If there is one outcome, remove the guise of control. Have my character speak for me. I don’t fucking care. I’d rather feel like my character is doing or saying something I wouldn’t personally do than for me to be given a fucking pop-up that means nothing and is just there to reinforce a self-insert facade. At least make a bit out of it if you’re gonna do it. It’s genuinely one of the worst pieces of game design outside of legitimately predatory behavior.
"do you want a pokemon?"
"no"
"whaaaaat???? i don't think i heard you right! do you want a pokemon?"
WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GIVE ME THE OPTION TO SAY NO
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa
at least just do the decency of kicking us back to the start screen for the bit
true!
Or just let us go into the bushes and get attacked by a pidgey, then wake up in the professor's lab where he's like
The Skyrim opening screen displays, and suddenly the game turns into Skyrim instead of Pokémon.