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Those are probably the two scenes that add the most to the story. I would argue thats the story element the modern games miss the mark on.

Team Rocket's hideout fills out the actual world of pokemon. The villain has a hideout thats under a casino they funded. Its a tangible place you can go into and see the values and incompetency of team rocket as a whole. The story of red and blue is also maybe the best story pokemon ever did. As a kid you feel Red stops team rocket by being strong, but as an adult you realize it was Giovanni repeatedly encountering a strong trainer as a child with strong ideals that made him no longer able to ignore his own.

Its a story that cant really be told in a modern game, so its not like I'm faulting new games for not doing the same thing, but, less is more storytelling doesnt mean a gutted story, it means a story thats shaved down to the essentials.

I havent beat the game yet but I kind of doubt anything hop has said in the past 30 hours was essential

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wird