#and if this were the inevitable Unova remakes

[alexanderkrizak]

And now the Champion screen only shows ONE Pokémon, so you can’t see Serperior’s grassy teammates Leavanny, Sawsbuck, Amoonguss, Ferrothorn, and Virizion. But more annoying is that clear time, because Pokémon White only gives you a Champion screen on the rematch! That is three times what my clear time for Brilliant Diamond was.

I seriously had to grind the entire postgame just to get my Pokémon strong enough, which just added to this already difficult run. Grass was... not the best option for Pokémon White, with a Bug, Flying, AND Ice gym and, oh, giving N a team-murdering Reshiram. But I got through it somehow.

[quixot1sm]

one of my biggest issues with gen 5 is that, despite the sole focus of the games being on the bond between trainers and pokemon, there isn't anything to really get the player themselves attached to their pokemon, especially in contrast to the games that came just before it. there's no group photos or following pokemon feature like there were in hgss, and there's not even any ribbons to be found in unova that would add some kind of unique or novel quality to your pokemon. the one thing bw DOES have is the musical, which is just a severely stripped down incarnation of the sinnoh contests. your team only exists in your inventory and nowhere else...

all things considered, it feels like a massive oversight. i hope that in the inevitable remakes there's at least a camp or amie/refresh feature of some kind

[geeneelee]

My (somewhat vague) hcs about the history of Hisui:

The hero was one of the Celestica people; after it defeated Arceus, Arceus was so impressed and intrigued that it joined the Hero, and was cool with allowing the people there to use its powers to accomplish incredible things. However, a lot of the Celestica people got inflated egos about having Arceus’s favor and wanted to use it to conquer the world, become immortal, etc but the Hero refused because he was a nice dude and told them he wouldn’t allow it.

They killed him.

Arceus, horrified, left the Celestica people. They realized they had messed up, and many of them left to search for Arceus and beg its forgiveness, unwilling to accept the loss. Those left behind began to struggle.

Cogita saved the child of the Hero from the chaos and helped them escape Hisui for Unova (since the hero of legend portraits look just like Alder) and she was “blessed” with immortality to help the new hero that would one day arrive. She had to watch her partner die, and their children, and their children’s children—Volo is one of her descendants.

Arceus felt badly that the Hero’s Pokémon, it’s former teammates, were abandoned, and when two ships from a people fleeing conflict nearly sank, it instead guided them to Hisui to start a new life. Palkia and Dialga arrived to tell them of the hero and that they were to cherish his former Pokémon, but when they met up and both claimed to have been blessed by the creator, an inevitable fight broke out about who was really blessed, causing the schism.

Volo grew up as a single child in poverty, hearing faded tales about how his ancestors were favored by Arceus. He felt that Arceus’s favor was his birthright that had been stolen, and the Diamond and Pearl clans were just interlopers. He was aware that Cogita was also from their people and tried to press her for information, but she withheld it and feigned ignorance, not wanting him to go the route of his ancestors. Volo wanted to find Arceus and force it to remake the world into the one he deserved, and dug deep into the traces of myth that were left behind, leading him to encounter Giratina, which led to the events of the game.

[onewingednatu]

I want the inevitable Unova remake/ next game to be like Legends Arceus

I want to go back in time to when Zekrom, Reshiram, and Kyurem were all one pokemon. I want to meet the Heros in the legends- or better yet, I want to BE one of the heroes in the legends!

We don't even have to be literally thrown back in time, just someone who lived in that era!

Idk I'm just thinking out loud lol

[a-tale-of-legends]

I saw your tags in response to mine and!! Thank you for reading my Kuroshipping fic KJSHAJKSHAJK Cheren Appreciators in 2022 rise up!! If he and Bianca (and Hugh) do not get to interact with N at all in the inevitable Gen 5 remake I will cry /hj

CHEREN APPRECIATORS RISE UP!!!

I haven't played the Unova games in a while but I greatly remember thinking how cool Cheren and Bianca were in the games and how they fit the games themes so well. They really should interact him it would be sooooo perfect!!!! I need them to be friends!!!!!!

[atrainernamedradish]

Top 5 Favorite Rivals

Least Favorite list: https://atrainernamedradish.tumblr.com/post/190290513502/top-5-least-favorite-rivals

Top 5 Favorite Rivals:

5) Barry [Diamond & Pearl; Platinum]

I think people can agree with me when I say Barry either needs to lay off the sugar and caffeine, or needs some Adderall, because holy fuck he was so damned hyper it was unreal! And before someone gets mad at the joke let me remind you that there is some dialogue where he tries to count to ten, and proclaims he can’t even sit still to do so! Like sweet Lord Barry calm the fuck down lol!

Jokes aside, I thought Barry was a solid rival. He wasn’t mean-spirited about being so or always trying to act better than you about it. Sure, he was cocky, but he eventually learned that he had to put his ego aside to actually learn how to be that much of a better trainer. His teams were pretty solid too. He wasn’t the hardest person to face, but he wasn’t a pushover by any means. Sometimes his hyperness was a bit annoying, but nothing that bugged me for too long. He was a good rival to have when you’re trying to deal with the headache that is the other rival that is your boring opposite gender.

4) Marnie [Sword & Shield]

Marnie is an interesting character. When I first saw her in the reveals for Sword & Shield I thought she was going to be this arrogant punk (I blame the black leather and spikes :P), but when you actually meet her that isn’t the case. She’s actually someone who doesn’t have that much confidence in herself, at first though, but as you progress through the game she builds up to that. In fact, the only thing she was confident in was not taking over her brother’s gym and setting out to do her own thing. Besides believing how confident she was going to be, I was also expecting Marnie to have this annoying personality (but I feel like that was due to Team Yell being there more than anything), but once again she blew my expectations out of the water! Her personality was sweet and likeable and it was refreshing! Her team was actually a pretty powerful one and was actually fit her aesthetic! That’s actually rare for a rival in this series if I’m being honest… From her aesthetic that mixes hard and soft (which yay the girls will be getting her outfit which I adore and can’t wait to have on my alt character!), her sweet shy personality that eventually gets some quiet confidence behind it, and her battle prowess, I enjoyed her as a rival as opposed to the other two who either got shafted by the overdone formula, or the one rival trying to be the OG rival who we’ll never truly get back.

3) Blue (Green) [Pokemon Red & Blue (Green); Yellow (Pikachu Edition); FireRed & LeafGreen; Let’s Go Pikachu & Eevee]

And speaking of the OG, here he is: Blue (or Green if your Japanese). Many Pokemon games after the originals have tried to replicate this character, and haven’t quite made one that is up to snuff. This character is a perfect blend of cocky asshole and a strong trainer. You almost liked how much smack he talked then enjoyed kicking his ass after the fact, and doing so wasn’t always an easy feat, even in the remakes (excluding the Let’s Go series since he isn’t your rival in that). He had almost the perfect team not only against your starter but to also counteract your team members that made up your team for said starter’s weaknesses. That’s why kicking his ass was all that much sweeter because he didn’t just hand it to you. He made you work for that victory. While I’m not necessarily someone who is looking for a rival that has to be an elite trainer or anything, it’s nice to not have a friendly rival who talks a big game but is always going to face defeat, and quite easily and quickly too, by your hands. There have been some other rivals that have been pretty tough to deal with, but not as challenging as Blue will ever be��� There’s a reason you will find this asshole on almost every top rival list. He earned that spot. Because despite being that smack talking asshole that you have to work extra hard to beat… he is kind of charming. He’s the rival you love to beat.

2) Bianca [Pokemon Black & White; Black 2 & White 2]

I want to make this clear with about my opinions on characters in Pokemon: they don’t have to be the strongest to be my favorites or even liked for that matter, and Bianca is one of those characters as far as battling prowess is concerned. I like Bianca for her character arc as well as the character herself. I think this character gets a lot of hate for no reason other than her not being a strong trainer, or not automatically being this confident cool character that should be ready to adventure which is honestly sad…

For me, Bianca is a very relatable character who in my honest opinion is a very underrated character. She is a character who wanted to do something with her life, but wasn’t sure how to start or go about doing it. Her first attempt is by doing what all the other characters her age do and that’s to set off on her own Pokemon journey, even if she wasn’t exactly ready. As her story progresses she comes to realize that that isn’t for her, and honestly not every person in that world is going to go out there finding out that this is for them. Not to mention not everyone who sets out on their Pokemon journey is going to find themselves being these super powerful trainers who are always going to confidently beat everything in their path. Bianca getting picked on by Team Plasma was not all that farfetched. She was a brand new trainer experiencing new things making her an easy target for them. Your character could have easily been just as privy to Team Plasma. Generation V showed that anyone was susceptible to them. But anyway, I’m going a little off topic, Bianca did struggle, but her struggles eventually took her to her calling: being a professor’s aid. Which fits her and overall is a good story arc for her. She’s not your typical rival of going around trying to one-up you and getting on your nerves trying to do so. She’s a friend, a main character, and unlike the typical power hungry overused rival archetypes, she grew and I was happy for her.

Not to mention, Bianca is one of the first few characters in the series to actually really… notice that there is this big new world around you and it’s something to explore taking it in as opposed to rushing into filling the Pokedex or doing the Gym Challenge, and honestly that’s refreshing for a character! Because you cannot tell me that if you were to leave your home setting off on a journey traveling to many new places that you’d overlook everything? Probably not. You’d want to explore all the new sites. That’s the whole point of an RPG is to explore. I felt more immersed in Black & White than most Pokemon games because I had a character in my journey to make it feel like it was actual exploration instead of bare bones places with much to be had. Unova, as to other regions, had a lot more sightseeing options and a lot more to explore. Unova just felt big, kind of like Johto and Kanto for GSC/HGSS. Just, thanks Bianca for feeling like a real person, instead of one-dimension rival who either wants to kick my ass or is so boring that I wish they were annoying lol…

1) Wally [Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire; Emerald; Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire]

It’s like I stated with Bianca: a rival for me doesn’t have to have battle prowess to be liked by or be a favorite for me. Not gonna lie, I wish Wally had a better team, but unfortunately Wally falls under the earlier formulas of forcing trainers to use entirely new Pokemon instead only peppering their teams with a few new ones, but whatever… 

Wally has one of my favorite rival arcs. He is a sickly kid who wants so badly to be healthier and have a Pokemon of his own so he could one day to set on his very own Pokemon journey like the other kids who have probably left by now on it. Nicely enough your character is there to guide and watch over him as he finally catches his very own Pokemon, even if later you were there to kick his ass a bit later on… While I do like how ORAS gave more facial expressions for this character to make you more sympathetic to him in the story… I wish they hadn’t had him show up after your battle with your dad to keep that mysteriousness of him actually progressing along side you on your Gym Challenge (yes I know you could read the gym signs to see that he’s doing it, but no one thinks to read those, let’s be honest!) before running into him at the end of Victory Road, but oh well. Honestly I wish they had had him in the Champion spot, kind of like what RBY did with Blue, but instead of knowing your rival was one step ahead of you as always you had the sickly kid you thought you sent home after a crushing defeat there instead who actually overcame it and decided to meet you there to prove he did so.

Overall Wally was an underdog and I like characters like that. You don’t expect him to become much more powerful after Mauville. He takes his defeat and he does his best to make up for it by having it push him. He wants to be stronger to prove to everyone, but more importantly to you, the person who was there to witness his journey from the start, how capable he was. Yeah, you do inevitably beat him, which is the fate of the main player in Pokemon, but when you do it you don’t think “aw man I beat another weak rival” or “hah! I beat your smug ass again!” you think of how it was a fun battle and a great progression in a well developed character’s story. And even then, Wally doesn’t take the defeat as a loss, but more as a way to push himself even further. He sees losing as a way to overcome something as to trying to cover up his frustration or to go packing home, and that is an admirable trait. Plus the final battle with him on Victory Road was pretty epic with that new theme of his as well as made me a bit sad because I had to beat him and all he did was smile and thank me… Made me want to cry lol… But that’s why Wally is my favorite rival. He has a great character arc, personality, and he makes me feel so many emotions that I feel like other rivals or characters couldn’t give me… Good job Wally you will always be the rival. 

[umbrahighpriestofgiratina]

Gen 8 Predictions/Hopes List

Okay, as a successor to the trailer analysis it was only natural to do this, plus I did something like this three years ago for G7. This is where I extrapolate on everything I think we'll get in Sword and Shield and everything I want to get. In no particular order:

-First off, I'm not demanding some Breath Of The Wild or Super Mario Odyssey-esqe leap forward like a lot of people seem to be doing, and I kind of side-eye those people (including some Youtubers I'm disappointed in because I know they're better than that). That's not sustainable for every single Nintendo franchise or hell every single video game franchise period. What I do want is a smaller advancement that keeps the franchise what it is while adding plenty that is new and interesting and not too gimmicky - to quote @enigma-boi on my Discord server more like the difference between Splatoon 1 and Splatoon 2. I want it to be like the breath of fresh air Unova or even Alola were.

-On the note of those two please have a good plot. It's not a dealbreaker but please.

-Also less of a focus on gimmicks. Mega Evolutions and Z-Moves and such are cool but if you try to top them every gen things get... bloated. This is part of why I don't like the Armored Evolution rumor.

-There's probably going to be at least one Eeveelution. Give me Dragon or give me death.

-DITCH THE CATCHING TUTORIAL. LET'S GO HAD A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION THERE. PLEASE.

-Hopefully HMs are gone for good too. I'm optimistic they are but.

-Also put your PC in your bag like Let's Go but make it more like the PCs from Hoenn to Alola.

-Nicknaming your Pokemon on the fly should come back too. And LET US NICKNAME TRADED POKEMON FOR GOD'S SAKE

-I feel we'll get it but give us the Pokemon Amie equivalent. Let me pet my Arceus on my big-screen TV.

-On that note. They said this would be a more handheld-oriented experience but I think when docked there will still be motion control some places like the Amie equivalent and in minigames, which are replaced by the touch screen and/or buttons in handheld mode.

-I'm a little sad gyms are back because the island trials in G7 were a nice change of pace but given that weird logo that's showing up everywhere I still have hope Galar's gyms are unconventional. We'll see.

-Minor nitpick but I hope Pokecenters and Pokemarts are still merged here. I know they've only been unmerged in remakes of games predating that concept but still.

-I'm pretty sure it's not coming back this time but I want co-op to make a return. That was fun in Let's Go, even if most of my experience with it was forcing a RL friend that knows jack shit about Pokemon to play with me.

-Speaking of multiplayer! Go back to an online experience more like G6's. Please. I'm begging you Gamefreak.

-Regarding the Galar region and its UK-y nature my one wish is that we get a bunch of pesudo-Arthurian bullshit as part of the setting lore. If there is none I will be forced to make some (and probably do some silly Fate series crossovers while I'm at it).

-References to UK pop culture would be delightfully silly too.

-For the cover legendaries... the logos make me think twin wolves. There's a rumor that it's a metal snake and wooden horse and while I would be 100% down for the metal serpent and the inevitable Metal Gear Solid jokes it would attract that leaves the question of what the wolf heads represent so I'm currently banking on my first guess.

-This makes me think the third legendary is a cat. Possibly a lion because Britain but we just had Solgaleo. Maybe a Welsh dragon instead. Or a third option of dragon cat. I suddenly want this.

-As for other Pokemon... I'm not really picky as there's no Pokemon design I outright dislike and I doubt that's gonna change, so I'm cool with whatever. But I hope because of the setting we have lots of Dragon types. Also a gryphon/griffin Pokemon. Maybe with a hippogriff as a counterpart

-Also this has nothing to do with the setting but I want a hummingbird and a dolphin

-As for the final forms of the starters... I'm guessing/hoping Grass/Dark for Grookey, Fire/Electric for Scorbunny, and Water/Dragon for Sobble

-On a minor note I hope they either make the Escape Rope a non-consumable key item or have a HM equivalent that lets you nope out of dungeons.

-I assume Trainer customization is back but I'm gonna put it as a request anyway. Additionally, for when we do get it, diversifying hair and eye color beyond "natural" options as much as possible (if the NPCs can have blue hair why can't we? We're the protagonist! We're supposed to be more special™ than they are!) Gen 7 had headway for this but I want MORE. Also a skin tone slider.

-More events that let you catch and name the Pokemon yourself

-There doesn't seem to be a Dark gym on the map so... Give us a lore reason there's not a Dark-type gym. (Is there some Defense Against The Dark Arts bullshit going on here? We need to know!)

-This one is a bit weird but bring back something like the Friend Safari? That was fun.

-Random encounters are back. Sigh. As a hope I hope we get a key item that replaces Repels and lets you toggle them on or off.

-Upgrade a lot of the more held-item-based, out-of-battle-use only, or otherwise lackluster/situational Abilities to be less so.

-Fill out the unused type combos. Especially the unused Fairy combos. GIVE ME FAIRY DARK AND DRAGON BUG

-There will inevitably be cameos of characters from other regions and one of them is going to be Looker. Looker is omnipresent. Looker is omniscient. Looker is a being too powerful for this world. Arceus looks upon Looker and quakes in fear at what they have created.

-And last but not least I think we'll get at least one new hot female NPC and at least one new hot male NPC, because I am a bisexual mess.

Whew! That was mostly hopes because I feel like we could get just about anything this gen but it was fun to write. But that's about it. If anyone wants to throw predictions of their own at me feel free to do so.

[grafai-ai]

*Cracks knuckles*

With the giga leak it was shown a lot of pokemon lines were condensed (I.E. Squirtle and Wartortle were the same line, Blastoise was from another line). The long standing theory of Venonat evolving into Butterfree wasn't one of those things. BUT here's my batshit take: Venonat is actually a puss catapillar and that's why it turns into a moth. It's other two legs are hidden under its fluff.

Anyone who stuck around after the original fall of Team Plasma are dumbasses and are pretty much a good allegory for PEŢA themselves. Either way, Coreless is kind of not all there anyway considering how he acts in Sun and Moon. Also personally, I still don't think Unova is the entire United States. It's just New York and New Jersey with unique biomes.

To me XY were transitional games. It was a new thing they were trying out...but because of that they put most of the effort into the graphics. But yeah. There's some redeeming mini-moments like the accidentally gay dialog, being able to nickname your character, and the post game. But Kalos as a whole...could have been better. It just seemed like it was missing a lot of stuff they wanted to put it.

Bots as in Wondertrade bots or like bot bots? If it's the former, they need to stop. I'm tired of getting 70 shiny legendaries in apricorn balls holding a master ball with the name hackeymon[dot]csx. Still not above taking the master balls before releasing them though.

Personally I liked the ultra beasts. It was a nice twist on referencing invasive species by making them literal invaders from another dimension. Now if only they'd do more with the concept. Like have a full Legends game set in the alternate dimension instead of leaving it in USUM.

I like Galar for its attention to detail instead of just making Great Britain this fairytale storybook land full of royalty and wizards. But at the same time, despite caring for the franchise, I'm also too old for the dex and graphics discourse ™️ because I understand how games work under TPCi's weird reverse hostage situation. Now Kalos on the other hand...that place was baaaaad and underrealized. I can only hope it's able to be visited in Scarlet and Violet so it can be redeemed.

I'm not going to argue about BDSP being bad. But at the same time it feels almost like Legends was going to be the remake but it shifted into something else after a while so they made a more faithful one and kind of failed at it by making it too faithful and not adding Platinum stuff in there.

I know it's inevitable at this point. But we really need less bipedal cats.

I am opening this post to the public. Please reblog or reply with your most batshit opinions. Thank you

[bunnywand]

i kno the sinnoh remakes have only just been announced, so this is just fun speculation, but i’m wondering abt the unova remakes.. 👀

i think they’re an inevitability, but obvs a Way off yet 😧 just a wild guess bcos i think it’d be neat, but i could see 2030 for them, cos that’d be a) nrly the same timespan between the hoenn remakes and the sinnoh remakes, and the sinnoh remakes and the unova remakes + b) the 20th anniversary of black/white 😳

if i had to guess what generation we’ll be up to by then?? maybe gen 10?? 🤔 i think u can imagine a reasonable timeframe there, and that’d carry on a nice pattern too, seeing as we’ve had gen 2 remakes in gen 4, gen 3 in gen 6, and now gen 4 in gen 8, so it’d be satisfying to get gen 5 in gen 10!!

idk how they’ll deal w/ the continued story between black/white and black 2/white 2 tho.. they’re still the only games that have ever had direct sequels, so would they all get remakes?? or w/ advances in gaming tech by then, maybe they’ll fit them all into one game?? that’s a difficult question 😧

and after them?? well atm i can’t imagine them doing x/y remakes.. 😅 (but i kno ppl say that every time there’s remakes like “hgss will be the last remakes, they won’t ever do sinnoh remakes!!”) like, gen 5 i can see, bcos they were the last 2d sprite based games, so the last needing of an ~upgrade~ to 3d, and getting to experience them like that for the first time will be Huge!! 😵

but x/y were the first 3d games and honestly rn, i can’t imagine an upgrade of them being that spectacular (i mean, the pokemon models between x/y, s/m and sw/sh have only been Slightly tweaked).. but rly, who knows!! if gen 5 remakes do end up being like 10 years away, who even knows what advances might have been made in gaming by then!! i mean, i couldn’t have predicted that hoenn remakes were gonna happen when fr/lg came out, or these sinnoh remakes when hg/ss came out 😅

anyways um.. oops 😳 this post ended up being Way longer than i thought it was gonna be.. 😭

[halahalaisms]

while i’m not 100% psyched for sinnoh remakes bc the sinnoh games were my least fave all round, i want them for the updated aesthetic and for unova remakes that would inevitably follow 0w0