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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:06:37 No.41746586 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>41746701 >>41746718 >>41746719 >>41746765 >>41746795 >>41746860 >>41746911 >>41746983 >>41747433

Why were there no cameos in Sword and Shield like Colress, Anabel, or Red, and Blue in Sun and Moon?
Are there just too many characters to reference at this point?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:11:29 No.41746685 Report

Quoted By: >>41746741

SwSh is about cutting past characters, not having them return.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:12:42 No.41746699 Report

Quoted By: >>41746819

Holy shit colress has a power glove

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:12:49 No.41746701 Report

Quoted By: >>41746730

>>41746586
Honestly I'm glad there aren't any cameos. They always felt forced and referenced their region's protags in the most awkward way.

I still remember the first battle with dexio in sun and after you beat him he says the battle reminded him of five certain trainers from kalos. Like... how does a piss easy 2-on-2 battle remind you of your region's heroes? Have you just never battled anyone else? Wtf?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:14:10 No.41746718 Report

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>>41746586
>Are there just too many characters to reference at this point?
That and most characters not being able to get their Pokemon past border control.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:14:13 No.41746719 Report

Quoted By: >>41746744 >>41746827

>>41746586
It’s a reset. GameFreak obviously wanted this to be a “back to basics” Gen so the mechanics are mostly stripped to the point that it’s like playing “the first Pokémon game” but on Switch instead of GameBoy. You’re only meant to engage with the characters in the region on purpose, just like the limited Dex.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:14:44 No.41746730 Report

Quoted By: >>41746783 >>41746835

>>41746701
And what did Trevor or Tierno even do to leave an impression on them?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:15:27 No.41746741 Report

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>>41746685
This.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:15:31 No.41746744 Report

Quoted By: >>41746804 >>41746806 >>41746827 >>41747535

>>41746719
I thought XY was the "Back to basics"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:16:37 No.41746765 Report

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>>41746586
He literally explains why on the screenshot: he's staying in Alola for some time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:17:40 No.41746777 Report

Quoted By: >>41746860

Flannery's grandpa is in the game. That's something.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:17:50 No.41746783 Report

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>>41746730
I didnt even think about that to be honest lol. At the very least shauna helped calem and serena raid team flare's hideout... wtf did trevor and tierno do? Why were they even recognized at the celebration after you become champion?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:18:14 No.41746795 Report

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>>41746586
Would you rather go relax in sunny, warm, Hawaii, or suffer in drab, rainy, England?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:18:44 No.41746804 Report

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>>41746744
Don’t know about that because I didn’t play that Gen when they explained their new concepts before release. Even compared to XY this gen is more “back to basics,” which the developers said was their intent in bringing back gyms, etc.

XY is more like “Kanto reimagined” whereas SWSH is a fully self-contained reset IMO. But both gens were the first installments on new devices.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:18:51 No.41746806 Report

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>>41746744
BW was also supposed to be a back to the basics soft reboot thing lmao

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:19:19 No.41746819 Report

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>>41746699
>Holy shit colress has a power glove

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:19:32 No.41746827 Report

Quoted By: >>41746936 >>41746967 >>41747569

>>41746719
>>41746744
They're just gonna keep going back to the basics aren't they?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:19:52 No.41746835 Report

Quoted By: >>41746859

>>41746730
Tierno: Dancing.
Trevor: Losing every Pokedex challenge regardless of how many Pokemon Calem/Serena has caught.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:20:46 No.41746852 Report

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KANTOOOOOOOOOOO
JOHTOOOOOOOOOOO
SINNOOOOOOOOOOH
UNOVAAAAAAAAAAAA
KALOOOOOOOOOOOOS
ALOLAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
GALAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
REEE REEEE

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:21:09 No.41746859 Report

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>>41746835
i remember when you had to go out of your way to catch more pokemon than blue. i never did, though

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:21:14 No.41746860 Report

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>>41746586
Gen 8 felt more like it's stand-alone region with some minor reference to other region. Gen 7 only have many cameos because of 20 anniversary.

>>41746777
Unless there's anything in the swsh to confirm this, nah. Kabu probably came from the same town as Flannery's though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:21:37 No.41746872 Report

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Half of the characters have an ace Pokemon that's not in the Galar dex and they all use at least one Pokemon that's not in the Galar dex.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:23:08 No.41746911 Report

Quoted By: >>41746946

>>41746586
Because REMEMBER GRIMSLEY? REMEMBER COLRESS???????? REMEMBER RED???????????????????????????? added nothing to the game.

I'm not opposed to cameos but why are they there when they do nothing for the story? Jasmine giving you Waterfall is completely pointless.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:24:31 No.41746936 Report

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>>41746827
In various ways of going about that, yes, I mean the old formula is still reimagined every new game. SWSH is the most of that yet though considering strange moves like the dex cut and only having Charizard as an old starter available before bank and only 3 legends and the lack of old faces as OP pointed out.

BW were back to basics in that the whole history was wiped out with a new 150+ dex in the first non-Japanese region.
XY was back to old mons but in the biggest dex with plenty of Kanto homage.
SWSH seem meant to stand alone as a new “first” where you’re meant to engage more closely with a specific set of characters and mons by design without relying on history to tell the story.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:25:04 No.41746946 Report

Quoted By: >>41746979

>>41746911
This. They serve literally no purpose besides fanservice to desperate people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:26:32 No.41746967 Report

Quoted By: >>41747007

>>41746827
"Back to the basics" is PR-code for "we're lazy"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:27:12 No.41746979 Report

Quoted By: >>41747055 >>41747057

>>41746946
It's why I don't particularly find the PWT to be an interesting in the slightest

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:27:25 No.41746983 Report

Quoted By:

>>41746586
The games are a cash grab. The terrible 'story' should have told you that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:28:40 No.41747007 Report

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>>41746967
Yeah because not adding in Red popping up at the Battle Tower is a decision born from laziness I’m sure

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:31:12 No.41747055 Report

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>>41746979
Based. It was just effortless fanservice that unovabortions herald as the greatest postgame facility to date.

Like no it's just an uninteresting tournament with familiar faces. Pass.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:31:15 No.41747057 Report

Quoted By: >>41747109

>>41746979
Not that I played much of the PWT, but that sounds like a whole different scenario, though. For things like Jasmine in DP and Grimsley in SM, they’re just kinda there for the sake of being there (though, Jasmine kinda makes sense due to showing up near a lighthouse. Phoebe would have made way more sense in Grimsley’s place). In PWT, it’s like you’re fighting all these veterans from different places. It’s both better as fan service, and is more interesting in its own right. Speaking of which, remember how they made a big deal of the Battle Tree featuring past trainers? Lol.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:33:59 No.41747109 Report

Quoted By: >>41747241 >>41747306

>>41747057
I don't dislike the PWT since I'm a sucker for tournament settings (which is why I like the Battle Dome so much), but for me, they could just be random NPCs only and it'd have the same effect.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:40:04 No.41747241 Report

Quoted By: >>41747485

>>41747109
Do you enjoy the championship rematches in SWSH then? I kind of do but feel like I waste the fun of it by doing it with G-Meowth every time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:43:27 No.41747306 Report

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>>41747109
Perhaps, but I totally see the charm of “Ah, cool, Flannery’s here. Hey, It’s Morty.” Stuff like that. That and the fact that it had basically every Gym Leader from previous games and then some. I guarantee that if something similar was done for Gens 6-8, it would have JUST been for the Gen 1 Gym Leaders and maybe Steven and Cynthia.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:48:37 No.41747401 Report

Quoted By: >>41747794

SM were the 20th anniversary games. They wanted to pull as many memberberries as possible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:49:58 No.41747433 Report

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>>41746586
God I want to see him moan and beg for more cock up his boipucci

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:52:33 No.41747484 Report

Quoted By: >>41747562

>Contrarians on /vp/ bending over backwards to hate on harmless cameos
Insanely hilarious

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:52:36 No.41747485 Report

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>>41747241
I think it's a pretty cool idea yeah, while I have plenty of issues with Sword and Shield, I do quite like the gym challenge. League Rematches just suffer from being an in game thing rather than a battle facility.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:55:49 No.41747535 Report

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>>41746744
Every Pokémon game release is back to the basics. They strip down all the features and throw out all the old assets, then rip them from the old games. The rest is guesswork. Creates the diy “indie dev” aesthetic SwSh has.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:57:10 No.41747562 Report

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>>41747484
I wouldn't even call myself a contrarian on this. I've always rolled my eyes at pointless cameos in every form of media. If done well they're fantastic, but 99% of them aren't done well at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 22:57:41 No.41747569 Report

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>>41746827
We never left, really

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 23:10:24 No.41747794 Report

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>>41747401
They didn’t fucking do a good job, then.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 23:13:38 No.41747850 Report

Quoted By: >>41748111

OH NO NO NO, WHY DIDNT THEY REFRENCE KANTOOOOOOOOOOO IN SWSH
IS IT OVER FOR US BROS?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 Dec 2019 23:29:59 No.41748111 Report

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>>41747850
shut up

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