Pokemon can be so much more.

[Frogger]

Wright said:

Post-apocaliptic scenario. Kill half of those. The rest are enslaved and at the disposition of very few, who seemedly use them to subyugate what's little left of society. Arise an anti-hero main character who doesn't have the need to find a disctintion between good and evil.

 

Canonically, you can do everything you want. The above scenario would make me purchase a Pokemon game.

The above senario would make literally no one else purchase that Pokemon game.