>>50976726>post-apocalyptic or dystopian society with violent crime or other injusticesYour trying to hard.
You don't need to do some super edgy shit to make pokemon edgy.
Just have the game be a little more serious. Instead of "Oh let's be best friends" Have your rival genuinely hate you. Have underground fighting rings, have people treating some pokemon like shit.
Show the rough side of pokemon that isn't sunshine and rainbows.
You could have a whole thing of pokemon poaching being a legitimate threat. People cheating in pokemon battles by sending out multiple to fight you.
But this would require a group other than gamefreak to do it. There writing is fucking terrible. It's very possible to use the current models and art style to tell a darker story.
Pokémon Colosseum is pretty close.
