for pmd ask game, 2, 5 and 13? :DD
2. 2D style all the way! The sprites/2D style are really charming to me, and given that I started with that style, also has a nostalgic feeling :3 don’t get me wrong, the 3D style is great too, and the dungeons/scenery in particular are really nice, but I feel like the main issue is because of the mystery dungeon format itself. When everything is so much more detailed, things like the size discrepancy between pokemon look more…off in 3D. Like, having a first form look proportionally larger than the evolution bc they both occupy the same amount of space/the evolution is more detailed doesn’t look too funky when each character only has a limited amount of pixels, but when they’re a fully rendered model, it’s a bit weird. The other thing with the 3D version is some pokemon—especially those specifically designed in 2D—are just kinda ugly in 3D 😭
5. From gen 7, I could definitely picture rockruff, jangmo-o, and salandit as potential options! I’m also thinking maaaybe stufful, but somehow they seem more background character-ish to me.
For gen 8, honestly didn’t feel like there were many candidates. Could imagine yamper, but could equally imagine them being a side character too. The other two I was considering would be wooloo (bc fan favorite) and clobbopus, just bc the latter has the little guy energy a partner needs.
13. Pmd explorers: we need more background about the dark future. Replayed until the dialga fight fairly recently and oh my GOD we are desperately lacking in context/knowledge of the dark future. I think, if they ever were to do a remake, they could consider adding a special episode about hero’s life in the future, meeting grovyle, and the events that lead to them deciding to go back in time and save the world. It would be so interesting to learn more about the future we’re fighting to hard to destroy. And I’m wondering if that’s partly why we didn’t? Like if you knew more about it and saw the ways it didn’t 100% suck, maybe the idea of eliminating it and having everyone unmade would be a little more unsettling. New conspiracy: the plot was written by the Planetary Investigation Team, which, based on Grovyle’s description of them, sounded just a bit like a cult 😭 Nonetheless, I would’ve loved to meet them or literally ANY other pokemon in the future other than grovyle, dusknoir’s circle, and the feral pokemon.