Best story in a pokemon game so far

BW1 is k i n o

In terms of game plot, I'd rank BW1 > SM > SV. The rest of the games are either dogshit or unexistent and SWSH has hands down the single worst plot in literally any video game that I've ever played

i genuinely hate the way that sounds even if it's technically a well-composed soundwall

youtu.be/O0ajBL15Knk

music was never the problem with gamefreak's development cycle

villain is who you expect to be

Who the fuck expected it to be a lab security subroutine?

SM plot

good

Nigga what

The PETA angle was a little interesting but then it gets dropped because turns out the leader is just another villain planning world domination. The game fell apart after the ferris wheel ride with N. He doesn't get anymore characterization and then Ghetsis and the old sage fucks and the castle and the legendaries just feel like they pop out of nowhere. Literally. Also Ghetsis just looks retarded.

Cheren/Bianca and especially N have a lot of depth, and the story starts at the beginning of the game, unlike SV where it literally starts with Area Zero. BW isn't great because of Team Plasma's motivations, which are just a plot device, it's great because Ghetsis has an actual smart plan (even if there are goofy moments because it's still a kids game) and because N goes through his crisis and confusion gradually throughout the game

tripfag

retarded post

Based duo

then it gets dropped because turns out the leader is just another villain planning world domination.

that was literally the point, it wasn't meant to be a plot twist

Cheren story is all right because it blendsinto the gameplay but Bianca and her forced family drama can go fuck themselves

most Anon Babble thread in a Anon Babble board so far

I think Ghetsis works because he’s without a doubt the most evil fucker in the franchise and it shows how good intentions can escalate into extremism due to outside manipulation

In what way is Alola a good plot

The "protag takes a back seat to shill Lillie" part? The "villainous team are a bunch of clowns meant to subvert expectations for the real 'twist' villain" part?
The "main villain is only evil cause she lost her husband and decided being obsessed with aliens is the way to cope" part?

It has an incredibly good final act but the whole rest of the game is a drag. Hitting Area Zero was such a good moment it made me remember the feeling Pokemon used to give me. We've yet to have any Pokemon game with a truly good story, but this is pretty standard for the games industry.

Seeing as they had middling soundtracks for 3 generations in a row before Scarlet & Violet and even then there's only a few solid tracks in this gen I'd actually totally disagree. Posting peak from back when the soundtracks were firing on all cylinders isn't indicative of current quality.

youtube.com/watch?v=uUY5KjHwczY

Based, i agree with that rank

first stepping into area zero

youtu.be/PQMf4ezKdJk

That track would feel totally in place in SMT5

Team Plasma sucked in BW because how one-dimensional it was. We know from BW2 it had both true believers and slimy opportunistic criminals, but in the first games the only actual representative of the former grouping was N while seemingly every single grunt out there was a cunt. Things would've been more impactful had we dealt with more genuinely well-intentioned extremists instead of everyone being a stereotypically evil Munna kicker, just to make you consider their point, think "it's just a few bad apples" and doubt yourself just a little bit. It shouldn't have been hard, just a cutscene showing some grunts releasing their pokemon back into the wild, or maybe saving some pokemon from a random asshole trainer.

The PETA angle was a little interesting but then it gets dropped because turns out the leader is just another villain planning world domination

This is what I'd expect from the PETA CEO or whoever runs it tbqh

I like that as an idea, it just wasn't done that well
If it was done better it could've made the setting felt bigger than it was

story

This is just another variation of the Alola plot, but shittier than the last time they xerox'd it for Galar.

They should have had the stories reference each other more often and to the greater overarching story more. As much as I like the whole you can do anything in any order gimmick if they locked out progression at certain points so you always get certain story beats when they want you to.

Have the team star members talk about how they wanted to build their base in an area but couldn't cause of the titan mon nearby, or have the league make references to area zero

It was really good. The semi rival's storyline about his dog which overlapped with the larger story of the missing Professor was great. Area Zero really was a nice sendoff to the game, I personally love the entire crater of Paldea musical arrangements for battle and field music. Most retards wouldn't know because they wrote it off social media meme tweets rather than the good games Scarlet and Violet were -- in spite of GameFreak's technical fuckery and missing Pokedex.

Jealous of the people who will experience these games with 60FPS on the Switch 2 and with all the DLC.

This, it would have been cool too if Bianca joined them instead of becoming a Jupiter simp

fucking toby

goes sky high big

get to make music for one of your favorite series

but series is old as shit and the game is very barebones so your music stands out even more

The split of the grunts was already implied in BW1 tho

bump

What a low bar to hurdle over but yeah okay.

Scarlet has a better story because Sada's motives make way more sense.

BW is unironically one of the worst stories.

no one cares about Bianca's daddy issues, waste of time

grunts kicking pokemon out in the open

no one knows what a dragonite looks like apparently

N just walks around the whole game

Ghetsis is too much of a mustache twirling fag to take seriously, even by pokemon standards

Who do you think you're fooling yawnie?

He is right though

samefagging

I still can't believe they added a glowie to the main cast...