Pokemon is undoubtedly one of the well-known and well-loved franchise for video video games, however identical to all different video games, the mainline sequence of Pokemon video games have one obvious concern which its linear story telling and lack of branching paths, which they’ll study a factor or two from Fire Emblem.

Branching Out

To additional elaborate, the mainline of Pokemon video games have all the time adopted the development of separating their video games into two completely different model exclusives, and typically even three in some state of affairs with Gen 3 of Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald together with Gen 4 with Pokemon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum.

But all of those model unique variations doesn’t provide any variations between the video games different than simply completely different Pokemon exclusives. Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire not less than had some variations when it comes to content material with coping with the sport’s respective villain organisation in Team Magma and Team Aqua, which the development sadly didn’t proceed on ahead with future Pokemon titles.

Which brings up the query of why hassle with promoting two completely different model unique if the story for each could be precisely the identical and minus additional factors if you happen to’re going to promote a sequel to a recreation that just about has the identical precise story plot however sprinkled in with a bit of latest content material.

Sure you may carry up the argument saying that the model exclusives exists as a result of it permits gamers to attach with each other by buying and selling their model unique Pokemon with one another however these days buying and selling is finished via wireless-ly. So as an alternative, why not have the model exclusives provide completely different story paths, or not less than have the gamers select from the completely different tales, one thing like how Fire Emblem Fate or Fire Emblem Three Houses did.

Invisible Ties

In Fire Emblem Fates, we get to expertise the story branching out to 3 completely different routes after Chapter 6 with Birthright, Conquest and Revelations the place completely different we bought completely different story traces that featured the peace-loving nation of Hoshido, the glory-seeking nation of Nohr and the hidden kingdom of Valla. Meanwhile, with Fire Emblem Three Houses, they beautiful a lot did the identical factor with Fates the place we got three completely different routes or 4 if you happen to embody the Church Route – Silver Snow, however as an alternative of separating them into completely different variations of the sport, Fire Emblem Three Houses enables you to expertise it multi function recreation.

It’s to not say that the branching tales that Fire Emblem gives are flawless, heck I can go on about how repetitive it was to play via the academy arc in Three Houses the place they story was just about the identical for the entire three routes however simply with completely different characters. But it could be vastly appreciated if Pokemon have been to place in some bits of various story or content material between the model unique video games like in Fire Emblem.

Personally talking, Pokemon might have the potential to be much more attention-grabbing in the event that they have been to comply with within the idea of branching story paths. Like perhaps for one instance of a cool idea if they’d permit the gamers to hitch in with the evil organisation, they even teased us in Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon with this dialogue choice:

Tying the branching tales in relation with the quilt Legendaries together with completely different areas for the model unique Pokemon video games might be a technique to go too. Once once more, I’d prefer to carry up Pokemon Ruby and Pokemon Sapphire and the way we have been tasked with coping with Team Magma and Team Aqua of their respective hideouts, which admittedly isn’t a lot however hey, it was a step in the appropriate route.

Theory crafting right here however Pokemon Diamond and Pearl might’ve finished one thing with the idea of time and house the place the sport might’ve tasked us with coping with the abnormalities that Dialga and Palkia had trigger. Imagine in Pokemon Diamond the place you needed to journey to locations the place time had stopped and you may see dwelling creatures and setting being trapped in time or with Pokemon Pearl the place you must journey to a airplane the place the idea of house simply doesn’t exist.

It’s not even out of the realm of potentialities given how giant the scope of among the aspect content material for the mainline Pokemon video games with just like the Ultra wormhole quests in Pokemon Ultra Sun and Pokemon Ultra Moon the place you journey between completely different wormholes or with the Delta Episode in Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire the place you actually go into house.

All in all, I actually simply want that Pokemon could be like Fire Emblem do one thing completely different for the model exclusives as an alternative of simply throwing in numerous Pokemon variants and leads as much as combating the Legendary Pokemon from the field cowl and name it a day.