Dude, this is a commercial product, not a work of art, did you ser how many features were dropped in favor of real technical aspects of the game? All this arceus lore that we didnt get for some reason?
Do you even know what the word "canon" means? It does not mean "it would be cool" or "here's what I was
gonna write but decided not to because
[literally any reason]", it's what's true in the final story and nothing else. "I
wish I included this" does not make it canon, only "I
did include this" does. If I was making a piece of media and had a suggestion box for anyone in the team to toss ideas into, would that mean every single idea that anyone writes in there is permanently and irrevocably part of the canon just for having ever been considered, even if it's rejected for any reason?
I did play hack roms that allowed me to become a Champion and protect the title and customize my pokeballs, these dreams were made into reality later by fans who lives out of the development hell world and could shape it into better games and experiences.
Are you arguing that this makes those things part of the original game?
do you think people are just going to forget those leaks?
There are actually
multiple words to describe "it's not really part of the story but all of the fans like to think it is". "Canon" is not one of them.
what Nintendo, Gamefreak or TPCi think doesn't matter.
"The people who actually write the stories don't decide what happens in it! Some audience members who are insistent about some particular thing, despite being told otherwise by the showrunners ,are the
real writers."
So true! Those darn Nintendo bigots can never take our true and honest trans sister Samus from us!
I don't even know why Pokéfuckers and edge enthusiasts are so insistent on this. There's already that one Sinnoh Folk Story text and a few other minor examples from around the series if they really want to make a case for it, absolutely nothing depends on any of this serving as examples. All it does is demonstrate they don't know what words mean or how the writing process works.
What
is of interest to me are the ideas that didn't make it into the final product initially, but still appeared in some other form later. For example, the sigil depicting the heirarchy of the legendary pantheon which never had its lore appear in any game, but
did appear as a symbol during the trippy HGSS Arceus cutscene. I don't think it hard-confirms that any of that lore is still canon, but it does show that the idea at least stuck around in GF's heads afterwards instead of being totally forgotten and abandoned like many of the others. Perhaps this means they still run with some version of the original idea, with the various legendary Pokémon being creations of Arceus meant to embody different aspects of the world. Or the mystery of the Giants, barely-explained vague monsters of ancient legend that Arceus did battle with, which were described in the leaks as being fragments of the egg it spawned from that tried to kill it immediately after being born.
