Entire game is one long Tutorial

the story is garbage to begin with so who cares

It's the best story in a mainline Pokemon game, because it's not just generic world domination.

that's not a high bar mate

BW1 did that first

They got away with it completely last gen. Also you can say that about every game minus Johto

I wouldn't say it was bad, it just had far more screen time than it really needed to get the point across.
USM's story on the other hand. I hardly even remember what it was supposed to be about. I just remember thinking that the ultra space people were completely underutilized.

Ghetis is generic world domination 101.

Don't forget butchering Lusamine

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God she is PRIME breeding material despite how crazy she is

But N was the main antagonist in the first game

>USM barely does jack shit to ease up on the dialog
neither did SwSh

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It didn't have enough time actually. The story was slow as fuck until the very end where it suddenly went from a low cruise speed to supersonic and had the most disappointing finale I've ever seen.
It needed more time to build up that ending.
I actually enjoyed USUM's shitass plot more simply because it had less of Lillie in it until the end. Most noticeable is Exeggutor Island, which was literally just a Lillie cutscene in SM.

One of the female footwear options is sandals.
That's how.

>all of these are unskippable
>you also get bogged down with bullshit forced NPC chats
JUST LET ME PLAY THE GAME

That's more BW2. BW1 is N's story.

>Add "skip movie" option
>Still have to sit through the regular text dialog
What were they thinking

SM's story kinda revolves around Lillie's character arc and we get fucking plenty of that, so I can't entirely agree there.

Gamefreak is even more incompetent than Sonic Team at this point.

>20+ year old franchise still doesn't have a beginner/veteran option
Lack of competition does this.

Because it's a Pokemon game
This means a few things off the bat.
>the devs assume the audience is retarded, so the campaign is garbage (even older ones had this, it's just worse in new ones. Pokemon is bottom of the barrel)
>people will buy it anyway regardless of this
>anyone who gives a shit typically finds the meat of their playtime taken up by side content, which is usually lesser in new games
This was just GF's foray into moviegames.

>easy mode is unlocked by beating the game
No, it's because they're super retarded

You get a basic character arc but holy fuck man, it goes
>Lillie gets her character arc (shy -> less shy -> hair change -> stands up to mother)
The problem is ironically enough that Lillie does not appear enough in SM. Half the story she is either kidnapped or has fucked off to shop or chat with the professor, leaving only the most basic of traits to develop.
This is certainly more than 95% of Pokemon characters get, but it's by no means good.
If you were meaning USUM, yeah you do get the basic arc (since the game's a lazy recycled piece of shit) but she takes a back seat until the postgame.

I still can't believe gen VIII turned out shittier than alola
fucking amazing

Gloria is cute at least.

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