>>46819884I'd like this system to be brought back with a ton of expansions. For example, having certain types of Pokemon as your Partner Pokemon would confer different benefits in addition to the little items they find. You could bring a fire type to a grassy forest and there would be an inaccessible passage that you'd need a fire type pokemon to burn for you. I know this is kind of like HMs, but I kind of like the idea of using these Pokemon in special ways throughout the overworld. Another one that immediately came to mind here was Psychic types. Have them have the ability to use telepathy or something like it, remove the NPC who tells us about our Pokemon's memories and feelings, and make it so while you have a Psychic Type Pokemon as your Partner Pokemon, they can do that for you. They can translate/send Pokemon's thoughts to you so you could learn how a Pokemon felt or is feeling or their happiness etc. You could also have it so Psychic types could translate for the Pokemon on the overworld. So random pokemon you see hanging around the towns or with trainers now have dialog when you go over to them with the Psychic Type partner.
Cool stuff like this would understandably be more work, but It'd be really cool.
