Wright said:
If the next installment suddenly had only planes for "more dynamic races" and it's called Mario: Let's go Fly Together, no one would be pissed. Heck, people would go and purchase it. Death is an integral part of life. Pokemon developer once planned to have pokemon dying, only to switch it to "faint" because he was afraid kids could associate losing with death. We're beyond that point nowadays, time to make an step forward. The lenghts I propose are simply changes. You don't find sense in them because, again, you don't entertain the idea. But that doesn't extrapolate to real results. You claim that it is absurd as saying Zelda should be a military FPS, but people can find as equally absurd as depriving Pokémon from its RPG structure and make combat a real time hack and slash, almost Devil May Cry-meets-Legend of Zelda-like affair. Why do you think yours have substance and mine doesn't? Heck, I would even be respecting the original source even better than your idea by keeping the traditional RPG structure. You're the one propossing something as Zelda being military FPS.
It's not "Pokemon with no Pokemon". It's a Pokemon game. It has Pokemons. You can "catch them all". The ones surviving. That dark twist would be a welcome adition. It would be an interesting and daring move from the franchise, and I assure, it would sell units, based on the name alone. Call it "Pokemon Dark Days" or whatever you want.
Advance Wars was built around warfare; but trust me: the games were very happy-go-lucky. That completely changed in Days of Ruin, and I reiterate: no one complained about the change. It sold almost the same as the other entries. |
The dellusion is strong in that post. This kind of pokemon game would sell absolutely less than any other Pokemon game. And most important, it would be pointless.
What would death bring about Pokemon? Nothing. Pokemon is a strategic game, which involves catching, long training and breeding. Death would bring nothing to the core game in any aspect, in fact it would deteriorate one of the core gameplay (training).
People wanting a dark story are laughable, because they entirely miss the point off what Pokemon is about.