Pokémon Game Design Contest

All around the world, there are little "flux orbs". In addition, there are little "cherrywood orbs". These orbs are responsible for maintaining the balance of right and wrong, good and evil, etc. But lately, the balance has been upset, and there appear to be more flux orbs than cherrywood ones. Your task, however possible, is to restore balance by obtaining the cherrywood orbs and returning them to their original places. Then, you must make the journey to The Place Between Worlds, a place that contains the precious Life Pool, a pool that contains the very essence of Life itself. Only those without doubt as to their purpose may enter. Once you are there, you must solve the final puzzle and restore each orb to it's rightful place. For, even though you returned the cherrywood orbs, they were muddled up, as were the flux ones. You must rearrange them the correct way.

You:

Ray:
Nina:

Dad (Rory): Rory, your father, has had to deal with raising you as an only parent ever since you were 6, when your mother received an offer to work as an archaeologist in the main city. He's light-hearted, energetic, and is often seen either hanging around Professor Yanu or doing errands for people. He's very helpful, and has brought you up well. In his free time, Rory likes to help out at the lab, working with the professor or just randomly mixing chemicals when told to. He is a comforting person, and will always cheer up those who need it. His favourite Abimon type is Electric.

Jaydon:

Laslo & Ruby:

Professor Yanu:

Controls:

Computer (Note: Configurable):


iOS/Android:


In addition, you can pair an iOS/Android device with your computer to use it as a remote, a 'log book', an eternal menu, and some more, planned things.

Trainers: Trainers are redesigned to be centred on your job of choice. While some will always be available (Eg, you can ALWAYS enter contests in towns), the vast majority will centre on your job. So, being a contestant will mean the majority of trainers will challenge you to a contest, trainers engage other trainers and gym leaders in battles, similar to the Orange Island league battles. Professor Assistants are a little different. As an assistant, instead of battles, your research will be examined, and, if it is good enough, you can pass.

Research: While the main area this applies to is assistants, trainers and contestants can utilise research well too! Research generally increases the bond between you and your Abimon, increasing the trust between you two. Increased trust means that the moves are 'stronger', eg, vine whip reaches a bit further, your Abimon won't be shy, etc.

How to get research: Research is obtained by befriending an Abimon. Once an Abimon is befriended, there are two modes of research: Passive and Active. Passive research is research that you obtain just by spending time with your Abimon. While this *generally* will make your Abimon more friendly, depending on how you do it, it might do the opposite! Active research is actually going to a laboratory and studying your Abimon. This has the opposite effect of Passive research, but gives a much higher research gain than passive.

You will be notified in-game when your research has 'leveled up'

Viewpoint: This WILL vary based on the console, and also is slightly configurable.

Computer: FPS by default, may also be a top-down similar to the actual Pokemon games.
Configurable options: Can the camera change angle in certain situations (Sky arrow bridge)?

iOS/Android: Top-Down, cannot be a FPS due to memory.
Configurable options: Same as Computer

Graphics: While the top-down graphics are similar to Pokemon's, the FPS graphics are high-definition, similar to Portal 2's (First FPS game I could think of with that sorta graphics)

Stamina/Transport: There are many forms of transport, the most common one is simply walking and running. Now, the system is slightly different in Abimon, where you are able to run straight from the start. HOWEVER, your original stamina is quite low. It costs 0.1 stamina per tile that you run, and 0.01 stamina for every tile that you walk. So, while running gets you there 2x as fast, it costs 10x the amount of stamina. Stamina regenerates slowly, approximately 0.1 stamina every regeneration cycle, which is about 5 seconds. So it does take a while. However, it is possible to 'speed up' regeneration by simply standing still. There are other ways to regain stamina more quickly, such as resting in a Healing Centre, or by consuming a stamina potion, which nets you 1/6 of your stamina instantly, at the cost of a slowness effect for 5 minutes.

Transport (More in-depth):

Virtual Realities: In gen 3 secret bases were added. These were marvelous new homes that you could hide out in. And now, with Abimon, we've expanded, adding Virtual Realities. These realities are fully customisable worlds built just for you. When you create a Virtual Reality, it is automatically anchored somewhere in the world. You are the only one that can see it in single-player, apart from Nina and Ray, but anyone can see it in multi-player. And when I say fully customisable, I mean it. It actually has a level editor built into it so that you can build your own world!

The player is just some kid like in every game, pretty lucky that anyone even bothers with him/her.

There is no scientist person like there usually is because instead we have a space travel research institute. Pokemon research didn't pay well after all the relevant Pokemon had been discovered.

No rival either, who needs an arch-rival when everyone in the game hates you just the same?

The Leaders will no longer be type restricted, instead they will have teams for you to beat set by tiers of difficulty. Badges become belts inspired by the grading systems in many martial arts forms.

The Elite Four will be replaced by an elite trainer tournament which decides the champion, because there are too many people eligible for championship status these days.

The bad guy team is actually somewhat helpful now, as the police can't really do much about them anymore they are free to do what they please in their own Black Market. They can get you anything from Magikarps to shiny legendaries, for a price of course. They even have their own underground battle league with some... disagreeable rules...

Now this is the interesting bit. In the not so distant future, Pokemon starts to get 'too easy'. Being that Pokemon, items and TMs are much easier to get. There are many 'Champions' and the Leader system was reworked due to people sweeping them all the time.

So... You're a kid. You do the usual kid things... or at least that's what you thought you'd be doing until your village suddenly gets overrun with wild Pokemon. The place quickly becomes a mess and your home is ruined, you gotta move out because of the damages and all you have is your conveniently untrained Tyrogue that fought for you against those bullies a couple years back at school (It didn't win).

You now live in a caravan, your parents don't earn enough to fix the house up anytime soon and you have nothing to do. Well if you thought the next bit was gonna be about becoming a trainer... you were wrong! You don't even have the money to get yourself a trainer card, boohoo. Looks like you're out of luck loser.

An old timer notices your terribly glum face, and questions why a kid who looks like he has good potential isn't taking on the world already. It just so happens that this guy was a champion a couple years back, albeit no one but him remembers, he gives you his trainer card stating that he had no use for it anymore. But what he wants in return is not something that will be easy to get: He wants you to become the greatest trainer ever! (Saw that coming didn't you?).

That glum face turns to glee as you snatch the trainer card and run straight to the gate to get your face put onto it. Then you realize, you suck. Thus begins a training montage wherein trainers succumb to your new-found might, Pokemon are seized from fields with great haste and the dudes who call themselves leaders perish in the depths of your seemingly infinite skill. And with that you become an Elite trainer.

Now you have to step it up to another level! Invitational tournaments will be dominated by your extreme force, the Regionals will crumble from your relentless stride, and most of all... the Nationals will have your face on it when you're done.

Now then, you've beaten everyone you know. By the way, did you know that they host a no hold barred tournament in the Black Market? No? Well get over there then! You might even get to go home with some new Pokemon. Yep, these guys 'race for pinks' as it's called in street racing. You lose the fight, you lose the Pokemon too. So you'd better not put up a poor fight because it'll cost you dearly.

By this point you should be National champ and Underground king. What's next I hear you ask? Well, someone told me that they're up to some crazy stuff on The Moon! And by crazy stuff I mean none other than... THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS! Why are they on the moon though? Everyone is asking...

You win, you take home the title, you da man, man. etc etc.

I'll cut out what I pretty much explained in the above bit.
It becomes easier to get Pokemon, the variety is much larger although each district (Areas before the respective leader) will have Pokemon suited for that part of the game e.g. the early areas will have low tier Pokemon.

Items and TMs don't need to be won or found or anything, people have been doing that for so long that a lot of items have become worthless. Just take what you need a get out, we've got other customers to deal with kid.

And most importantly: The difficulty will be ramped up, teams won't be daft like they are in the official games. People KNOW what they are doing now, even that dude Joey and his Ratatta ditched his ways for a competitive team. No more same type battles, they'll be coming at you with anything and everything, are you ready for them? I hope so.

The only exceptions to this stuff will be in special battles set-up to see how well you know the game. Like: Do you know how to effectively deal with a Spiritomb that has Wonder Guard (Somehow)? Or are you able to rush a full team with one lone Pokemon? Stuff like that basically.

Like in all Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games, or the classic ones at least, there was always that pesky questionnaire that gave you a list of pokemon to choose from. But now, this has been expanded upon completely!
Not only do you have the option to choose their Pokemon, but the questionnaire is still there for anyone brave enough to let fate deicde who they are!
But what's that? Only the starters and a few hand picked special ones?
Now, the list expands to ALL first-stage Pokemon,(they have to at least have an evolution)! And even Magikarp is in there, because wynaut?
So how does this work out?
Well it starts with Instructor Aggron telling his students to fill a questionnaire about him/herself. Aggron will give an option right at the beginning of how many questionnares to be filled out, which is the amount of players who are playing. Then, the screen is focused on a long desk with a stack of papers with questions on them, with the number of stacks equal to the number of players. The player CAN NOT be seen, but instead a pen chooses options like, "Yes" and "No", to answer the questions. All the players answer on-screen at the same time, except every player has different questions. After about 20 questions are answered for every player, the screen shifts focus to all the players raising their questionaires up in the air, essentially revealing what Pokemon you guys are!
At least this looked cooler in my head...

Also, since you team is always defaulted at 4 members, any extra slots are filled by Cpu's, and when your Pokemon gets revealed, your Cpu members are just automatically randomized!

This game doesn't only have one plot. It has many plots since it will be following the anime. There will be different plots to it so the adventure will be more fun. The main plot revolves around the Chaos Triforce. The Chaos Triforce was made when a big band happened in Chaos. An evil Team known as Team Depuity captured the Pokémon Arceus for their evil purposes. Arceus soon felt nothing but darkness and destroyed everything in its path including Team Depuity.
Most of everything in Chaos was destroyed. Everyone thought that Arceus couldn't be stopped. Suddenly Kyurem, Reshiram, and Zekrom appear. They stop Arceus and everything went back to normal. The 3 trainers who controlled Kyurem, Reshiram, and Zekrom took their Poke balls and mounted it into a triforce. The hid it in a certain place which can only be found by 3 chosen trainers. Chaos soon returned to normal.

Dash: Mike is the main character of the game. He is 16 years old from the small town of Zaris. He is a really energetic guy and loves Pokémon. Mike, wanting to follow the footsteps of his dad (who is a gym leader in the region) will travel the region and explore brand new places. He has been helping Professor Pachy since the age of 8 and knows a lot about Pokémon and is now ready to go on a great adventure.

Chloe : Chloe is the main rival of the game and is also 16 years old. She was your neighbor since you guys were only 3 years old and you guys know almost everything about each other. She has been studying everything about Chaos. She knows all the previous champions, all the Cities and Towns, and all the Gym Leaders. She is always curious to know about everything and exploring new places. She has always wanted to explore the Mountains, Forests, Cities, and other places in Chaos.

Mike : A mysterious guy who claims to be one of the "chosen trainers". He has a mysterious past and doesn't like talking about himself that much. He says that he's destined to save everyone from the great danger that's approaching and he can't do it alone. He says 2 other trainers are left to be found so he sets out on a journey to find them. Going further in your adventure, Mike starts opening up and tells you everything about him.

Sabrina : A young looking woman who you first meet in Sparkinite City with her Arcanine. She tells you a bit about her past and that she's the "Guardian" of Chaos. She tells you about her wonderful adventures she's had and tells you that she was once the former champion of Chaos. When you tell your Chloe about her, they said she was never the champion of the region. Why did she lie about her being the champion and who is she really?

A trainer may end up with the following endings

• A Top Coordinator
• A Pokemon Master
• A Top-Class Pokemon Ranger (he still uses pokeballs, though)
• An Adventurer (read on for details)

These are some additional notes:

• Trainer starts as a Pokemon Ranger. During the first parts of the story, "missions" are his primary goals/duties; This makes him more of a police/environmentalist person. All missions come from the Ranger's Guild.
• Trainer may aim to become a Pokemon Master by challenging 8 Gyms of his region and the Elite Four. ALL Gyms are accessible at any point in the game.
• Trainer may also become top Contest Master by entering contests. Same thing with gyms, they're all accessible as well.

Mechanics of how "time progresses"

• Everytime you earn a badge, it adds +1 month to your time progress. Achieving all badges will yield a total of 8 months. You can do whatever, like one contest or some missions in between.
• Everytime you earn a contest ribbon, it adds +2 months to your time progress (since, well, practicing for contests will be quite hard - more details explained later). Achieving all contest ribbons will equate to a total of 10 months.
• Each Mission ranges from a few days to a full week on your time progress -- at least until you are able to "choose a path" in the game. That means that there ARE several missions in total (harder ones may even take longer), but again, they will all end up for a total of 10 months. The bigger missions are somewhat at the 7th or 8th month progress, don't worry.

This obviously means that you can't be everything within a year, and you will HAVE to choose what to be at a certain point. If you fail to "complete" badges, missions, or ribbons, you will automatically receive the "Adventurer" ending at the 12th month... No Pokemon League entrance for you, no Grand Festival for you, and most definitely no Top Ranger awarding for you. However, that's just for the "endings".

Yes, the "1 year adventure" ONLY applies for story mode. You can do everything else later on, but you aren't gonna see the other endings.

Post-game features:

• Global League
  
• Larger world to explore
  
• others; it can get creative from here onwards!
  

Definitely more details later on...

Bringing the game into the world of Action-RPGs, the player now controls the pokemon directly: as if commanding the pokemons to do exactly this and that! Like trainers do in the anime!

"Pikachu, evade and use iron tail!"

No more waiting for your opponent to hit you. No more accuracy checks and strength-based wins. It now involves reflexes, tactics, and skill! However that's all in battles, in the overworld, you're still a human who trains your pokemon to be the best. You still take care of your Pokemon like usual. Additionally, no more limitations to movesets! Sounds exciting, right? Then read more!

Platform: Nintendo Wii U and 3DS

Genre: Racing/Action-Adventure

Story:
This is not your typical racing game. There are many features including an actual storyline that coalesces casual gaming and serious gaming. On a lighter note, like the handheld games, your character is a trainer that seeks to reach the top of the pack of trainers, except you are a race kart trainer. Likewise, you will have to obtain 8 badges from the derby kings and derby queens in order to challenge the elite fleet, and claim the title of speedway champion.

However, you will experience some bumps on your journey.

Team Nitro:

The baddies of Pokekart, Team Nitro is an organization that works to inhibit drivers from obtaining success and supercharging the members within their own ranks in order to fix races for lucrative pursuits. Like other evil teams, it is not beneath Team Nitro to cheat, steal pokemon, and take hostages. Aside from other trainers, including the derby queens and kings, in the conventional competitions, Team Flash is determined to set some roadblocks in your plans to become speedway champion once you begin to garner more esteem as a trainer. The leader of team Nitro, Diesel Rhodes, has plans that far exceed the lucrative ones his minions are aware of.



You: There are customization features that will enable you the power to craft your own character. You may even customize your Pokemon with some accessories to form a cohesive team.

Diesel Rhodes: The CEO of Rhodes Corporation, an oil company, and, covertly, the leader of Team Flash.
Team: Steelix, Muk, Crobat, Darkrai
Areana: Underworld Arena

Before you can combat against him, you must complete a race against other Team Nitro henchmen whom are corrupted derby kings and queens. You can compete against them in a relay race after obtaining the championship title

1) Nasia - Poison - Arbok - Eve's Garden
2) Carson - Fire - Houndoom - Brimstone Canyon
3) Ebony - Dark - Liepard - Witch Hazel Forest
4) Core - Ground - Groudon - Perdition Gate


Derby Kings and Queens:

Each tournament will ask the trainer to compete in 4 races with the derby royalty as well as several other trainers whom specialize in the same type. You must receive the top cumulative score in order to contend in the one-on-one arena battle with the derby queen or king in order to obtain a badge (each of which named after the tournament title). The list of pokemon and courses follow accordingly to the four races. In the arena, each trainer uses the four pokemon that were used in the races; you may only use a single pokemon for one of the four races.

Mary
Frolic Tournament
Town: Pleasant Valley
Type: Normal
Team: Lillipup, Lopunny, Delcatty, Miltank
Course: Pet Park, Garden Patch, Yarn Room, Sweet Creme Meadow
Arena: Playground

Carson
Ignition Tournament
Town: Auburn City
Type: Fire
Team: Numel, Houndoom, Arcanine, Rapidash
Courses: Desert Oasis, Brimstone Canyon, Sun Burst Mountain, Wildfire Forest
Arena: Volcano Core


Fantasia
Afterlife Tournament
Town: Cadaverse Town
Type: Ghost
Courses: Haunted House, Witch Hazel Forest, Pitch-black Cemetary, Forbidden Peak
Team: Haunter, Misdreavus, Spiritomb, Froslass
Arena: Misty Labyrinth

Colton
Industrial Tournament
Town: Minerstown
Type: Steel
Course: Jet Stream, Convetor Belt, Toy Factory, Silver Mineshaft
Team: Skarmory, Magneton, Klingklang, Excadrill
Arena: The Construction Zone

Beatrice
Drone Tournament
Town: Pollenbloom Village
Type: Bug Pokemon
Team: Surskit, Volcarona, Scyther, Vespiquen
Courses: Skipstone Pond, Desert Volcano, Glass Glade Meadow, Honeytree Forest
Arena: The Beehive

And more!...

The Elite Fleet Relay Race:
Aspen, Robin, Elle, Vernon

Member/type/pokemon/course
1) Elle: Electric - Lanturn - Dark Glow Ocean
2) Robin: Flying - Altaria - Heaven Gate Passage
3) Aspen: Psychic - Starmie - Star-Blind Raceway
4) Vernon: Dragon - Dialga - The Celestial Expanse

The trainer must place first in each race consecutively in order to face the speedway champion in the arena. After defeating him, the trainer will obtain the world championship title.




Controls:
D-pad - Steer
A - Accelerate
B - Break
Z - Item/Move
Shake controller - Ramp boost

Stats:
Stats will be similar to Pokealthelon, where the base stats will be loosely based off the handheld games. Each score will be out of five.

For instance,
Starmie:
HP ☆☆
At ☆☆
Df ☆☆☆
S.A ☆☆☆☆
S.D ☆☆☆
Spd ☆☆☆☆

Additional Stats:
Handling
Weight

HP - Each race and arena battle, pokemon will have an HP bar. In a race, if you hit several traps and other pokemon use attacks on your pokemon you will lose HP. Once HP is fully depleted, there will be a re-spawn period, which allows for the trainer to make repairs to the kart and heal the pokemon, but costs the trainer a good deal of time. In the arena battle, once HP depletes, the pokemon faints. The arena battle ends when one trainer's entire team faints.

Both defense stats mark how vulnerable the pokemon is to either physical or special attacks. This also coordinates with the environmental traps. Zapped by lightening, then damage is calculated using the special defense stat. Hit by a gemstone, then the damage is calculated using the defense stat. Same goes for attack and special attack, if you use fire blast, the damage will be calculated by your pokemon's special attack stat.

Speed. Just because a pokemon has double the speed of the other, it doesn't mean that the stats in this game will be accordingly. Simply, if a pokemon has a one star and another has a two star stat. The acceleration and top speed will be slightly better in the latter rather than double the rate.

Evolution:
Like the handheld games, Pokemon can gain experience and evolve from winning races and battles. This will allow the player to increase stats and diversify the pokemon's moveset.

Movesets:
Each pokemon will have a moveset of four different moves. Each item may be used once obtaining an pokeball, that serves as the equivelent to the item blocks in Mario Kart, which will randomly select a move for the pokemon to use from his moveset.

Pokeballs:
These itemblocks don't just include one of the pokemon's four moves. They may also contain potions, berries, temporary stat modifiers, and even, yes, actual pokeballs.

Capturing Pokemon:
The pokeballs may be thrown at wild pokemon that are present in most race courses. Given that most of the courses are lapped, you may also attack wild pokemon, lower their HP, and save a pokeball to capture them the next lap around. Note: you may only keep captured pokemon if you place in the top three of that particular race.

Typing:
Attacks from each pokemon's arsenal will also very in effectiveness depending upon the opponent's typing whether it is X4 damage or non-effective.

Purchasable Upgrades:
- TM's
- Evolutionary Stones
- Some Pokemon
- Held Items
- Pokemon Accessories
- Character Accessories

Kart Types:
Cars
Motor Bikes
Cycling Bikes
Hover Crafts
Planes
Space Crafts

Similar to the original Pokémon Mini, Pokémon Mobile Mini is an app, split up into 25 different minigames, with the option of purchasing restored versions of the original Pokémon games. Some of the new minigames include a hide and seek game, starring a Skitty trying to find other Pokémon hiding, such as Sudowoodo, Roselia, Lotad, etc. Another mini game is a scavenger hunt game starring Spinda, Poliwhirl and a few other Pokémon. The goal of the game is to find Pokémon and items from riddles given to you at the start.

All the minigames have a leader board that can be updated online and can be compared to the world and friends. Some games include a local on online multiplayer function. The games are designed to be quick and fun to play by one's self or with friends.

Name: Pokémon Lunar/ Solar Versions
Platform: Primarily 3DS games, although the Wii U would allow players to upload their Pokémon to a special app, in which players can train their Pokémon on the big screen, and battle with other players.
Genre: RPG.
Story and characters: Pokémon Solar takes place in the region of Soleil (which means sun in French). Soleil is usually a very peaceful region, although recently this villainous group who call themselves Team Sol. They believe that perpetual day would be fantastic, and so their ultimate goal is to control time itself, with the Time Sphere, found in the ancient Lunar Ruins. It's up to the player to stop them from fulfilling their evil goals. Pokémon Lunar, on the other hand, takes place in the Lune (again, meaning moon in French) region. The main problem here is with a nefarious group that call themselves Team Luna. They believe that getting rid of the sun and plunging the world into darkness would benefit people. They would fulfil their ambitions using the legendary water Pokémon, Soakarr. This mythical Pokémon is said to have the power to douse the sun, if its powers were used for evil. Again, the player's goal is to stop Team Luna carrying out their ambitions. Both regions/games share the same professor, Professor Meteor (close to the French word for weather, météo). This person will give the player one of six Pokémon, of which they can select one. Two rivals, both named by the player, will pick the other two Pokémon. These three trainers will eventually defeat the group (dependant on the game the player has) and save the world.
Gameplay: The game plays similarly to other Pokémon titles. However, full co-op play will be involved, so that people with one game can visit the other region for some exploration.

Back Story:

The setting of Roaring Heart is that it takes place in a large crude circular shaped continent called Allania. Allania is special due to the fact that no humans inhabit the island, as Pokemon are it's only inhabitants (similar to Mystery Dungeon.)

To govern Allania, the Pokemon have created five Kingdoms to govern a specified region of Allania. To the North is the kingdom, Umbralos, ruled by Tyranitar. To the East is the kingdom, Wilderspark, ruled by Electivire. To the South is the kingdom, Dracunia, ruled by Salamence. To the West is the kingdom, Fontaina, ruled by Empoleon. And finally, in the center of Allania lies the last kingdom, Diversita, ruled by Alakazam.

Initially, when the kingdoms were formed a treaty of peace was formulated that decreed that there would only be positive interactions amongst the kingdoms, in theory, a united kingdom. Unfortunately, this treaty would not last as Umbralos decided to siege an attack against Wilderspark and Fontaina. This attack would lead to hostile relations towards Umbralos, however that's not the only thing that occurred, due to Umbralos' sudden betrayal, the five kingdoms became wary of each other and dissolved any public relations with each other. Thus, the once united kingdom became a sea of war as the five kingdoms would clash against one another.

Main Story:

The story begins with the protagonist (male or female) being sent to Allania, more specifically the continent Diversita through a mysterious dimensional portal through the sky as a human (not like Mystery Dungeon where you become a pokemon). When the protagonist arrives, they're encountered by a talking Pikachu that can be understood through human speech. Pikachu finds that the protagonist existence itself is a bit mysterious in Allania, and eventually takes the protagonist to see the leader of Diversita, Alakazam, to sort out the situation.

Alakazam is given the situation and agrees to spend resources to research a method to send the protagonist back to their home world, but not without a price. Alakazam recalls a prophecy that states "When the world is in turmoil, the hero of the unknown shall expel the turmoil, and lead the world to a new era of peace." Alakazam believes that hero is the protagonist. The protagonist naturally agrees to be that hero that will usher an era of peace, and thus becomes the ambassador of peace of Diversita in hopes to repair the relations between the five kingdoms.

The protagonist embarks on a journey throughout Allania, with Pikachu as their partner in hopes to restore the relations between the five kingdoms, and let Allania become a united kingdom once more. The protagonist will traverse many dungeons, battle many foes, recruit many allies, and learn the dark secrets that Allania may contain. The main story will end with the protagonist uniting all of Allania, by defeating the king of Umbralos, Tyranitar.

Post Game:

Post game is essentially full of side stories that deal with legendary pokemon (due to the fact that no legendary pokemon appears in the main story) that the player can accomplish, that allows them recruit and battle legendary pokemon.

An example of one of the side stories is the Regi's side story. The Regi's story will deal with Regigigas reawakening from it's slumber along with it's loyal followers (Regice, Regirock, Registeel) after hundreds of years. Regigigas declares war against the newly-united kingdom of Allania, as Regigigas who was once the king of all of Allania, seeks to reclaim it's title once more, since in the past he was sealed by an army of pokemon rebelling against Regigigas. As a result the protagonist must subdue the original king of Allania, Regigigas.

All legendary pokemon will be given side stories, with the exception of any legendaries belonging to a trio will clumped together with that trio for one side-story. But when the player finishes every single side-story, they will unlock one final side-story that will detail the protagonist's return to their own world. In other words, finishing all the side stories will lead you to the true ending of Roaring Heart.

Perspective:

The game will use an overhead style of view, the same found in the regular series and Mystery Dungeon series.

Movement:

Unlike the grid style movement in the regular and Mystery Dungeon series, Roaring Heart uses an 8-directional style of movement like Pokemon Ranger.

Combat:

So you play a human, how are you supposed to fight? Well, in Roaring Heart, the game uses something similar like the pokemon that follows you around in HG/SS. You control the protagonist, but alongside you is a pokemon that attacks for you.

Unlike in Pokemon where you have six pokemon in your party, in Roaring Heart you only have three pokemon present on you. In combat, you can immediately switch from any one of the three Pokemon in an instant to change your weaknesses, resistance, and moves. Also, whatever Pokemon you currently have equipped (or following) you inherit it's weaknesses and resistances. So for example, I have Pikachu following me, I will be susceptible to ground type attacks, but I can instantly switch to Swellow, now I'm immune to ground types but susceptible to electric type moves (similar to the Persona series system of Persona having weaknesses and resistances and you inherit them for whatever Persona you have equipped.)

The game's combat is real-time, so something more akin to Kingdom Hearts. The options in combat are "Attack" which is an generic attack with no elemental type that the pokemon launches (similar to the regular attack option in Mystery Dungeon). Your other options in combat are the four moves the pokemon you currently have equipped knows. How you use your pokemon moves is similar to Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep Command Deck system, you scroll through a menu and select your desired attack. Just like the Command Deck, your moves have limited uses (or like in Pokemon, the PP system) and when you expend your uses for that move, the move is set on cooldown (similar to MMORPGS) for around 5-20 seconds before they can be used again, depending on the move. For example, low-level move like Tackle can be used 10 times before being put on cooldown for 5 seconds, in comparison to a high-level move like HyperBeam that can only be used once before being put on cooldown for 15 seconds.

Mechanically, critical hit work the same as in the regular pokemon games except your generic "Attack" command can not cause a critical hit. However, in Roaring Heart, you are actually able to ensure a critical hit. Whenever you use a pokemon move (i.e Quick Attack, String Shot, etc.) your pokemon will briefly spark a yellow glow, and if you time it correctly by pressing L or R at the same time of the glow, you will switch to one the three pokemon you have in your party that will come lunging out attacking. With your new pokemon out, they will be glowing with a teal glow, indicating that their next attack will be a critical for one attack. After doing a pokemon move, the teal glow will disappear and your moves will critical normally by percentage, however you can rinse-and-repeat the process to ensure a critical hit.

You can also equipped up to 5 items that will be situated on to the touchscreen (i.e potions, oran berries, full restores, etc.) that you can use instantly in combat.

There is also a lock-on system in this game to help you aim some of the more difficult moves like Flamethrower or Ice Beam, as they travel in a straight line.

Also, you have a dodge roll in this game. Overall, the battle system for Roaring Hearts is very similar to Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep except in an overhead perspective.

Controls:

Since the 3DS is the main platform for Roaring Hearts, I will briefly go over the controls.

Circle Pad = Movement for the protagonist.
D-Pad = Scrolling through the menu for selecting one of your four moves for the pokemon currently out in battle.
Start = To pause the game when in combat, or bring up the menu screen when not in combat.
A = Attack/Talk
B = Dodge Roll
Y = One of the four pokemon moves currently selected.
X = Lock-on.
L = Switching to one of your three pokemon.
R = Switching to one of your three pokemon.
Touch screen = Will have the five items that you currently have equipped, on the screen as icons that you can tap to activate.

Leveling Up:

Leveling up works the same as in the regular pokemon series with level 100 being the stopping point. However, one thing that changes is the EV system. Now it works much like a regular RPG with skill points to allocate to your stats, so each pokemon will give one EV point that you can allocate to any one of your stats of your choosing. But you still need 4 EV points in a stat to raise it's value. IV work the same, just now it's viewable. Evolving functions relatively the same as the regular pokemon series, once you reach the required level, your pokemon can evolve. However, some pokemon like Pikachu and a few other plot relevant pokemon that join your party, can not evolve until you reach a certain part of the story.

Overworld:

Roaring Heart's overworld is similar to the regular pokemon games and the Legend of Zelda games. You traverse through many areas that are connected to each other and entering dungeons to continue in the game's story. You will encounter towns, monuments, or even large cities throughout the game. In addition, many of the areas are elemental themed (i.e water area, fire area, grass area, cave areas, ice area, etc) depending on the kingdom you're currently visiting. Eventually, you do gain access a way to fast-travel to cities and towns in an instant.

Dungeon-Crawling:

The first time you visit a dungeon in Roaring Heart, is similar to the regular pokemon series and Legend of Zelda series, in that it's a large dungeon with puzzles to solve and enemies scattered around to defeat. However, the second and next subsequent times you visit the dungeon, you are given an option to randomize the dungeon. Meaning that you will crawl through 10-30 floors (depending on the dungeon.) of the dungeon full of traps, items, and pokemon to defeat (similar to the Mystery Dungeon series.)

Recruiting Pokemon:

Pokemon are recruited by defeating them, or by holding a special item while defeating them, and other conditions of the sort. You can swap out pokemon in your party for different pokemon by talking to an Abra that will be present in all of the towns, cities, and dungeons.

PVP Arena:

Like any of the regular pokemon games, fighting against other opponents is sometimes the thrill of the game, Roaring Heart is no different. The multiplayers modes in Roaring Heart are 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, or capture the flag. You bring your best three pokemon and clash off against other players in these various multiplayers mode.

Game pieces: 1 Game Board, 4 Player Tokens, 40 Pokemon Cards, 1 6-sided die.

Set up: Lay out the board. Shuffle the Pokemon Cards and place them in a deck, face-down. Deal one card to each player. Players may keep their cards secret if they wish. Each player places their Player Token on the Start space.

How to play: Roll the die to determine who goes first. The first player rolls the die and moves their Token forward that number of spaces.

If your Token lands on an empty space, nothing happens and your turn ends.

If your Token lands on a Pokeball space roll the die. If you roll a 1, 2, 3, or 4 you may draw a Pokemon Card. You can keep the card secret if you want to. If you roll a 5 or 6 then nothing happens and your turn ends. Every player may have up to 6 Pokemon Cards. If a player already has six Cards and lands on a Pokeball space, nothing happens and the player's turn ends.

Gyms

If your Token lands on a Gym space, stop and don't move the token forward any further. You are now challenging the Gym. Place one of your Pokemon cards on the table where everyone can see it. Roll the die once. If you roll a 5 or 6 you have defeated the Gym and may continue normally on your next turn. If your Pokemon card has a type that matches one of the Super Effective Types listed by the Gym you are challenging then you defeat the Gym if you roll a 4, 5, or 6. If you do not defeat the gym you must move your Token backwards a number of spaces equal to the die number you rolled. If your token lands on a Pokeball space after loosing a to a Gym you may attempt to draw a Pokemon Card before your turn ends.

The Elite Four

If your Token lands on the Indigo Plateau space, stop and don't move the token forward any further. You are now challenging the Elite Four. Move your Token to the first Elite Four space and treat it like a Gym space by placing one of your Pokemon cards on the table where everyone can see it and rolling the die once, taking the Super Effective Types into consideration. If you win, move your Token forward one space to the next Elite Four and repeat the process. If you lose a roll, instead of moving backwards keep your Token where it is and place a second Pokemon Card on top of the first Pokemon card you placed down. Roll the die again, taking the new Card's Super Effective Types into consideration. If you win, move your Token forward to the next Elite Four. Repeat the process of replacing Pokemon cards or advancing along the board until you have no more Pokemon Cards or you have advanced your Token to the Champion space. If you run out of Pokemon Cards before you reach the Champion space then move your token back to the Indigo Plateau space. Your turn ends. If you reach the Champion space then congratulations! You've won and become the new Pokemon Champion!


Optional Rule!

If you land on a space (other than Start, a Gym space, an Elite Four space, or the Indigo Plateau space) occupied by another player ignore normal rules for that space. You're having a Pokemon Battle instead. Both players roll the die. The player with the lower roll moves backward to the previous Gym space or Start.

*I found the images for the types floating around the internet. I didn't make those.

This game takes place a few years after the events of Generation IV, most likely before the events of Generation V.

You play as Orpheus*, a Pokémon trainer in his late teens who lives in a small town near the Battle Zone sub-region of Sinnoh. A few months prior to the start of the game, he had lost his long-term girlfriend, Eurydice, who got trapped in Darkrai's Dark Void. For a long time he'd searched for Cresselia, just so she could drop her lunar wing. After it proved futile, Orpheus was trapped in solitude, searching for others ways to awaken his lost love. He finally found his way: revive the legendary god-Pokémon, Arceus, who has dominion over all Pokémon. Researching many legends and myths, he realized that the only way to revive it was to play its ancient melody with the long-lost Azure Flute. Orpheus finally decides to set on an adventure to search for the Flute.

With your only Pokémon, a Kricketune, you must venture throughout the Sinnoh region and meet new faces and familiar faces alike. When reaching Celestic Town, Cynthia (oblivious of your ambitions) tells you of the Champion and their encounters with the ancient legendaries at Spear Pillar. Realizing that the Champion never leaves the Lily of the Valley Island (home of the Elite Four), you set out to beat all the Gym Leaders of the Sinnoh League in order to meet this famous hero. Throughout your journey, you encounter your rival, Darkrai himself, who randomly attacks you on your pursuit. There is also evil brewing... Team Galactic is back, led by their new boss, Saturn. When you realize that their goal is to revive Arceus also, will you give in to your desperation and join this violent team just to meet with your love once again?

*I don't know if any of you guys know the Greek myth of Orpheus & Eurydice, do you? If you read it you'll see the connections from my story. Orpheus was a musician who opened up a path to the Underworld with the power of music, and my Orpheus plays the Azure Flute to open up a path to the Hall of Origin; Hades/Arceus grants him the power to bring back his beloved.

• Orpheus: The main protagonist
• Eurydice: The victim of the conflict
• Darkrai: Rival/antagonist/cause of the conflict
• Arceus: The solution to the conflict
• Cynthia: The deuteragonist
• Champion*: The path to the solution
• Saturn: The secondary supporting antagonist

*Either Lucas or Dawn, I never decided