>>54858335>Pokemon: BotW.>Open world, you the reader can decide how that would be balanced because we know Game Freak never could.>Can only have like two or three Pokemon, this gets upped as you get more badges.>Pokemon "stamina" that doesn't affect battle at all but you have to do survival mode and rest after it battles too much.>This feeds into hunting/buying food and cooking/camp making skills and higher quality camping items.>Captures that Season 1 feel.>Dungeons are tied to story progression so you actually have to go to Fuckoff Cave because Dr. Tree told you the Mega Macguffinite stone is there.>Need things to light up the dark, Pokemon to traverse crevices and underwater rivers.>Dark and you have to search, but it's like Luigi's Mansion where it's a cute kind of horror and just an hourish of spelunking so it's not Water Temple-tier.>Get spooped in one dungeon.>Just a Mimikyu being spoopy.>Still find a kawaii underground Diglet community doing what appears to be a Diglet play of Macbeth or someshit.And that's just one flavor of dungeon. You could do some cool stuff where one ties into the older movies that have ancient Pokehistory vibes.
Skyrim/Dark Souls renaissance of Shitmon never ever. The japs in their Nintendo/Gamefreak offices should commit sudoku.