With the previous corocoro promising actual info about the creatures from the latest movie teaser in this months issue... and the big drought of any main-game-announcement for so long (we thought May, because of ORAS-reveal last year, then we thought June @ E3, then after the Teaser was shared, then at Worlds where Pokken took the spotlight instead...) could it finally be over? Can we get excited again? :B
Gen-6 follow-up game discussions in a nutshell:
Pokefans speculating: "It's gonna be Pokemon Z!"
Pokefans reacting: "too predictable..."
Pokefans speculating: "It's gonna be Pokemon Emer.."
Pokefans reacting: "absolute nonsense."
Pokefans speculating: "It's gonna be Pokemon Delta Z!"
Pokefans reacting: "that just makes no sense, besides, it's clearly going to be a pair."
Pokefans speculating: "It's gonna be Pokemon X2 and Y2 then."
Pokefans reacting: "too predictable again..."
Pokefans speculating: "It's gonna be Pokemon XZ and YZ with the Z stylized like a 2"
Pokefans reacting: "that could work"
Meanwhile @Gamefreak:
"They won't see this coming, even though it's so obvious. We did two different game pairs of red and blue, and now we're going to do the opposite: make a green pair but each a sequel to each pair. Each with enough unique promises that everyone will want to buy both of the games that they often wouldn't even buy one of back when it was just a single third version. This is also the only situation where releasing 2 quite different games as a pair is profitable, as development for both of these begins with already finished products as the basis.
-Pokemon XYZ & Pokemon Delta Emerald
MUAHAHAHAHAHAA"
Before anyone starts screaming that the sole idea is absurd, I'm not saying that this is anywhere near likely what Gamefreak is doing, I am just entertaining the idea and curious about what fans would make of it.
So, it occurred to me earlier, that so far in this generation, we have had 2 pairs of games. Both times a red one and a blue one. (Until now, games within a generation at least tried to be at least somewhat distinct colours from each other.)
With 2 games left for gen6 (the games have 6 origin-markers for the pentagon-symbol in their coding), I just assumed we'd get 2 green ones the whole time (with Zygarde being the obvious mascot for both), but like BW2 they would get added features of....red and blue? Actually imagining it visually, this would probably look like a mess (compared to adding red/blue to black/white), not to mention it would make a third red/blue repetition (fourth if counting BW2 just before gen6) which is getting ridiculous.
Another interesting thing is the widespread perception of both XY and ORAS as unfinished or rushed products that people had higher expectations for.
With this idea, both of them can be "fixed".
I find it quite curious that the legends on the covers of XY and ORAS are red and blue, with their third counterpart in both cases being a green primary Dragon-type, but one underGround and the other Flying, with both having some secret ties to Mega evolution, and a "balance-keeping"-role.
So what if they basically released an unexpected pair of single sequel games, one to each of the previous 2 pairs?
Not a simple Pokemon Z
Not a redundant non-sequel Delta Emerald
Not a hybrid Delta Z
Not an obvious BW2-repeat in X2Y2
Not a more cleverly stylized XZ and YZ
But an XY-sequel, Pokemon XYZ, and an ORAS-sequel, Pokemon Delta Emerald, at the same time.
(Note: such a Delta Emerald would be a sequel rather than a plain Emerald remake, so just replying "Delta Episode takes care of that" is not enough)
The thought of an XY-sequel is pretty straightforward, since we're all kind of expecting that, but what would an ORAS-sequel get to do?
But either way, while the games would be quite different, they could share some otherwise exclusive features:
-Character customization would come to Hoenn in DE
-Soaring would come to Kalos in XYZ
-all Megas available/full compatibility while playing in whichever region you prefer
And what is the one location that was identical in XY and ORAS? The Battle Maison. With the tease in the Battle Resort, we all know what would be in those locations in either sequel... the Battle Frontier.
Meaning the big selling-point would be in both games, leaving the choice up to you to which region to return before the gen is over. And since the games would be the most drastically different pair ever, in GFs eyes it would mean more people buying BOTH.
All they'd have to do is put the development equivalent of half a game into each sequel and have them be as profitable as either of the games in gen6 so far.
Or lets get a bit more specific. Lets say Gamefreak puts 100 game-development-units into making a game. With games like XY and ORAS, where the region and story all needs to be programmed from scratch, all 100 units go into developing the core of the game. But in this case, they could put 30 into turning XY into a sequel, 30 into turning ORAS into a sequel, and 40 to develop shared content like the Battle Frontier. It would work because in both cases they are merely improving already existing products (and lets not forget that they're taking longer than a year developing whatever is next).
(I'm still saying we're getting XZYZ with one Zygarde-frme each, but this idea is cool and I'd honestly be positively surprised if it turned out to be true)
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