>GF fails at moral grayness by making Ghetsis cartoonishly evil in hour 1>Apply Death of the Author + Cassandra Effect: player instantly knows Plasma is bullshit, but the NPCs don't listen and N gets the legendary first>Instant real urgency generated by player isolation
BW was about the corporate takeover of GF but, of course, midwit Pokemon fans didn't get it.
>>59471982Ghetiss was never mention to be “gray”. Like Muskrat, Trump the Toucher, most of Shitter, much of blue-hairsky but in the opposite side of the horseshoe, PETA, and many more examples, Plasma don’t give a shit about what they claim to preach. They don’t care about Pokémon, they’re just talking out of their ass to trick retarded normroids so get rid of their pokemon to make it more it easy for plasma to take over. Most villains in real life aren’t “grey” they’re just assholes and psychopaths looking for prey. This is one of the very rare times G*me Fr*ak did something right
What Ghetsis was supposed to be morally gray? I don't remember the game well but what I remembered was N questioning the battle culture with Pokemon but dealing with his own feelings with Ghetsis and Plasma being evil.
>>59472039>>59472049Toshinobu Matsumiya (lead writer) from an interview:It’s been 14 years since the first game was released. By now, people catch Pokémon without questioning it at all. In that context, we chose "Pokémon liberation" as a major theme to re-examine the relationship between humans and Pokémon and get people to think about them once more.[...]Exactly, that was the goal. We didn't want the story of Pokémon Black and White to be a simple tale of good vs. evil. We wanted players to wonder what to believe in when both sides seem to have a point. Even if there is a mastermind pulling the strings in the background, we wanted players to feel that ambiguity.[...]I wonder. Children can be surprisingly sharp sometimes. Even if something is logically difficult, I think they can grasp a lot of it through intuition. When creating a Pokémon story, we take great care to avoid the fixed notion that "it must be a simple story so children can understand it." From the perspective of a child playing, I think they would feel insulted if we did that.Source:https://web.archive.org/web/20110603070309/http://www22.atwiki.jp/bwhuman/pages/48.html#id_0291458a
>>59471982I thought the story was about N realizing pokemon are our friends or some shit.
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>>59471982Ghetsis is fine being evil. It's the two goons at the start kicking a Muuna to immediately placate the players worries that Team Plasma might be right and owning Pokémon is wrong
He wasn't supposed to be "morally grey", it was aimed at pre-teen kids, so they made him hilariously evil to tell the wee cunts what to think about him.Fucking staggering every time some casualty of life tries to "fix" pokémon, she's only fucking ignoring the fact they don't want to make it for casualties of life.
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>still ended up writing a blatantly laughably evil boss figure that was clearly obviously evil compared to the naive young man he controlledYeah, alright kid. The morality came from those who believed N's vision and those part of Ghetsis' plans, not from the figurehead., They were always, to borrow a phrase, black and white.
>>59472492BW2The game actually shows you the dark side of Poké Balls with Hugh's Purrloin, and N talks about it without the game contradicting him
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