In Sun and Moon the story ends on an abused child attacking her Mother with a Pokemon she raised (who was also abused by her.)
Not a Pokemon battle, just straight up attacking her, only censored by her technically being a weird fusion. Then, she goes into a coma.
Sun and Moon is literally a game about child abuse while USUM takes it and turns it into any regular Pokemon plot like RSE/DPP
And Ultra Necrozma shit is literally basic "Protagonist saves the day" arc
What makes Sun and Moon unique is literally the fact that it is objectively the darkest Pokemon game in terms of story lol.
Rainbow Rocket has all the darkness of a fucking Pokemon Masters gacha game arc where the entire point is for the player to say "Oh my god, that's Character! Character is so cool!" It's basic fanservice, lol.
this is literally just a case of Pokemon fans having no media literacy/only responding to basic shonen stuff, and the fact that you said you didn't even remember most of the game elements I mentioned only adds to me thinking this
I was hesitant about replying to this due to the borderline toxic remarks in your last paragraph here, but I felt that I had to just to get all of this out of my head.
If we look purely at the quality of the stories, then I agree that S/M is superior. When I played S/M, I really liked the story, and nowadays, I’d say it is my third favorite story from all the Pokémon games I have played. I didn’t like the US/UM story as much as the story in S/M, I think the changes and additions made the story darker and more complex, but they didn’t make it
better. I agree that it is far more generic than the story in S/M. I still like the story in US/UM though, but I find it inferior to the story of S/M. That said, I prefer some of the character conclusions in US/UM (notably Lillie and Lusamine) and I am a huge fan of Necrozma’s character arc (or what to call it).
But I still think US/UM were darker and more complex. The main antagonist is a Pokémon who is basically threatening the whole world, which I think is much more serious than some family drama. That’s not to say darker is better (since it isn’t in this case), but that’s how I feel.
I also agree about Rainbow Rocket when it comes to quality. It was pretty average on the whole. However, I wasn’t overly fond of the post-game story in S/M either. It was basically just a way for them to allow the player to catch the UBs. Can’t say I prefer either story over the other, but I think Rainbow Rocket was considerably darker and more complex (for better and worse).
It is not nice to assume that an entire fandom thinks the same way just because you happen to disagree with the opinions of a single individual. The Pokémon fandom is not a hivemind. It is fine to disagree with someone, but please be polite and respectful about it. You did this just fine in your first reply to me, I don’t understand why you had to change it in the last paragraph of your second reply.
As for why I don’t remember much of the things from the Alola games, the main reason is that it has been a while since I last played the story part of them (2017 for S/M, 2018 for US/UM). And I have no interest in replaying their main games. Another reason is that the games aren’t among my top favorites in the series, and the impression they left on me was not completely positive. I liked the story in S/M, but they have some pretty big gameplay issues which drag them down (not going to talk about them here since this is the wrong thread for that). On the whole, I consider S/M to be average Pokémon games. As for US/UM, I like them better. The story is worse than in S/M, and the Rotom Dex is much more annoying, but in terms of everything else, they are equal to or better than S/M. Still not the very best games in the series if you ask me, but far better than S/M.
