Jun 29, 2024
Some days I wish more people actually played Pokemon for the plot so there's incentive to improve on the plot's weak points
#this is just musings but I was thinking about how legends Arceus was like#the only time I felt emotion about a player character outside of them being me#if that makes sense#in a main series game hello explorers of sky#but yeah like the protagonists are such non-characters#I do think it's a flaw that people look at hop and Keiran and go 'why am I doing this I don't even want to be champion'#like other aspects are very strong! scarlet and Violet had such strong plots and for 2/3rds of the main plot line the protagonist did not#need to be there!#like it could have been any strong trainer#when Pokémon's story is good it tends to be because OTHER CHARACTERS have good arcs that are facilitated by the player beating other#trainers when necessary for them#why am I doing the gym challenge? idk? I'm supposed to if#I'm having trouble articulating what I want because I'm tired but I'd like to start with giving the player character a clear motivation#like akari/rei have it very simple: wanna go home#got amnesia#a side of solve the mystery#like that's all stuff you can get from the set up#and then it's never really resolved#so they're just like in limbo#but aside from that#why does the player want to be champion other than that's the thing you do#when you have a Pokémon and are playing a main series game
