![]() They sort of bond a little, don’t they?ĭo they? As I recall, Hugh is rather prickly towards him. Still, Hugh and Cheren do have a lot in common, aside from Hugh being so much more hot-tempered. Cheren’s much more distanced and logical about the whole thing. He has personal motivation that Cheren doesn’t, and his emotions ride a lot higher. Whereas Hugh gets involved pretty much every time you meet or fight Team Plasma in Black and White 2 and has lots of dialogue with them I see your point. I don’t think he ever says a single word to either N or Ghetsis again after you first meet them in Accumula Town. Then he… goes to the Dragonspiral Tower with Brycen, but they don’t show up until the party’s over, and he’s there when you fight Team Plasma in the Relic Castle but doesn’t say or do anything important likewise at the final showdown with N at the palace of the Elite Four. He helps you in the really short fight at Wellspring Cave, then again when you corner Zinzolin and a bunch of grunts in Driftveil City, where he actually seems totally dismissive of them – he talks about fighting them for Clay so that he can get stronger, like they’re just target practice for him. Looking back through it, it’s actually really weird how little he does. True, but Cheren in the original games sort of has surprisingly little involvement with the Team Plasma storyline. He’s still pretty hardline about them by the time Black and White 2 come around. Well, Cheren is fairly uncompromising in his attitude to Team Plasma there’s never any question in his mind that they could be anything other than thugs. Oh, I think the pun is entirely appropriate I think that’s very much a part of what the developers meant by choosing those titles. ![]() ![]() What about Cheren? He’s pretty black-and-white, if you’ll excuse the pun. And I think it’s important to have Hugh in the game as someone on the ‘good’ side who is equally uncompromising, just to stress that you can have that kind of problem from both sides of a conflict, because there isn’t really a ‘good’ character like that in the original games. They refuse to make that kind of concession to our side, though. You see that most clearly in Castelia City, with Burgh, because he actually says explicitly that he wants to incorporate some of their ideas into his training philosophy he thinks they have a point, and they absolutely do. –well, yes, besides that, their problem isn’t that they want to change the way people relate to Pokémon their problem is that they’re uncompromising. I think it’s important to have someone like Hugh in the story, someone uncompromising, because one of the important themes of those games is the idea that recognising that the ideas of people who are opposed to you can be important and valuable – like, the problem with Team Plasma, the way the games present it-īesides secretly wanting to take over the world. And he sets up conflict with the ex-Team Plasma guys, Rood’s bunch, which would otherwise fall flat because the player just isn’t going to have the same emotional reaction to them and is going to listen to them with a bit of a more neutral perspective. He makes the whole thing seem more real, shows us the wider consequences of all that plot. I like that his storyline provides a link to the old games, as someone who was personally affected by what happened back then. ![]() No indeed, burdened with something of an overabundance of it, I would think. It’s an appropriate name at any rate Hugh certainly isn’t lacking in spirit. Ultimately from a Germanic root, though – ‘hug,’ meaning ‘mind’ or ‘spirit.’ And it gets into Mediaeval Latin from there. …um… Germanic, maybe? It doesn’t sound like a Latin or Greek root. ![]()
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