OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire
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Reposting my visitor message to you...
Man, Gen 6 really did a number on the games' timeline, didn't it?
In a sense, they already wrote themselves in a corner when they chose to set XY during B2W2 and didn't completely hit the reset button like they did way back with the original RSE.
I'm sure GF already knew that remaking RSE would require another "reboot" of sorts, since the games take place before GSC/HGSS on the timeline and were, themselves, the original reboot. But, on the other hand, I don't think GF was entirely sure on how to do this.
The easy way out would've been to just hit the reset button with XY and set it during the same time as Gens 1 and 3, but then, they ran the risk of alienating more people, especially when you consider how soon XY came out after B2W2. That was obviously something GF was trying to avoid.
In short, GF didn't plan this new timeline out. At all. :sideways:
(And, that's not even considering the fact that they may have already screwed things up by introducing new Megas in ORAS and not patching them to exist in XY.)
I really wonder how they messed it up...it seems like XY was meant to continue the timeline established by Gen III prior to ORAS retconing that. It makes me ask if perhaps GF had already finished XY's story before thinking up ORAS'...there's a lot of contradictions of XY in ORAS that makes me think so.
Actually if I had gotten my way and ORAS had appeared at the end of the Generation they could have made it so that the Kalos games were the end and then have the remakes cut off from the Gen III-XY'Z' timeline and make a new one where the next gen games would pick up by taking place a couple of months after ORAS and then they could've remade Kanto which would also be a few months after ORAS (perhaps the explosion in the Cave of Origin could have caused the sudden discovery of more mons in regions far from Hoenn).
Anyways since the anime seems to have hints of remakes prior to them happening perhaps the manga does too.
Spoiler:
In the ORAS Pokemon Special arc the manga counterpart of the old lady that teaches the elemental Hyper beams to the starters reappears to train the Hoenn dex holders. Tie this mention to Kanto/Sevii islands with other mentions of Kanto in ORAS (some of which weren't in the originals) seems to hint that sort of return to Kanto may be brewing.
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