#Scarlet & Violet are really good games though. At least story-wise they are. The gameplay itself is... something

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Man I'm STILL thinking about the whole thing with the Professor(s) in Scarlet/Violet

Learning that a character who we thought we've been talking to for an entire storyline has actually been dead the whole game & we've just been talking to an AI version of them the whole time is an experience

And they don't even try to sugarcoat it, either. It is openly stated in-game that the real professor is dead. It's not one of those things where it's only implied and/or you have to read between the lines to figure it out because they don't want to talk about death in a kids game

Like, it was kinda inevitable that we'd eventually get a Pokémon game where the professor was also a villain, but at no point did I ever suspect that we would get a professor who was the villain, but that also the professor we've been talking to the whole time was an AI who wanted to stop their dead creator's plan

I wonder if the DLC is also going to have any story details that will make me have to sit and think about things every time I remember it