I don't mind the redesigns. The Team Magma girl looks cute. <3 And Tabitha needed a makeover, he looked too similar to regular grunts in the old games.
Me preferring cold and calculating villains will choose to fight Team Magma and, thus, Omega Ruby. Team Aqua is too flashy for my taste.
After these revelations I'm very hopeful that the story will be changed somewhat and more Pokémon will be available pre-E4. I mean, there will be all the ones in the Hoenn Dex, but back then some types were grossly underrepresented. It's also possible Metagross will get a Mega since it's Steven's main Pokémon. And I'm also hoping we get Mega ability pre-E4 as well, though it wouldn't hurt to have it post-E4 considering apart from the Frontier the Hoenn postgame was kinda shallow.
To anyone complaining about evil team redesigns... Back in HGSS we got new Rocket Admins and no one complained. If you want strictly the same game, fire up RSE in an emulator and give this one a pass.
May and Brendan follow a design trend seen since 4th gen. I don't see anything wrong with them. In fact May looks cuter than her old self.
It's weird to me that people want the remakes but hate change. If things weren't changed, what would be the point of playing the game? And all the changes I'm seeing are for the better. Introduction of Megas, integration of Megas to the story through Steven. I'm actually thinking this will be the most "changed" remake GF has ever released. And this is good! Imagine if HGSS was GSC with better graphics, and only that. It would've sucked.
