Hi everyone! I'm here to ask the general fans regarding certain scenarios that could be incorporated into a Pokemon fangame story. i would like to ask your opinions and views on the following matter:
Sure thing! Always hopeful to add 2¢.
Also good thing to see more people asking for input re: fangames.
- What's your opinion on a character dying in a Pokemon Story?
- What about someone literally passing away because of an incurable sickness or of old age.
- What about a Pokemon dying in front of your eyes? or something like the "Marowak/Cubone" scenario in Lavender Town from trhe Gen 1 game/remakes
- Also, what about a human transforming into Pokemon; Pokemon into human?
- Are there other story elements/scenes that you'd like to see in a Pokemon game? (something that's not politically biased, gore or too much religious)
Characters dying: it's part of life, but life is neither fair or unfair. Like Bay as well: it depends on th execution. The best deaths are the ones that either hold no signification by themselves (a character dies out of age, or is involved in a car accident, and things are just like that) or the ones that hold extreme specific circumstances to themselves and can not be really compared to other events during the story (memetic as it is, Aerith's death in FF VII is a good example). Deaths that are kinda tryhard and at most get about half a signification are, IMO, cringe.
All that said: a good selling point with regards to the Pokémon franchise for me is that barring being time-erased by Dialga or something, most characters, human or Pokémon, are not going to see a too hard chance to die a particularly violent death.
Pokémon dying in front of your eyes: This can go a number of ways. Without more context, I think it'd be mostly fine if it is one of your own Pokémon dying. For deaths that get so close, they have to be personal to gain fair significance. Things like bus crashes and bizarre oil pipe accidents happen far away and you don't generally know the people involved firsthand.
Also another important factor is how many.
Human TFing into Pokémon: While it's a good concept, I'd prefer it to be mostly limited to stuff like PMD as what we already have.
Pokémon TFing into Humans: No. I don't see the point, I see it as a lose-lose.
Other "non-debating" kinds of events in a Pokémon game: Since we are not touching the good, self-examination kind of way, I guess what we have left that is cool is stuff like seeing cool tech (or, in the case of Pokémon, magitek) being used for mundane tasks. Also, seeing other people and Pokémon having battles beyond just the main character. Another aspect that I'd like to be seen in a fangame but that is far more mechanically involved is to have the Pokémon in the party be able to take part of their own subquests and interact with the world around them, maybe going into explorations of their own to return with new items and moves, instead of leaving everything world-interacting to the human character only.
I hope all this general serves well.
