>>57371486Really, it could be so much better. Take Journey Together for an easy example of wasted potential, a set that advertises trainers with their Pokémon; I was hoping for something like SWSH's Trainer Gallery, but as an entire set. What do we get? Only 4 trainers (+ a couple extra as Supporters) and unlike the Gym sets of Gen 1, not every Pokémon in it are owned by them.
The Pokémon who have no trainer affiliation are just your regular run-of-the-mill card that's been around for decades and not a single trainer in sight. The Pokémon that are Trainer-owned are only seen with their trainers in the secret rares, but at least they're in locations related to the trainer in question, just like Pokémon SP. That's nice and all, but after Double Crisis, I now expect the trainer in the art for all rarities and the Pokédex entry replaced with flavor text from the trainer. Worse, the Trainer-owned items only show the item. How are we able to tell that one PP Up in particular is N's aside from the implication on the card name and effect? Sure, adding the trainer could be seen as unsubtle in some ways, but it adds more character to the cards as shown in the past.
I assume the next two Japanese sets that'll be combined to make the next English set after Journey Together will be following this trend of miniscule theming, I'm already disappointed with the lack of Dark Pokémon in the upcoming Rocket set.
>>57371536>>57371536>I don't want to doompost, but I think it's too late to ask for stuff.Can't hurt to critique and complain,
it's why I'm here forever.>They did a few dual type cards since then, and the way they executed the cards is just an eyesore.Dual Dark was the worst there thanks to the inverted text colors.
>Aggressive PinkFairy really could've gone with a more pastel pink, but it's still better than SV Ace Specs and its eye-searing magenta.
>spoilerI was just about to say that when you listed how the execution would go.
