>>56625286>At one point in development, there was planned "Year of Luigi" content requested by Nintendo which was the original purpose of the Scary House on Route 14. The story the man would tell you would be the plot of Luigi's Mansion, with the game's theme playing, and in the end a Boo would actually jump out and scare the characters. The Scary House was created, but in the end the team decided the cameo by Boo would possibly confuse children who might think it could be caught in the game, and the cameo felt off, with Nintendo eventually deciding to drop the idea of placing "Year of the Luigi" content in the game. The Scary House had been modeled, and the team liked the basic idea behind it, so it remained without the Luigi Mansion stuff. This is likely going to be the easiest thing to debunk in the current prototypes - it's just so out there, and if it isn't there, XYsider's credibility takes a huge hit.
>One of the original ideas for the Gym Leaders really early on was that they'd all be based on sport professions. In addition to Korrina and Grant, who retained this idea in the final version, for example the Grass Gym Leader was a rodeo rider who rode Gogoat, and the Ice Gym Leader a surfer who surfed atop Avalugg. In the end, this idea was dropped, and the Gym Leaders had more diverse roles. Super Training has a sports theme, strongly based around soccer. This may have tied into the Gym Leaders having sports professions. Additionally, Gym Leaders and Gyms had sports theming in Gen 8 - another possible reuse of an earlier scrapped concept. More points to XYsider!
