What do you think of the story?

[Sheep]

For those who have gone through the story, or even parts of it, what do you think of it? What parts did you like or dislike? (Remember to mark events in spoiler tags!)

 

[Corveone]

Liked:
The parts involving

Spoiler:

'L' and his redemption arc.

The climax with

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Zygarde, and its post-game final test. Probably the best use of a legendary Pokémon in the whole franchise.

The

Spoiler:

Team Flare Noveau segment.

Disliked:
GF still fixated with the idea of entire plot revolving around some random tourist who for some never explained reason is the chosen one and the only one who can get anything done and save the world...

The game tells, but fails to show:

"Oh, the rogue Pokémon are suffering, and are dangerous to the citizens, we Team MZ must help".
No, they're not suffering, they just stand there doing literally nothing until you decide to show up, and people around couldn't care less.

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"Oh, the Prism tower is glowing, what terrible crisis befalls Lumiose?"

Nobody cares, NPCs stay there with the same dialogues as if everything was still perfectly normal.

Overall I'd say: there was potential for a decent story, but the execution and the pace is terrible for the most part, except for certain things that were done considerably well.

 

[_confused_piplup_]

Didn't like it.

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Could have done more with L and especially there's almost no interaction with L and AZ, which imo should have been important. I didn't like the climax for 2 reasons: 1 classic scenario where the protagonist is super strong, amazing, fantastic and has to save the situation.

Didn't like mega floette, mega zygarde even less. The mega really seems to have been created just for the story but i wish it was deeper than that. 2 The 3vs3/2vs2 final battles against the mega pokemon were horribly made, I could barely understand where my pokemon where and what they were doing, and it was hard to trigger the right pokemon. It was a total mess. I lost several times and when I won, I wasn't sure how. At some point spamming was the good strategy. That was truly anti climatic, and ruined the climax imo.

The final boss being the Prism Tower was very cool, and I hope they will do something similar in the next games too. But I think the SV finale is just on another level, in all honesty.

 

[RMVNZ]

Strongly underwhelming.

Spoiler:

What do you mean Prism Tower is actually a sentient weapon?
We were literally inside it in X and Y when it was a gym, and you would think there were hints from Kalos officials (i.e., Clemont, the Elite Four, Diantha, etc.) that the tower was a living being. How does a building even become a weapon? That's like finding out the Silph Co. building is actually a Mewthree or something.
It was an extremely hard sell for me and felt like it came out of nowhere.

 

[Iceshadow3317]

I loved it. In my opinion, aside from Unova, Some of SV, and XY, this was easily one of my favorite stories. Could it have done better, yeah for sure. I think it would have been better to use all of Kalos and not just Lumious. I think it would have helped the story a lot more. But over all I really enjoyed it. It was a lot better that Arceus.

I will say for the people who like were very very excited for it, I think they forgot most of what we already knew. Maybe they didn't watch the anime? Because this game was almost 99% inspired by the XYZ anime and Journeys.