, very well, to the frigate that is filled with grunts, ninety percent of which are incompetent, as always, when you overcome their impeccable defenses, you have a completely meaningless battle, after which the sage reveals that they've had the legendary ice dragon the whole time and it's what they've been using to start global cooling, this whole exchange is pointless because ssj Purple Sage has an ace up his sleeve where he calls in ninjas who can teleport humans away , oh, and she also wants her sister to be stolen more than anything because she's The grandpa who stretched out the cube caught it for her, so the plasma flies out of the giant abyss.

You chase him. There's a big showdown between the old plasma and the new plasma and then you go back to the ship. It's kind of a weird waste of time, but okay, so you go through the ship again, but this time you end up facing off against Colress, who was with the team. Plasma. Ah, no one could have predicted this. Yeah, he's the kind of crazy guy who wants to make the most of it. power Pokémon no matter the cost, this includes destroying the world, that seems a little silly, but either way it doesn't matter because he can simply choose a side, apparently at least he gave me the device to move everyone's rock crab Anyway, we move on to the The big boss stays with this one, who escapes while you deal with the shadow triad, the member who stole Hugh's sister returns the Pokémon to you and then you go hunt it, he orders him to qrm to murder you and just before that is about to happen and he launches himself with Reshiram. you learn a little more about how he finds Goetz and in a forest surrounded by Pokémon that he talked to and decided to collect it to try to raise it right, there goes my father and son theory, although I guess they are still on something. in a proper way as it looks like the day is saved, he pulls out his polymerization card and a special summon cures him, except with two USB adapters, the adapters turn the Russian ROM into a Majin Buu candy and Kyra meets him to become a super cure, now that he has the power. of fire and ice that doesn't really stop my big pig from slapping him to death, it also makes us decide Polson B's playground where he goes because of the way my sword prevents the pokeballs from working, so the master ball plan is outside the window to In this game, after casting qreshi, I walk away into the distance as if Bowser angered us and challenged me to a round, a final destination, no items, fox, I just force him and the shadow people He takes it after having four supplied. and tells me about his friends' favorite episode before riding his big white monster into the night sky.

This is pretty much it for most of the main story for black and white, and he meets you again before you run around the league and mentions you too. If you have a Zorro with you, he has definitely matured as a person and now understands that fighting Pokémon is not always bad. He talks more like a real person and has become less awkward and nervous. He understands what he wants in life. Pretty cool character development, it turns out that Iris is the champion of this league now, but beyond that, there aren't any

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challenges for the Pokémon League in over two years, which I found a little strange.

I was hoping everyone would be at the top if I'm going to be completely honest and couldn't care less that Drayton is sitting at the top of the Pokémon League with as one-sided a mentality as the other games have about making the champion painfully obvious in based on how often they get involved in your adventure Iris is definitely the antithesis of that idea, as she only really appears when you visit Drayton's hometown, and unless I missed it, I don't think anyone would have noticed. referring to her as the champion, it just seems to me that they're probably going to go. with alder and then decided to wait, no one will expect that I guess they were right to bow to the extended plot of both games.

I think Team Plasma is the most intricate and interesting set of villains we've seen so far in the series. The Pokémon franchise is still pretty silly at times, but it was interesting to witness the back and forth between the different leaders and their motives, even if they were a little predictable at times. I think this is also the first villain to directly try to kill your character, which is a nice touch, and being a puppet who fought for a good, if flawed, cause was a great choice when writing the plots of these two games because even If I joked about how nervous he was for a while, I could still see where he was coming from and the best villains are the ones you can understand.

Expand on this idea with the fact that he matures very reasonably and you have a good character with a good arc. Overall, the black and white saga has had some of the best plot elements we've seen. and even if you could still pick out some of the key points, it's still ahead of sapphire, diamond, silver and red, as much as I played at times, it was honestly because I wanted them to be as good as I knew they could. being and giving harsh comments as part of that anyway, that's a wrap on these two, let's move on to Pokémon X and Y, so Pokémon X has you start off by meeting a professor.

I know this is a strange start, but let's see where this bold new move takes us so the Kalos region is home to Professor Sycamore and it's also home to you wearing pajamas, which is cool but kind of strangely pointless. , you go to your mom, she says good morning, change your pajamas how they frame this. interaction, it almost seemed like they were going to let you customize your outfit in the mirror, but you just change and then head back downstairs. It's a really strange waste of time, anyway, Professor Sycamore is way ahead of the curve when it comes to tracking. children, managed to contest a record five children at once, which is an impressive feat when you can, two previous teachers, Shana and girl number two tell you that you have been selected when you leave and then you head to the next city where the Five kids gather at an outdoor table and then almost all of them try to give you a nickname that's too close, too fast.

This isn't like oh, this is your friend, what's his name? kid for a long time, this is, hey, what's up, buddy? I'll call you a little big Meister after choosing a much better nickname, you'll be given a starter Pokémon and a pokedex because apparently these are the most trustworthy kids you'll ever meet. You receive a letter for your mother that is particularly suspicious considering everything. I mean, this has to be the strangest beginning yet in terms of how you start your adventure, you move to the city and there's absolutely no one and then you're randomly selected.

You go on an adventure with no proof of your competence and suddenly you're friends with a bunch of other random kids, then you get a letter to your mom that says "Hello, person I don't know, I gave your kid a Pokémon." ". and now I want you to travel the region in search of others. Goodbye, your mom responds like mostreasonable adults in this universe giving you a map of the city and telling you how to use it, no matter how you respond, all of these characters tend to be spelled with one. obvious personality trait that's kind of a step down from these last two games, it's entirely possible they'll develop more, but for now they're all really OneNote.

Shauna is kind of goofy like Bianca, but she's also good at riddles and knows things apparently Serena is more serious and analytical and tends to know a lot more things because her parents were coaches or are coaches I guess tender is a beefy guy who enjoys dancing and see pokemon and trevor is quiet and reserved and tells Tiano to stop being himself. Constantly, after grabbing some skates from the skate fairy, you move on to the first gym, the leader is just a walking incarnation of photo puns, which hurts me with every line of dialogue as you leave the gym, the kind of information you get He says brag. the teacher who gave you the Pokémon, that you got a badge, which is strange.

I miss being able to miss things sometimes. I have no doubt that simply getting to the next city will probably involve me being pointed towards the professor's lab upon arrival, well, we don't really. We didn't get that far, we got to the route before Lumi somewhere else: kids from horror movies are waiting for you and in matching clothes they tell you to come with them they also tell you their names are Cinna and Dec Co why did I try to escape the tour of the lab, but man, apparently the rest of the entire city of Paris is experiencing a blackout, yeah, don't sound too faint to me, boss, so the sycamores wait for everyone to show up and explain that he was just going to give a Pokemon. to one of the kids, but then he found out that you were moving to Kalos along with your semi-famous mother, who was apparently known for Rhyhorn racing.

Once he found out about this, he went crazy and started handing out Pokémon left and right to any kid who didn't. Apparently he doesn't have one, but the most interesting note here is that he makes you fight him and then choose a Gen 1 starter. In fact, I completely forgot about this part and probably would have run with Chespin and chosen Charmander, but that's okay . He continues by giving you a Mega Stone and a similar one to uncover the mystery behind Pokémon's Mega Evolutions, apparently that's his main goal, which is only accentuated when Trevor is doing well, what's up with the Pokedex and he's like huh?

Oh, Pokedex, yes, no. Do whatever you want with that nerd. I'm trying to figure out mega evolutions here. When you head back down, you encounter another older looking guy. This guy's name is Lysander and he really wants the widest possible thing anyone could want for everyone to live in. in harmony and a more beautiful world, no one knows what this means except him, God, he would miss when people were just called Bill and Brock, after going to the cafe, you find Lysander again talking to a movie star named Diantha, she's like Diane with a meltdown while Lysander here is going on and on about how he could help her retain her youth and how she thinks everyone in the world should be like her because she makes people happy so he's 100% a person crazy and we're not really recognizing it. which apparently goes on and on about how he wants to stop the world from changing because he doesn't want it to get uglier, so here are our main villain guys and gals, but he still won't have to take everyone by surprise before that happens. reveal later.

He comes out, Diantha here, walks with his caterpillar eyebrows towards you and high-fives you for being a Pokémon trainer before also bouncing away after being attacked by a guy who's pedaling. Oh powers, move on to the next city, the two T's are here waiting. Go ahead and the beefiest guy challenges you to beat his corphish dancer, then the next guy tells you that if you leave town without visiting the castle, you'll miss out on one percent of life, so visit the castle. and the guy here is completely amazed by the idea of ​​having two visitors at once, since the castle is basically an empty shell full of nothing, then he walks off towards route seven, buys a mini emergency and you follow him down the road and you meet a man. and his son who forced you into child labor by insisting that you tend his berry fields for him.

You know, if there's one thing I've learned here it's that I should really wait for similar kids to come along and do free work. For me, since my back hurts, it's honestly a really brilliant idea, thanks Game Freak, but anyway the big emergency goes back to the old Pokémon Red problem of a Snorlax blocking the path at this point, I guess it's passed long enough for it to be like a throwback. Instead of knowing how to lazily type or something, you need the poké flute from a place called Parfum Palace. I'm sure I pronounced it wrong.

I don't care who charges you a thousand dollars to walk in the door. It's a bit complicated because you don't even have the option to say no, the game just takes a thousand dollars from you and I wonder what would happen if you didn't have enough money anyway in the next episode of I'm a Millionaire Who Collects Money From children to enter my mansion. The man in charge is having trouble finding his dog Pokémon. He even checked out all the statues, since it turns out the dogs are just chilling in the backyard, so you know what that means.

I had to chase him after learning the extremely important lesson to always be in the corner and be an animal, nothing could go wrong. The millionaire tells us to meet him on the balcony of his house to watch some fireworks. Shauna mentions that the dog probably ran away on purpose because of how messy that trainer is, but hey, fireworks, you think you know. I had never seen fireworks alone with a boy before. I will never forget them because I saw them with you, yeah, so this fool sets off fireworks in the middle of the The day you pick up the flute, this man plays the flute, snores like he wakes up from the flute and then you continue.

Finally, Trainer Serena decides that a fair battle would be to take you and her and then pit the two of you against this dance-cut bull. meme after arriving at the next town you are very casually directed towards the two ideas of going to the aquarium to leave or going to the glowing cave, since Serena is heading to the cave it is now the mandatory option and you have to ride on your horn. Trust me. I tried to leave Serena in the glowing cave, but as you go down the beach, this woman says, "Oh, don't drop my fossil.

I have to use my item. You can't go any further, you might accidentally." Step on my fossil, please turn around, so why did you give me this option? why did you give me the option? Why did you tell me that I can go through the aquarium to the next town? why just tell me? We have to go to that cave. man, don't even tell me, oh man, you can, you can go to the beach, you can do it because I can't, I can't go to the beach, okay. I am restricted. I'm restricted by this bikini here and our Item Finder. antics along with these trees on this beach that don't even match, it's not even the right type of tree on the beach.

Anyway, I don't know. The glowing cave is where you meet the villains of Team X&Y. Come on again, the Flare Grunt team gives you the courtesy notice that they literally only care about themselves and don't care at all what happens to anyone else. It's a little on the nose, but hey, I guess it's all about fashion. I can too. I can't really say that there's finally a team that the average person can relate to. Anyway, you grab a fossil and move on to the next town where it's time to ride a bike. In this type of Pokémon, you get a free bike just for being the first customer of the ten thousand store.

Thank goodness this guy doesn't know that prerequisite. Being a customer is paying for something, right? You have to shell out a million monopoly money for one, at least by Kanto standards, destroy the Rock Gym, and then move on to the next patch of land which apparently appears to be a rock field. There's some kind of hidden power in them because Team Flair is here trying to figure out their mystery or something. These guys have to be the dumbest group of villains yet and that's honestly impressive when you think about the existence of Team Galactic, this guy who is apparently the same guy.

The guy I beat up in the cave gets some kind of quest update about this hollow launcher and then says out loud, oh boy, whoever invented this thing must have been very fancy, well, it's very useful, let me leave you this small detail. The guy was the one who made the same guy who's been talking about the world being beautiful. What an unexpected plot we find ourselves in today. Either way, you chase the guy who got away and he tells you something about making the world better for the team. he powers up using the stones and then disappears into a dead end.

Boy, Geosenge Town sure is useless, it definitely won't be used in any kind of

major

plot development, so after beating a traveling gym leader who repeatedly reminds me that she is, in fact, a gym. leader she challenges me to a little game. I like to call these battles pointless because apparently only beating the gym leaders in their gyms rewards you with a badge. I know it's a bit of a long title for a game. I guess I'll take the time to expand the group of four friends here for a moment. I'm understanding their personalities a little more after interacting with them more superficially, so I don't like Trevor, he's like a minor Sharon to me. he basically can't fight so his way of challenging you is to see how many pokemon he can log into his pokedex and he always loses at that so far so he's really bad at everything plus he tends to give off that know-it-all vibe while belittling to his friend for always thinking about dancing, it just bothers me.

Cute, on the other hand, he's a goofball who focuses on coming up with new dances, which is kind of cute. On top of that, he's always trying to give you things because he knows he can't be as good a coach as you, basically recognize his weaknesses and recognize your strengths instead of banging his head against the wall trying to outdo you all the time. game. like him, then there's Shauna who I misjudged for being a bit dumb, she seems to have quite a bit of basic knowledge and tends to be quite stubborn when it comes to attacking things, she's fine and finally there's Serena who seems to be the most basic. incarnation of her, she simply checks all the boxes of the basic tenants required to reach Pokémon.

She has a drive to beat you even though she always beats her. She is always very bold and confident. I can't believe it when she loses, you know all that? things, although she congratulates you on your bond with your Pokémon and also on the strength you have. I don't know, she just seems like one of those things where they take what you know, like the Elite Four stereotype or the strong gym leader personality template. and then put it in a rival, I just think it would be much more interesting to see a super driven girl who is like blue or silver's counterpart anyway, the game starts to go full DBZ when it comes to mega evolutions. and how they work, the Mega Evolution Guru goes on about how different Pokémon can be pushed to go even beyond their normal power level limits and how it requires a stone and a ring to do so, so you and Serena They fought to see which of them.

You will get the ring and after you win, the third gym leader who you already beat once in the city before wants to test you to make sure you are worthy of it, this is silly to me since you just beat her. I would say that if this were one of those things where she tests you at the beginning of the game and then returns to her seventh gym city or whatever, then this would be a different case, but these are consecutive cities . Why did they write to her to challenge you like this and it really only gets worse because after you defeat her again she doesn't just do you the rude thing of fitting the word into as many sentences as she can because she's a skater, get it, she forces you?

Climb to the top of the Mastery Tower to fight her again after obtaining the Mega Evolution Ring, which is less of a ring and more of a bracelet. Dude, she even says. I'm not trying to spin you, well, then you are. You're not trying very hard, are you? But I guess we already knew that, looking at those last two battles, I know that the real reason for all this is that the developers are doing well. We want to give the player a mega evolution tutorial, but what if not? I don't have a Pokémon that's ready to Mega Evolve yet and this was basically the solution because the whole development of this was that they wanted it to make sense for you to use their Lucario since it's been watching you since you met it. that you are a strong trainer so he wants to go with you and Vatel consolidates that idea.

Honestly, it's too inorganic for me, so you grab the Pokémon, the stone, the ring and the knowledge that you can't have this time in your life and leave the tower someSome of the strangest dialogue happens in this game. I don't know if it's just poor writing or if a lot of these conversations are intentionally Curt, but here's an example, so you go. Cholewa and Serena come running after you and say hello neighbor, here's Cerf and then she says a little strange how did you come to Kalos and we're on this journey now it's almost like destiny and then she just leaves, what a strange thing to conclude a conversation. without any kind of goodbye, it really exemplifies the idea that most of the main conversations and plot points in this game are purely to give the players something to progress with, you can see the developers doing well, we have to give to the players.

Literally navigating to the next area and then realizing that it would be silly for Serena to just navigate here without any other dialogue. You could argue that all games do this and could do it to some extent, but this is the first one I've really felt like they've been forcing this kind of thing, in fact I'd say there's a pretty good counterexample in this game that also It gives the player an item and that would be to get the cute flash TM that gives it to you. in the cave before this and says he uses it because he's not particularly good at fighting and it keeps wild Pokémon away from him, which by the way has been reused because there are no dark caves in this game, that's cool, I want say dark caves. they were a bit of a silly mechanic, but that's a nice way to use someone's character to give the player an item instead of hey, by the way, this is where Cerf we also met was fate, anyway, it looks like Pokémon X is trying to catch up to black and white because Serena immediately contacts you in the next city and says, hey, let's fight even though you just defeated her in the last city.

I don't understand that, I really don't understand that when leaving the fourth gym city, Lysander directly. contacts you and tells you that he knows you have access to mega evolution, now okay, a couple of things, first of all, this is like Mark Zuckerberg texting you one day and saying, "Hey man, I heard you were getting your boss's job, good war." On that, just be responsible, secondly, this guy says. I trust that you will do whatever it takes to make the world more beautiful. I'm sorry, what the hell are you talking about? How dare you make us wait?

Haha, just kidding. Player, yes, the next ten minutes are full of awful dialogue, you have lice, Anders' government is spying, you have these two Jehovah's Witnesses updating your pokedex and then you have the incompetent flare team who are really just trying to sell you this dowsing machine. There has been a lot of excitement about the idea of ​​the item finder in this game. My key card is probably around the rock nine paces east of me, if only I had a dowsing machine, what the heck would my car keys be on the table? I had a metal detector in the next episode of this game's mission to break me as a human.

We have to go through the power plant that Team Flair took over after going around the circle in what is the most boring team match I have ever seen. In my life I come face to face with an administrator and a scientist named Alianna. Yes, they leave after completing any task that required them to extract Lumiose's power. By the way, that's why Lumiose was experiencing blackouts. Nobody was doing anything about it. Apparently for that reason too. Was I not allowed to enter the dark part of the city? It's not dangerous, it just doesn't have power anyway after they come out of cover.

CO and Senna appear with masks. They're pretending they weren't themselves. I'm leaving before they leave me. Then I decide you have this huge wanderer towering over the landscape. What's going on? He just mutters about flower Pokémon and eternal life and then just leaves. Where did he go? How are you going to take away the most interesting thing about this game? Me so fast that guy was like ten feet tall, not even the fifth gym leader suddenly appeared and it's dr. octopus arms to throw better pokeballs can make up for my disappointment in this game right now.

I really can't help but wonder how someone like Lieutenant Surge would react to this kid, as always. I am contacted almost immediately to guide me further on my on Rails adventure as I set foot outside the fifth gym this time it is Professor Sycamore who wants me to meet him at a cafe so I show up at the cafe and he He motioned to me as if he couldn't find it within ten by ten feet. coffee and then proceeds to act like I stumbled upon him by chance, guys like ah I just ran into my friend Lysander, did you know he's a descendant of a king who invented something that completely decimated populations 3000 years ago ?

Why does Sanders like it, yes he did? Kind of bad, but I mean the idea was pretty good when you think about it anyway, here's a rock I'm going to be on in st. somewhere else now sycamore takes care of him like a good guy, that Lysander, why did you call me here? Lord knows he wouldn't know where to go without them holding my hand, so Trevor tells me to meet the gang on Route 14 later. In my encounter with the professor, I almost guarantee that I can't lose to Trevor when it comes to watching Pokémon because I saw nine Pokémon in the mountain region and he lost to that.

Plus, Serena can't stand everyone doing the same thing. What are you talking about now? I wish she could reject Pokémon Battle xx from her for the same reason she just gave. I mean, everyone is struggling, how are you doing anything different? I also wish I could have said yes, I don't want to go to I tried to avoid the scary house, but Shauna snatched me away and in what can only be described as the biggest obligatory waste of time in Pokémon so far, you go to this house where the guy who It is inside, it does not deal with the outside. and you listen to him tell a boring ghost story and then he wants you to tip him.

It makes no difference if you give him a thousand badges or nothing. There is no new dialogue. There is no new element. You get nothing. I had to Look at this one apparently, if you tip people in Kalos, you have a better chance of finding a shiny Pokémon and getting cool new clothing options after beating the sixth Jim. The game moves towards Wade into territory I hope Game Freak never touches as a leader. She proceeds to tell you that she always wanted to be a Pokémon as if the fact that her eyes look inhuman and then she has wings wasn't enough.

I have to say that the time of existence of Delft Fox and this LARPing girl are unreasonably close to each other afterwards. Catching the Badger guided to the Pokeball Factory by these two great characters explains that Pokeballs actually catch Pokémon, which makes me wonder why Trevor is lying to me. I don't have any pictures of this one, but I actually spent 12 cool balls, 15 pokeballs at dusk. ball and a top level ball trying to catch a maul while he had three life points left he was in a glowing cave and really wanted a mall while he makes you wonder how the pokéball factory works.

Also at this point I know that it is better not to do it. I tried to progress beyond the game's careful guidance, so trying to move forward without visiting the factory was more about seeing what they do to keep me away this time, apparently all it takes to stop me is for the team members to call. I'm not allowed. go down that path unless I join them and to join them I have to pay them five million Trident cloak bars, so let's go to the factory, here we are, team Flare is trying to rob the entire factory of all their pokeballs, they say.

This guy comes to work for Team Flare or for five million Walmart money, you can join the team's plan. Is there any difference between those two options? And then, another bout of real Shakespearean poetry. This guy says, "I'll never forgive any group that tries." taking all the pokeballs for himself what a strange response. I will never forgive any group that tries to take the world's supply of bird cages. Those aren't for a group, they're for everyone who likes birds anyway, I was going to let Serena handle it. the rest, but that would be too much choice for one player, so I help her and the factory owner gives you a master ball and a large nugget indicating that not even he knows. the use of a large nugget, another piece of dialogue really weird, this is followed by speculation of what the hell the team is going to do with all those balls, I mean, unless there's some other functionality I haven't caught on, I guess. who are probably looking to catch some Pokémon.

I just wish the news report you received afterwards had said something like that due to the large number of stolen Pokeballs, inflation skyrocketed to the point where many Pokémon centers were now being stolen. whether riots were occurring on the streets of Lumiose when demand for pokeballs hit an all-time high or that the report didn't happen at all. Lysander is now actively bothering me when I'm just minding my own business rambling about mega evolutions. and what we can do with them and what would happen if humans had superpowers. You can also chalk this up to it being a Pokémon game all you want, but you know if someone behaved like that in real life you'd probably avoid them like the plague or Maybe you don't like it, but yeah, I don't know, in At this point it's easier to just stop talking about non-essential dialogue.

I keep giving in to every one of my reactions about every little scene because I keep thinking, well, this is going to be important and then it's not like you just left Lumiose and headed straight to Den DeMille and then the professor had to have followed you out of the cafe so he could talk to you about how good the coffees are and then mention that Kalos' legendary Pokémon is xerneas and sleeps when it's tired and all that. I just don't understand what the writers were trying to accomplish here, but it really seems like it would kill them to condense these conversations into one big one below.

I have Flair trying to capture an Abomasnow, which isn't really an egregious action when you think about it, but I imagine most of the Pokémon I beat to within an inch of their life before capturing them probably also get even more scared when I paralyze them and all that, they explain their goal that we just want to be the only people with power and good things in life and then they send them packing. Trevor talks about how scared he was, so then he leaves for Anistar, where you grab the seventh badge that Olympia could actually be one of my favorite Gym Leaders because of how little she talks about God, it's really weird to say that because I literally went from being a man.

I wish people like Koga Serge Blaine etc. would tell me more about themselves. I went from that to appreciating the gym. Leaders who don't talk over and over again and honestly it's because the writers don't seem to have a good story to tell with these leaders they bring out, you'll get the black and white bug gym leader chasing the team. Plasma all over the city before fighting him, you'll get the leader who won't leave a tower until Ampharos gets the medicine, you'll get the leader who flies around in his dumb plane and detects trouble from miles away, it's not convincing and it's not for lack of trying, it's just for lack of writing something that interests me, in any case, my sander decides to contact each coach with a hollow wheel and say hey guys, if you are not part of the flair team, you will be eliminated. for Pokémon's ultimate weapon, so yeah, bye, I guess I'm not even surprised that the bad guys tell everyone they're going to kill them, you'd think there would come a point where Gamefreak would just walk away, you know ?

An effective villain would start by simply rampaging through a city without warning or something like oh yeah, this would normally incite panic in people and then cause everyone everywhere to stop fighting to try and assess the situation, but as expected, these Details are simply lost, so it's off. to the secret underground lab, which is a requirement in all the Pokémon games, where the people outside tell you the password and you immediately confront Lysander, this one actually took me by surprise, but I guess he wants to do that in the that the villain evaluates your intentions or whatever here we get a glimpse of real, believable motivation my sander supposedly used to run his company with the idea that he could change the world for the better and save everyone from themselves, but basically there is stupid people and hindered his progress at every turn, at least that's the gist I got from Matt, that it's really human stuff and I can really relate to that to a certain extent, so he got tired of humanity and decided, you know, he what I am going to do. take over the world and then call all the stupid people and save it that way.

I mean, sure it's flawed, but hey, it's actually a good backstory for a villain. I'm impressed, but Jesus, it was a long walk for a little sip of water, so we made our way through Team Rocket's renovated hideout andwe finally run into the CEO of the platform and Senna looking for that really tall guy from earlier, apparently Flair is behind him; for some reason Senna also calls you by your name and this is the problem with this. the whole setup if my character had a mouth she would say wait I never told you my name but now we have to insert this realization in a really weird way by having her suddenly come out wait I've never heard your name you've never heard me He said, after these two, you meet two of the super scientist sisters and you beat the answers out of them.

They basically tell you that they needed all the energy from the power plant to power the ultimate weapon and then they needed the stones from the beginning. from the game to help feed it or activate it too, those stones are actually the graves of dead Pokémon that were sacrificed to end a war 3,000 years ago, that's pretty twisted. Pokémon deaths have really only been mentioned in any sort of explicit detail when a tower's deaths mentioned generally seem to be much more peaceful, like the death of a pet in real life. This is the first time, in my memory, where a game directly mentions that Pokémon were sacrificed as fuel for a weapon that was powerful enough.

To end a war, this is all becoming very much like World War II, but I agree with this, so far, moving forward makes us meet the third scientific sister who tells us that the ultimate weapon can maximize the power of a Pokémon at the same time. In Mega Evolution fashion, she also briefly mentions that Xerneas has the power to grant life to everything around him and speculates on what would happen if they fueled the ultimate weapon with his life force. After this encounter you finally make your way over to Lysander who is Watching over the giant guy they've apparently captured, the guy proceeds to tell you his story, which seems strange because Lysander doesn't say anything to stop him, but it's okay, 3000 years ago there was a big war and this guy's Pokémon participated in That war died because of the war and the guy was so distraught that he created a machine to bring his Pokémon back to life.

It ended up working but the man was still angry at humanity for allowing this to happen to his Pokémon so he turned the restorative machine into a destructive one and unleashed hell ending the war and then his Pokémon abandons him after seeing what he's become of. has become, that's not a bad story Game Freak, I'm really impressed, so this guy's name is Z, I'm not sure if that's right. AZ or Z, but I'm going to choose a Z, so it's over 3000 years old and the tallest. He also shares the name of the king who ruled the land 3000 years ago, what a coincidence he tells you to stop the flare from activating the weapon again while Lysander tells you to meet him further down the base, it really is a shame that Game Freak only know how to write villains one because the whole will only see if your convictions are stronger than ours, the only thing that can end is one way.

The bad guy who gives you a chance so openly lets you come in and win and then they say it's impossible. It seems like it would be better to be able to defeat a group of villains while they are actively trying to shut you down. In any way possible, in any case, there is something really cool that happens with all of this in that the chief scientist asks you to choose which button to press to activate or deactivate the ultimate weapon. I chose the one that activates it and type. de has a chuckle and then tells me that even if I had disabled it you would have activated it anyway, which makes sense, so this big flower type thing blooms in the center of that town that I said would definitely never be used as a plot point to my complete surprise, but this thing that appears on the ground is quite intimidating, which is a big step in the right direction for the plot of this game, so the most important thing about this whole ordeal with Lysander is that he is fed up with overpopulation making people steal, compete and be idiots with each other, so his solution is to kill a large portion of the population and each and every Pokémon, as he believes that People will always use Pokémon as tools, inevitably, yes, it goes along the same lines. of the philosophy I had for a while, although much more extreme, which sucks because you had something there for a moment, he's still not a bad villain, he's just very flawed, I guess he's okay and then he just lets you go. because it's too late and all, so you run past him and run into the smartest grunt I've ever seen in any of these games.

I'm talking about all the Pokémon games from

generation

1 to 6. This is without a doubt the smartest grunt from these managers. like stop right there because the legendary Pokémon at the end of this hallway and the grunt says why did you tell them that? Who would do that? I mean, that's the best thing I've seen in this entire game after that, you do it. up to the weapon, take out four more grunts and then the old sword feet here revive to face the business end of your master ball after bestowing the appropriate nickname on the ancient pokémon, it's time to defeat Lysander one last time, although this time he KITT has a pair of those robotic arms on the Eiffel Tower.

If not, I don't know what the purpose of these is, but well after our battle on the real Sol, Lysander seems to accept that the world will continue to be a place where war exists and that people only live selfishly for themselves, until he goes completely crazy and tells you that he will grant you and your friends the gift of eternal life shortly before launching a laser into space and Akbar himself, the greatest wish for them. would change with these stories is some kind of alternate ending like you ever played Chrono Trigger, well spoiler alert if you lost to the final boss of that game you would see that great ending where the boss destroys the entire world, your save file I was still at the last save point to get to face the boss, but that feeling of dread and amazement at seeing the bad guy win is infinitely more powerful than getting knocked out, returning to a Pokémon center, and then just walking back.

I don't know, maybe that's it. just a bit heavy for the Pokémon games, although all things considered, they went on to sacrifice the lives of so many Pokémon to stop a war or something, so I don't know, but either way they all go their separate ways and Long John Silver here seems to escape his underground cage while talking about how the Pokémon he revived never came back to him. The main thing I want to know about him is why he's so tall, he's like he's 3,000 years old and he is, but, people don't. They don't continue to grow as they age, they stop growing after a certain age.

It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Historically, humans have gotten taller on average, so Sycamore wants me to meet him in the next city we fight there and then he tells me that. he always knew Lysander was crazy, but he never made the time in his schedule to talk to him about it and then he tells me that he buried a good item for me as a token of gratitude for stopping the team's outbreak and then he leaves this to God. . The game's dialogue is so fucking weird. Can you imagine telling someone thank you for doing something big and important and that you hid something good for them somewhere in the city as a token of gratitude after this?

I guess we have to wrap up Shauna's story. Don't know. I don't know, but she challenges me to a Pokémon battle. This battle logistically makes no sense unless a huge amount of time has passed since she took over the team or Shauna stole someone's Pokémon. If she had sent level 30 Pokémon, it makes sense, but she. insisted on being useless at Team Flair HQ because he wasn't strong enough, now he's discarding level reason if all of these guys have been with me in the team's player base. I mean, I wouldn't have even had to fight most of those battles.

This is atrocious writing no matter how you look at it. You wrote these kids to be normal kids. that kind of focus on their own things and that's admirable, it's more realistic to have the child doing well. I'm not particularly good at fighting, but I love dancing, so that's what I'll focus on or the kid who just wants to spot. As many Pokémon as you can, you spend the entire game making these kids figure out what they're good at and then you stop caring about fighting as much and then you just throw it away by magically giving them semi-competitive Pokémon to fight against you.

I simply cannot believe that such carelessness exists in order to try to make these children feel somewhat equal for some reason. Either way, they give you a waterfall and move on after retrieving the gym leader from the nearby forest, with which you get the eighth gym badge. Almost zero stamina, then you go out and the game makes sure you know about the Pokémon League by having some nameless guy come out and tell you about it and then have the gym leader come out right behind him and say the exact same thing as him. They both said one after another, so I guess you're going up against the Pokémon League, huh, but even more absurd than this is the damn guardian standing in front of the entrance to the Pokémon League, the guy counts your badges and says, okay, let me prove to you, what not, this is my proof, I brought badges, who cares if I stole them?

What I am going to do? do in Victory Road being attacked by an Onix, not just my rival, who tries to beat me one last time before saying that he is renewing our rivalry. I can't imagine how much more rivalry it can be. I think we fought at least ten times on this. In any case, the game concluded this entire adventure by facing the league as we entered through the gigantic door. One of the members basically gives you a rundown of how the Pokémon League works. The funniest part of all this is that she basically says that she knows you defeated Team Flair and she calls you a hero in quotes, which I assume means she means it disrespectfully.

It's a little confusing because it implies that she thinks the league is much stronger than you, and yet none of them showed up. to stop Team Flair when they put out a warning message about literally killing most of the population and then that kind of weird, I mean truth be told gym leaders jumping in to help in black and white was one of the things more realistic and cool. that I've seen in these games because these guys should help stop such a big threat, meanwhile you have this pink guy talking to you about saving the region and possibly the world.

I guess she's always this nasty because she mentions that she's a movie star, stupid, what a strange offhand comment from someone so far into her training career, at least diantha actually thanks you for your work before the battle, no She's such a bad person, she's so nice, even though she has the weakest champion music so far, after you defeat her you do the whole Pokémon log and that concludes it, but wait, there's more, so Sycamore organized this whole parade of Pokémon. celebration, hell, both you as a hero and the new champion of the Pokémon League, wait, what?

What the hell are these people doing next to me now? Serena makes sense. Serena makes sense. She accompanied me through this whole thing. She fought with me. She helped me stay calm. What are you doing here? What is this? These three did nothing and then in the middle of this. celebration here comes the Nameless King to get slapped around a little while you teach him the true meaning of Christmas, you hit this man so hard he has an epiphany that makes his three thousand year old floette come back to him, okay , this is cute as hell, but it's so spoiled by literally everything else, this whole thing is the strangest ending I've seen so far, it's nonsense in almost every way, it's really hard to swallow honestly, but I do not know, whatever.

I'm guessing this story probably falls somewhere in the lower middle, maybe even the bottom. I don't know, it's pretty difficult with just the sheer amount of weirdness in its dialogue and the reckless amount of loopholes that exist for almost no reason other than to make the story feel deeper than a jar of pickles, okay, let's move on to Sun and Moon before this franchise makes me have a stroke, so at the end of this video we are greeted by the Lowland Regents professor, he goes through the same thing. everyone else and then you walk away from your computer where you were talking to him, but you don't take control of your character for three minutes because we need to see a nameless blonde girl escape with a Pokémon and a man with a bag of canvas.

It's just that there was some kind of device to house the Pokémon while the trainers were on the move, maybe someone will come up with something like that, so she's about to get caught because the enemy here decided to use the patented technique of getting in the way. on his way to his only exit when suddenlyPokémon duffel bag makes a big glow and then pushes them away, do you feel like it? I too feel my heart beat faster at that fascinating sequence of events. I hope we get more of that anyway. He's back on the boring island.

Your mom and not your dad tell you it's the big day, but first you have to put on your hat, you can't go on adventures without your hat, your new dad congratulates you on your hat and then you're going to receive a Pokémon from the Kahuna Islands from here you are basically escorted by the professor who gives you the basic summary of the game and I guess in a more organic way, like it feels less strong than the other games, also Kukui is definitely his unique character, he is very positive, charismatic and He loves where he lives, he doesn't really feel like a teacher, honestly, and he has this habit of inserting yes mid-thought to break up his sentences, yeah, I know it's such a small thing, but it makes the guy seem more human anyway.

You can't find Kahuna, so he sends you to look for it, probably the most times you've ever been Pokémon-less in one of these games, but that's okay because Pokémon apparently only lurk in the tall grass, thank goodness here to try that one out. theory. What's wrong is the blonde girl and her possessed bag as her ball leaves the bag and reaches the bridge, she is attacked by three whole birds, green eyes, white hat, she is too scared to move, so you are a heroic leader. I approached the birds before the bridge broke. because this ball of sentient fluff decided to fight back as you fall to your certain death, the island tapu flies by and completely annihilates the sparrows before swooping down and saying loudly I'm electric and the ferret is behind this.

You ask her the girl's name and she says yes, but here is the stone that must be yours, the stone did not belong to me but I kept it out of spite because she did not tell me her name and then she asks me if I will accompany her back. to the playground because she is afraid. I don't know what my non-Pokémon butt is going to do besides tuck in and roll against more Pokémon, but whatever, I wave my arms at her and then move her back to town because the US hats have to stay. together.

She tells me that she shouldn't tell anyone about all this because it's a secret, but then Cuco says that she is my assistant and she says that my name is Lilly. What I asked you before, what the hell, then she says, oh yeah, so these sparrows attacked Nebby and then this. a guy jumped on them and then the bridge collapsed and then Tabu Koko rescued them. I don't understand why you told me not to tell anyone about these things. Did you just want to tell him? You could have asked my favorite part. about this exchange is Kahuna Island goes wow, that's a weird taboo.

Koko is supposed to protect us and usually lets kids die over fickle things. Finally, after maybe 18 minutes of introduction, I get a Pokémon, but first it has to choose me as Well, after this touching scene is over, I think I can move again, but not for long. This is how I hate it, I don't remember why but I played this game once before and this was the feeling that came over me when I saw it again how once he battles me and his Pokémon is the one that is weak to yours you would think This doesn't make it your rival, but Sun and Moon are the first set of games where your opponent chooses the Pokémon that is weak to yours, making your opponent even more of a punching bag than before. anyway, like i said, i'm not sure why i hate how yet, but i do know that at first glance he's a very positive person who doesn't mind losing and seems to be that way.

Ridiculously energetic and carefree from here you can tell that shiny stone from earlier was supposed to indicate that the islands head who chose you or something and then you return home to show your mom the Pokémon you chose and go to sleep the next morning. You are greeted again by the professor who teaches you how to catch Pokémon before moving on to the festival. This festival exists to please the legendary guardian of the island. I guess people just fight in it and that's it, besides dancing and eating and stuff. you fight Howl again and he's really excited for you to kick his ass, I mean super excited about it, then you get another bracelet which is known as a ring, but this one doesn't allow you to mega evolve your Pokémon, it allows it.

You have to do some powerful moves known as Z moves, then you go home and watch the same scene of your mom stretching and talking about the day before the doorbell rings again. This time it is Lily who accompanies you at the teacher's request while he tells you that she. Cosmo gives a very rare Pokémon with a lot of power that other people want to abuse, so she ran away from them. I'm like 40 minutes into this game and it feels like the sequence should have ended 20 minutes ago, but we're leaving. to the lab to learn that, to learn that, to learn that, I know it's not what it seems, but dude, come on anyway, my pokedex now speaks with the power to fuse it with a living being and then I gotta get going.

Island Challenge, which is the sun and moons equivalent of challenging Gym Leaders. I guess you're supposed to go through the seven trials and beat the fork in Pokémon battles, but first I have to go to school. This school is a little strange because you pass through here and you win. fuck these preschoolers and then they call you into the office, man, I'm not even enrolled here, you're giving me anxiety I haven't felt in 10 years, after decimating the entire school to become their leader, you move to the in the next town with Lily, you also refer to how along the way he's the kind of guy who turns out to be a serial killer after being classified as a friend because this guy is jumping in front of a taurus like that's what you do when you see a big bowl, I mean who says something like that?

I knew he recognized the sound of those feet, but yeah, this whole thing isn't going well for me so far. I think I've spent more time watching cutscenes than actually being able to move in this game. The only thing that fixes this is an option that says Hello, I played this game before, let me skip scenes if I want, but again I would say it's a bit counterproductive to

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the story, but I mean half of these scenes are unrelated in absolute with the plot, hey kids, if you see a crack in the wall somewhere and you can see through the other side without that camera and get ready for some good photos, thanks for that important lesson.

Game Freak, I just want to move on. the plot, if I'm going to come across cutscenes on second thought, I think I'd rather follow how this is probably the most realistic reaction I've seen from a team in one of these games that every other team has reacted to. some kind of seriousness or fear, no matter how dumb they are oh no, Team Aqua is here to flood the world, help. Oh god, Team Galactic is here to give everyone bowl cuts, so you know, this captain just looks at them and then just ignores them. outside of them, that's how most people would or should react, oddly enough this interaction really raised my expectations because my first view of the team's skull was that this has to be the embarrassing group, still inista I think that I have seen it. away and then it turns out that no one takes them seriously either, which honestly makes all the ridiculous posturing when they talk a lot funnier than they would have been if the captain here had responded with you guys, I mean one of the lines that they drop.

A little later is what you are saying now. I am inferior to a Pokémon. I already have self-esteem issues, but yeah, after they get sent packing. Alima makes you fight him and then you head to his test while you do your thing through his test team's skull, he suddenly falls back down and attacks, which only ends up further cementing them as fools, like after you defeat them. , they come back to warn you that the totem Pokémon is super powerful and then before you know it, they help you seal the exits you've been chasing this last Pokémon anyway, you complete the test and Alima tells you that you have to adopt the z pose to activate the z crystal.

I'm telling you right now that this ginyu force pose could cause my Pokémon to transform into a human that has the knowledge to cure cancer and I wouldn't do it if I had stage 4 leukemia. After this wealth of knowledge, I'm going to the starting city to face Kahuna after pecking Kahuna's Pokémon on the ground. I complete my first big test and start the process to leave the island, apparently Lily wants to take Cosmo to safety, but she's not a trainer at all, it's an escort mission, so you accept the terms and conditions and I guess that she will go with you now.

It seems like cutting out the middleman and just giving me the legendary wood is the most optimal game here, but hey, that would make a good story, so after saddling the local cattle and forgetting where my house is and therefore not saying goodbye to My mom, it's over. to the next island, this is where you meet Mallow and Olivia Olivia is the Kahuna and you have to wonder if her legs get enough blood flow to soften a test captain. She makes a lot of culinary references, so I imagine she'll ask you to gather ingredients for her. or something like that, I think everyone in this game is taller than your character, Kukui says that because it's your island challenge, you can proceed however you want.

I don't believe it for a second and to further cement that feeling, Lily is waiting up ahead and still hasn't figured out how a pokeball works, she tells you that she's meeting a very special friend at the hotel later and I guess if my character didn't have the personality of what sandpaper, this would be the part of the anime where she confuses what she means and thinks that some guy is waiting for her. at the hotel to do something lewd like hold hands, but before To get to the bottom of this Scooby-Doo mystery, the Debs took it upon themselves to bring back the two best characters this series has ever seen, the CEO and Cinna, I don't know.

Why did I think they had developed the whole thing about Lily being at the hotel, but she just tells you that she's waiting, so I took route 4 and finally headed to the wild west town to fight Howl again. ? I'm starting to understand why. I didn't like him that much before, so let's look at how, as a rival as I mentioned before, he picks the starter that your starters are strong against, which is the first time we've seen this from a rival. Lenny has this whole challenger attitude about him like he's very competitive, he says things like let's show this newbie how we do it in Lola or something, which is just ridiculous because he got his first Pokémon around the same time as you and has lost to you three times at this point, so it's not arrogance per se, it's just bad writing because it's like it doesn't even register how many times you've fought or what you've accomplished so far and on top of that, it's just a Melvin.

I really don't have any. Another way to put it, you know how Shauna, Trevor and Tierno suddenly had level 49 Pokémon at the end of the game despite being trash at Pokémon battle, it feels like a side character is like these guys and every time I He says it's Beyond the Trials, he just feels like he shouldn't have his answers to defeat: he never seems to reflect on what he could have done better. He's just a cartoon character talking about how life is and that he should do it. go get some food, he's easily the least likable rival despite being the most positive, but now we have the other extreme gladion, he's the most daring anime guy, I think Game Freak could imagine, he presents himself as a job part-time for Team Skull, which is the funniest small-time job I could think of seeing when those guys failed to rob a berry farm that was previously giving out free berries.

This guy is a fucking katana, he makes some decent criticisms about the way he fights, but it's very hard to take someone seriously when he fights with his own hand like he's trying to stop him from writing in The Death Note. In any case, after defeating him, some Skull members show up to basically taunt him and tell him that he'll never fit in with the Skull team, even if the boss likes him, the old paralyzed hands don't have much to say about it. so everyone leaves and howls, he struggles to show any other human emotion beyond happiness.

A little further down the road we meet Lana, the next test captain, she asks you to check some splashes and whatnot before taking the official test, which is fine I guess. I just can't help but feel weird that this kid says things like maybe he's a strapping young swimmer, all this water on this 11 and 19 year old is apparently parched, but then it turns out you were doing the test the whole time. a trick, yes, Lana is a pretty fun character, she likes to mess with you and make up stories to see if she can make you believe them.

She is probably one of the best characters of recent times,especially in the role of gym leader. Don't know. man the way this is going i feel like i'm being introduced to character after character with no real story substance for example next up is hop who you and her defeat some team skull grunts and then she threatens that their big horse Pokémon hold them off, presumably to death. I like her, but all of their interaction, so for the sake of brevity, at this point I'm going to get to the meat of the plot and mention any previous interactions as they are considered important, so the main thing to note here is that one.

Colgate is back and looks even stupider in 3D. I guess he got away with being a real criminal and now he's studying the human-pokémon bond as power source number two. This guy's whole trial is hilarious and I think it's great to have something. Cheerful gems in these games number three, the test leaders are getting together and playing and that's great, but you have to wonder who is being fooled when they show up for a test and the captain is doing whatever he wants. It was like, but somehow those bastards are always after me with these things, okay, we finally got to something resembling the plot after completing the tests, by the way, it's not really me who's complaining, I've just been waiting for more things related to the story to appear.

All this time for this particular video apparently Lilly was found on the beach three months ago by the EES cuckoo's wife and also Kukui as his wife which also surprised me but what's really important here is the introduction of the ultra wormhole that This wormhole is rumored to open. over the lonely region and unleashed new and mysterious Pokémon into the world from another dimension and their presence tended to be particularly terrifying and malicious to the point that the Guardian Pokémon of each island supposedly battled them a few times, of course, right now that's all. a theory, but we all know how theories and legends go in these games, after this, it's time to head to Olivia's trial, which makes us meet members of the aether foundation, they are a group of Pokémon conservationists who strive for helping Pokémon and people where they are needed in this particular case, they are trying to shoot Diglett in a safe way so that people don't have to fight so many damn Digletts when they come through God, these people are needed and so many other caves in so many other regions, but one important thing to note here is that their uniforms match those of those who were chasing Lilly at the beginning of the game.

They openly admonished Team Skull, which makes me wonder if it's a front or if Lilly just shouldn't. I've done what she did or I guess maybe the inner ranks of the Aether Foundation could be the ones commanding Team Skull. Oh look, they have police officers. Even that doesn't seem right because later we encounter a couple of grunts from the team. that they are trying to steal a slow from any of the members, one of the members is called boss by the other and in turn they refer to themselves as the last line of defense of the Aether Foundation, so I don't know what to do with everyone.

This, but Goggles tells me to meet him later at the hotel, so I guess we'll get to that and then we'll meet Plumeria too. She basically says that Team Skull is a bunch of idiots, but they are her idiots. I can respect it, no. I don't know, there's a lot of little dialogue that exemplifies how much more human the characters in this game feel, especially considering the absolutely cringeworthy dialogue in the last few games, you have things like kuku, easy wife, talking about how attractive her alternate character is , you have things you have. things like plumeria is overly protective with her growls, unlike the leaders of all the other games, couch of all the other games, sorry something keeps distracting me, can't put my finger on it mm-hmm anyway, the dialogue in this one game is leaps and bounds above X&Y so far and honestly, it's awesome.

After the big test, you have to go find Goggles at the resort so he can tell you his name is Saba and then take you to a man-made artificial island in the middle of the ocean. Called paradise, this is where the foundation supposedly protects Pokémon and creates new types of pokeballs. The glasses are extremely important, it makes it clear that he has a higher rank in the foundation and constantly asserts his position in any way possible, which tells us that he. He's probably not a good guy. He then leaves you with Wick to show you conservation.

She talks about the preservation of certain Pokémon species and the like before introducing you to the president of the æther Foundation. Ameen, I can tell you right now. don't trust anyone who does their hair like that man, the little things in this game mention Lillie because he's a brainless idiot and Lucy wants to say that the expressions change because I don't know, maybe like half a second his eyes go from being big and loving to angry and Stern before she gives a lecture about children listening to adults, that's honestly an incredible detail, so we're having this conversation in this big load of a jellyfish that just glides in from another dimension like he's the one. owner of the place, but I guess everyone finds him threatening. more besides loose amine so you fight her and 360 degrees later loose amine talks about needing to have that ultra beast even though it seems like even existing in this dimension brought pain yeah she's definitely a person with problems anyway, WIC fired us, who gives? like some food and me on TM for psychic, I mean if that's not completely representative of personality and approach, splitting hair, I don't know what is, anyway, they'll leave you at the next island battle, you will howl and then you will talk to Kukui in the The park after the howl makes you walk outside and some kind of strange power play, then you go back to the city and meet Lily, who is looking for the library, and then you meet the damn one Professor Oak, my boy's hair has grown and he has become incredible.

What a legend, it took them so long to start putting old characters in the new games but man I'm glad they finally started doing it, sure there have been references to previous characters before but this is a straight look I mean come on . How shocking it was to see Read sitting silently in the cave with Pokémon Silver and that was just one game after the first. I don't know what I can say. I'm a fan of nostalgia. Team Skull has to be my favorite team. Out of all these games, I mean, every other group will say or do something pretty stupid and you'll wait.

That doesn't make sense, but they're still doing it and they're very self-righteous about it. The team's skulls stand in front of them. a specific bus stop sign and try to steal it so that the bus drivers can relax. How is that not the best heist any villain team has ever attempted to pull off? But getting back to this, here's an interesting concept that I think I would probably never do. I've thought low, it just doesn't have a Pokémon League, but Professor Kukui wants to gather the best trainers in Olalla to establish one that's really great, all the other Pokémon Leagues in all the other regions seem to be.

This long-standing traditional thing, but the fact that oh Lola is catching up now means you have a chance to be the first Pokémon League being in the region. I really like that idea. Guz Mahou. No? It is not clear to me. What Guzmán wants exactly is, from what I can tell you, the leader or at least a very high-ranking member of Team Skull. He talks very tough and gets in people's faces a lot. He is absolutely packed with bravado coming from God knows where. because even after losing he storms off after telling you that he will beat you any minute, he reminds me a lot of silver in a way, sure he will lose but he will call you a nerd when he leaves so whether you believe it or not . the plot is actually getting better if you can imagine, i mean so far we'll see gladion come out of a building and say "hey you guys know where kosma is and how he gives himself away because he's how" but then gladion leaves, just make sure you protect him no matter what I'm not sure why Team Skull knows, which pretty much confirms that he's on Team Skull as a spy or that he's using them for some other reason.

From here, Team Skull actually manages to force you to come. their territory just stealing some Pokémon kids from the ether house on your way to get them back, you actually run into the dark type elite form member of black and white Grimsley, well it's not as awesome as seeing Oak again, it's great to see this emaciated one. The guy was developed in 3D, so he heads to Poe Town where a couple of Skull members are sitting out front and instead of letting you in after you beat them, they just block you off, which is what all the other villains seem to neglect everyone else.

Pokémon game, luckily for us, this tired looking guy comes to let us ascend, he basically says he will send your remains back home if Skull defeats you, which is strange to me because it looks like skulls are mostly made up of wayward children, not that they are. I'm not capable of killing someone, but what's more, they have always been taken much less seriously. I guess I never stopped to consider the consequences if you lost to them. Not that that's an option. Wouldn't that be a dramatic alternate ending, so what do you do? On your way through the dark city and to Guzmán, he sings and dances before and after losing, making it clear that he really wants to beat you one of these days, then orders the grunt to step aside to give you the Pokémon he they stole and then he leaves, if you then sit in this chair you can get really confused by a random grunt which is a nice touch, after you come back you run into this guy who is a police officer.

I guess I'm not exactly sure what. the angle of him is, but he seems to be working to try to stop Team Skull in his way as he acerola passes by oh no, how do you say that? Well, according to the merriam-webster dictionary, I got it right, as acerola walks by and mentions. that he is a very hardworking police officer also she is acerola she is the captain of the six tests she lives in the house of ether and says that she is a descendant of royalty she is fine after you returned to the house of ether Lily has been kidnapped along with cosmic by team skull who basically just hid around the corner until all the strong trainers left the building.

I mean, that's pretty smart because I'm sure he won't do anything and he didn't do a good job. Working to get out of your grandfather's shadow, how? Now it's time to rescue her, but not before Shadow the Hedgehog arrives and scolds you for letting Team Skull get away with it. He then fights you out of frustration, but the good thing is that he actually apologizes for lashing out afterwards, that's pretty human. I also want to say that the dialogue in this game is long but really solid, so you go out with gladion to rescue cosmic and the blonde girl, but the nanu officer from before also shows up and says hello.

By the way, I'm a Kahuna, so he fights with me. I mean, nothing has ever been more shoe-in, but I honestly appreciate the convenience at this point all things considered. Like, no, no, he's a dirty, dirty cop type who tends to do things his way, okay? I think we're finally at the cusp of this game's plot. Gladio explains that Team Skull is hiding in his paradise, but doesn't explain the link between the two, so now it's time to break through the base. Getting to the bottom of this gladion makes a point here that I had considered before, but I guess I would still stand by my feelings on the matter.

He says that children and adults are on equal footing when it comes to Pokémon battles and that has been proven. Very true, but I guess when I've given all the other teams hell because they let a single kid take down their criminal operations, it's more one of those things where you have to consider what else is out there in the world. Yes, it makes sense that a level 50 dragon will scare most adults to the point that they won't want to stop the child anymore, but this makes a lot of human obstacles pointless if that's the case and lord knows there are a lot of obstacles. humans in these. games, including this one, I feel like fans of some of these teams would eventually band together and go after a single kid to hold him down anyway.

As you progress you learn a little more about gladion, how he used to live here, how and his Pokémon were designed to be something they normally wouldn't have been, this tells me that Loose Amine is probably Gladion's mother, hell she probably too be Lilly. Just looking at them, I mean, they all look almost identical, so it's not a big shock, cosmic is the key to opening ultra wormholes according to researchers, so it makes sense why Lilly would have tried to escape withhe. What these researchers like best is to just say, "Well, you beat us, but that doesn't mean we have to tell you anything and then." they just walk away, why did it take so many games for the villains to stop giving crucial information to the kids?

The glasses sent us to the basement on purpose because they knew it was a dead end and then used that time to get reinforcements who basically say that they know Aether is in bad shape, but they are still willing to work for the foundation regardless. I guess it's a plasma situation where some of the employees are totally fine with torturing Pokémon to open ultra wormholes and others are actually good people, for the best. that house made in this game pointed out that if the glasses had remained hidden we would have had no means to progress.

That's a good way to point out the fallacy while also including it as a means of progression. I'm not exactly sure if that's the case. good writing, but I also think my standards have dropped drastically throughout this series. Gladion simply knocks the guys out at this point before having to stop to try and control the inevitable Gallic weapon that threatens the beak of his hand, unfortunately for him Gasma takes him down first. getting knocked out of his slavish position by me, man, you know what really bothers me about this story, my character, this guy has no expression except this one and that's the problem with cardboard cutouts as protagonists, I mean, come on, at least Game Freak.

I pretend my character can use his face, but enough about Lucemon being like some of the damn things he says to his daughter. I mean, I don't like Lily either, but Jesus, that's an antagonist, so he walks next door where she only has boxes of frozen Pokémon ice cubes, how he walks in awkwardly and starts cheering for some reason he learns. to read the room how loose of me and then explains that they are all related in an epic plot twist that was impossible to understand Look, if you are like that, she then explains that she wants to free all the ultra beasts she can find in the lowland region, but I don't know because after some battles between different groups taking place all at once, Lucemon has Take my follower to the maxi-pad portal to be taken to another dimension where dangerous beasts roam.

I mean, you must be really crazy to do that, the next day Lily changes her hair and clothes and says she'll stop being totally useless, so there's that. Well, Gladion also gives you the solar flute and says that the legend says that if you play it together with the lunar flute, the legendary pokemon of the region will appear. Gladion may be an asset, Sir, but he rounds out his character quite well by apologizing for leaving his sister behind and acknowledging strength and numbers as he works alongside you. After this, we head to the last island and search for answers about the legendary Pokémon.

Pony Island is a relatively untamed region of Aloha with very few specks of civilization scattered throughout the prairie canyons and shores, there mostly seem to be many trainers who come here to train their teams against the region's strong Pokémon. . He also doesn't have a Kahuna according to habu, oh yeah, the boos showed up a few times to give you stuff and then leave. she lives here and tells you about the missing Kahuna and then runs to the ruins to become Kahuna five minutes later, she really didn't spread that plot twist too much, huh. I guess she was rejected by her superiors once before and then.

I decided to try again now since you just asked him something, so after Hapuku notices, he tells you that the other flute is on a remote island that you are going to with Lily. It's here in the rain that Lily sums up how useless she's been during the sixth. Once in the last thirty minutes, she practically confesses her love for you, but not quite, it's basically like the anime confesses her love, she goes on and on about how great you are and how you're always there for her and how she wants to travel. with you and become a trainer after you're done with the island challenge of course my character goes then we get on the moon flute where we get the option to take it or not in a twist I honestly never saw coming my character rejects.

Flu jumps on a Charizard and leaves Lily to die on the remote Salt Island, then he becomes a humble hit, a bean farmer who supplies his beans to everyone in the cafes, so after dealing with the remains of the team Skull Plumeria admitting that she's been a great Meany and Lily and that she wants us to help them get Guzmán back from the void, isn't a horrible turn for the villain team as they've always been more like a goofy group of wayward teenagers. than to a real crime syndicate. The eyebrows here give you the final Kahuna exam before heading into the canyon so you can make your way through this gigantic Canyon fighting trainers running towards Pokémon and pushing rocks to get the crystal easy and fair from a wandering hippie traversing the site of final test and making it up to the moon altar, this gigantic Cannon is actually probably the equivalent of the victory path in this game, which is interesting because it has many of the mechanics of the previous victory paths, but it is not call it that, it's just a vast Pony Canyon and you don't really realize this until later in the game, when you go up the mountain towards the Elite Four and realize how short the trip was.

Anyway, I'll kill Nala, who Lily understands, of course, I don't really like that trope. of people who perfectly understand a Pokémon or animal, what is that boy? There is no footage of the Pentagon being hit by a plane on 9/11 even though the area was under very strict surveillance, well that's a bit irrelevant if you ask me, but believe what you want. To believe that the chopped key entered ultraspace, you go to Gus Mislav hitting a rock and he goes on to tell you how he tried to capture a large jellyfish Pokémon by charging with all his might, well that didn't work and now he's scared. of them, geez, then you have this completely crazy, loose human being, good Lord, she just keeps leaving her there to be with the big jellyfish and I'm totally fine with that, honestly, she can't hurt anyone else here in this purgatory , I don't know if she has food, she basically goes on to say that she only wants the things she wants, that she has no interest in being with her daughter or anyone else.

Lilly criticizes her for treating living beings like them. There's one thing this game is really good at, and that's getting through that safety net of recognition that keeps Pokémon's most ethical issues at bay. In recent versions, fans of the games have actually made it a point to go see the Pokémon that trainers use when they battle. They love to fight with their trainers, but they never acknowledged the part where the trainers would pick them in balls and throw them into pieces when they were. Once finished, this game actually manages to address both, Lucemon makes a halfway decent point that would be taken a lot more seriously if she wasn't completely crazy and Nanu actually ponders whether Pokémon like to reside inside Pokeballs or not, nope.

There is an answer to these questions of course, because the game doesn't aim to show you what happens inside a ball or a PC or anything else, it's just that they throw them in without explanation, which I think is probably the best way. to handle it anyway. He takes out a pokeball from this lunatic and throws it into the air and takes out a large jellyfish and then fuses with the jellyfish. You don't understand the gravity of this moment. This is the only thing that made my character have a different facial expression. I don't understand the reason. although this is like Lysander walking in with his big, stupid robotic arms sticking out of his back like we're having a Pokémon battle, not a street fight.

I really don't understand this at all. but you have a normal last pokemon fight without any ultra beasts involved, except I guess all of their pokemon seem to be powered up like the ultra beasts get boosts, maybe that was the point of polymerizing with their pokemon. I don't know what I do know is that then Lilly calls the nala and that just kills her mother. Damn joke, she does it herself. Can you imagine she tells Lilly that she's beautiful and then she faints and everyone goes back to the real world, so you capture the big shower curtain and give her a new nickname? which Lily refuses to respect and then goes to take care of her mother, yes Lily is fine, although she needed constant protection, she definitely has a pretty strong conviction to be moving forward all the time without fighting Pokémon after all this is said and done , nanu actually shows up to tell you how to go to the newly built Pokémon League and even accompanies you there, of course Clarion is waiting for you and thanks you for everything you've done, man.

I really appreciate it more than you know. I guess the only thing I can really offer to thank you is a big Pokémon battle, so no, no, no, no, just a fond farewell would be stellar for me, buddy, from here it's up the mountain and a final encounter with how has a little. It's more bearable now that he finally seems to have acquired a fighting advantage to want to surpass you, but it was a long effort to get to this stage and we finally faced the elite because the four people you face are all people you have met and gotten to know along the way. of the game, this includes Halle Olivia, the grounder and fan-favorite golfer.

After beating them all, you end up face to face with the champion and creator of the Lola League, Professor Kukui. I think this was all handled pretty well. After becoming champion, you return to the first village in the game to celebrate, so after completely melting the island's sacred guardian and a wave of poison, we returned to the party so I could reject Lily's advances by pretending to distract me with the Fireworks. If that is all. Lily leaves Lola after being knocked down and my character has the same Groundhog Day scenario again with her mother stretching on the porch and someone at the door.

I guess Howl gains a lot of weight trying. to eat to death, there's actually more to the story as far as ultra beasts and that tree you fight acts, what's it called ah battle tree? It's cool because it's actually a pretty challenging tree and the red and blue really come through. there and you can fight them, but yeah, this is my 47th page of script and I think I might be going crazy, so I think we'll just slow this down and call it a day, oh, and all the Pokémon games. In reality, I've almost always put the plot second to everything else.

The red and blue had a basic scheme, but I didn't really need to have more at this stage. The gold and silver had a little more meat to them, but were well short of anything spectacular. Ruby and Sapphire. It started to push the plot a little further, but at the cost of some serious logistical problems, Diamond and Pearl took their plot too seriously with too little substance and had some horrible problems with pacing and character personalities. Black and White really tried to take Pokémon storytelling to new heights and I would say it was very successful even with some setbacks.

The pacing of Black and White Two was much better even if the actual story was a bit weaker than its predecessor. X & y was a street disaster of a plot I tried to deepen, but I ended up exceeding all its premise with a horrible dialogue, a weak premises and a disconcerting conclusion that did not feel well despite the attempt to touch the fibers of the heart and finally, finally , I have to say that Sol y Luna has the most development. and a well-written plot of the series and many people will disagree with that opinion. I mean, honestly, there are quite a few things that Sun and Moon did wrong, including things like not having the National Dex for the first game, but despite the long cutscenes, each character felt pretty realistic, they weren't always likable, but they all They were written pretty well, they all show development in their own way and I enjoyed the plot as it was, it's not a story I'm going to look back and tell people about other things in this video, but I'd say it's as good as it gets.

I had always expected from the series. Thanks for watching. I think I spent like three months making Pokémon videos because apparently I don't. I don't think about the ramifications when I come up with video ideas. I was initially going to do another video on mechanics as well, but anyway it's too much at this point, my next video will be on Skyrim so I hope some people like it. Also, I'd like to give a big shout out and a quick shout out to Ben Q. These guys sent me this screen bar reading lamp for my monitor and honestly, it's infinitely more useful than I thought it would be if you have any interest in using it . a light source to see better in the dark, see the Amazon link in the description beyond that.

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