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3.5

I miss "there's a mafia", it was a plot that made sense. From a purely worldbuilding standpoint, it's absolutely fantastic - taking the land reclamation environmental debate in Japan and expanding it to two conflicting teams taking the extremist ideologies of each side, yet showing a people entirely satisfied with working harmoniously with both land and sea is inspired. But it both doesn't play really well outside of Japan and it muddies up the whole "be the very best" quest. It takes what was a simple journey and story of growing up and self-improvement and turns it into a very straightforward hero narrative that you REALLY don't have any business getting into other than "you're here I guess" that seems like a side note to a less inspired retelling of the Pokemon narrative than either of the past two games. It's well-intended, but it's incredibly clumsy to the point of being laughable at times, and I'm more just disappointed that Pokemon COULD'VE really moved forward with the pieces of this story, but just... didn't. And continued to not.