>>48883101This, especially with how hard XD hinted at Cipher still having plans to come, except they absolutely would not make a game that fits this style. We might still get doubles as the primary format but they absolutely would not let the ai fuck you over during the main story forcing you to learn the mechanics and build a strategy, shadow pokemon would be made nearly unusable to prevent players from relying on their special things like shadow moves or hyper mode instead of purifying them because that'd make the player kind of a bad guy and we can't give kids a bad example like that. Ardos would be pathetically watered down compared to back then so he couldn't even make a serious threat because that's not kid friendly whereas in XD he's clearly ruthless to the point of not giving a fuck if his escape is made on the corpses of the rest of Cipher's personnel, pokemon is now a "merch first everything else is just ads for merch" kind of franchise so you'd have pikachu and eevee(not for the evolution potential like in XD or to fill in hard to get dex slots like gen 3's lack of visible day/night making espeon and umbreon less intuitive to obtain, purely for shilling) as your starters with charmander being the tutorial shadow mon and the other two Kanto starters being optional early catches meanwhile the admins have gardevior, lucario, cinderace, and zeraora for the final boss, oh and the whole desert will be a wild area terraformed into an ecological mess of biomes. Honestly I'm glad they refuse to touch Orre, it's the one thing they'll never go back to and strip out everything special.
