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Pokémon Emerald
| >>621050 2-3th gen, when they were in the proccess of canonically say Pokemon have been living forever and not "randomly appear" like in 1st gen. Also it's supposed to be a game for kids in the sense that everyone has to "understand" evil wants to do bad things. Cultists would make the player kid confused and maybe have some controversial thoughs towards reality.
But if you want story, just read the manga, even Team Rocket makes sense more than just a mafia band.
| >>621050 2-3th gen, when they were in the proccess of canonically say Pokemon have been living forever and not "randomly appear" like in 1st gen. Also it's supposed to be a game for kids in the sense that everyone has to "understand" evil wants to do bad things. Cultists would make the player kid confused and maybe have some controversial thoughs towards reality.
But if you want story, just read the manga, even Team Rocket makes sense more than just a mafia band.
| >>621197 you see, Nintendo has a problem with villains, it's more than common that players can feel empathy towards the villain (except WW Ganondorf and M&L Bowser which are on purpose) and makes you wish you could be the bad guy doing bad things because it's cool.
Pokemon never did that, you never feel empathy towards the villains, they are lame (like they should be if they appear in real life) even if you want to be the bad guy for once you don't say you want to be Archie or Max.
| >>621197 you see, Nintendo has a problem with villains, it's more than common that players can feel empathy towards the villain (except WW Ganondorf and M&L Bowser which are on purpose) and makes you wish you could be the bad guy doing bad things because it's cool.
Pokemon never did that, you never feel empathy towards the villains, they are lame (like they should be if they appear in real life) even if you want to be the bad guy for once you don't say you want to be Archie or Max.
| >>621202 that the player wants to be destructive it's on its own, the game never teach him to do it, so the game is totally inmune to fathers who say the game is a bad influence towards their kids. At least Game Freak is good at doing bad things good.
| >>621202 that the player wants to be destructive it's on its own, the game never teach him to do it, so the game is totally inmune to fathers who say the game is a bad influence towards their kids. At least Game Freak is good at doing bad things good.
| Their reasoning is bad, like "more land 'cuz peeps need land to live" and then there's this floating city in the middle of the OCEAN, or "more sea 'cuz water is mother of life" but flooding is an actual cause of death.
In essence they want people to live better so they're not bad. The way they want to do it is wrong in ways they don't want to see.
After the reality check, they come to realise it was the wrong way.
Having cults instead would prohibit their moral progression.
| Aqua should have been this crazy environmentalist group that wants to destroy humanity by bring about a great flood, Magma could have been a bunch of business people who want land for strip malls
| Aqua should have been this crazy environmentalist group that wants to destroy humanity by bring about a great flood, Magma could have been a bunch of business people who want land for strip malls
| what??? they were cults though i thought
| >>621209
Good take, yeah. Team Aqua and Magma are meant to be people with good intentions but really stupid methods.
To an outsider it's obvious that their plan will explode in their face, but they believe too much in their cause to even consider how dumb it is. They're already cult-like in this regard.
| Just check out the manga their reasons are more fleshed out
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| Team aqua and magma have no actual reasoning behind muh earth or muh sea
Should have been cults that worship the legendaries like old gods