They went a bit overboard on the Corbeau pandering in this DLC
>>58730585It's NOT enough
>>58730585they're a based character though
>>58730638Why are you they/them-ing corbeau
>character exists>OMG PANDERING!!!!!
>>58730652they use neutral pronouns in the japanese version
>>58730673Wtf, Corbeau is gender ambigous fluid nonbinary?
>>58730657Corbeau was one of the """Elite Four""" of the game, four super strong trainers you fight to reach the top and in the rematches are treated equally, same levels and shit, with Grisham only being above them and gatekeeping Rank A as the strongest enemy other than your rival, basically the Champion of the game. And yet the DLC makes Corbeau the most important character from another faction by far, gets to boss you around again and is elevated to stronger than his former equals AND Grisham too, only being surpassed by Emma and the two strongest NPCs from Team MZ (your rival and Korrina).It's like if SV DLC picked idk Mela and turned her in a key NPC you have to report to every time and who is retconned into the strongest Team Star member, even above Penny.
>>58730689kind of, and AZ too by the way
>>58730701>And yet the DLC makes Corbeau the most important character from another faction by far, gets to boss you around again and is elevated to stronger than his former equals AND Grisham tooDamn, whoever playtested/worked on the game must’ve really fell in love with him kek. To the point they took their chances doing this with the DLC without knowing how audiences would react to him in the base game.
>>58730657The funny thing is, it IS forced shilling. The game's been complete since 2024, but they went right ahead and decided that Corbeau should be the main man of operations for the DLC narrative without ever gauging whether or not he'd be popular (of course, they knew he WOULD be, he was explicitly designed and characterized to be a woman magnet).
>>58730585>oh hey vinnie>maybe he'll do something>vinnie: here, have my ballswhat the fuck?
>>58730711>>58730689>>58730673All current age pronouns are gender neutral in japanese you retards, at best they can be more typically used for boys or girls but they don't define a person's gender.
>>58730585He was the shill pick since before the base game's release, only character among all ten of the group leaders and subleaders to be revealed prior to launch.
Based boy raised by evil team leaders
>>58730856>Is that Giovanni from KANTOOOOOO!?
>>58730856>boygaijin anon...
>>58730701Huh, something that puzzled me a little about this interaction makes sense now>Base game: Jacinthe takes charge of endgame plan, exasperates/annoys Corbeau, is said to be his weak point in jp version>DLC: Corbeau takes over and smoothly handles Jacinthe with no issue despite how stubborn/controlling she usually is, all with a calm smileI mean change is interesting to see, I just found the stark change in attitude funny
>>58730856Silverbros..
Corbeau is literally the only good character in Z-A though.
>>58731029He's the only one they put effort into developing and making likeable. And it's still forced
>>58730585He, Jancihthe and Carnie showing up all the time really started getting on my nerves I would of perfered we got Shauna, Synacamore, Tievor, Lsyandre, Diantha, the other gym leaders and maybe some mention of Calum and Serena Teal Mask and Blueberry acacdemy had new locations and new characters while also using Blueberry's little gimmick to let the old characters talk about themselves some more, why couldn't they of kept that?Corbeau might be the one who pisses me off the most Giovanni raised this little fucker yet completely abandoned Silver he either knew Colress or his gang had a hand in sheltering him until he made his way to Alola with all the knowledge he has on Unova's legendary pokemon They completely reconned Taunie/Urbain ditching us for corporate life, Jett is gonna stay on and groom them into the position grandually over doing it immediately was their backlash or did someone realize how fucking stupid it is to put a 16 year old in charge of a major corporation who has no idea what they're doing? Meanwhile Leon became the chairman in Rose's place of Marcos Cosmos and Corbeau runs the Rust Synthaetic even through he's not that much older than Team MZ
>>58730953I'm more annoyed this sociopath bitch is Diantha's protage, what the fuck man, she let a rich psychopath loose on this region, let's not forget she tried to buy prism tower outright and the only reason she hasn't taken things by force is because YOU are the only person able to beat her down over and over and she's fascinated with overcoming you even once
>>58730856How about him being Kieran's father/ brother?
>>58730673That's not how it works. Also YWNBJ
>>58731044Yeah I feel like the friends from XY should’ve showed up; otherwise, why even put that line from Lida about how she’s never met Tierno?
>>58730585He's the main character of ZA
He became a redditor the more they showed him. I disliked it.
>>58730638>>58730856>>58731029Really? Corbeau has the depth of a puddle. I can appreciate the bad boy with a heart of gold trope even as a heterosexual dude, but Corbeau isn’t even slightly morally ambiguous. He’s just a goody two-shoes that dresses like an edgelord. His whole characterization feels extremely cheap and hinges on the rather dubious implication that you shouldn’t automatically assume that the leader of a “syndicate” is a bad guy.
>>58731244>Corbeau has the depth of a puddle.If Corbeau is a puddle, then 95% of Pokémon characters are a cup of water.
>>58731256You’re not wrong, but ZA is a leap above the usual standards of pokemon character depth, and relative to some other characters in the game, he’s pretty shallow.
>>58731244he wonyou lost to 2D
