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Nessa
Dec 15, 2008

Saoshyant posted:

I wish Ultra had made an effort to keep the Lusamine being batshit crazy from the previous iteration. You could still do Necrozma and Lusamine's quest to end up with Nihilengo no matter the cost*. Instead she became sort of... just there? "I fooled the Ultra Recon Squad so I could be the one to take on Necrozma". It's kind of the standard boring Pokemon plot, but the original was much more interesting.

Ultra also removed the whole subplot with Anabel, Looker, and Nanu for no good reason. Ultra still does a lot of good because Necrozma was amazing, along with the Rainbow Rocket stuff (including the ending, *teleports behind* "nothing personal"), just kind of wish it had made a better effort to also keep the good stuff from the previous iteration to make it the definitive version.

* Necrozma could pop up right after the player rescues Lusamine because it saw the open wormhole as a chance to go parasite on Solgaleo/Lunala.

Agreed.

At the end of S/M, Lusamine’s relationship with her children is broken, but they’re willing to try to work through things together. Lusamine was an abusive parent and both of her children suffered as a result of that. She’s painted as a villain, but also as a mother whose children still care about her, despite that bad things she’s done. Maybe she can make a recovery and restore her relationship with her kids.

I thought it was one of the most realistic things I’d seen in a Pokemon game. Something bittersweet and character driven. “Yay, we stopped the bad guy! But now our friends have to pick up the pieces and try to repair their relationship with their mom.”

USUM just got rid of all of that.

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