>>39437660Serious response, I'd argue Game Freak kind of did it with Let's Go, in that the only way to make Red special again is to cut the noncommital pretense and actually pretend the rest of franchise never happened. His being on a roster of Champions in Black and White 2 and a vacationing adult in Sun and Moon put him too far into the larger world to do the job, and if that doesn't do it the fact that an enormous swath of Pokemon players' first games didn't involve Kanto or Johto at all does.
After seeing him as yourself is GSC, on a roster of Champions in a wider world in Black and White 2, and as an adult in Sun and Moon, in a series whose continunoncommittal that you cannot just make a game that strips away and "ignores" all of this because each game already does.
