Grisham blaming everything on AZ building the weapon to shove aside Lysandre's share of the blame (& thus team flare) is so funny. Really captures the sort of...well, issues with stanning someone.
The Lab sequence itself ws pretty neat. not a very complex dungeon, but pretty cute. Even caught one of the beldum! The Aegislash defense at the end was nice; you know kind of feels like Lysandre should have had one of those huh?
I liked that it bother to explain how Lysandre survived not because of the device but because of Zygarde. It was an interesting decision to have it intervene to actually save anything from the blast
Gotta say, with the vague themes of forgiveness and nto to hold grudges, I do wonder how much we're meant to sympathize with Grisham's whole "we too became pariahs in the eyes of society" spiel. Like you guys both tried to genocide large swaths of the population unless they could pay up the millions of pokedollars by firing a giant nuke that also leveled a town on its re-emergence.(A town no one seems to care to mention beyond the stone, by the way). I think as far as those things go this was wide scale with very harsh consequences if it worked, extremely public and very purposeful you're probably lucky you can run a food truck. Like just going down a list here:
-Gen 1 Team Rocket are basically just thugs with some minor terrorism that everyone just ignores. Like base level criminal treatment most likely. Gen 2 did have more forward acts of terrorism but it's still pretty softball stuff.
-Magma & Aqua were mostly the public going ???? at some environmentalists and their incredibly dumb attempts didn't garner much coverage and the BIG thing that went awry wasn't meant to end the world
and also wasn't very public since everyone either wasnt underground, wasnt in the spooky cave and just saw the weather changing.
-BW1 Plasma's true intentions weren't on Public record and was mostly just N prostelitzing. There's push back but it's easy to see most Plasmas able to just return to normalcy if they didn't follow Brud.
-BW2 Plasma was more public (freezing chunks of Unova and all) but I feel "take over the region" is vague enough that it's hard to take seriously. The New Plasma leftovers are listless, but can probably discard their masks. Dose help they're all in facemasks.
-Skipping ahead nothing about Lusamine's madness was public, the majority of Aether is on the up & up and team skull aren't respected enough to be considered threats.
-Rose's stuff is more focused on him and clearly didn't do anything to his million companies. Oleana & her squad of like...what 10 people are doing labor.
-Team Star are just deliquents and the Professor's goals are kept heavily under wraps and also just their Own.
Anyway meanwhile here's Lysandre and his Team Flare getting on the holocaster to the entire region to say hey i'm going to nuke everyone because there's too many people, they're selfish and this is the only way to fix this. Hope you had 5 million dollars. I've tied up a bunch of Pokemon to stones to fuel the flower nuke that will scare the hell out of everyone when I fire it. Everyone's lucky to not have PTSD.
Meanwhile I do like Naveen being very blunt about how accountability matters to AZ.
Backing up a bit: I like that the PC can comment on both the stone in the back
and the machinery next to it. You sure know a lot about how the stones work and can make a pithy comment on what kind of expensive machines Flare can use but know
nothing about Lumiose proper, you dweeb.
By the way did you guys take a look at the whiteboards? I thought the menu sprites from gen 1 were a cute reference (& that's a cute helioptile)
