What's in the quote ain't in the post.
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No more nefarious than Aqua and Magma? Flare wanted to KILL EVERYONE with the super weapon in Y and only the select few they approved of would be allowed to live. Magma and Aqua wanted to....increase/decrease land mass. Lamest goals ever.Their real problem was you only saw them a few times and they mostly talked about their bloody suits (which you CAN'T EVEN BUY? WHY NOT NINTENDO?) if they focused more on the evil stuff they could've been far more intimidating.The 3D is gorgeous and well overdue, megas are something I think were badly done tbh, many were given to pokemon that were already overpowered and there are far too few for something you seem to be expected to have 1 per team. It also puts a stop to many pokemon getting real evolutions that could've been far more interesting (absol, mawile, banette). Gen 4 remains the king for me, but 6 is a close second.
On paper Flare are a lot more dangerous than some previous groups, but the execution feels heartless. I never really got that impression that they were anything more than NPCs, I barely got the impression they believed in their goals. Everything about them felt hollow to me.
Actually, going back to AZ, how about some history on him? I mean how the hell did he and Floette live so damn long? And what happened to his kingdom? And everything about him? He just was like some homeless guy that showed up, spouted a few things you probably didn't care about, leave, and then gets captured by Team Flare not to show up until the finale. Hopefully they'll explain more in the third game.
Iirc something was mentioned about the power of his death machine from the legendary pokémon having the effect of making him live forever. Floette is more interesting, since hadn't he abandoned AZ by that point?
I really like your points about the plot, that's actually quite interesting, but during play, Flare did seem to lack some of the real threat of the other teams. While you always felt like you could beat them in previous games, it felt like it mattered, and that these guys are a threat. Until really the fight against Pyroar Lysandre, they seemed to be more in your way than you were in theirs.
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(Shaymin did an excellent job of that!);
Ah yes, I was so focused on understanding the plot that I literally forgot about the things that I just love about the games. Pretty much all the reasons you gave keep me loving the actual design of the game so much. (As I said though I'm disappointed that there weren't that many Pokemon, but a higher percentage of them were memorable than in previous generations)
u sure about thattbh i wasn't all bothered by the lack of new mons - b/w was confusing to me because wow look at all these new things wthsometimes an extra 150+ is too many and your brain dies and the more memorable pokemon don't stand out as much because you're drowning in all these extra pokemon and choking and all thatalso with ivs/evs whatever i never knew how to calculate them so the judge saying "ye x/y/z is good but a/b/c is kinda meh" changed a lot for me (even tho i still don't know how they work haha!) and the almost perf mons from the friend safari are awesome
Actually, now that I think of it, maybe Floette was granted eternal life after she was brought back to life? I mean it's the same power, just not weaponized.
And well, that's the idea of the cult part. Only those Lysandre thought was necessary to know knew it was going to involve destroying humanity. The real lowly grunt joined because they thought he would make the world more beautiful (not knowing he's talking about destroying humanity), and so there's no threat, because for all you know based off the ramblings of the other members, Team Flare is really just doing really strange things to do something that's actually pretty damn nice when you really think about it (don't you want a beautiful world?). So you're really like giving them a childish slap on the wrist because they're doing something stupid. It's actually brilliant of Lysandre NOT to tell everyone what the real plan is and just send them off to do his bidding, BECAUSE who the hell would join an organization that's going to kill off practically all your friends and family?