RingoGaSuki on 29 May 2018
The new Pokemon games are a sequel to Gen I/II/III, set 30-50 years in the future, no new regions, but Kanto/Johto/Hoenn are vastly changed and more developed than the original games.
For example:
- Bigger cities
- No cut-off areas in between cities/routes, everything is traversable
- No big signposting
- A return to gyms of course.
- Gym Leaders have differing teams depending on your current number of badges at that point in time (so if you end up bypassing Pewter through the forest, you can come back last and the leader will have Rhyperior/Steelix/Golem/SudowoodoOmastar/Kabutops rather than Onix/Geodude). Even better, gyms being based on type could be abandoned, and instead replaced with themes (one place being based around a tank strategy with Blissey, Wobbuffet, Shuckle etc, another that's speed/evasion based with Jolteon, Ninjask etc.)
- Introduction of varying sizes for all Pokemon - XL Pokemon hit harder, can take more of a beating, but are slower; S Pokemon are faster, but not as tough
- Adjustments to older Pokemon's stats/movepools. (eg. Butterfree's Sp. Atk -> 110, Speed -> 105 to make it more competitive
- New evolutions for older Pokemon - Electrode gets another evolution that looks like a master/ultra ball, Farfetch'd/Quagsire get evolutions)
- Of course, the appearance of newer other region Pokemon in the older regions (can easily be explained by migration etc.)
I'd honestly be happier if this came rather than a new region.
