>>28737047I'm not so sure to be honest. I think they had a loose idea of a outline of ideas they were tossing around when the first three games came out and the first anime did. When you're trying to create something new you go through a lot of ideas, concepts and theories and a lot of developers; creators save them for later, rearrange them, change them or simply keep them and expand on them.
So do I think they had every single, little detail, to begin with at the start? Probably not, granted they may have taken a liking to how Nintendo did their outline of the history of Zelda for example which had planned things long ago.
Also Pokemon has always had a darker, more mature tone in it from simply Pokemon mythos and history of certain Pokemon and most of the fans of Pokemon are my age, 26, or older or a little younger.
I do believe that he's on to something with them doing a reboot of the franchise to try and get a new Generation of Pokemon fans (have you seen the drastic change in style for the new Pokemon Anime?).
Also, it's fun to have a underlying, loose plot of everything in simple games like this for the more deeper, mature fans; it feels a bit like Dark Souls to an extent but using real life history to do it.
And again, there are far to many similarities from the games to what he's talking about; I think it's all setting up for a soft reboot. I mean the newest commercials show younger kids going to a new place. They're getting rid of us to try and compete with Youkai Watch and such other games.
