>>55184132Blackthorn is not a proper settlement, the dragon masters live in isolation but allow pilgrims and challengers to enter their land.
The leadership of a dojo is transmitted trough inheritance and the masters act as sort of a feudal ruling class of the land. Once beaten, the idea of the gym system being a meritocratic thing will begin to form, but this won't be a change we can see happen in game.
The game will attempt to be as open world as possible, keeping the layout of the original Jhoto while making it bigger and adding new explorable areas.
Ilex forest is bigger, you can now go from violet city to the lake directly
The kino permanent autumn woods above ecruteak can now be fully explored and are an area full of rare but dangerous pokemons
Now the game features proper online battling, and all gen 9 pokemons can be transferred into it, making it not a spinoff but a real, proper mainline title.
Starters should be something unconventional, maybe not even the classic 3.
But Snivy, Delphox and Totodile wouldn't be a bad choice
Totodile would get the dark typing it always deserved, Snivy could be something like poison.
