Plus we could settle what the hell the Legendary Dogs were before Ho-oh made them, well, The Legendary Dogs.
I knew there was something I was missing, but I cared so little for Alola I couldn’t be bothered to look it up.
And we could see more (or less) shit about unown! I want more ruins of alph speculation.
Eh, but that'd just be feudal Japan, which is what we already got with Hisui.
Nah, it's actually something from an ancient Red/Green Pokedex book written by Creatures back in 1996, and it's restated in a handbook that was given out at a Japanese event in 1998 where you could get a Dragon Rage Magikarp. Poke Balls were invented in 1925 based off research done by Prof. Westwood in Celedon University on his Primeape which showed that Pokemon shrink down when hurt or tired enough, or presented with certain stimuli.
The "curl up tight" part is actually supposed to be shrink, but the translator seemingly didn't know this lore and thought "becomes smaller" being literal couldn't be right, so they interpreted it as "curling up". Here's the original Japanese text for reference.
A literal translation would be something like: "I was reading a book that's a collection of analyses of Pokemon just now. Why do Pokemon enter Poke Balls? Well according to this book, it's because of their instinct to shrink in order to recover their weakened stamina. Poke Balls were created based on this nature of Pokemon."
My head canon for an in universe explanation is that things like 'type,' 'power', 'stats', 'physical vs special' and similar concepts are just constructs in universe to make classification easier rather than literal intrinsic parts of the Pokemon's being. Geodude is not a rock type because there is some kind of hard genetic code that says 'rock' but rather it just has all of the characteristics of what we would classify as a rock type. This can also be applied to moves. So you can think of the fairy type as something that was only recently 'discovered' as a concept to classify those pokemon which had a similar previously misunderstood disposition towards interactions with types of moves that isn't readily quantifiable (since hp is a construct and not literal). Maybe in the past they just thought cleffa was normal type and had a weak hp but when it was discovered that moves like close combat do more damage than it should on a statistically signifficant scale, and that there are other pokemon with a similar condition to cleffa, maybe that is when they started debating on creating a new classification.
They do this a lot. No one just remembers them because their gimmick usually makes them bad.
This is so true. Johto is such a traditionally coded area. The implied lore behind the legendary cats/dogs, Unown, Celebi... Also some tie ins with Sinnoh, because iirc the Sinnoh ruins implied some ties between Sinnoh and johto? I think it has potential.
The thing about hisui is that Hisui was mostly uncultivated by humans and just being scouted. So what we saw is humans trying to adapt to a harsh and feral environment, not everyday life in a feudal inspired pokemon universe.
>Feudal Japan
Th is also the reason why Nidorina nd Nidoqueen cannot breed; old material says tha they cease their breeding ability.
There is a ROM hack in development wi that same premise:
GS Chronicles and Scorched Silver having similar designs is probably not a coincidence, since they are both GBA remakes of Johto. GS Chronicles is a sequel while Scorched Silver is a reimagining.
Even Pokemon Conquest, which is a crossover game with Nobunaga's Ambition - a long-running strategy series set in Feudal Japan - and directly uses historical character analogues from the Sengoku period, isn't feudal. It still has modern technology and one of the stronger characters get Mewtwo as a partner Pokemon.
I must have slipped into a different dimension because I could have SWORN Nidorina could breed, but Nidoqueen couldn't.
You go things backwards: the inability to breed was already in books released before Pokémon Gold and Silver we released.
I hate it because I feel like it defeats the fucking essence of Victreebel.
Like these.
This is a 41% joke.
The sprite quality/feel is worse, but I actually absolutely love the idea of Spinosaurus Feraligatr.
Nobody watched the original syndication of the anime. It was very niche. The games are what sold Pokemon. The anime got a boost from the games. Sure, maybe there were some kids that watched it but it was the games that really sold kids. The real reason Pokemon got popular is because they were simply the best Gameboy games out there at the time. There wasn't anything else like Pokemon out at the time. Pokemon was... surprisingly complicated and complex for a Gameboy game. The internet didn't exist and exploration was 90% of what made it so interesting. You never knew what was coming next. Heck, kids thought the glitches were secrets to find out and made up all kinds of fake nonsense.
In Japan.
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