>this intimidating loan shark gang leader is actually just a wholesome guy who wants to help peopl-Yawn... Why can't we have real villains anymore?
>Guys extorts a teenager for 100,000,000 thanks to a contract with a very small hard to read fine print>what if he was le misunderstood bad guy with a heart of goldWhat was gf thinking
>>58465383The Yakuza wanted some whitewashing.
>>58465386this
Jacinthe is the villain
>>58465462Jacinthe is for rape
>>58465356>intimidating
>>58465383>wouldn't it be funny if a mob boss gave you orders that sounded like he wanted you to kill someone but he actually just wanted you to do some my little pony shit? surely players will agree that this is a funny joke and not assume that this is a moral lesson for children I genuinely don't understand how so many people can't tell this obvious joke is a joke
>>58465356if you pay attention this happens across most media. modern Disney movies, the last thunderbolts movies and so on have no villains or "sympathetic" ones. it's just them being obnoxious and copying whatever trend they think it's popular, but it's not a replacement for good writing. having no villains makes ZA feel boring as the heroes never challenge their morals, have no growth nor change.
If he was an actual menacing villain, he would have been hotter and more memorable. Now he is just the asian manlet version of guzma/penny
>>58465462Came here to post this.
>>58465489A manlet boss can be even more threatening because they know they have to compensate for their short stature by being utterly ruthless and unhinged.
>>58465489He exists to be princess carried and bred
>>58465462ugly art
women want him. thats all that matters
He was by far my favorite character in the game. One of the few adults in Pokémon that actually acts like an adult but is still silly
>>58465356essentially they're extorting people to rope them into community service then dropping it when they're satisfied. good intentions going about things the wrong way like we see with every other major character in the game.
>>58466057>shavedHe deserves only the hairiest of bushes and pits.
>>58465356they literally speedran the "evil team is not actually the badguys" plotpoint this time. TWICE
>>58466970i need my bad guys just like team rocket oh nonono is that KANTOO PANDERING AIEEE IM GOIGN CCCRRRAAAZZZYYYYYYYY!!!
>>58465494>ZA feel boring as the heroes never challenge their morals, have no growth nor changeWhen has a protagonist in a Pokemon game ever done this
>>58465356He is unironically better than Giovanni already but I wish he was more of a gray character and did evil shit but thinking he is doing the right thing. He being actually le good just looks like he has anger issues. He is still intimidating though.
The game was intentionally throwing red herrings, I saw some people thought Ivor was going to be a scam artist or something but he's just a retard. Its not done great but I think it makes sense for a story about one city to be about people coming together and learning to trust each other.
>>58465494>>58465383>>58465492>>58465356Yeah the Jews are getting scared for when they fully get found out so they need to impart this “lesson” in people.
his subordinate looked more like the part of a mob boss, probably because he was fat and ugly
>>58465356He was made to appeal to women. You wouldn't understand.
>>58465462This. I was annoyed at the loan shark story arc, then I got to her and realised he actually wasn't so bad
>>58466057>criminal mob boss>women want himyeah no fucking shit einstein
>>58465356So is he actually Kieran dad or not?
>>58467339Obviously not. What a retarded fan theory.
>>58467339No he has nothing to do with them the game mentions he has no family like 5 times
>>58467125That's how it went for me too.Jacinthe is a legit psycho but we're all friends in the end for some reason
>>58466970Technically thrice(Rust guys, Jett, Grisham)
>>58467103That’s the joke, he even says he handed leadership of Rust Syndicate to Corbeau because he knew he’d do a better job running it
>>58465356It is just kinda weird in general with the Lysandre and Flare apologism late in the game too. Like, bitch they were gonna kill the whole fucking region (and bragged about it), of course people are gonna be vary of associates and outright exmembers, even if they make nice Coffee.
>>58465356too scarypokemon is for manchildren!
>>58466057that player is a man
>>58465467Good morning Saar
>>58468155it was ONE little attempted genocide, come on. cut them some slack!
>>58465494Anon, no. Please don't make authoritative statements about subjects you do not really care about. You can 100% have an amazing story w/o character development, morals challenged, or esp. villains, so they aren't fundamental to good writing. Like, the majority of poetry operates free of these, or most of Borges or Dunsany or Clark Ashton Smith or Woolf's Blue&Green or Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, travel literature like The Innocents Abroad, many literary fairy tales too....so yeah. I love love love Pokemon most when it's just, delighting in the quotidian/everyday, and I think they recognize that sense of wonder and adventure their setting creates bc of the several disparate short story animation collections they've made, or Concierge, or even ZA with all the inconsequential side quests. So yeah, morals are w/e and I think there is space for this kind of presentation in the series too.
>>58465383The Yakuza are dying so they need to make themselves look clean, even cartels are doing that by owning legal business everywhere in the world.We're fucked because ((THEY)) are involved too
>>58466826Holy based
