Ex and Why general thread.

[megaMasquerain]

Popping in to add my two cents since I've discussed this with Tellis before: My first impressions of the XY dialogue was that there was... so little of it? And looking back on it, it wasn't that there was less, it's just that what we got was a lot lighter and less packed with characterization and information as Gen 5's and Gen 4's were. Sorrt of the difference between just saying what someone is doing VS adding emotion and meaning to it. "Ash picked up the Pokeball" vs "Ash gripped the Pokeball in his sweaty, shaking hand" etc etc.

I got the feeling that all of the writers who actually knew and cared about what they were doing (q: how many writers does XY share with BW? Curious) got shoved into the Looker Bureau sidequest and did some work on the main story stuff with Lysandre and Mr. Immortal Hobo, because the amount of work put into the story seems to go Looker Sidequest > the end of the main story > everything else > rival characterization. I felt the Looker sidequest was on par with some of the better parts of BW, IE, not amazing, but "Holy crap Game Freak MIGHT know something about writing interesting and well developed characters after all."

I really just felt like the writing in 90% of XY was written by someone who just stopped caring about the value of writing in the Pokemon series, which is disappointing, because even if I don't expect the series to be Megaten 4 Kidz I do expect some degree of integrity from the writing team as writers.