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@smeargleangelo
Greetings and salutations, fellow trainers!
Welcome to my blog, where I post random thoughts and musings throughout my work day.
Life's not all exploring or gym battles! For me, it's just another 8 to 5. I often feel like my cubicle is a pokéball, and I'm the pokémon!
Anyways, I've got to get back to work.
Feel free to reach out, my inbox is open.
Night Arcade (2024) Illustrator: Nelnal
Saw a video about the Spaceworld 1997 beta Pokémon and I cannot stop thinking about the mysterious boat Pokémon (Sugimori-style art by Rachel Briggs aka raciebeeps):
Okay sure I know there's speculation that this was an unused design for Lugia, but the design is a little... stiff? static? for it to be a box art legendary.
So indulge me, please, and let's pretend this is a single stage Pokémon the player is gifted or forced to catch (similar to the red Gyarados) in order to navigate the Whirl Islands and arrive at Cianwood City, making it thematically comparable to Ash's Lapras. (I'll leave you to debate whether Ash's Lapras would have been known beforehand to the folks at Game Freak).
May I suggest the name Karvice? From "Karvi" a kind of viking longship and "ice". For typing, I'm thinking it could be Water/Ice, Normal/Ice, or just plain Ice.
I recognize that the Dragon/Ice or Ice/Dragon typings are there for the taking, but I feel like Dragon type was (and still is to a degree) rare, and while I think there's an argument to be made for adding another dragon type for Gen II (the only new dragon was Kingdra, a Water/Dragon type), I just don't see it for this Pokémon. When I see this Pokémon I see ice!
Thoughts?
Never gave too much thought to Trubbish, but he kinda a cute lil fella.
Pikachu -- Ken Sugimori
April 1, 2021 Illustrator: Masaaki Iwane
Very original idea, I know, but after watching all the hype around FRLG coming to the Nintendo Switch eShop (pricing on a 22 year old game aside) and several hours worth of YouTube videos about the creative world of ROM hacks, I am convinced that there is still a market demand for 2D sprite Pokémon games.
I would be content with Game Freak et al using the assets they had by the end of Gen V. But if they can't for some reason (and they wanted to be fancy), I would love if they could do that HD2D style like Square Enix has done. Sure, they can't call it HD2D, but they can still do the art style. They even give it a cheeky name like "Made with Silph Co.'s PokéVision® Enhanced Graphics" or something.
I think the way to go about it is to either tell new stories in the 2D era regions (Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Unova) or tell more traditional Pokémon stories in regions we've visited in other games like... ahem... Orre. (no I'm never going to shut up about Orre)
Use a limited roster of pokémon without regional variants, that way development is that much easier. You could include mega evolutions, z-moves, contests, pokéblock/poffins, or whatever gimmicks you want, but the idea I had was for smaller, barebones, low-stakes Pokémon games that scratch the mainline game itch without breaking the bank to develop and publish. We already know the regions, we already have the pokémon and move pools and all the information to understand how they work with one another, we just need a story. I know this theoretically takes resources away from the current development team, but I think they could farm it out like they did for the Ranger series or Colosseum/XD. Thoughts?
If you want to feel old, the episode of Pokémon where James goes back to his weird antebellum family? That aired 27 years ago today.
Watching some of the Pokémon cartoon. Might dive into the Orange Islands arc and start Johto again since I'm on vacation until Monday. Spring Break rocks!
I hope to god that dawg explodes
That poor Sandygast!
lets take the gang to a new region!
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Look, I know I never seem to shut up about the Let's Go games but I desperately want a Let's Go Johto! game. We don't even need two versions. I have a fix for that!
Imagine:
The original 251 Pokémon that were present in Gen2 (regardless of their original game-to-game availability). No more, no less.
A simple story, advancing the timeline a few years so the player character can meet one of the OG Gen2 protagonists (bonus points if its Kris). We don't need a retread of the original story since HGSS already did such a great job.
Maybe make Celebi more of a focus than Ho-Oh, Lugia, or the legendary beasts. I love the Johto games and want to spend more time there. Surely we can find a new story that still meshes with Johto's underlying themes.
Change up the gym leaders and Elite Four. Maybe change the order or (now that a few Normal types have been retyped to Fairy) make Whitney a Normal/Fairy member of the Johto Elite Four.
Instead of a preset partner pokémon, incorporate a (slightly weighted/rigged) quiz that determines the partner from a select pool. I suggest (in order of common to rare) Marill, Mareep, Teddiursa, Snubbel, Aipom, Phanpy, and Togepi. All of their base states and move pools will be adjusted as needed like with Partner Pikachu and Partner Eevee.
When encountering wild pokémon, players will need to battle them for a few turns before the Let's Go catching mechanic kicks in. The amount of turns can be determined by a timer (and players who don't want to can just wait it out), by some behind-the-scenes calculation (although the catching mechanic is already more difficult for low catch rate pokémon), or simply the needs of the story. I love the catching mechanic, don't get me wrong, I just want more opportunities to battle. At least make a brief battling period an option.
I am indifferent on whether a Kanto post game is even necessary. It's been a traditional part of Gen2 but honestly is it still necessary?
Thoughts?
Bringing this back around because I've been playing some Let's Go again after the announcement of Wind & Waves. Really wish The Pokémon Company / Game Freak / whatever would release something like Let's Go again.
The simple story (yes retread for the umpteenth time) and limited roster worked in the game's favor. The Devs had more room to focus on a great looking, great sounding game. Realism ≠ Better. Sometimes a cartoony game done well is better for the overall product.
Look at this game! It's beautiful!
I really wish we could get a game that focused on optimizing gameplay functionality and beauty in lieu of every single Pokémon and every generation's gimmick and four DLC expansion passes ad whatever. Dexit had the potential to be a good thing. Look at what they were able to produce with just the 151. Let's Go is a solid entry. Gimme < 300 catchable Mons, a basic story, and classic gameplay that isn't a ROM Hack. We can do it.
I have no doubt Winds & Waves will be a blast (love Pombon, they've been killing it with fire starters recently, and I'm a grass starter man), but I'll always mourn what could have been.
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