Damn Nora and her amazingness. I'd send her to the Void with Mew, if I could. Can't wait for the day to come.
But as for the ideas, You, Chronicle (the friend of mine in carrib who is also an animation designer), Cy, myself and Ben can make something happen. If anything, I think it would be rather nice to make a game that we all would be willing to pitch a general theme for. I would definitely like a villain based game, but with the trademark Rising Phoenix put on their game with the ability to make choices, the Butterfly Effect is nearly canceled out for us, unless we can get extremely unique with it.
Cy brought to my attention one of the entries to Aggron, saying how it shows off it's battle history with scars, occasionally broken horns, and chinks in it's armor. That would make a wonderful dynamic to the game, something we could have be made for a more mature audience, a darker game, where not everything is sunshine and rainbows. Alolan was a wonderful example of this, and after listening to Creep Plays' video on a few pokemon entries changed by Alolns darker history, I was finding myself wanting something with more treacherous roots.
Pokémon would be able to show how much they had gone through, various scars and deformities coming across in reference to what they had been through. If a trainer is not good enough to their pokemon, enough faintings can literally make that pokemon either die for good, or be rewired into a rabid/feral form of itself. Everything can be rewrapped into something more macabre version. And there can be a resistance! There can be a taskforce that strives to put down plenty of vile pokemon or even the cult we have to come up with a name for/Team somebodys, and it becomes a race to the finish for ending this apocalypse. There could be a cool Real World tuner in the Pokegear that keeps the trainer updated on the goings and happenings of events, like how they have in Plague Inc, where scientists are working to find whatever cure they can, where in our case it would be the resistance trying to put down all of the bad happening.
I'm making the mistake of brainstorming at your face, but that's just a mess of stuff that is trampling through my mind right now.
Is there anything you would like to interject with?