There’s something inherently insecure and pathetic about making an entire game to poorly defend the concept behind your own franchise.

It tries to frame itself as a discussion but it comes off as a straw man saying this is wrong, the game spending its entire runtime telling you he’s wrong, he says he’s wrong and goes away. No lesson is learned, nothing is gained, and the status quo is restored like normal. What was the point?

There really is nothing wrong with keeping Pokemon in tiny balls because they helped build a few towns? Because they like it? Imagine making that argument for any actual social justice movement.

Kind of disgusting, but it did give us Hydreigon, probably the best thing Gamefreak ever produced.

Reviewed on Dec 18, 2023


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