A number of of my very earliest recollections as a human being are associated to Pokémon. I watched the unique English dub of the anime, my sister and I performed Crimson and Blue on our Recreation Boys, and regardless of not understanding it within the slightest, I collected playing cards from the TCG. Pokémon is hard-baked into my DNA, and regardless of The Pokémon Firm’s greatest efforts to disappoint me with new video games, I nonetheless love the franchise with each fiber of my being.
All the identical, I don’t suppose I’m alone in considering that Pokémon, as a framework, is criminally underutilized. I’m not speaking about extra intricate, aggressive Pokémon RPGs, good as that may be. I need Pokémon video games that basically give me an opportunity to discover this world I really like from a wide range of angles. I wish to expertise its society, mingle with its Pokémon, and get a deeper have a look at points we’ve solely been given little glimpses at earlier than. I wish to dwell in a Pokémon world, and if it have been as much as me, these are the ideas I’d wish to base new Pokémon video games round.
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Run A Pokémon Grooming Salon
An Excuse For Petting
The fifth and sixth generations of Pokémon video games launched Pokémon-Amie and Pokémon Refresh, respectively, little mini-games that allowed you to pet and bond along with your Pokémon. It was good and cute, however a bit half-baked, due partly to the 3DS’s limitations. I’ve a dream of petting each Pokémon there’s, even the gross ones, and I desire a sport the place I can try this in excessive definition with lifelike fur physics. Or slime physics.
Clearly, we are able to’t make a sport out of simply petting Pokémon, so if we want some method of framework, how a few grooming salon, not only for Furfrou, however all Pokémon? Trainers may usher in Pokémon of assorted sizes and shapes, from the cuddliest Wigglytuff to the roughest Golem, and we may give them a customized menu of cleansing and pampering.
After each cleansing session, we may get a possibility to pet their newly fluffed and glossy fur whereas they make cute noises at us. Put it on Swap 2, use mouse controls, it’d be straightforward, and with these higher graphics, we may see all of the fur, scales, rocks, and ectoplasm in excessive definition.
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Prepare For Pokémon Contests
Daybreak Made It Look Enjoyable
Pokémon Contests have been initially launched in Era 3 and expanded upon in Era 4. Fairly than battling, Contests have been imagined to be levels for Pokémon to indicate off their pedigree and expertise, dazzling the group with strikes. Or a minimum of, that was the intention, however in follow, it was just about simply common battling with out an opponent and with a bunch of arbitrary classes assigned to strikes.
I’ve usually thought that it will be good to have a much less battle-centric Pokémon story to expertise, and basing a sport round Contests might be a great way to do this. Neglect all of the journeying and badges, and simply deal with elevating a small handful of Pokémon to be greatest in present. Mix with the grooming salon concept to make them look presentable, then have them follow attention-grabbing stunts with their strikes.
As soon as it’s time for an precise Contest, we may do sequenced mini-games type of like Chao Racing or Uma Musume, the place you give the orders but it surely’s extra on the Pokémon to hold them out primarily based on their coaching. It will definitely really feel extra tangible than simply elevating numbers on an EXP bar.
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Handle A Pokémon-Stuffed Metropolis
Something’s Higher Than Extra Wild Zones
Enjoying by way of Pokémon Legends Z-A, you get the distinct impression that Quasartico and the town’s authorities do not know the right way to truly run a metropolis the place individuals and Pokémon can coexist. I received’t declare it’s straightforward, however there must be a greater approach than segmenting an increasing number of of the town into Wild Zones, particularly since a few of these Wild Zones have been beforehand occupied by individuals and companies.
What we have to reveal this can be a full Pokémon metropolis administration sport. We may do that a few alternative ways: we may preserve it easy, managing a city that borders a Pokémon habitat and conserving the peace, or we may go the full-on SimCity method. I’m speaking macro-level administration and growth, choosing and selecting buildings and emplacements all whereas taking the presence and wishes of each the individuals and Pokémon into consideration.
Along with bodily design, you might additionally pen legal guidelines and norms that decide the extent to which individuals and Pokémon intermingle, guaranteeing everybody can get alongside, but additionally have the area they should thrive individually. It’d be fairly exhausting, however then once more, so is making an actual metropolis, and that simply means it’s price doing.
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Work Jobs Related To Pokémon
Not Each Pokémon Works In A Café
The central conceit of the Pokémon world is that folks and Pokémon work side-by-side to make the entire thing run easily. We’ve seen shades of this within the video games and anime, with Machokes at development websites or Voltorbs powering electrical vegetation. In terms of gameplay, although, the closest we’ve ever gotten to experiencing skilled Pokémon work is having all of them work in a cute café.
I wish to get first-hand expertise working with Pokémon in skilled settings, and we may most likely do that by way of some method of mini-game assortment. Direct some Machokes and Gurdurrs to assemble metallic and wooden at a development website, pilot a Corviknight cab, work with Chansey in a Pokémon Middle or hospital, and so forth.
Maybe these mini-games might be pinned onto the aforementioned concept for a Pokémon metropolis supervisor, often requiring direct intervention from you for sophisticated duties that employees and Pokémon can’t deal with themselves.
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Run My Personal Pokémon Health club
Make Your Personal Annoying Gimmicks
Even all these years later, it’s nonetheless not tremendous clear how precisely one establishes a Pokémon Health club. I assume it’s a League forms factor, like one distinctive Coach is chosen and put in in a outstanding metropolis to handle the native Health club’s goings-on. It’d be neat to take the helm on such a venture, particularly for those who get to construct your personal Health club from scratch.
A Pokémon Health club sport might be break up between common Pokémon battles and designing and managing your Health club and its distinctive format and challenges. You can decide a dominant sort on your Chief and their employed Trainers, then design a Health club problem round that sort, filling it with probably the most obnoxious motion puzzles you possibly can consider. Don’t act such as you’ve by no means wished to be on the opposite aspect of that equation.
Admittedly, I am not utterly certain how you’d wrestle a major gameplay loop out of this in opposition to CPUs, so possibly it might be extra of a web based sport affair, type of like Mario Maker. You already know, make your personal Health club, have randos on-line problem it and see who finishes the quickest and most decisively.
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Begin My Personal Evil Crew
Can’t Beat ‘Em, Be part of ‘Em
I do know The Pokémon Firm likes to maintain its model picture squeaky-clean, however simply as soon as, I’d actually like a possibility to be a correct reprobate within the Pokémon world. Evil groups are cropping up on a regular basis and all over, why not allow us to get forward of the pack for as soon as and begin our personal?
There are a few methods we may go about this, and it will rely on the type of sport we’re going for. On the one hand, we may play issues utterly straight, make an evil staff that commits crimes and kidnaps Pokémon both for cash or ideological causes. This is able to most likely lead to a simulator sport like Honey, I Joined A Cult, the place you handle the staff’s goings-on from on excessive with out truly doing something your self a la Giovanni.
Alternatively, we may take a extra hands-on method, management our staff grunts and admins on the streets as they pillage and plunder, then evade the cops. This is able to most likely be tougher to get previous quality-control, however possibly we may contrive a Saints Row-esque motivation, like we’re beginning our personal evil staff to muscle out a much bigger, worse one, taking Pokémon from them to rescue them like in Pokémon Coliseum.
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Be A Sitting League Champion
No One’s Taking My Title
In each mainline Pokémon sport, you inevitably beat all of the Health club Leaders, take down the Elite 4, and knock the Champion off of their proverbial (or literal in a few circumstances) perch. Nevertheless, you by no means get to remain the Champion. You’re within the Corridor of Fame and everybody is aware of you’re cool, but it surely’s nonetheless Lance or Cynthia or Steven Stone sitting within the chair. We all know that Champions will be supplanted, we’ve seen it occur with Blue, Wallace, and Iris, so why don’t we get a shot?
Right here’s the pitch: begin the sport proper on the finish of your Coach’s Pokémon journey. They’ve simply overwhelmed the Champion they usually’re standing on high, however as a substitute of going residence, they resolve to take the job. Now, as a substitute of going round difficult progressively tougher Trainers, all the most effective Trainers within the area are coming to you, and you must maintain your throne for so long as potential.
This might truly be an important idea for a roguelike Pokémon sport, having you have interaction in particular coaching between battles to preserve your Pokémon in the very best situation whereas often coping with the doldrums of being a League figurehead in random occasions.
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Carry out Actual PokéDex Analysis
Somebody’s Writing These Bizarre Entries
In each the Pokémon video games and anime, everytime you discover a new Pokémon and scan it along with your PokéDex, you get a little bit blurb of details about their habits or bodily compositions. The query is, who’s truly writing and compiling these entries? We’re imagined to be those doing the Dex analysis, however clearly, another person has already accomplished it!
What if we might be the right creators of a PokéDex, researching and cataloging Pokémon with out partaking within the normal trappings like battling and catching? You can watch Pokémon of their pure habitats, notice down their behaviors and interactions, and catalog them to undergo a fine-toothed comb. It would be like a cross between Pokémon Snap and Pokémon Legends Arceus.
Along with finding out wild Pokémon, maybe we may see Pokémon in home environments, chat with Trainers who dwell with their Pokémon at residence and see how they conduct themselves within the firm of people. We’re imagined to be coexisting with Pokémon right here; we’re not going to get anyplace with that from completely watching them within the wild.
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Survive As A Pokémon In The Wild
No Speaking, Simply Residing
To my recollection, we have by no means had a Pokémon sport the place you get to only… be a Pokémon. I do not imply like within the Thriller Dungeon video games, the place you are only a individual in a Pokémon physique residing in a human-adjacent Pokémon society. I imply a correct Pokémon in a correct, wild Pokémon surroundings, evolving by way of your pure lifespan and staking your declare on meals and territory. In different phrases, a Pokémon survival sport.
We may begin out as a very weak and tiny wild Pokémon like a Pidgey or Weedle and do our greatest to outlive, preventing off different Pokémon for berries and establishing nests, in addition to establishing teams with Pokémon of the identical species line and kind. Study to coexist with different, related Pokémon, or drive away invasive Pokémon when you proceed to develop your personal territory.
For added enjoyable, you might have the occasional Coach trespass onto your turf, stirring up hassle with their very own Pokémon and even catching the others in your group, dwindling your numbers and sources. Maybe a very ill-mannered Coach may launch Pokémon of wildly differing kinds and inclinations close by, sparking off main wild conflicts.
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Develop Up With My Pokémon Associate
To Be Liked Is To Be Modified
For those who ask anybody who has grown up with the Pokémon franchise what they need most in life, it is to have a Pokémon companion of their very own. I would like a Squirtle, personally. As cool as being a “Pokémon Grasp” sounds, greater than something, I’d simply wish to spend time with my companion Pokémon in a quiet life. Not each NPC you meet within the video games battles, so why is that the one factor we are able to do with Pokémon?
We want a Pokémon-adjacent life simulator sport a la Stardew Valley. Give us a little bit plot of land in an out-of-the-way spot like Pallet City to occupy ourselves with, whereas we discover close by with our companion and meet the neighbors. By “neighbors,” I do not simply imply individuals, however the acquainted wild Pokémon who hang around close by, establishing a relationship that goes past simply phrases.
Greater than something, I wish to develop up and develop previous alongside my companion. We do not get to see aged Pokémon fairly often, and whereas it is a little bit unhappy to consider your Pokémon rising previous, I additionally suppose it might be type of heartwarming, like see a canine with greying whiskers. You spend your complete life with a Squirtle, then a Wartortle, then a Blastoise, and whereas he cannot fireplace off a Hydro Pump anymore, you continue to relish the little smirk on his face everytime you see him.
Pokémon
- Launch Date
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1997 – 2023
- Community
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TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi, TVh, TVQ, TSC
- Administrators
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Shigeru Omachi, Koji Ogawa, Fumihiro Ueno, Hideki Hiroshima, Maki Kodaira, Makoto Ooga, Ayumi Moriyama, Keitaro Motonaga, Shigeru Ueda, Fumihiro Yoshimura, Minoru Ohara, Yoshitaka Makino, Kiyoshi Egami, Makoto Sokuza, Bjarne Heuser, Naoki Murata, Kenichi Nishida, Tomoe Makino, Masahiko Watanabe, Hiroaki Takagi, Tazumi Mukaiyama, Ryohei Horiuchi, Yoshihiro Oda, Hiromichi Matano
- Writers
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Junki Takegami, Atsuhiro Tomioka, Hideki Sonoda, Yukiyoshi Ôhashi, Yuka Miyata, Takeshi Shudo, Shouji Yonemura, Shinzo Fujita, Michihiro Tsuchiya, Deko Akao, Reiko Yoshida, Aya Matsui, Junichi Fujisaku
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Rica Matsumoto
Satoshi (voice)
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Ikue Otani
Pikachu (voice)
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Shin-ichiro Miki
Kojirou (voice)
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Megumi Hayashibara
Musashi (voice)
