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Pokemon ⚔️🛡, postgame spoilers
One of the best things: they left the best character writing for postgame. Champion Leon’s writing is as flat as rice paper during the main story, but he really comes into his own once he becomes your rival in the battle tower — and his backstory reflects that, too.
It feels like this story is written as your _rivals’_ coming of age arc, not the main player’s. Which is a good take, since the main player is expected to sweep everything anyway, per series tradition.
Pokemon ⚔️🛡, postgame spoilers
Into postgame, this game casts the main character as the antihero to foil for the supporting cast, instead of making it all about their journey. And I like that, much more than had they run with effusive praise like all the previous games.