#i had high hopes for Sada and Briar but neither of them wound up having enough to them

[kibibarel]

curious about what part of SV's main story you liked and then changed your mind on? Because I think the base story is still pretty solid. the DLC part 1 (have not played 2 yet) really fails though because the real issue imo is that KIERAN (who i also think is a fucking creepy weirdo and everybody is hating on his sister when Carmine is literally not that bad at all) should have been the main character but Pokemon being Pokemon, the PLAYER is the main character and that makes the story weird. Like tbh that's kind of the issue with SV as a whole - the story isn't really about the PLAYER and it makes the player seem like an awkward third wheel in everybody ELSE'S stories.

it's dumb but the main thing is that I CANNOT READ?? and i thought that ScarVi's big endgame twist was that the professor had been dead for AGES (like...basically Arven's entire life almost) and that's why Arven had zero memories of them + why the game pushes the "Arven, your mother/father loved you!!" thing so hard...i thought this was brutal and tragic and went SO HARD and i loved it

and then i found out that they've only been dead for what, like, a month?? TOPS???? and that made everything i loved about the climax completely fall apart/ring hollow, which in turn made me kind of bitter about the entire story as a whole 😂 like bro why did you even kill them off????

while i thought the characters in the core game were all pretty strong and likable, i also didn't get really attached to any of them...so that combined with me being like "that one major plot point wasn't as cool as i thought it was originally :\" has led to me being altogether "meh" on ScarVi's story when i look back on it. it's probably a little unfair of me since i still think it's one of the better stories in Pokemon overall......but i still just can't help feeling just a teensy bit mad when i think about it too much 😂😂

i don't really care about the player being the protag (i've never really minded sitting in the back seat while i watch Pokésoap operas awkwardly unfold around me lmao) but where the DLC's story is concerned, i think it will be effective if you like Kieran and find his drama compelling. i didn't find him compelling at all KLFJ:KLH, so i was generally disinterested in the DLC storyline