Pokemon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon vs. Pokemon X & Y (2/4)
Part 2 of the extra long rant
Which is were I have to talk about THAT. Pokémon X & Y felt like it had, by far, the WEAKEST story of all the games. All Pokémon games have pretty poor story telling in general, but at least the enemy team in the game feels at the very least a present enough threat that it draws your attention to when they are around. Team Flare are the least threatening team in the entire series. All teams are tacky in their own way. I mean Team Galactic were basically a bunch of Spacemen with horrible bowl cuts and yet they were obnoxious enough that running into them felt a certain dread. Team Flare on the other hand are just a bunch of Fashion Obsessed deviants whose whole motif is the world isn't beautiful like them. And at the core of that motif is their boss Lysandre. Lysandre is basically this world's version of Steve Jobs, a Silicon Valley tech head who's responsible for the Holowatches, one of which you're provided with at the beginning of the game. The gameplay use of it is just the bottom half of your DS screen but the story use is just for story people to occasionally pop up and tell you where to go. Lysandre is immediately pegged as the bad guy of the game almost as soon as you see him and yet no one really grasps the evil energy he emits. So when everyone is shocked when he turns evil and straight up declares he has access to a world ending weapon, I feel like bitch slapping everyone in the game. I could go on and on about how the story telling is awful, the characters feel flat and, the gameplay is easy but it all culminates in one glaring point: The game just felt rushed. Very often, I found that items and checkpoints I felt that I needed to EARN were just handed over by random NPCs and Story Characters that have little reason to just conveniently hand them over. The game felt more like a Pokémon Game Tour rather than a Pokémon Game in of itself. The player is guided through the motions of a Pokémon game rather than actually playing it. It was rather boring to play, I almost immediately put it down after I completed the main game, not really excited to check out the post game. However, the same can't be said about...
