I still have no idea what Lysandre's motives are or what the fuck he's trying to do. What the fuck is going on here?
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Pokemon X/Y has the worst writing I've seen in a modern video game
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I still have no idea what Lysandre's motives are or what the fuck he's trying to do. What the fuck is going on here?
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Any time Pokemon games get story heavy they become utterly painful. No skipping cutscenes either.....
Pokemon is at a weird stage where it wants to make its plot more of a thing compared to previous games but it simultaneously half-asses the shit out of them. I'd love a Pokemon game with a good plot, but I prefer the early nearly non-existent stories to the stuff we get nowadays lol
(I did actually enjoy BW's story though)
(I did actually enjoy BW's story though)
Lysandre's goals are actually pretty simple to understand. He's basically a generic anime villain who wants to "purify" the world of everyone and everything he deems unworthy, except he's a hypocrite and an elitist because the only way you are allowed to be "saved" in his eyes is pay a massive fee to join Team Flare.
But yes the writing in X/Y and Pokemon in general is serviceable at best, downright bad at worst.
But yes the writing in X/Y and Pokemon in general is serviceable at best, downright bad at worst.
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I've actually yet to play a KH game because I've heard the story goes completely off the rails. I wanted to "jump in" at KH3 but I know I'll be confused as hell.
Most Pokemon games feel like this. Pokemon is at its absolute worst when they try to take the subject matter deathly serious.
Kingdom Hearts feels comparable in how its a completely silly concept played completely straight.
The difference I think is that's always been one of the appeals of Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts feels comparable in how its a completely silly concept played completely straight.
The difference I think is that's always been one of the appeals of Kingdom Hearts
Go to Lumiose and talk to any random NPC on the street
Feast upon the fucking least natural text dialogue you've ever seen
Feast upon the fucking least natural text dialogue you've ever seen
Wrong board, but agreed.
ummm I was a bit underwhelmed at this
I mean I can make sense of this, much more than that OP image anyway lol
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Pokemon dialogue is eeeeeeh
but the entirety of Fire Emblem Fates is an unfathomably poor shitshow
I remember being pretty put off by it. I honestly think Pokémon stories are at their best when it's incredibly simple. It feels like they might think they just have to keep topping how insane the last gen's story was but I would be completely fine with them toning it down and grounding it more.
I don't expect much from Pokemon but XY just shat itself with its story and characters. The final battle with Team Flare jsut kinda happens and you move on to go complete the game.
I mean, I think the joke is less that what Lysandre is saying is incomprehensible and more that he's VERY clearly a deranged bad guy and yet nobody seems to take this very seriously or confront him despite how obviously evil he sounds.
I still have no idea what Lysandre's motives are or what the fuck he's trying to do. What the fuck is going on here?
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He basically believes that if there are too many resources people take them for granted and that will lead to ruin afterwards. The world needs to be cleansed and in spite of initially saying it shouldn't fall upon men to decide to who is worthy of the new world, he took that choice for himself. He'd save a few humans chosen by him and kill everyone else. He also would kill all Pokemon since he believes the powers brought by them are great resources that will inevitably lead to human evil.
In that part he's just being very indirect about saying that people need to die to improve the world, which is why his wording is so odd. He only outright starts talking about "filth" and "cleansing" once he announces his plans openly and is about to fire a giant cannon.
Lysandre believes humanity is corrupt and in order to fix the world he must wipe the slate clean and start over. He plans on going about doing this by using the Ultimate Weapon to literally commit global genocide, on both people and pokemon.
So of course the people who he enlists to help in this global genocide consist of idiots who constantly make poses and are obsessed with fashion?!?!??!
This will never fail to make me laugh, Lysandre is so fucking ridiculous.
So of course the people who he enlists to help in this global genocide consist of idiots who constantly make poses and are obsessed with fashion?!?!??!
Wrong board, but agreed.
This will never fail to make me laugh, Lysandre is so fucking ridiculous.
Go play Fire Emblem Fates, specially Conquest and Revelations, OP, then come back.
Those aren't only bad, they're awful.
Those aren't only bad, they're awful.
Lysandre felt like basically Vaccine Man (from One Punch Man) only played completely straight as the main antagonist. They have already done parallel-dimensional bizarro villains so id assume they can only tone it way down from there, but you know Dynamax is going to play into the story in some insane way.
How many times can you stand the word "heart" being repeated in the most generic anime fashion possible. Example:
"You know nothing about hearts or love."
"All around us we are surrounded by hearts."
"Now, I'm gong to combine your heart with mine",
etc, etc...
Sun and Moons villians are top tier how dare you insult da Skull Bois!
Comparatively XY actually had less of a story than Black/White or Sun/Moon. During most of the game Team Flare is just Team Rocket with red suits, it's just Lysandre gets a few moments hinting at and then revelating his real plan right at the end, but he barely has a full page of dialogue.
idk how you can think Sun and Moon is worse, the story at least makes sense there even if the main characters are dumb, and the stupid villain team this time isn't taken seriously.
That game is Shakespeare compared to how the equivalents are handled in XY.
My brain must be broken cause I understood the story it was telling me. Can't say the same for Xenoblade 2 or whatever Fates was trying to say.
Bless the manga for being able to produce an awesome story out of the shit XY provided.
It made Tierno likable.
Tierno.
It made Tierno likable.
Tierno.
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Sun/Moon goes off the rails with weird dimensional travels and domestic abuse, but it doesn't have straight up shit like AZ, who feels like the developers forgot to cut him out.