#//but then I realized there's so much that Genius Sonority could have done with orre's environment

[profchamomile]

Hey do you know anything about a "Palms Nature Preserve" in Orre?

Oh, the Palms Nature Preserve is one of the best preserves in Orre, in my dimension!

Southern Orre has always been a desert, but it wasn't always that empty. There used to be a lot of flora and fauna native only to that region and some neighboring regions; at least close to the border. However over time, due to overuse of resources, most of it has dried up and turned into empty sand dunes.

The Palms Nature Preserve is one of the last known preserves that still has everything that once resided within Orre's desert. It's been around since before I was born, and it's gorgeous! And there's so many unique Pokemon as well. For example: there's a regional variant of Maractus, that grow SO tall - and some of the ones that were around then and are still alive today live at that sanctuary; they're over a hundred years old!

The founder was the late Professor Silas Palm; he primarily studied botany and environmental science. He was a great and kind man, too, I've heard... It would have been an honor to study under him. But, he died around 21 years ago. He was... Thirty-three years old, I think?

I think his wife owns the sanctuary now.

[doubleddenden]

I'm gonna put this energy out into the universe and hope the Pokémon Company grows a soul to do it:

Pokemon Colosseum 3 and ports of Colo and XD instead of a rushed new gen ir remake this year (and yes I realize we might get Legends Arceus DLC but the Orre games aren't GF games)

Why Colo 3 and ports? Currently the games are only available on GameCube, and although TPC have done a pretty good job erasing it, Colosseum was the first 3D Pokémon game to actually have a story. That alone is reason enough.

However for practicality reasons, let's look at what Colosseum did for the franchise in gen 3 at the time:

At the time, only Ruby and Sapphire were released. Game Freak tried and failed to figure out a way to transfer Pokémon from the gen 2 games to gen 3. The Pokedex at the time was severely limited to 200 Pokémon in the Hoenn region, so unless you cheated, a lot of gen 2 Pokémon were off the table, even with FRLG and Emerald including some when they would come out

Enter Colosseum, which at the time was the only real sure fire way to get Pokémon like Umbreon, Espeon, the gen 2 starters, the legendary beasts of Johto, Mantine, Ampharos, Tyranitar, Togetic, so on and so forth.

At present, between SwSh, BDSP, and LA, we're short the rest of the gen 5 and all gen 6 starters, in addition to Mega Evolutions and Z Crystals, let alone Ultra Necrozma. I'm sure we're also short some gen 2, gen 3, gen 5, gen 6, and gen 7 Pokémon that currently cannot be obtained to any degree.

In comes Orre, which has a habit of giving love to under appreciated Pokémon, even in the same gen they debuted in, such as Walrein or Swalot in XD. A Colosseum 3 could give GF more time for their next project (which as fun as LA was, it needed more time in the oven), open up the door to give absent Pokémon some much needed love and representation, a more difficult challenge in the form of constant and strategic Double Battles and having to steal Pokémon from trainers, and revive a beloved cult classic in the series.

Since ILCA sucks/hasn't even finished BDSP by adding the wonder trading station yet (let alone fix the bugs), and most of the Genius Sonority team that worked on the Orre games were absorbed into Game Freak, they could pass the ball to BAMCO, who put a lot of amazing polish into the likes of Pokken Tournament and New Snap. They could provide that sweet polish and dip into edgy and gritty realism those games attempted.

However if for some reason that is asking too much, I would like to put something else out into the universe, and if God ain't a spiteful dick ass bitch of an asshole like he usually is, he'll make it happen:

Stadium 3/Battle Revolution 2 with Home connectivity.

Think about it, if you're a competent multi-player nerd (not me, I hate T Landorus), then you're currently stuck with the outdated meta currently restricted to you in SwSh or BDSP. If you have Pokémon in Home, the only game they can currently go to as of writing this is SwSh, and thats only if theyre in the game. And assuming they let you transfer to BDSP and LA, we're still left with a couple hundred Pokémon and forms trapped in jail basically.

A Stadium 3/Battle Revolution 2 could fix this by adding Home connectivity to let you use those mons trapped in Home. Doesn't even have to have that complex a story, it could be straight up battle facilities and multi-player and that would already do a big service to the Fandom at large. Have all Pokémon in, limit gimmicks to one per battle (one Mega, one Z Move, or one Gigantimax- no dynamax), and keep it strictly as a dream team multi-player or battle facility game that mimics a Battle Frontier, and most fans would be happy. Again, toss it to BAMCO and let's make it beautiful af.

To those saying it can't happen or it doesn't make sense: the anime already has this system established, so they have a basis. The models are all recycled anyway, so they could just pop em in there and give a bit of polish to some animations and moves. If they were to do it this way, they'd just need to update every once in a while with new Pokémon or forms introduced, and they'd be pretty solid on keeping the multi-player base alive and thriving for a good while. Update rules to limit over used Pokémon like T Landorus, Kyogre, or the Tapus now and then, and you'd be able to freshen up the meta now and then. Add in a World Tournament like from BW2 to battle past characters, and they could A. Mimic the anime's Tournament of Champions, and B. Keep things fun, fresh, and nostalgic, for arguably less work than a traditional new generation.

I'll be honest, I would happily take either or, and I think a side game in those veins is greatly needed. I don't want an incomplete and half assed new gen like gen 8, I don't want half assed remakes for gen 5, and LA is fun but I don't think DLC is a good substitute or substantial enough to give us those Pokémon we still can't use, let alone beefy enough to last the next two years.

They really, REALLY need to do this. I highly doubt they will, but with Pokémon Day coming up soon, I'm mustering as much energy as I can to at least get something like this out there.