Marnie should have been the main rival instead of Hop

[Bubble Ba'ath]

So what if the "story" only makes sense with Hop, we all know how we feel about that.

Hop is annoying as **** and picked the starter weak to mine because he's an idiot and just keeps complaining about his brother.


Bur Marnie is calm and cool but with a reserved kind of strength and has a cool signature pokemon. And her backstory is actually interesting and creative and good and should have been explored further

 

[Auraninja]

Hop had a character arc. He didn't even really complain about his brother so much as he wanted to emulate him. Later in the story, however, he learned to be his own person rather than compare himself to other people.

 

[Bubble Ba'ath]

Hop had a character arc. He didn't even really complain about his brother so much as he wanted to emulate him. Later in the story, however, he learned to be his own person rather than compare himself to other people.

The biggest problem with Hop is that there's just way too much of him, especially early in the game. Sometimes you literally cannot take five steps without him interrupting, talking at you, and running off to wait five steps further on. Which I think is mostly because Game Freak apparently still hasn't been able to code NPCs moving dynamically at the same time as the player character.

He also serves as a proxy for our character. Since we can only answer direct questions, he's there to say and do stuff for us. Which is definitely bad design and writing. It would have been much more compelling if we were Hop instead.