Vanny hurts me the most because I really invested in how her character would play out ever since Help Wanted. Someone taking up Afton's role in an "obsessed serial killer fan" type of deal could have made for a fascinating and unique antagonist in the franchise. Sucks that she's nothing more than a glorified cameo in Security Breach with about as much importance to the overall story as Goddamn Sun/Moondrop.
@@happysocialmoth1197+ Pretty sure they neutered everything to make it more "child friendly". There's tons of scrapped scenes, phrases/conversations/dialogs and even entire platforming sections. So now there's holes in the lore everywhere that was tampered with lol
@@IJustAnimateThatsTheJist yeah, they even scrapped dialogue mentioning blood, BLOOD, which has always been shown throughout the fnaf series. I hate steel wool
@@angryboi595+ True. I just hate that they sterilized everything so much that the story is completely nonsensical and vague. Yes, the game technically has a story but everything is so disjointed and disconnected because of the removed extra content to a point where it's uncompleted. And it sucks because they left everything in that would've connected these extra lore-related plot lines, so now there's a bunch of different yet interesting details that are never elaborated upon or explored.
@@IJustAnimateThatsTheJist brrrrooooo Why would they even censor and cut out so much content??? Wasn't the whole horror, mild gore, and killer animatronics stuff is what attracted the kids to this franchise in the FIRST place??💀😭😭
If Vanny was the sole antagonist of Security Breach while the other animatronics except for Freddy were mere distractions that the player had to worry about then she would probably have had a better showing, similarly like how it was in Fnaf 3 with SpringTrap. (Who really should have stayed dead after the ending of Fnaf 6)
The other animatronics could of been shifting between friendly and enemy or act as unwitting enemies by having their protocols act as a hindrance in otherwise helpful situations. Or have them neutral to both Vanny and Gregory being confused by their orders and have choices on the play though that could sway them towards either.
@@mikzpwnz_3199k that would have been definitely overambiguous when steelwool couldn't even launch the game we got in a non-bugridden state. Otherwise having more animatronics like sun/moon would have been intresting with one after the other going berzerk after a while wheb you have to enter their zone to get a mcguffin
I would've been satisfied if they kept the 1000 years schitck if they threw a curveball by having eternatus awaken or cause the darkest days right at the end sooner than Rose anticipated thinking "How is this happening. Why is he breaking free now" or have it show signs of trying to break free by the endgame. It would've worked better than him doing it himself out of impatience.
What are you talking about? Literally all the explosions you hear every time you get near to hammerlock are because Eternatus is trying to get free. That's why the plan couldn't be delayed.
@@F1areon The problem was the lack of wishing stars. This because the last time they were scattered through the region was literally 3000 years ago when Eternatus had its first defeat.
FOR REAL THOUGH... I think that most Sonic fics I've ever seen had much better writing for Infinite than he does canonically. Of course, Infinite is a very low bar, and fanfic works by putting preexisting characters in situations/changing certain events in canon, but there is still a LOT of skill put into these, which, as someone who writes from time to time, I greatly admire (never mind how MUCH some people write! Genuinely impressive).
Vanny had so much potential, but since they decided that they wanted the *"Man Behind The Slaughter"* for the 4th time, they basically pushed her aside, and as I mean pushed aside, I mean they threw all of her potential into the scrap pile and lit it on fire
I think the worst type of villain is the kind where you can see precisely what they were going for and how the don't take the time to evolve them properly into who they're meant to be. That's part of the reason twist villains tend to fail, because some movies/games/shows don't take the time to lay out the motivations bit by bit leading up to the reveal. Or Heaven forbid, the sympathetic villain who you know at the end is going to have a redemption that *could* have happened at any point but they hold their antagonism until the very end before dying. Usually just to drag out one conflict for the sake of conflict, and you're just waiting for the "I was wrong" moment. (Definitely not thinking about Phin from Spider-Man Miles Morales)
An idea I've always had to fix Rose's motivations was to switch the Main Story Plot with the Post Story Plot. Have the Royal Brothers be the main antagonists and their shenanigans causes Eternatus to awaken from the Power Plant chamber and absorb Dynamax Energy from all over Galar to restore its original form and bring about the Darkest Day. You can still have Rose as the main antagonist for the Post Game Plot. He tries to keep the situation under control as best he can, but ultimately fails and has to rely on the Player Character and their friends to stop Eternatus. This change no longer makes Rose out to be an idiot and plays up his actual admirable traits, like how much he cares for the Galar Region.
I remember watching playthroughs and a bunch of videos about security breach when the game first dropped and at first I was confused thinking I missed something when I only saw vanny pop up 2 times only for my surprise to be that vanny wasn't even ultilzed at all when it came to the over arching story outside of those endings which are pretty lack luster
Scotty boy is a one trick pony, what'd you expect? He can make a game thats like 90% jumpscares and 10% game, but he falls flat when making an actual game, unfortunately.
@@unironicallydel7527believe it or not that wasn't his fault, after he left the game they completely reworked it and entirely fucked over vanny, who scotty boy DID make a lot of content for, the more you know ;)
Honestly I’m glad Pokémon went the way they did with sado/turo. It wasn’t like an insanely good villain but it was unexpected and incredibly interesting from a story standpoint. Like an ai that is gonna be forced to open a portal and destabilize/ destroy the region but doesn’t want too, and so he knows that you have to kill him. It was so interesting having him basically say “I can’t hold back but you still have to kill me”. Also it was a really fun boss fight
"Security breach was quite the mixed bag when it was released" Yeah, if the 'mix' you're referring to is a concoction of dogshit, bugs, and the ashes of burnt good will.
It's amazing just how many levels Infinite fails on. As a Villain, he's a failure because his presence in the story carries exactly no weight. As a Rival, he's a failure because of the four playable characters, he doesn't manage to form a meaningful connection to any of them, and breaks every convention of Rival Design. As a plot device, he's a failure since his role could be occupied by a plate of mashed potatoes.
Goro Akechi is definitely a miss for me as a antagonist. The problem I have with him is that there really isn't much interaction with him. Sure in Persona 5 Royal there was interaction, but in the original is where I see the damage. The damage being with the confidant being automatic. Which sucks since Goro Akechi works as a foil to the protagonist of Persona 5.
Akechi doesn’t work as a foil for joker because he and joker have nothing in common with each other. Akechi works better as a foil to someone like Ann, Ryuji, and Yosuke than Joker
@@BabyGirlTinyHow is he not a good foil? A foil is meant to contrast the protagonist and that’s what Akechi does Their views on teamwork and friends, how they chose to get back at shido, their views on justice as a whole The whole point of a foil is to be very different from the mc lol
Even in Royal, Akechi is still flawed in my opinion. I adored his personality before his betrayal and even after his betrayal I still thought "huh, our fight can be really cool". But then he started to have tantrums and literally said "I don't believe in your friendship!!!" like a kids cartoon character. He had so much potential and it was ruined simply because they wanted to make him this edgy-crazy kid. And don't even get me started on how thieves react to him. He killed Futaba's mother, he killed Haru's father and they're all ready to forgive this crazy-ass murderer like it's nothing. When he eventually came back I was waiting for a character development but NOPE. He still is this edgy jerk who sometimes even insults the people he hurt first-hand, without even thinking about apologizing. He had so much potential, it hurts.
I saw Rose's heel-turn from minute one. He was designed to look kind. Everything about him was kind. I didn't trust it. They tried too hard with that design.
I've heard a lot of good and simple fixes for Rose and most of them have to do with the timeframe in which something goes wrong with Galar's energy. Why Pokemon decided 1000 years was a good one is beyond me. It makes Rose look like an impatient whiney baby who can't wait like half a day to get Leon's full attention after the battle. Hell, they could've even play into the long time frame. Have Rose be scared that even if it's a couple centuries off, he doesn't know when the point of no return is and that Leon shrugging off the crisis could snowball into being a constant issue of him valuing other things more than Galar's future. Still not great but with the bar set so low, I think I passed it.
Honestly... The lab was compltely destroyed. Does no one think that MAYBE the issue was not the energy crisis, but Eternetus just straight up breaking free by itself? Maybe the living nuclear bomb beneath Galar whose energy was already leaking out was not exactly waiting to be released anymore. And that is also not exactly what you want to tell people so his "bringing forth the darkest day"-bullshit at least made the situation appear as a controlled thing rather than it being the natural disaster it actually was
This sounds pretty far fetched, but the story of Sonic Forces could've been the best Sonic story game wise at the time. But of course it was handled so poorly no could take the plot points seriously, especially when the characters don't reflect on what's stated. For example previously stated how much power Infinite had, if it was shown everytime how much he can change the landscapes where us the player are going through and we have to clutch our way to win almost every time. That claim would actually hold weight. Another example of this was "Sonic is being tortured by Eggman nonstop after his capture." Sonic: *Making wise cracking jokes like any other day Me: "How is Sonic being tortured? Maybe from boredom, but nothing physical or psychological. " Yeah at that point, I just felt lied to by the game every step of the way. (Love how the writer for Frontiers acknowledged that shitty portrayal of Tails and made it work on how he still has a long way to go for how inconsistent he is when it comes to bravery. A decent writer would've retcon that moment and that will be fine with me. So I give even more credit to actually still addressing it so everyone won't be so decisive of the storyline as a whole.)
Sonic was never tortured, Pontac and Graff made shit up. Same for Tails "losing it". Silver meant that they lost Tails, not that Tails became crazy. Also, Infinite's multiple backstories.
@@DangerDan64 What the hell? I DID play it and YES, I did watch the cutscenes. Forces is pretty much known for having a bad story and the localization changes made it even more confusing and dumb.
If Vanny would have been shown in some cutscenes between your adventure, maybe instead of only focusing on Gregory but also on Vanessa and Vanny, she could have been portrayed a lot better with her slowly losing her mind to Afton and becoming Vanny fully. To where at the end, instead of facing of against 1, you need to look out of all the cleaning robots being tuend to Vanny illusions and makes the ending area a challenge to get through of. Akechi could have been fixed aswell, just unsure how to do it best myself. Rose should have been shown that instead of simply wanting to use Eternatus for power, he had already began using many other Pokemon aswell, draining them off all their life and killing them. As once you find that out, he explains he was right about it ending in a thousand years. Yet that was with the Pokemon he used as juice, and after freeing those, the time left went down from thousand of years to hours left. Making him more of a villain, yet also making it make sense why he was so willing to do it then. The RE4 Remake should have kept most of the interactions from the original, letting it keep the same tone, yet give the player the option to turn them off or ignore them to give it a serious tone still. Aka 2 versions to experience the story. And finally, Infinite...He has no easy fix, but Imma try. Have Eggman trick him, into thinking Shadow was Sonic, Infinite and the Avatar being friends before he turned to Eggman's side, have Infinite slowly over the course of the game find out the truth behind Eggman's lies, and end the game by having Infinite figure out the truth of Shadow beating him up, yet Sonic protecting Shadow, and swear war on all of Team Sonic aswell, using all the might of the Phantom Ruby to turn the fight to a mind fuck scenario where you won't know what is real and fake
You know what I wish they did with Saddler? Make him a more ever looming threat in the gameplay. Have him randomly appear while you’re moving about Alma style(appearing just in the corner of your eye. Whether close or at a distance but then disappearing the moment you move your camera on them) throughout the entire game. Maybe have whispers randomly throughout the game. You could have things like a random tentacle being quickly pulled away. You can even have hallucinations like blood pouring from fountains or a candle randomly going or or the screen looking slightly off. Certain things that could happen once and probably never again, even in future playthroughs. Even Ashley could suffer, having her randomly walk towards the enemy to be grabbed or panic and run around the area. You can have their veins well up when it happens. Something to show that while he might not be there in person, his influence can be felt. Some Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem X F.E.A.R. level insanity since this is meant to be the more creepier version of RE 4. Also, lord forgive me for what I’d let Vanny do to me 😤😮💨
Japanese media in particular is falling victim to villains falling flat because of the "liking a character doesn't need to include liking them as a person" point made here. It's largely because of the market being heavily geared towards stuff like mobile games, where the most marketable characters will tend to be available as a player character or otherwise are aiming to sell merch so a lot of them have their rough edges smoothed over in an attempt to make the audience not have a visceral dislike towards them, but that actually can tend to make them less engaging as characters. This is probably why it's more Japanese franchises where you see villains who have a lot of potential but end up falling flat (as opposed to just being lackluster villains who never really had the chance to be memorable like the "standard Marvel movie villain"), the writers are in an environment where villains who commit to being full-on villainous are throwaways. They overstay their welcome and lose their impact.
By removing the camp, they also didnt fix some of the scenes in order for it to work, such as Salazar's right hand coming down to kill you when they should all think Leon was impaled because they removed the communication beforehand.
9:51 I would be down for Lysandre and Rose to be mocked in a future Pokemon game. Like have them mentioned in passing by an NPC who makes fun of them Also I do love the idea of how you want to fix Rose I would love to see the Deadly Six and Infinite reappear but either are the butt of any joke whenever they appear, going through misfortune like Infinite losing the Phantom Ruby and is out of practice or the Deadly Six not being taken seriously 23:26 I think Akechi would be offended by you comparing him to to Infinite
When I was coming up with my own Pokemon region that would be Southwest of Unova, I thought of a post game where Peony, Rose, Oleana, and maybe Peony's daughter arrive in Castelia City on Vacation, where we get more backstory of Rose and see him and Peony become better brothers, Oleana could even get more development too.
It sucks that we learn in the book Vanny isn't really the real villain. And William Afton controlling her in her head isn't the real William Afton. It's an unstable AI program called the mimics one that learns about William Afton from the Help Wanted game that was trapped in.
Vanny was just a pawn in someone else’s plan. We know from in-game emails and tape recordings that someone higher up at FazBear Entertainment was manipulating Vanessa.
For villains that fall flat, I'm going to have to give it to my boy Darth Malgus from Star Wars: The Old Republic. He had some good things going on for his story initially, and was a legitimate threat on par with what we'd faced thus far, and his arc was wrapped up succinctly. However, he was brought back after a few years because the devs had already had us kill the Sith Emporer 3 or 4 times by then. As antagonists go, one can argue that you kind of jump the shark with an immortal parasite with an arguably justifiable god complex, so bringing back a seditionist feels inadequate.
I loved Akechi. He really worked a lot for me. The auto confidant ranks, to me at least, were because I assumed Akechi would be almost a worse Makoto. Where hes a thorn in the teams side that tries everything he can to figure out who is apart of the Phantom Thieves. I already got spoiled he'd be playable so I assumed all this was leading up to him going back on the BS he spewed on TV about the Phantom Thieves being anti-justice and seeing their side. So when he turned out to be the killer of Haru's Dad it took me by surprise and worked a lot as a paraellel to the player since it shows just how badly revenge can taint a person. We both want revenge but Akechi is the only one actively hurting people to get it. I think Akechi is great and actually became hard to predict his twist by having a similar thing as Makoto. Speaking out against the Phantom Thieves and foreshadowing him changing his ways due to actually having a Confidant. I can see why you dislike him but him HAVING a automatic Confidant for most of the game honestly made me feel like his story role wouldnt be against us but with us
Vanny was such a ruined opportunity that even the new villain, The Mimic feels kinda sour. I mean, I still like him, but Vanny could’ve been this era’s new FNAF villain and then Mimic.
The thing is, and minor spoilers, Vanny and Vanessa are Twin. Vanny went missing and Vanessa join being a sec. worker to try to find her missing twin sister who was brainwashed by Glitched Springtrap. The problem is the game NEVER explained it because this game was EXSTREAMELY crunched before it's release. The fact they tried to make a book to fix the plot-holes shows how much a mess the situation is.
I legitimately hate the argument “it’s for kids”. That isn’t an excuse for terrible writing. It’s an insult to anyone that puts effort into their writing. It’s an insult to children.
I feel like if they just explained what the phantom Ruby was and why Infinite needed it, like a life source or something, and why he wants to destroy Sonic he could’ve been done well instead of just being said as “created by Eggman” when in the comics he’s shown to be a jackal who got his squad wiped out by Shadow, but they introduced that late in the comics a year after the game came out, showing they never planned anything with Infinite and made things up as it went along. There’s legit no origin for the Phantom Ruby which really sucks considering it’s powers and abilities. Plus Infinite isn’t shown to be “the most powerful villain of all time” like Sonic Team states, you easily beat his ass multiple times with not only the rookie, who is untrained and weaker than fucking Tails, but gets easily beaten by Base Sonic, and all that is needed is a determined Base Sonic and the rookie to kill him, he only gets a win on Sonic when he jumps him with others. Other Sonic villains like Metal Madness requires the entire Sonic cast to defeat and when he grew to his next form, Metal Overlord, not just Super Sonic was needed, but Super Tails and Super Knuckles. They needed Super Sonic, Super Silver and Super Shadow to defeat Solaris, who was literally eating dimensions and destroying everything. But we don’t need a Super form to beat Infinite. You’re seriously telling me Infinite is stronger than Metal Overlord? Nuh uh, I don’t believe it
I view Royal's ending with Akechi as Joker/Ren/Akira still wanting to believe Akechi could still be alive. Because Joker and Akechi had a actual bond in Royal in my opinion.
@@BabyGirlTiny no because in the original the social link progressed without Joker's input. But in Royal you have to go out of your way to see Akechi to advance his SL. Plus I meant as more of actual rivals and not really friends.
I will say that not every hero needs a good villain but what they do need is an intense challenge to overcome and the villain is often the personification of that. Sometimes the hero's greatest struggles are internal and the villain is merely a catalyst. Though when your protagonist is a faceless voiceless interaction vector like Pokemon, the villain needs to do more of the heavy lifting and Sword and Shield fumbled hard.
Ain’t no way Atlas expected me to trust a friendly detective named Akechi when we have friendly detective Adachi from the last game. It’s almost as if most characters were just copy and pasted into P5 :/
I feel that Jedah from Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia on the 3DS would be perfect for this video. Depsite having a awesome voice actor and being in more scenes, Jedah is just the same as he was in the original Gaiden on the NES. In the final battle, all Jedah could do is sit on one spot and use his attack nullifyng skill while spawning eyeball monsters. And even then, Jedah's attack nullifying skill is not as op as one might think since it only works for three attackers and shuts down on the fourth one. Jedah is such a terrible villain in my eyes.
The Pokémon Sword / Shield devs and / or producers were the real villains for vastly gutting the moves for the games. I was genuinely enthusiastic at the start to transfer my Pokémon from Sun into Shield... but then I got a message claiming half my best Pokémon's moveset were no longer valid.... well, I was confused. Why the hell weren't they valid? Why... because those moves just got RETCONNED OUT OF EXISTENCE IN GEN VIII... including Pursuit, which was my Umbreon's bread-and-butter attack for all situations. They rendered my favourite Pokémon effectively USELESS without any sort of warning. I was so p!ssed off I closed the game and never went back to it. I never even got to the first gym battle because I was so annoyed at them for ruining my main.
Infinite as a villain is pathetic, how ever I think a proper rival for him could boost them both to grater heights. As for what Sonic Character I think would be best, it would be Emerl from Sonic Battle. As for how to get around them being dead, have it be revealed that Tails have been hunting down his peaces and putting him back together. As for the issue with him needing the Chaos emeralds to power on and his Over powerness, I have a simple solution to both. Have Emerl new power source be fake Chaos Emeralds, the same one Tails made in Sonic Adventure 2 that Sonic was able to preform Chaos Control with. Tails can make more. They won't be as powerful as the stander Emeralds, but enough to put Emerl on par with the other main characters. Both are basically ultimate weapons, but by different means. One a Robot on a side that mostly Organic, and the other an Organic on a side that mostly robots. One is the literal incarnation of 'My Friends are my Power' and the other is the incarnation of 'Edge Lord Lone Wolf' The 2 are perfect rivals for one anther. And I bet nether would take the other Seriously leading banter where they both just look like silly idiots who's fights with one anther can level City Blocks if they are not careful.
Another problem with Rose's plan... You have electric type pokemon that could probably provide enough energy to power the region with little difficulty, and you see pokemon being employed even as early as the first games. Feed them, compensate them for their efforts and energy should never be a problem!
Storytelling at it's worst, you can also throw Ganondorf from Tears of the Kingdom on here cause while his boss fight was cool and all, I was expecting more from him this time around.
I felt bad for Chairman Rose, not because he's a sympathetic villain, is because he's just so, pathetic. He felt more like a fall guy that GameFreak choose to play the big bad guy because there is no real antagonist, not at all not even a real rival. If you think about it team yell are just hooligans simping for their favorite trainer, because something great SWSH did was really turning the Pokémon League into a real spectator sport, and that was the real focus imo, but ofc this an RPG and you need a villain with a big godlike monster, so let´s tack this CEO guy with this lizard thing and we have a final confrontation. I think that they really needed to flesh out Rose's plans and sense of urgency, it was weird he wanted to fix and issue that will happen in the next millenia, like yesterday, is he , seems like it, he wanted to be part of the books of history and speaking of history, all that plot about the legendary dogs and founders of Galar is totally on the background, and felt like a coincidence that those dogs were the only ones who can fight off Eternatus and apparently they sealed it before, but seriously, you are better off becoming the League Champion as that's the most fleshed out part especially because "the grown ups" didn't let you join their quest on saving Galar and discover its real origins. BTW, maybe Oleana being the real villain would've worked better, I mean in some anime shorts you can see she's actually a scientist, and maybe she worked her way to the top to gaslight Chairman Rose to wake Eternatus with the idea of saving Galar but it was just her own twisted scientific curiosity that wanted to test the limits of that legendary beast, I mean I even like the idea of her team, mostly aesthetically pleasing and even "femenine" Pokémon, but not only her last one but also trump card Dynamax Pokémon, is a literal pile of garbage, maybe a good parallel with a more villanous Oleana, all graceful and formal on the outside, but in the inside a dark, morbid and selfish person who only cares about the pursuit of her own goals instead of the wellbeing of the public. But in the end we have Chairman Rose being like, okay I'm turning in to the authorities and do some community service so I can go back being the CEO of my conglomerate and Galar's own Pokémon League in no time.
Vanny is a unfortunate case cause its sad that she isnt a big threat. but THANKFULY the ruin dlc fixed all the issues i beleive the original game and story had even though its short (as of writing this the dlc came out today and i wont say who the villan is cause its revealed twards the games end. all ill say that it isnt vanny or william)
Vanny hurts me on an emotional level. She had so much potential. I've seen the potential she has had in other characters with the same sort of set up. The best example I can think of, is Masquerade from Bakugan. He's such a cool and edgy villain, that is secretly one of the good guys.
I think it’d be pretty cool if Vanny, since she was the security guard, had control over the actual building. Like, maybe she could follow you literally anywhere cause she knows her way around? Maybe she knows where all the generators in the building are, so she could shut them off and have an advantage? I dunno.
Late to this one. Rose was about the most impatient character I've ever seen. Nothing wrong with wanting to address and work on something for future generations down the line, but waiting one day for something that wouldn't be occurring for a millennia wouldn't kill him.
Infinite's power showcase issue also has a lot to do with one of the most glaring holes in Sonic Forces: the absence of the Chaos Emeralds. Mania implies that someone with the Phantom Ruby can go toe-to-toe with a super form as seen in Egg Reverie Zone and some even speculate that it can cancel the form. The problem is that this never comes up in Forces in any way, wasting an opportunity to show how strong Infinite is by having him fight Super Sonic.
Ain’t gonna lie my favorite villain of the decade so far has to go to Crimson 1 from Project Wingman. 3 guys produced a combat flight game back in 2020 that just has a baller story for being a crowd funded project. Crimson 1’s whole shtick is he’s a “peacekeeper” has the personality of a propaganda machine, and is willing to kill millions, gaslight the player, and send the Ring of Fire up in geothermal fallout all because you (who is a mercenary btw) owned him.
Most of this is valid but akechi genuinely made me feel like he was real, he was a person struggling between the constant grief of his mother and his dad using him and not giving a care about him… he was scared someone actaully cared for him, he also wasent a villain he was an anti hero. He shouldent be here
Oh wow that Chairman thing... it reminds me of all the background lore in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, where it seems like Nintendo doesn't understand how long 1000 years is, let alone like... 100,000 years XD
The thing about Akechi… I actually agreed with him. Before the reveal and before he just became a straight up villain, I was on his side. I see PT as criminals(seriously, guys. Even if you could debate their methods before, after Futaba joined the team, A LITERAL CRIMINAL, I don’t think there could be any debate) and I think they should’ve been held accountable for their actions. For me not just Akechi, but the whole game was ruined after the “twist”. Because the only character that I had supported has been villainized.
@@ChiefMedicPururu first of all, not villains, but criminals. These are two different terms. Secondly, ok, aside from obvious stuff that I already mentioned (hacking is a crime no matter how you look at it), thiefs is literally in their name. What they are doing is essentially no different from brainwashing. Yes, they do it only for corrupted people, but by doing so they literally take upon themselves a role of a God. As a Christian, I simply can’t support that. Furthermore, by doing so, they risk to actually kill a person. Yes, they try to avoid that, but accidents may happen. Even worse, this changed person may even unalive themselves due to regret of all the actions they have done. I don’t think that PT are villains, they are naive teenagers that undeniably want better for the world, but take too much upon their shoulders. And on a side note, the amount of times the phrase “corrupted adults” was used is ridiculous. Like teenagers can’t be corrupted, or adults - heroes. The world is bad not because of terrible adults, but because of terrible ourselves. To change the world we need to change ourselves first, and definitely not through brainwashing. P.S. never finished the game. I stopped after Sae’s palace, so if any issues that I mentioned were fixed - I’m sorry.
@mikalastseraph7894 Why was a Christian busy playing Persona? Shin Megami Tensei/Persona has always been a very Gnostic series, and "Playing God" has always been a main factor of the series narrative and gameplay especially in the mainline SMT games.
@@rustyshackelford4224 well, I never heard what is a game about. I heard a lot of positive reviews and it had a great score, so I decided to give it a try. Never heard about it being gnostic. If I would - I would not play it.
I mean Salazar and Saddler both have less screen time and interactions with Leon in the remake, which I do not like. But still, even if their charm is different I would still say that is adequate for their roles. Salazar being way more effective at his mission compared to the original and Saddler having a more consistent mindset about using the parasite associated with religious followers. So I would not say they are failures. Btw I still think Krauser’s story makes way more sense in the remake compared to the original and Mendez did not change much at all.
How I would fix Infinite: Add Sonic to Episode Shadow and show Infinite getting beaten by Sonic again and again until Eggman finds him and gives him the Phantom Ruby. Then he could start becoming more corrupted by it throughout the story until a point where both him and the phantom copies don’t even resemble how they are supposed to look. Also have Infinite start out how he was portrayed in the Episode Shadow we got and have him transition into an actual serious threat who causes more destruction to the world rather than just killing some people and moving on. Also, give him an original boss fight, one that uses the abilities of the Phantom Ruby to their fullest potential.
Not defending Chairmen Rose, but someone online come up with an idea on why Rose acts so soon. So he and Leon know each other and Leon trusts Rose, same for Rose with Leon. However Rose didn't want to wait and spend timing building a relationship with the player character, and decided to act now as he feared (and rightfully so) that Leon would lose, so he forced the issue to be now so Leon would beat Eternatus and control it.
im the type of guy to respect others' controversial opinions, but i get the sense that you dont understand akechi's full story. yeah yeah, obvious foreshadowing and all, but that doesnt make a story necessarily bad (romeo and juliet being the time-tested prime example). as regards to the third semester plot, it wasn't retconned that akechi died or anything, he was still "dead" but maruki's rewriting of reality brought him back, and they still stick to their "rejecting approval" virtue in that he fights against maruki knowing full well it would mean he "dies" again, even if against the wishes of the main character or the party (or maruki, obviously). perhaps it could be consider post-mortem character development, learning from the mistake of desiring shido's approval to a fault.
I feel like people watched g1 transformers and didn’t understand why starscream was a great stupid villain. Along with venture bros having amazing dumb villains. There needs to be a serious threat along with the stupidity.
I mean, it made sense, really. Guy is massively successful and even more motivated so he decided to take matters into his own hands. Then suddenly his project started to turn into a natural disaster. Obviously he could not go "Well, sorry guys, but a region ending disaster is now happening, so stay calm and let Leon fix it!", thought that would have been a nice little nodge at BP. So, of course, acted like he is controlling everything and that they just have to wait for Leon to "foil his plan"
The only problem I have with Akechi in Royal is that the true ending keeps it vague wheether he's still dead or not. Joker seemingly drives by him in the taxi with Maruki at the end, but is that actually him, is that his spirit, or is it something else? I don't mind you doing that, but god damnit, DON'T KEEP IT SO VAGUE! I get it, ya wanna drum up conversation, but still. Do it with anything else, just not the life/death of this beloved character. Fuck it, tease Persona 6. Now THAT would spark conversation!
Infinite is essentially Kylo Ren's fursona : ridiculously shallow, inplausible and haphazarded origin story to why he's evil and hates the heroes, stupid "edgy" design that's highly derivative of a better character (Revan/Vader or Mephiles), looks cool and near invincible at first, but then his power level flip flops whether the plot demands him to be "SO EDGY" or a complete joke, never reallys feels like he's in full control BECAUSE the heroes don't take him seriously and defeat him EVERYTIME he's on-screen, therefore his achievements are either off-screen or on-screen plot-induced stupidity. And lastly, gets shoved aside in the end unceremoniously in favour of an older, yet still soerely bastardized villain (Palpatine and Eggman). His backstory is pitiful too : in the comic tie-in, he's a rando who's a complete nihilist who joins Eggman for the lolz, in Episode Shadow, he's a pathetic crybaby. Give us SOMETHING to believe this goof is "The Ultimate Mercenary", not just blurt it outloud and pretend us to roll with it. I don't know, make him a rival to Fang or the Babylon Rogues in the bounty hunter guild, have a flashback to him and Jackal Squad running into Sonic, thus establishing a connection and a rivalry. Nope, cartoon hedgehog, lol Baldy McNosehair, Boost to win. And it's not any better in Frontiers, by giving Eggman a cringe animu daughter or shoehorning a Dead Space Brethren Moon at the end with no build up..... Speaking of Eggman, he hasn't been decent in years. Arguably since SA2.
one night at Freddy’s: security failure is way too different from the rest of the FNAF series the only FNAF elements are the animatronics and one section in the game
Honestly I hate akechi for one reason. The weak ass threat of him "exposing" the thieves, even in royal when he said he had video too, like hello editing software exist? Why thebhell didnt he use his position as a highly known detective to make their lives watched constantly
This was an interesting video. When he was talking about Persona 5 I really related cuz that’s the same way I see Homelander🤣 he’s such an excellent character, in the sense of his execution. Plus Antony is an amazing actor. But of course folks look at you crossed eyes if you say you like Homelander. Not as a person, but as his literary device. Though I will say it makes me sad with him (and other characters like him) his destiny is to be extremely boxed in to his character. It’s so common people write extremely narrow-minded characters that only give them options from their very limited personality or situation.
Honestly to me it never makes sense why you a trainer desires to take down a criminal organization, it would make more sense at the reason you go against them is if they slow down your progress through the region forcing you to get involved with what their doing but not a lot of villain groups succeed on that.🤔🐱
Honestly Pokemon Sword and Shield would have made more sense if Leon and Rose had more problems.. I find Leon is one of the absolute WORST champions as far as actual personality as his whole freaking personality is the 'UnDuFeeTAblE chAMpeON' and that he has the internal gps of a fidget spinner in a foggy forest... Oh and that he also likes Charizard. Honestly I think it would fix a lot giving him and Rose a great background if Rose wanted to focus on getting the region back on track (maybe make the region a little closer to that point of no return) especially with all the dynamaxing. But Leon only cares about his title and saving it, to which he feels threatened by you, thus putting his brother Hop as your rival who wants to carry on his legacy, cause nepotism. So Leon won't focus on what Rose basically begging him to come to his senses.
The issue is that Vanny's character was finished before it started You're right We DID know more from FNaF AR and Help Wanted than the main game They fed us so much that there was not much more to go off of Her character was practically finished off during the Save Vanny ending which is seemingly canon There's no more wondering who this is and why she is doing this and whatever because we knew all of that with the most recent bit of knowledge that she was not manipulated by a weird brain transfer of Afton but rather a rogue AI and what she see's through her mask and how she's able to hide from Freddy and walk through walls Some of the information ought to have been reserved in order to give Vanny more room to grow in her goddamn debut game The leaks from Funko and otherwise didn't serve to help much either
Pokémon is a family friendly game so I'm not surprise characters such as Rose or Lysandre wasn't as "evil" or compeling as anticipated. Lysandre had such a potential where Kalos (just like France) has riots everywhere. To fix Kalos, he organize the team Flare, developp a super weapon and overthrown the governemnent aka the elite 4 and the champion of the region. This leads to choas where half of France is govern by team Flare, the elite 4 and the champion are held hostage by Lysandre and his general. You free some cities slowly but surely to free the elite 4 with the help of your friends. Lysandre and his right hand man (Xavier) escape while his general are thrown in prison by Beladonis (forshadowing the post game). Lysandre goes to his secret super weapon (with the legendary in the weapon) to gain back the upper hand, fails and locks himself in a bunker (that collapse onto itself because of the legendary outrage). The place is destroyed, his general escapes jail leading to post-game where you play Beladonis and track down the remainer of team Flare for trial. I know it's a bit to dark at some piont for a pokémon game but it would be a great call back to the history of France and could create a banger of a story
Honkai Impact 3rd has the villains you want, the good and deep story you want, the veriety you want and the great characters you want and oh yea the EMOTIONAL DMG yoiu didn't want but still get FOR FREE
I could be way, way off base here, but Chairman Rose's incredibly lackluster motivation always reeked to me of "play it safe-ism", like at some point in development the energy crisis was going to be a more urgent problem, but someone at GameFreak took a look at the script and went "Whoa now! We don't want to offend anybody! This is far too extreme for our target demographic! We need to tone this WAY down!" Like, heaven forfend we lose the climate change denier market! We don't people to think Pokemon games are getting *gasp* POLITICAL! I know, it sounds ludicrous, attributing bad writing to a corporate conspiracy instead of just... bad writing. But media corporations are so obsessed with having as broad a demographic as possible these days. Look at how eagerly companies like Disney will try to court LGBTQ groups domestically, then throw representation out the window to appease the governments of countries like Russia and China. I don't think it's hard to believe that a message tame enough to appear on Captain Planet 30 years ago could be seen as a liability by a corporation today.
a hero is only as good as their villain. if the villain is a joke, the hero's feats feel simple. for kid shows and sillier things that's fine, but they still have a form of malice and still have a threat level behind them. why those villains fail is because of how they are made
I fucking hate Aketchi. But thats a good thing actually. I think he's a well written character and its more the storytelling of the game that gets in the way of that sometimes. But he's a well written character. AND I FUCKING HATE HIM RAAAAAAAAAAH, but again that's a compliment, means he did his job well. For characters like Vanny I'm kind of indiferent. They did bad things, therefore I should fucking despise them. Right? Or at least acknowledge them as a threat in their canon since you can love villains. But I don't. Her game fails to really make her seem like a threat, even though she very much is. Vanny just seems kinda goofy when shes supposed to be this menacing person, that has barely any of her story in her own game.
The best way to generate power in the Pokemon series is just spinning tons of Magnetons around a bunch of coiled wires. His plan was a complete and total dumbass plan.
Klinks would work too. But overall it would be interesting if taming Eternatus was a bit more of a challenge. Have it be a chase from one power spot to another and try and catch him.
Vanny hurts me the most because I really invested in how her character would play out ever since Help Wanted. Someone taking up Afton's role in an "obsessed serial killer fan" type of deal could have made for a fascinating and unique antagonist in the franchise. Sucks that she's nothing more than a glorified cameo in Security Breach with about as much importance to the overall story as Goddamn Sun/Moondrop.
I feel like they neutered vanny’s character just so they can make the fnaf franchise more “child-friendly and Marketable”
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Pretty sure they neutered everything to make it more "child friendly". There's tons of scrapped scenes, phrases/conversations/dialogs and even entire platforming sections. So now there's holes in the lore everywhere that was tampered with lol
@@IJustAnimateThatsTheJist yeah, they even scrapped dialogue mentioning blood, BLOOD, which has always been shown throughout the fnaf series. I hate steel wool
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True. I just hate that they sterilized everything so much that the story is completely nonsensical and vague. Yes, the game technically has a story but everything is so disjointed and disconnected because of the removed extra content to a point where it's uncompleted. And it sucks because they left everything in that would've connected these extra lore-related plot lines, so now there's a bunch of different yet interesting details that are never elaborated upon or explored.
@@IJustAnimateThatsTheJist brrrrooooo Why would they even censor and cut out so much content??? Wasn't the whole horror, mild gore, and killer animatronics stuff is what attracted the kids to this franchise in the FIRST place??💀😭😭
If Vanny was the sole antagonist of Security Breach while the other animatronics except for Freddy were mere distractions that the player had to worry about then she would probably have had a better showing, similarly like how it was in Fnaf 3 with SpringTrap. (Who really should have stayed dead after the ending of Fnaf 6)
The other animatronics could of been shifting between friendly and enemy or act as unwitting enemies by having their protocols act as a hindrance in otherwise helpful situations. Or have them neutral to both Vanny and Gregory being confused by their orders and have choices on the play though that could sway them towards either.
@@mikzpwnz_3199yeah that would’ve been way more interesting if they didn’t want to hurt Gregory but had no choice
According to the theorists, glichtrap and burntrap aren't actually william but actually a wannabe of him called "the mimic"
@@mikzpwnz_3199k that would have been definitely overambiguous when steelwool couldn't even launch the game we got in a non-bugridden state. Otherwise having more animatronics like sun/moon would have been intresting with one after the other going berzerk after a while wheb you have to enter their zone to get a mcguffin
That wouldn't gel as much with Monty's whole aggressive redneck personality.
I would've been satisfied if they kept the 1000 years schitck if they threw a curveball by having eternatus awaken or cause the darkest days right at the end sooner than Rose anticipated thinking "How is this happening. Why is he breaking free now" or have it show signs of trying to break free by the endgame. It would've worked better than him doing it himself out of impatience.
What are you talking about? Literally all the explosions you hear every time you get near to hammerlock are because Eternatus is trying to get free. That's why the plan couldn't be delayed.
Dem fend
That or scrap the "1000 years" deadline by lowering to 100 years or 50 years or heck, even TEN years would work.
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The problem was the lack of wishing stars. This because the last time they were scattered through the region was literally 3000 years ago when Eternatus had its first defeat.
In the manga Swordward and Shieldbert tell him it's sooner, like in the next fifty years. They should have kept that.
It sucks how in the world of fanfiction, the villains are written 10× MORE effective and compelling. These people write these fanfics for FREE.
FOR REAL THOUGH... I think that most Sonic fics I've ever seen had much better writing for Infinite than he does canonically. Of course, Infinite is a very low bar, and fanfic works by putting preexisting characters in situations/changing certain events in canon, but there is still a LOT of skill put into these, which, as someone who writes from time to time, I greatly admire (never mind how MUCH some people write! Genuinely impressive).
@dreamyyartist Like, have you seen what Final Fantasy 7 fans done to guys like Genesis and Angeal in their fanfictions?
Vanny had so much potential, but since they decided that they wanted the *"Man Behind The Slaughter"* for the 4th time, they basically pushed her aside, and as I mean pushed aside, I mean they threw all of her potential into the scrap pile and lit it on fire
Nothing in the game was explained too well. The writing was barely existent at all.
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The main game or Ruin?
@@dylansharp8471 Their definitely talking about the main game.
he never came back, we're in the era of the mimic now
I think the worst type of villain is the kind where you can see precisely what they were going for and how the don't take the time to evolve them properly into who they're meant to be.
That's part of the reason twist villains tend to fail, because some movies/games/shows don't take the time to lay out the motivations bit by bit leading up to the reveal.
Or Heaven forbid, the sympathetic villain who you know at the end is going to have a redemption that *could* have happened at any point but they hold their antagonism until the very end before dying. Usually just to drag out one conflict for the sake of conflict, and you're just waiting for the "I was wrong" moment. (Definitely not thinking about Phin from Spider-Man Miles Morales)
Any exemples?
@@ChiefMedicPururu Phin from Spider-Man Miles Morales
@@roast_beef Never played it. What's the issue with them?
@@ChiefMedicPururu They fight Miles for the entire game only to have a token “sorry I was wrong” before sacrificing themselves to fix their mess.
@@Deathshead1923 Oh. Sounds cliché.
An idea I've always had to fix Rose's motivations was to switch the Main Story Plot with the Post Story Plot.
Have the Royal Brothers be the main antagonists and their shenanigans causes Eternatus to awaken from the Power Plant chamber and absorb Dynamax Energy from all over Galar to restore its original form and bring about the Darkest Day.
You can still have Rose as the main antagonist for the Post Game Plot. He tries to keep the situation under control as best he can, but ultimately fails and has to rely on the Player Character and their friends to stop Eternatus.
This change no longer makes Rose out to be an idiot and plays up his actual admirable traits, like how much he cares for the Galar Region.
I remember watching playthroughs and a bunch of videos about security breach when the game first dropped and at first I was confused thinking I missed something when I only saw vanny pop up 2 times only for my surprise to be that vanny wasn't even ultilzed at all when it came to the over arching story outside of those endings which are pretty lack luster
Scotty boy is a one trick pony, what'd you expect? He can make a game thats like 90% jumpscares and 10% game, but he falls flat when making an actual game, unfortunately.
@@unironicallydel7527believe it or not that wasn't his fault, after he left the game they completely reworked it and entirely fucked over vanny, who scotty boy DID make a lot of content for, the more you know ;)
Honestly I’m glad Pokémon went the way they did with sado/turo. It wasn’t like an insanely good villain but it was unexpected and incredibly interesting from a story standpoint. Like an ai that is gonna be forced to open a portal and destabilize/ destroy the region but doesn’t want too, and so he knows that you have to kill him. It was so interesting having him basically say “I can’t hold back but you still have to kill me”. Also it was a really fun boss fight
"Security breach was quite the mixed bag when it was released"
Yeah, if the 'mix' you're referring to is a concoction of dogshit, bugs, and the ashes of burnt good will.
It's amazing just how many levels Infinite fails on. As a Villain, he's a failure because his presence in the story carries exactly no weight. As a Rival, he's a failure because of the four playable characters, he doesn't manage to form a meaningful connection to any of them, and breaks every convention of Rival Design. As a plot device, he's a failure since his role could be occupied by a plate of mashed potatoes.
Goro Akechi is definitely a miss for me as a antagonist. The problem I have with him is that there really isn't much interaction with him. Sure in Persona 5 Royal there was interaction, but in the original is where I see the damage. The damage being with the confidant being automatic. Which sucks since Goro Akechi works as a foil to the protagonist of Persona 5.
Akechi doesn’t work as a foil for joker because he and joker have nothing in common with each other. Akechi works better as a foil to someone like Ann, Ryuji, and Yosuke than Joker
@@BabyGirlTinyHow is he not a good foil? A foil is meant to contrast the protagonist and that’s what Akechi does
Their views on teamwork and friends, how they chose to get back at shido, their views on justice as a whole
The whole point of a foil is to be very different from the mc lol
@@BabyGirlTinyTheir literally opposites to each other
Even in Royal, Akechi is still flawed in my opinion. I adored his personality before his betrayal and even after his betrayal I still thought "huh, our fight can be really cool". But then he started to have tantrums and literally said "I don't believe in your friendship!!!" like a kids cartoon character. He had so much potential and it was ruined simply because they wanted to make him this edgy-crazy kid. And don't even get me started on how thieves react to him. He killed Futaba's mother, he killed Haru's father and they're all ready to forgive this crazy-ass murderer like it's nothing.
When he eventually came back I was waiting for a character development but NOPE. He still is this edgy jerk who sometimes even insults the people he hurt first-hand, without even thinking about apologizing. He had so much potential, it hurts.
@@veba_7593 yeah you don't understand shit about his character lol
I saw Rose's heel-turn from minute one. He was designed to look kind. Everything about him was kind. I didn't trust it. They tried too hard with that design.
I've heard a lot of good and simple fixes for Rose and most of them have to do with the timeframe in which something goes wrong with Galar's energy. Why Pokemon decided 1000 years was a good one is beyond me. It makes Rose look like an impatient whiney baby who can't wait like half a day to get Leon's full attention after the battle. Hell, they could've even play into the long time frame. Have Rose be scared that even if it's a couple centuries off, he doesn't know when the point of no return is and that Leon shrugging off the crisis could snowball into being a constant issue of him valuing other things more than Galar's future. Still not great but with the bar set so low, I think I passed it.
It is worse when you read Regieleki's dex entry.
@@rafaelcruz7258 That's electrical energy, not dynamax energy which is what Rose is worried about.
Honestly... The lab was compltely destroyed. Does no one think that MAYBE the issue was not the energy crisis, but Eternetus just straight up breaking free by itself?
Maybe the living nuclear bomb beneath Galar whose energy was already leaking out was not exactly waiting to be released anymore.
And that is also not exactly what you want to tell people so his "bringing forth the darkest day"-bullshit at least made the situation appear as a controlled thing rather than it being the natural disaster it actually was
@@brandonvelde5774Energy is energy. Just need to find a way to convert it.
This sounds pretty far fetched, but the story of Sonic Forces could've been the best Sonic story game wise at the time. But of course it was handled so poorly no could take the plot points seriously, especially when the characters don't reflect on what's stated.
For example previously stated how much power Infinite had, if it was shown everytime how much he can change the landscapes where us the player are going through and we have to clutch our way to win almost every time. That claim would actually hold weight.
Another example of this was "Sonic is being tortured by Eggman nonstop after his capture."
Sonic: *Making wise cracking jokes like any other day
Me: "How is Sonic being tortured? Maybe from boredom, but nothing physical or psychological. "
Yeah at that point, I just felt lied to by the game every step of the way.
(Love how the writer for Frontiers acknowledged that shitty portrayal of Tails and made it work on how he still has a long way to go for how inconsistent he is when it comes to bravery. A decent writer would've retcon that moment and that will be fine with me. So I give even more credit to actually still addressing it so everyone won't be so decisive of the storyline as a whole.)
Sonic was never tortured, Pontac and Graff made shit up. Same for Tails "losing it". Silver meant that they lost Tails, not that Tails became crazy. Also, Infinite's multiple backstories.
@@ChiefMedicPururu This already tells me you never played the game let alone the cutscenes.
@@DangerDan64 What the hell? I DID play it and YES, I did watch the cutscenes.
Forces is pretty much known for having a bad story and the localization changes made it even more confusing and dumb.
If Vanny would have been shown in some cutscenes between your adventure, maybe instead of only focusing on Gregory but also on Vanessa and Vanny, she could have been portrayed a lot better with her slowly losing her mind to Afton and becoming Vanny fully. To where at the end, instead of facing of against 1, you need to look out of all the cleaning robots being tuend to Vanny illusions and makes the ending area a challenge to get through of.
Akechi could have been fixed aswell, just unsure how to do it best myself.
Rose should have been shown that instead of simply wanting to use Eternatus for power, he had already began using many other Pokemon aswell, draining them off all their life and killing them. As once you find that out, he explains he was right about it ending in a thousand years. Yet that was with the Pokemon he used as juice, and after freeing those, the time left went down from thousand of years to hours left. Making him more of a villain, yet also making it make sense why he was so willing to do it then.
The RE4 Remake should have kept most of the interactions from the original, letting it keep the same tone, yet give the player the option to turn them off or ignore them to give it a serious tone still. Aka 2 versions to experience the story.
And finally, Infinite...He has no easy fix, but Imma try. Have Eggman trick him, into thinking Shadow was Sonic, Infinite and the Avatar being friends before he turned to Eggman's side, have Infinite slowly over the course of the game find out the truth behind Eggman's lies, and end the game by having Infinite figure out the truth of Shadow beating him up, yet Sonic protecting Shadow, and swear war on all of Team Sonic aswell, using all the might of the Phantom Ruby to turn the fight to a mind fuck scenario where you won't know what is real and fake
Saddlers reaction to "a senior moment perhaps" being "ooooooooh i see what you did they" is awesome characterization.
You know what I wish they did with Saddler? Make him a more ever looming threat in the gameplay. Have him randomly appear while you’re moving about Alma style(appearing just in the corner of your eye. Whether close or at a distance but then disappearing the moment you move your camera on them) throughout the entire game. Maybe have whispers randomly throughout the game. You could have things like a random tentacle being quickly pulled away. You can even have hallucinations like blood pouring from fountains or a candle randomly going or or the screen looking slightly off. Certain things that could happen once and probably never again, even in future playthroughs. Even Ashley could suffer, having her randomly walk towards the enemy to be grabbed or panic and run around the area. You can have their veins well up when it happens. Something to show that while he might not be there in person, his influence can be felt. Some Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem X F.E.A.R. level insanity since this is meant to be the more creepier version of RE 4.
Also, lord forgive me for what I’d let Vanny do to me 😤😮💨
Japanese media in particular is falling victim to villains falling flat because of the "liking a character doesn't need to include liking them as a person" point made here. It's largely because of the market being heavily geared towards stuff like mobile games, where the most marketable characters will tend to be available as a player character or otherwise are aiming to sell merch so a lot of them have their rough edges smoothed over in an attempt to make the audience not have a visceral dislike towards them, but that actually can tend to make them less engaging as characters. This is probably why it's more Japanese franchises where you see villains who have a lot of potential but end up falling flat (as opposed to just being lackluster villains who never really had the chance to be memorable like the "standard Marvel movie villain"), the writers are in an environment where villains who commit to being full-on villainous are throwaways. They overstay their welcome and lose their impact.
Gods in Japanese media are a proof that they don't know how to write a menacing threat.
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Oh wow! Your comment needs to be pinned. Mind if I quote from you?
By removing the camp, they also didnt fix some of the scenes in order for it to work, such as Salazar's right hand coming down to kill you when they should all think Leon was impaled because they removed the communication beforehand.
9:51 I would be down for Lysandre and Rose to be mocked in a future Pokemon game. Like have them mentioned in passing by an NPC who makes fun of them
Also I do love the idea of how you want to fix Rose
I would love to see the Deadly Six and Infinite reappear but either are the butt of any joke whenever they appear, going through misfortune like Infinite losing the Phantom Ruby and is out of practice or the Deadly Six not being taken seriously
23:26 I think Akechi would be offended by you comparing him to to Infinite
When I was coming up with my own Pokemon region that would be Southwest of Unova, I thought of a post game where Peony, Rose, Oleana, and maybe Peony's daughter arrive in Castelia City on Vacation, where we get more backstory of Rose and see him and Peony become better brothers, Oleana could even get more development too.
It sucks that we learn in the book Vanny isn't really the real villain. And William Afton controlling her in her head isn't the real William Afton. It's an unstable AI program called the mimics one that learns about William Afton from the Help Wanted game that was trapped in.
Vanny was just a pawn in someone else’s plan. We know from in-game emails and tape recordings that someone higher up at FazBear Entertainment was manipulating Vanessa.
How do you know?
For villains that fall flat, I'm going to have to give it to my boy Darth Malgus from Star Wars: The Old Republic. He had some good things going on for his story initially, and was a legitimate threat on par with what we'd faced thus far, and his arc was wrapped up succinctly. However, he was brought back after a few years because the devs had already had us kill the Sith Emporer 3 or 4 times by then. As antagonists go, one can argue that you kind of jump the shark with an immortal parasite with an arguably justifiable god complex, so bringing back a seditionist feels inadequate.
I loved Akechi. He really worked a lot for me.
The auto confidant ranks, to me at least, were because I assumed Akechi would be almost a worse Makoto. Where hes a thorn in the teams side that tries everything he can to figure out who is apart of the Phantom Thieves. I already got spoiled he'd be playable so I assumed all this was leading up to him going back on the BS he spewed on TV about the Phantom Thieves being anti-justice and seeing their side.
So when he turned out to be the killer of Haru's Dad it took me by surprise and worked a lot as a paraellel to the player since it shows just how badly revenge can taint a person. We both want revenge but Akechi is the only one actively hurting people to get it.
I think Akechi is great and actually became hard to predict his twist by having a similar thing as Makoto. Speaking out against the Phantom Thieves and foreshadowing him changing his ways due to actually having a Confidant.
I can see why you dislike him but him HAVING a automatic Confidant for most of the game honestly made me feel like his story role wouldnt be against us but with us
Honestly, "The spot" from Spiderman across the spiderverse is like Infinite done right
Vanny was such a ruined opportunity that even the new villain, The Mimic feels kinda sour. I mean, I still like him, but Vanny could’ve been this era’s new FNAF villain and then Mimic.
Infinite should have gone further into the edge lord trope and make be an incredibly powerful being who is going through a phase.
The thing is, and minor spoilers, Vanny and Vanessa are Twin. Vanny went missing and Vanessa join being a sec. worker to try to find her missing twin sister who was brainwashed by Glitched Springtrap. The problem is the game NEVER explained it because this game was EXSTREAMELY crunched before it's release. The fact they tried to make a book to fix the plot-holes shows how much a mess the situation is.
I legitimately hate the argument “it’s for kids”. That isn’t an excuse for terrible writing. It’s an insult to anyone that puts effort into their writing. It’s an insult to children.
4:17 this game was put through the scooper so that ennard 2 could pilot its corpse.
Idk i think 3rd semester helps Akechi a lot.
I feel like if they just explained what the phantom Ruby was and why Infinite needed it, like a life source or something, and why he wants to destroy Sonic he could’ve been done well instead of just being said as “created by Eggman” when in the comics he’s shown to be a jackal who got his squad wiped out by Shadow, but they introduced that late in the comics a year after the game came out, showing they never planned anything with Infinite and made things up as it went along. There’s legit no origin for the Phantom Ruby which really sucks considering it’s powers and abilities. Plus Infinite isn’t shown to be “the most powerful villain of all time” like Sonic Team states, you easily beat his ass multiple times with not only the rookie, who is untrained and weaker than fucking Tails, but gets easily beaten by Base Sonic, and all that is needed is a determined Base Sonic and the rookie to kill him, he only gets a win on Sonic when he jumps him with others. Other Sonic villains like Metal Madness requires the entire Sonic cast to defeat and when he grew to his next form, Metal Overlord, not just Super Sonic was needed, but Super Tails and Super Knuckles. They needed Super Sonic, Super Silver and Super Shadow to defeat Solaris, who was literally eating dimensions and destroying everything. But we don’t need a Super form to beat Infinite. You’re seriously telling me Infinite is stronger than Metal Overlord? Nuh uh, I don’t believe it
Pretty much. I don't want him to come back.
I view Royal's ending with Akechi as Joker/Ren/Akira still wanting to believe Akechi could still be alive. Because Joker and Akechi had a actual bond in Royal in my opinion.
They didn’t. Their bond is the same as what it was in the original game. Except it makes even less sense
@@BabyGirlTiny no because in the original the social link progressed without Joker's input. But in Royal you have to go out of your way to see Akechi to advance his SL. Plus I meant as more of actual rivals and not really friends.
I will say that not every hero needs a good villain but what they do need is an intense challenge to overcome and the villain is often the personification of that. Sometimes the hero's greatest struggles are internal and the villain is merely a catalyst.
Though when your protagonist is a faceless voiceless interaction vector like Pokemon, the villain needs to do more of the heavy lifting and Sword and Shield fumbled hard.
Truth
Ain’t no way Atlas expected me to trust a friendly detective named Akechi when we have friendly detective Adachi from the last game. It’s almost as if most characters were just copy and pasted into P5 :/
I feel that Jedah from Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia on the 3DS would be perfect for this video. Depsite having a awesome voice actor and being in more scenes, Jedah is just the same as he was in the original Gaiden on the NES. In the final battle, all Jedah could do is sit on one spot and use his attack nullifyng skill while spawning eyeball monsters. And even then, Jedah's attack nullifying skill is not as op as one might think since it only works for three attackers and shuts down on the fourth one. Jedah is such a terrible villain in my eyes.
The Pokémon Sword / Shield devs and / or producers were the real villains for vastly gutting the moves for the games.
I was genuinely enthusiastic at the start to transfer my Pokémon from Sun into Shield... but then I got a message claiming half my best Pokémon's moveset were no longer valid.... well, I was confused. Why the hell weren't they valid? Why... because those moves just got RETCONNED OUT OF EXISTENCE IN GEN VIII... including Pursuit, which was my Umbreon's bread-and-butter attack for all situations. They rendered my favourite Pokémon effectively USELESS without any sort of warning.
I was so p!ssed off I closed the game and never went back to it. I never even got to the first gym battle because I was so annoyed at them for ruining my main.
Infinite as a villain is pathetic, how ever I think a proper rival for him could boost them both to grater heights. As for what Sonic Character I think would be best, it would be Emerl from Sonic Battle. As for how to get around them being dead, have it be revealed that Tails have been hunting down his peaces and putting him back together. As for the issue with him needing the Chaos emeralds to power on and his Over powerness, I have a simple solution to both. Have Emerl new power source be fake Chaos Emeralds, the same one Tails made in Sonic Adventure 2 that Sonic was able to preform Chaos Control with. Tails can make more. They won't be as powerful as the stander Emeralds, but enough to put Emerl on par with the other main characters.
Both are basically ultimate weapons, but by different means. One a Robot on a side that mostly Organic, and the other an Organic on a side that mostly robots. One is the literal incarnation of 'My Friends are my Power' and the other is the incarnation of 'Edge Lord Lone Wolf'
The 2 are perfect rivals for one anther. And I bet nether would take the other Seriously leading banter where they both just look like silly idiots who's fights with one anther can level City Blocks if they are not careful.
Wait. That's actually a cool premise with the Ying-Yang Rivalry between Infinite and Emerl.
Another problem with Rose's plan... You have electric type pokemon that could probably provide enough energy to power the region with little difficulty, and you see pokemon being employed even as early as the first games. Feed them, compensate them for their efforts and energy should never be a problem!
Storytelling at it's worst, you can also throw Ganondorf from Tears of the Kingdom on here cause while his boss fight was cool and all, I was expecting more from him this time around.
I felt bad for Chairman Rose, not because he's a sympathetic villain, is because he's just so, pathetic. He felt more like a fall guy that GameFreak choose to play the big bad guy because there is no real antagonist, not at all not even a real rival. If you think about it team yell are just hooligans simping for their favorite trainer, because something great SWSH did was really turning the Pokémon League into a real spectator sport, and that was the real focus imo, but ofc this an RPG and you need a villain with a big godlike monster, so let´s tack this CEO guy with this lizard thing and we have a final confrontation.
I think that they really needed to flesh out Rose's plans and sense of urgency, it was weird he wanted to fix and issue that will happen in the next millenia, like yesterday, is he , seems like it, he wanted to be part of the books of history and speaking of history, all that plot about the legendary dogs and founders of Galar is totally on the background, and felt like a coincidence that those dogs were the only ones who can fight off Eternatus and apparently they sealed it before, but seriously, you are better off becoming the League Champion as that's the most fleshed out part especially because "the grown ups" didn't let you join their quest on saving Galar and discover its real origins.
BTW, maybe Oleana being the real villain would've worked better, I mean in some anime shorts you can see she's actually a scientist, and maybe she worked her way to the top to gaslight Chairman Rose to wake Eternatus with the idea of saving Galar but it was just her own twisted scientific curiosity that wanted to test the limits of that legendary beast, I mean I even like the idea of her team, mostly aesthetically pleasing and even "femenine" Pokémon, but not only her last one but also trump card Dynamax Pokémon, is a literal pile of garbage, maybe a good parallel with a more villanous Oleana, all graceful and formal on the outside, but in the inside a dark, morbid and selfish person who only cares about the pursuit of her own goals instead of the wellbeing of the public.
But in the end we have Chairman Rose being like, okay I'm turning in to the authorities and do some community service so I can go back being the CEO of my conglomerate and Galar's own Pokémon League in no time.
Vanny is a unfortunate case cause its sad that she isnt a big threat. but THANKFULY the ruin dlc fixed all the issues i beleive the original game and story had even though its short (as of writing this the dlc came out today and i wont say who the villan is cause its revealed twards the games end. all ill say that it isnt vanny or william)
Vanny hurts me on an emotional level. She had so much potential. I've seen the potential she has had in other characters with the same sort of set up. The best example I can think of, is Masquerade from Bakugan. He's such a cool and edgy villain, that is secretly one of the good guys.
I think it’d be pretty cool if Vanny, since she was the security guard, had control over the actual building. Like, maybe she could follow you literally anywhere cause she knows her way around? Maybe she knows where all the generators in the building are, so she could shut them off and have an advantage? I dunno.
Good video, it’s very well made, nice work!
Glad you liked it
I love it when the very first second of a video contains an unnecessary comma.
Late to this one.
Rose was about the most impatient character I've ever seen. Nothing wrong with wanting to address and work on something for future generations down the line, but waiting one day for something that wouldn't be occurring for a millennia wouldn't kill him.
Infinite's power showcase issue also has a lot to do with one of the most glaring holes in Sonic Forces: the absence of the Chaos Emeralds. Mania implies that someone with the Phantom Ruby can go toe-to-toe with a super form as seen in Egg Reverie Zone and some even speculate that it can cancel the form. The problem is that this never comes up in Forces in any way, wasting an opportunity to show how strong Infinite is by having him fight Super Sonic.
vanny in steel wools eyes is like "felt like a good villain, might delete her later"
Ain’t gonna lie my favorite villain of the decade so far has to go to Crimson 1 from Project Wingman. 3 guys produced a combat flight game back in 2020 that just has a baller story for being a crowd funded project. Crimson 1’s whole shtick is he’s a “peacekeeper” has the personality of a propaganda machine, and is willing to kill millions, gaslight the player, and send the Ring of Fire up in geothermal fallout all because you (who is a mercenary btw) owned him.
Well, that guy sure is a lancer
It’s is written that the villain must always be more powerful than the hero at the beginning so they have a threat to overcome by the end
Remember when everyone thought sun/moon looked WAY different when there was only the trailers to be based off? I do.
Hey a klonoa shout-out, those are pretty rare nowadays
Most of this is valid but akechi genuinely made me feel like he was real, he was a person struggling between the constant grief of his mother and his dad using him and not giving a care about him… he was scared someone actaully cared for him, he also wasent a villain he was an anti hero. He shouldent be here
He's a villain.
I’ve never noticed the nose on nemesis until now
Oh wow that Chairman thing... it reminds me of all the background lore in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, where it seems like Nintendo doesn't understand how long 1000 years is, let alone like... 100,000 years XD
If Rose was doing this when the time was like... 2-5 years, then that would make sense
If I’ve learned anything from this video, it’s that you can’t talk about security breach without referencing that clip of Freddy’s betrayal 😂
The thing about Akechi… I actually agreed with him. Before the reveal and before he just became a straight up villain, I was on his side. I see PT as criminals(seriously, guys. Even if you could debate their methods before, after Futaba joined the team, A LITERAL CRIMINAL, I don’t think there could be any debate) and I think they should’ve been held accountable for their actions.
For me not just Akechi, but the whole game was ruined after the “twist”. Because the only character that I had supported has been villainized.
...I think you missed a lot of points if the Phantom Thieves are the villains in your book.
@@ChiefMedicPururu first of all, not villains, but criminals. These are two different terms.
Secondly, ok, aside from obvious stuff that I already mentioned (hacking is a crime no matter how you look at it), thiefs is literally in their name. What they are doing is essentially no different from brainwashing. Yes, they do it only for corrupted people, but by doing so they literally take upon themselves a role of a God. As a Christian, I simply can’t support that. Furthermore, by doing so, they risk to actually kill a person. Yes, they try to avoid that, but accidents may happen.
Even worse, this changed person may even unalive themselves due to regret of all the actions they have done.
I don’t think that PT are villains, they are naive teenagers that undeniably want better for the world, but take too much upon their shoulders. And on a side note, the amount of times the phrase “corrupted adults” was used is ridiculous. Like teenagers can’t be corrupted, or adults - heroes. The world is bad not because of terrible adults, but because of terrible ourselves. To change the world we need to change ourselves first, and definitely not through brainwashing.
P.S. never finished the game. I stopped after Sae’s palace, so if any issues that I mentioned were fixed - I’m sorry.
@mikalastseraph7894 Why was a Christian busy playing Persona? Shin Megami Tensei/Persona has always been a very Gnostic series, and "Playing God" has always been a main factor of the series narrative and gameplay especially in the mainline SMT games.
@@rustyshackelford4224 well, I never heard what is a game about. I heard a lot of positive reviews and it had a great score, so I decided to give it a try. Never heard about it being gnostic. If I would - I would not play it.
I mean Salazar and Saddler both have less screen time and interactions with Leon in the remake, which I do not like. But still, even if their charm is different I would still say that is adequate for their roles. Salazar being way more effective at his mission compared to the original and Saddler having a more consistent mindset about using the parasite associated with religious followers. So I would not say they are failures.
Btw I still think Krauser’s story makes way more sense in the remake compared to the original and Mendez did not change much at all.
The problem is that Saddler in the remake has no charisma whatsoever.
For me, Mine in Yakuza 3 was terribly underutilized as the villain. Glad they brought him back in Ishin.
The best villien is usually the one staring back at you in the mirror...
Akechi is the is the poor man's *Spoilers for Persona 4* lbr.
Also thank you for talking about Resi 4.
How I would fix Infinite:
Add Sonic to Episode Shadow and show Infinite getting beaten by Sonic again and again until Eggman finds him and gives him the Phantom Ruby. Then he could start becoming more corrupted by it throughout the story until a point where both him and the phantom copies don’t even resemble how they are supposed to look. Also have Infinite start out how he was portrayed in the Episode Shadow we got and have him transition into an actual serious threat who causes more destruction to the world rather than just killing some people and moving on.
Also, give him an original boss fight, one that uses the abilities of the Phantom Ruby to their fullest potential.
Only halfway through and you already used Twinsanity and SA2B soundtracks man I love that ❤
Not defending Chairmen Rose, but someone online come up with an idea on why Rose acts so soon.
So he and Leon know each other and Leon trusts Rose, same for Rose with Leon.
However Rose didn't want to wait and spend timing building a relationship with the player character, and decided to act now as he feared (and rightfully so) that Leon would lose, so he forced the issue to be now so Leon would beat Eternatus and control it.
im the type of guy to respect others' controversial opinions, but i get the sense that you dont understand akechi's full story. yeah yeah, obvious foreshadowing and all, but that doesnt make a story necessarily bad (romeo and juliet being the time-tested prime example). as regards to the third semester plot, it wasn't retconned that akechi died or anything, he was still "dead" but maruki's rewriting of reality brought him back, and they still stick to their "rejecting approval" virtue in that he fights against maruki knowing full well it would mean he "dies" again, even if against the wishes of the main character or the party (or maruki, obviously). perhaps it could be consider post-mortem character development, learning from the mistake of desiring shido's approval to a fault.
20:28, Looks judgementally at Salem and Cinder.
I feel like people watched g1 transformers and didn’t understand why starscream was a great stupid villain. Along with venture bros having amazing dumb villains. There needs to be a serious threat along with the stupidity.
Yeah, ROSE is the one that annoys me the most. He had the potential to be one of the best villains in the series, but the writing MURDERS IT!!
I mean, it made sense, really.
Guy is massively successful and even more motivated so he decided to take matters into his own hands.
Then suddenly his project started to turn into a natural disaster.
Obviously he could not go "Well, sorry guys, but a region ending disaster is now happening, so stay calm and let Leon fix it!", thought that would have been a nice little nodge at BP.
So, of course, acted like he is controlling everything and that they just have to wait for Leon to "foil his plan"
The only problem I have with Akechi in Royal is that the true ending keeps it vague wheether he's still dead or not. Joker seemingly drives by him in the taxi with Maruki at the end, but is that actually him, is that his spirit, or is it something else? I don't mind you doing that, but god damnit, DON'T KEEP IT SO VAGUE! I get it, ya wanna drum up conversation, but still. Do it with anything else, just not the life/death of this beloved character. Fuck it, tease Persona 6. Now THAT would spark conversation!
Infinite is essentially Kylo Ren's fursona : ridiculously shallow, inplausible and haphazarded origin story to why he's evil and hates the heroes, stupid "edgy" design that's highly derivative of a better character (Revan/Vader or Mephiles), looks cool and near invincible at first, but then his power level flip flops whether the plot demands him to be "SO EDGY" or a complete joke, never reallys feels like he's in full control BECAUSE the heroes don't take him seriously and defeat him EVERYTIME he's on-screen, therefore his achievements are either off-screen or on-screen plot-induced stupidity. And lastly, gets shoved aside in the end unceremoniously in favour of an older, yet still soerely bastardized villain (Palpatine and Eggman).
His backstory is pitiful too : in the comic tie-in, he's a rando who's a complete nihilist who joins Eggman for the lolz, in Episode Shadow, he's a pathetic crybaby. Give us SOMETHING to believe this goof is "The Ultimate Mercenary", not just blurt it outloud and pretend us to roll with it.
I don't know, make him a rival to Fang or the Babylon Rogues in the bounty hunter guild, have a flashback to him and Jackal Squad running into Sonic, thus establishing a connection and a rivalry.
Nope, cartoon hedgehog, lol Baldy McNosehair, Boost to win. And it's not any better in Frontiers, by giving Eggman a cringe animu daughter or shoehorning a Dead Space Brethren Moon at the end with no build up.....
Speaking of Eggman, he hasn't been decent in years. Arguably since SA2.
The heroes didn’t beat him every time he’s on screen. Sonic gets defeated in his first boss fight with infinite.
@@faresalsayed9005 Only because the plot required Sonic to lose in the first place, just like Rey.
one night at Freddy’s: security failure is way too different from the rest of the FNAF series
the only FNAF elements are the animatronics and one section in the game
Honestly I hate akechi for one reason. The weak ass threat of him "exposing" the thieves, even in royal when he said he had video too, like hello editing software exist? Why thebhell didnt he use his position as a highly known detective to make their lives watched constantly
Now that ruin is out they just killed vanny off and made it someone from the books
This was an interesting video. When he was talking about Persona 5 I really related cuz that’s the same way I see Homelander🤣 he’s such an excellent character, in the sense of his execution. Plus Antony is an amazing actor. But of course folks look at you crossed eyes if you say you like Homelander. Not as a person, but as his literary device. Though I will say it makes me sad with him (and other characters like him) his destiny is to be extremely boxed in to his character. It’s so common people write extremely narrow-minded characters that only give them options from their very limited personality or situation.
akechi's ending in royal was amazing and I can't wait to see him again 😄
Honestly to me it never makes sense why you a trainer desires to take down a criminal organization, it would make more sense at the reason you go against them is if they slow down your progress through the region forcing you to get involved with what their doing but not a lot of villain groups succeed on that.🤔🐱
Im pretty sure the crime groups getting in the way of your progress (like team rocket) has always been the reason u get involved.
I liked Persona 5 interrogation twist and how Joker escaped... Until I took 5 minutes to think about it.
if i were to fix vanny i'd would ditch the mind control and just have her be a copycat killer
First vid I saw, already subbed.
Infinite? More like finite.
Guess I won't go into the movie knowing nothing about it.
Honestly Pokemon Sword and Shield would have made more sense if Leon and Rose had more problems.. I find Leon is one of the absolute WORST champions as far as actual personality as his whole freaking personality is the 'UnDuFeeTAblE chAMpeON' and that he has the internal gps of a fidget spinner in a foggy forest... Oh and that he also likes Charizard. Honestly I think it would fix a lot giving him and Rose a great background if Rose wanted to focus on getting the region back on track (maybe make the region a little closer to that point of no return) especially with all the dynamaxing. But Leon only cares about his title and saving it, to which he feels threatened by you, thus putting his brother Hop as your rival who wants to carry on his legacy, cause nepotism. So Leon won't focus on what Rose basically begging him to come to his senses.
OG Re4 Villains were great
The only good Re4 Remake Villain IMO was Krauser.
all these bosses have a dandori issue
they didnt organise themselves well
The issue is that Vanny's character was finished before it started
You're right
We DID know more from FNaF AR and Help Wanted than the main game
They fed us so much that there was not much more to go off of
Her character was practically finished off during the Save Vanny ending which is seemingly canon
There's no more wondering who this is and why she is doing this and whatever because we knew all of that with the most recent bit of knowledge that she was not manipulated by a weird brain transfer of Afton but rather a rogue AI and what she see's through her mask and how she's able to hide from Freddy and walk through walls
Some of the information ought to have been reserved in order to give Vanny more room to grow in her goddamn debut game
The leaks from Funko and otherwise didn't serve to help much either
So what you're saying is.........?
Vanny is not a terrible villian. She has dem *_cakes_*
I havent been into pokemon so i thought Rose in the thumbnail was part of Jacksepticeyes ego storyline he has going on
Pokémon is a family friendly game so I'm not surprise characters such as Rose or Lysandre wasn't as "evil" or compeling as anticipated.
Lysandre had such a potential where Kalos (just like France) has riots everywhere. To fix Kalos, he organize the team Flare, developp a super weapon and overthrown the governemnent aka the elite 4 and the champion of the region.
This leads to choas where half of France is govern by team Flare, the elite 4 and the champion are held hostage by Lysandre and his general. You free some cities slowly but surely to free the elite 4 with the help of your friends.
Lysandre and his right hand man (Xavier) escape while his general are thrown in prison by Beladonis (forshadowing the post game).
Lysandre goes to his secret super weapon (with the legendary in the weapon) to gain back the upper hand, fails and locks himself in a bunker (that collapse onto itself because of the legendary outrage).
The place is destroyed, his general escapes jail leading to post-game where you play Beladonis and track down the remainer of team Flare for trial.
I know it's a bit to dark at some piont for a pokémon game but it would be a great call back to the history of France and could create a banger of a story
good thumbnail bro
Honkai Impact 3rd has the villains you want, the good and deep story you want, the veriety you want and the great characters you want and oh yea the EMOTIONAL DMG yoiu didn't want but still get FOR FREE
I could be way, way off base here, but Chairman Rose's incredibly lackluster motivation always reeked to me of "play it safe-ism", like at some point in development the energy crisis was going to be a more urgent problem, but someone at GameFreak took a look at the script and went "Whoa now! We don't want to offend anybody! This is far too extreme for our target demographic! We need to tone this WAY down!" Like, heaven forfend we lose the climate change denier market! We don't people to think Pokemon games are getting *gasp* POLITICAL! I know, it sounds ludicrous, attributing bad writing to a corporate conspiracy instead of just... bad writing. But media corporations are so obsessed with having as broad a demographic as possible these days. Look at how eagerly companies like Disney will try to court LGBTQ groups domestically, then throw representation out the window to appease the governments of countries like Russia and China. I don't think it's hard to believe that a message tame enough to appear on Captain Planet 30 years ago could be seen as a liability by a corporation today.
Taking notes
You have to do a video on Amanda the adventurer. It's one of the best mascot horror game ever in my opinion.
a hero is only as good as their villain. if the villain is a joke, the hero's feats feel simple. for kid shows and sillier things that's fine, but they still have a form of malice and still have a threat level behind them.
why those villains fail is because of how they are made
I fucking hate Aketchi. But thats a good thing actually. I think he's a well written character and its more the storytelling of the game that gets in the way of that sometimes. But he's a well written character. AND I FUCKING HATE HIM RAAAAAAAAAAH, but again that's a compliment, means he did his job well.
For characters like Vanny I'm kind of indiferent. They did bad things, therefore I should fucking despise them. Right? Or at least acknowledge them as a threat in their canon since you can love villains. But I don't. Her game fails to really make her seem like a threat, even though she very much is. Vanny just seems kinda goofy when shes supposed to be this menacing person, that has barely any of her story in her own game.
Rose was such a terrible villain, my brother and I thought he should have been a good guy.
Gen 8 should have been a tournament arc, change my mind.
The best way to generate power in the Pokemon series is just spinning tons of Magnetons around a bunch of coiled wires. His plan was a complete and total dumbass plan.
Klinks would work too. But overall it would be interesting if taming Eternatus was a bit more of a challenge. Have it be a chase from one power spot to another and try and catch him.