Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have three story arcs that gather in the final arc. Pokemon games always had at least two story arcs, and they received different levels of focus depending on the game. Gen 1 and GS focus more on the evil team and the gyms, the legendaries were just there and you didnt need to meet or catch them. Pokemon Crystal also had the storylines of the legendary, gyms and evil team more or less separated . From gen 3 to gen 6, the evil team and legendaries storylines were mixed together, and the evil team always wanted to catch the box legendaries , making the stories too predictable, although gen 5 had one of the best stories and followed this pattern. In gen 8, the regional teams began to be not evil at all and to be unrelated to the box legendaries, at least at first.
In pokemon Scarlet/violet , all the storylines are equally important. The regional team is not evil at all , but just a bunch of bullied kids that didnt want to go to school anymore. The bullying theme is very relatable for most kids , and its important to discuss this. There are many kids who dont want to go to school because of bullying .
Arven´s storyline is also very relatable and the most interesting of all in my opinion . He is the son of a famous person and is angry at his parents because they didnt give enough attention to him. In both games, Arven is the son of two scientists that were working in area zero. One of them leaves him just after he was born, and one raises him until he was old enough to take care of himself. Arven is angry with the one that raised him , and never mentions the other one. His story with mabosstiff is very touching. I think everyone that ever had a sick dog would understand him. Honestly , I thought that his mabosstif was going to die and return to him as greavard. Theres a book in the school that says that when Ryme, the ghost type gym leader, was a teenager, her puppy pokemon died and returned to her as a ghost.
Then, theres the best part of the story . You have traveled with your mysterious pokemon since the beggining of your journey. You bonded with it, but if you played without getting any spoiler , you dont know anything about it besides its name, and that it used to be powerfull. Now, you´re going to the area zero, the place where it used to live. The fact that your legendary is afraid of being outside its pokeball adds more tension as you go deeper and deeper in the crater. Then, the creepy plot twist happens : the original professor died and the one that was talking with is a robot built to act and think exactly like the original professor. We never knew the original professor . We just know the robot, their books, and what other characters say about them. The Robot contradict itself. At first , it says that the professor wanted the paradox pokemon and the present time pokemon to live in harmony. Then, it talks as if the original professor didnt care about ruining the paldean ecossistems.
I think that a way of solving this contradiction is that the original professor thought that the paradox pokemon could break the balance for a limited time , but the ecossystems would quickly reach a new balance. Thats why they didnt release all the paradox pokemon on the wilds and kept them on area zero. At first, the paradox pokemon seen to get along quite well with present day pokemon. Area zero looks like a paradise , and even the iron threads / great tusk that escapes doesnt seem to cause more trouble than the other titans. But eventually , the AI discovered that the paradox pokemon would cause too much harm, and the fact that the AI is programed to think like the human professor tell us that if they lived enough, they would do the same thing as the AI did.
When the robot was about to go to the time portal , Arven called it dad/mom. You can see that he is very sad when the group is going back home, and everyone try to cheer him up , and they even say that his parent is having fun in the future/past. There is a philosofical discussion among scientists around the possibility of mind upload and if you can upload your mind to a robot, you could still say that the robot is you. After the credits , Arven says that his mind is now clear and its time to move on. He started to show interest in his father/mother life and began to be proud of being his/her son . At the beggining , he got angry whenever someone called him the professor´s son. He understood that his parent didnt visit him for years because they died and were replaced by robots that couldnt leave area zero, and i think he began to feel guilty for being so angry with them.
The violet book shows pokemon that arent currently avaiable. It also says that the Heath expedition team found a pokemon that looked like iron threads/ great tusk much before Arven´s parent built the time machine. There are many mysteries to be solved in Paldea yet, like what happened to the non cyborg pokemon in the future and where did the other Arven´s parent go. The other Arven parent could build a time machine connecting the present with the time of heath´s expedition . A DLC could let us visit future or past paldea.
In pokemon Scarlet/violet , all the storylines are equally important. The regional team is not evil at all , but just a bunch of bullied kids that didnt want to go to school anymore. The bullying theme is very relatable for most kids , and its important to discuss this. There are many kids who dont want to go to school because of bullying .
Arven´s storyline is also very relatable and the most interesting of all in my opinion . He is the son of a famous person and is angry at his parents because they didnt give enough attention to him. In both games, Arven is the son of two scientists that were working in area zero. One of them leaves him just after he was born, and one raises him until he was old enough to take care of himself. Arven is angry with the one that raised him , and never mentions the other one. His story with mabosstiff is very touching. I think everyone that ever had a sick dog would understand him. Honestly , I thought that his mabosstif was going to die and return to him as greavard. Theres a book in the school that says that when Ryme, the ghost type gym leader, was a teenager, her puppy pokemon died and returned to her as a ghost.
Then, theres the best part of the story . You have traveled with your mysterious pokemon since the beggining of your journey. You bonded with it, but if you played without getting any spoiler , you dont know anything about it besides its name, and that it used to be powerfull. Now, you´re going to the area zero, the place where it used to live. The fact that your legendary is afraid of being outside its pokeball adds more tension as you go deeper and deeper in the crater. Then, the creepy plot twist happens : the original professor died and the one that was talking with is a robot built to act and think exactly like the original professor. We never knew the original professor . We just know the robot, their books, and what other characters say about them. The Robot contradict itself. At first , it says that the professor wanted the paradox pokemon and the present time pokemon to live in harmony. Then, it talks as if the original professor didnt care about ruining the paldean ecossistems.
I think that a way of solving this contradiction is that the original professor thought that the paradox pokemon could break the balance for a limited time , but the ecossystems would quickly reach a new balance. Thats why they didnt release all the paradox pokemon on the wilds and kept them on area zero. At first, the paradox pokemon seen to get along quite well with present day pokemon. Area zero looks like a paradise , and even the iron threads / great tusk that escapes doesnt seem to cause more trouble than the other titans. But eventually , the AI discovered that the paradox pokemon would cause too much harm, and the fact that the AI is programed to think like the human professor tell us that if they lived enough, they would do the same thing as the AI did.
When the robot was about to go to the time portal , Arven called it dad/mom. You can see that he is very sad when the group is going back home, and everyone try to cheer him up , and they even say that his parent is having fun in the future/past. There is a philosofical discussion among scientists around the possibility of mind upload and if you can upload your mind to a robot, you could still say that the robot is you. After the credits , Arven says that his mind is now clear and its time to move on. He started to show interest in his father/mother life and began to be proud of being his/her son . At the beggining , he got angry whenever someone called him the professor´s son. He understood that his parent didnt visit him for years because they died and were replaced by robots that couldnt leave area zero, and i think he began to feel guilty for being so angry with them.
The violet book shows pokemon that arent currently avaiable. It also says that the Heath expedition team found a pokemon that looked like iron threads/ great tusk much before Arven´s parent built the time machine. There are many mysteries to be solved in Paldea yet, like what happened to the non cyborg pokemon in the future and where did the other Arven´s parent go. The other Arven parent could build a time machine connecting the present with the time of heath´s expedition . A DLC could let us visit future or past paldea.
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