Tbh, I also hope they stop with the open world. It was a cool concept, we all wanted it but honestly, I feel like it didn't work and ended up hurting the story, which was good with some of the best characters ever, by making each plotline its own disconnected thing where the characters never
interact with each other until the very end. Its such a shame because once they interact, during the last 10 minutes of the mainstory, they have the greatest dynamic imaginable which I wanted to see more of. I think the way the free roaming open world affected the story progression hit Nemona the
most. Like, in retrospect I like her, alot. Her design is cool and I love her energetic personality as well as her entire concept but goddamn, made the timing where she challenges me, always right before or after arena challenges, make me resent her while playing the actual game.
Also the school setting didn't work at all, which is a shame, because I like the idea of a Pokemon School, but it should have been done with a Spinoff game. This Type of setting is just diametrically opposed to a gameplay loop that is centered around travelling the land. There is a reason why games
like Persona or 3 Houses use the School setting to heavily incorperate Otome game elements into the gameplay, because the entire draw is having a set location you always return to and have the assemble interact with which strongly incorperates slice of life and social elements into the narrative.
I feel like if they wanted to do dating sim elements in a pokemon game they could work it in an adventure but also they just won't. There is Pokemon Awakening a Spanish fan game with that as a mechanic and I know some other game is working on a friendship mechanic
I fucking hate the idea of Pokemon school. It's am atractive idea to a ton of people there is a lot of fangames with this concept but like to me the fantasy of Pokemon is being anle to adventure and enjoy nature and live with animals and stuff.
I feel like it could work in a spin off where you are more about training to become a professor for example. Or a Breeder, like Brock in the Anime. Trainers just go out and battle, its what they do.
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