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And then they did end up giving Giovanni a Mewtwo in USUM, which always felt to me like passively admitting that yeah, it would’ve made sense to do, if only they’d thought of it at the time.

I love that idea, but I will note that since their formatting is consistent in Japanese (ポリゴン２ and ポリゴンZ), I suspect this may also be a case of “We don’t want to retcon established Pokémon names (cf. Victreebel, Feraligatr), but we also don’t want people to mistakenly pronounce the new one as...

The expanded Dex surely counts as noteworthy, no? Considering that DP’s Dex (and the limited Trainer rosters that formed as a result) was one of the biggest points of criticism toward the game. It’s frankly kind of impressive how BDSP managed to retain the expanded Dex in the most half-assed...

But just because there’s historical precedent for a decision doesn’t mean it’s the best call. What benefit does leaving out the Platinum content serve, when it is near-universally agreed by the fandom that the Platinum content was a positive addition to the Diamond & Pearl experience? Not only...

Okay, but why?

The Unova Starters are inspired by European (Snivy), Chinese (Tepig), and Japanese (Oshawott) themes, and so too are each of Unova’s Legendary trios. So for whatever reason, I think it’s apparent that this particular multicultural range was an idea that they had on the brain while developing...

Glastrier being able to use Glacial Lance when it’s missing the lancer sitting atop it doesn’t really make sense. I think they’d need to just make separate, weaker versions of Glacial Lance and Astral Barrage with new names / themes. I feel like the idea was meant to be that the trio teach...

I always remember Clyde — he gave me free water at every Gym!

R_N covered the points I was going to hit, but I’ll still throw this into the ring for consideration: a user on the Bulbapedia talk page for Paradox Pokémon makes the case that the wording in Japanese always suggested that the Pokémon were drawn from alternate timelines, even in the base game...

Unless GF’s writers are playing 18-dimensional KerPlunk, the verbiage that’s exchanged in the Crystal Pool scene is pretty blatantly discussing time travel: “Have I somehow broken through the boundaries of space-time?” “From the clues you’ve let slip, I suppose I would have to conclude… From...

Well, we can infer that there weren’t any Paradox Pokémon in Area Zero when the Professor began studying there, because otherwise there would be no need to build the time machine. The Pokemon that they wanted to see would already be there. In other words, Paradox Pokémon only inhabit Area Zero...

One of the reasons Klara is my favorite rival is because her actually cheating in our third battle left a big impression on me, lol. I like the idea in principle, but it’s the kind of thing I could see becoming old hat pretty quickly. I don’t fault GF for generally wanting all battles to play...

Cycling Road, I would assume, since it’s supposed to be a downhill slope. (Funny enough, as a kid I don’t think I ever really “got” what was going on there. I think I just took it as some kind of mysterious force exclusive to that area. Maybe I missed some dialogue…)

The ability to have both bikes is strictly post-Delta Episode though, because the third NPC is located at the Battle Resort. In that regard, it’s sort of like Koraidon / Miraidon’s flight power, or the perma-charged Tera Orb in SV — a final convenience afforded to you only after it no longer...

Zacian and Zamazenta’s Hero forms had 670 BSTs back in Gen 8, but were tweaked down to 660 in SV On a similar note, I don’t think I’ve ever really understood why Blaze, Torrent, Overgrow, and Swarm don’t have a proc alert. Defeatist too, for that matter.

But… they did do this, at least for the new characters and, by nature, all of the new Pokémon. The fact that they reused a handful of animations for a couple of characters in a couple of instances doesn’t mean they didn’t also do lots of new animation work. They just did it where it made sense...

I don’t see any objective reason to assume that desperation was a factor or that they blindly created some kind of problem for themselves, rather than it simply being a case of them reworking the established idea of Gengar getting trapping capabilities into the newer mechanical context. The...

The Gym Leader battle theme in SwSh has dynamic layers like that. Whenever you knock out your opponent’s Pokémon, it gets a little more peppy, and whenever your Pokémon gets knocked out, the music becomes more muffled and imposing. Also there’s a guitar-playing NPC in Mesagoza, and if you stand...

My stab-in-the-dark speculation is that it’s for the same reason I think there were only 72 new Pokémon added — a lot of XY’s development would have been spent making the absolute shit ton of high-quality 3D models for the 649 existing Pokémon, so why add even more onto that workload with an...