Makes me wonder what horrors we'll encounter when a Legends Kyurem is actually released, current GF cringe combined with N's ancestors who are probably as insufferable as him in BW sounds like something I'd absolutely enjoy while suffering through shoddy controls.
N wasn't even that bad, he wasn't supposed to be right, he was brainwashed by Plasma and he was able to expand his view of the world by the end. I'm definitely expecting much worse now though.
Anyway, here's this cool laundry list of reasons the "true" ogre story doesn't make sense:
- The townspeople had never seen the trio before finding their corpses, and they were so enamored as to deify them? How are they "loyal" when they just showed up one day and immediately died?
- The peachmon was there that day as well (shown in the flashback) and apparently not forgotten (the plush at that lady's shop), but it's role in the story of the town's most precious heroes is just never mentioned. Why not? Don't tell me it's "preserving the myyystery", it makes no sense in-universe.
- The trio wanted the masks enough to kill... why? For the crystals? Couldn't they just go to the pond? Did they target anyone else the maskmaker made masks for?
- The ogre and its trainer were walking around the town with their new masks on and everyone admired them, but like a day later they see the ogre wearing one of the masks from a distance and are scared and confused... the fuck? I could understand the story becoming more twisted with time, but why would the ogre be turned away from the town immediately?
- The cave is supposed to be uncomfortable for anything large to be living in- Kieran telling you that seems like foreshadowing that the ogre is actually smol. But according to this story the ogre's big trainer was living in the cave himself... how? And also fucking why?
- At the end the ogre goes back to the cave alone and sad... who was there to see that? Actually, how did anyone know about this "true" story? And if just anyone could have seen what really happened, how did the false story end up being accepted?
Furthermore, we're told this right after being told not to believe the one story just because it's what people tell, but we're expected to believe this story just because someone told it to us. Okay.
And Teal Mask in general:
- How did Kieran revive the three with a punch? If the three were beloved heroes and it was so easy to revive them, you'd think someone would have tried it before... or done it by accident.
- Why is Carmine such a fucking cunt? Is it just supposed to be cute and funny? She's clearly happy to lie to Kieran about Ogerpon with any reasons given being an afterthought. Why the fuck are we supposed to side with her? Why is she not responsible for pulling this shit but Kieran is responsible for reacting badly to it?
- What the fuck were that circle pattern and giant metal plate about and why were they in the Treasures trailer?
Apparently the only one of these the Pecha short addresses (I can't be fucked to watch it) is why the trio wanted the masks, which is the least of the story's problems and still makes no sense. It's not anything to do with the masks themselves, nothing special about them, it's because some other assholes the next town over thought they were neat, that they had to get those specific masks so desperately they'd kill for them. That's fucking stupid. They've made it less interesting and worthwhile than when we didn't fucking know anything.
I am entirely convinced there was some original plan that got scrapped halfway through any everything after that is just random shit slapped together as fast as possible. Like, the Teal Mask ogre story has the perfect setup for the sobstory being some shit somebody made up, neither story being true, neither side is just a villain, and the real truth was somewhere in the middle, then they do another reveal that Carmine is the real villain of the story for bullying Kieran (not that you can "reveal" something that's that blatantly obvious). You could have an absolutely KINO heartwarming story where this poor kid gets to stand up to his bullies alongside the characters from his favorite fairy tale, where he was projecting a desire to be saved onto the ogre but once the truth of the story is revealed the other truth about himself and Carmine comes out. Hell they could have had two ogres and had the nonsensical ogre sobstory come from trying to apply the sad ogre to the other one's story, it'd fit perfectly and that way everyone could have an ogre without this retarded "hurrr durr he's a nice guy incel for not immediately giving up durrr" bullshit. But instead we get this dogshit because some writer got waifufag brainrot or some shit, so they have to pretend the kid who was right all along and who was clearly being treated like shit is actually the bad guy somehow and needs to be beat down further than he already is. Fucking hell.
I'm not buying this pro-ogre anti-Pecha propaganda. Gamefreak should be bullied until they release whatever the Snyder cut of this game is. Or if they won't do it I'll make it myself.
