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Several of my very earliest memories as a human being are related to Pokémon. I watched the original English dub of the anime, my sister and I played Red and Blue on our Game Boys, and despite not understanding it in the slightest, I collected cards from the TCG. Pokémon is hard-baked into my DNA, and despite The Pokémon Company’s best efforts to disappoint me with new games, I still love the franchise with every fiber of my being.
All the same, I don’t think I’m alone in thinking that Pokémon, as a framework, is criminally underutilized. I’m not talking about more intricate, competitive Pokémon RPGs, nice as that would be. I want Pokémon games that really give me a chance to explore this world I love from a variety of angles. I want to experience its society, mingle with its Pokémon, and get a deeper look at aspects we’ve only been given little glimpses at before. I want to live in a Pokémon world, and if it were up to me, these are the concepts I’d want to base new Pokémon games around.
10 Run A Pokémon Grooming Salon
An Excuse For Petting
The fifth and sixth generations of Pokémon games introduced Pokémon-Amie and Pokémon Refresh, respectively, little mini-games that allowed you to pet and bond with your Pokémon. It was nice and cute, but a bit half-baked, due in part to the 3DS’s limitations. I have a dream of petting every Pokémon there is, even the gross ones, and I want a game where I can do that in high definition with realistic fur physics. Or slime physics.
Obviously, we can’t make a game out of just petting Pokémon, so if we need some manner of framework, how about a grooming salon, not just for Furfrou, but all Pokémon? Trainers could bring in Pokémon of various shapes and sizes, from the cuddliest Wigglytuff to the roughest Golem, and we could give them a custom menu of cleaning and pampering.
After every cleaning session, we could get an opportunity to pet their newly fluffed and shiny fur while they make cute noises at us. Put it on Switch 2, use mouse controls, it’d be easy, and with those better graphics, we could see all the fur, scales, rocks, and ectoplasm in high definition.
9 Train For Pokémon Contests
Dawn Made It Look Fun
Pokémon Contests were originally introduced in Generation 3 and expanded upon in Generation 4. Rather than battling, Contests were supposed to be stages for Pokémon to show off their pedigree and skills, dazzling the crowd with moves. Or at least, that was the intention, but in practice, it was pretty much just regular battling without an opponent and with a bunch of arbitrary categories assigned to moves.
I’ve often thought that it would be nice to have a less battle-centric Pokémon story to experience, and basing a game around Contests could be a good way to do that. Forget all the journeying and badges, and just focus on raising a small handful of Pokémon to be best in show. Combine with the grooming salon idea to make them look presentable, then have them practice interesting stunts with their moves.
Once it’s time for an actual Contest, we could do sequenced mini-games kind of like Chao Racing or Uma Musume, where you give the orders but it’s more on the Pokémon to carry them out based on their training. It would certainly feel more tangible than just raising numbers on an EXP bar.
8 Manage A Pokémon-Filled City
Anything’s Better Than More Wild Zones
Playing through Pokémon Legends Z-A, you get the distinct impression that Quasartico and the city’s government have no idea how to actually run a city where people and Pokémon can coexist. I won’t claim it’s easy, but there has to be a better way than segmenting more and more of the city into Wild Zones, especially since some of those Wild Zones were previously occupied by people and businesses.
What we need to demonstrate this is a full Pokémon city management game. We could do this a couple of different ways: we could keep it simple, managing a town that borders a Pokémon habitat and keeping the peace, or we could go the full-on SimCity approach. I’m talking macro-level management and development, picking and choosing buildings and emplacements all while taking the presence and needs of both the people and Pokémon into consideration.
In addition to physical design, you could also pen laws and norms that determine the extent to which people and Pokémon intermingle, ensuring everyone can get along, but also have the space they need to thrive individually. It’d be pretty hard, but then again, so is making a real city, and that just means it’s worth doing.
7 Work Jobs Relevant To Pokémon
Not Every Pokémon Works In A Café
The central conceit of the Pokémon world is that people and Pokémon work side-by-side to make the whole thing run smoothly. We’ve seen shades of this in the games and anime, with Machokes at construction sites or Voltorbs powering electrical plants. When it comes to gameplay, though, the st we’ve ever gotten to experiencing professional Pokémon work is having them all work in a cute café.
I want to get first-hand experience working with Pokémon in professional settings, and we could probably do this through some manner of mini-game collection. Direct some Machokes and Gurdurrs to assemble metal and wood at a construction site, pilot a Corviknight cab, work with Chansey in a Pokémon Center or hospital, and so on.
Perhaps these mini-games could be pinned onto the aforementioned idea for a Pokémon city manager, occasionally requiring direct intervention from you for complicated tasks that workers and Pokémon can’t handle themselves.
6 Run My Own Pokémon Gym
Make Your Own Annoying Gimmicks
Even all these years later, it’s still not super clear how exactly one establishes a Pokémon Gym. I assume it’s a League bureaucracy thing, like one exceptional Trainer is chosen and installed in a prominent city to manage the local Gym’s goings-on. It’d be neat to take the helm on such a project, especially if you get to build your own Gym from scratch.
A Pokémon Gym game could be split between regular Pokémon battles and designing and managing your Gym and its unique layout and challenges. You could pick a dominant type for your Leader and their employed Trainers, then design a Gym challenge around that type, filling it with the most obnoxious movement puzzles you can think of. Don’t act like you’ve never wanted to be on the other side of that equation.
Admittedly, I’m not completely sure how you would wrestle a primary gameplay loop out of this against CPUs, so maybe it could be more of an online game affair, kind of like Mario Maker. You know, make your own Gym, have randos online challenge it and see who finishes the fastest and most decisively.
5 Start My Own Evil Team
Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em
I know The Pokémon Company likes to keep its brand image squeaky-clean, but just once, I’d really like an opportunity to be a proper reprobate in the Pokémon world. Evil teams are cropping up all the time and all over the place, why not let us get ahead of the pack for once and start our own?
There are a couple of ways we could go about this, and it would depend on the kind of game we’re going for. On the one hand, we could play things completely straight, make an evil team that commits crimes and kidnaps Pokémon either for money or ideological reasons. This would probably result in a simulator game like Honey, I Joined A Cult, where you manage the team’s goings-on from on high without actually doing anything yourself a la Giovanni.
Alternatively, we could take a more hands-on approach, control our team grunts and admins on the streets as they pillage and plunder, then evade the cops. This would probably be harder to get past quality-control, but maybe we could contrive a Saints Row-esque motivation, like we’re starting our own evil team to muscle out a bigger, worse one, taking Pokémon from them to rescue them like in Pokémon Coliseum.
4 Be A Sitting League Champion
No One’s Taking My Title
In every mainline Pokémon game, you inevitably beat all the Gym Leaders, take down the Elite Four, and knock the Champion off of their proverbial (or literal in a couple of cases) perch. However, you never get to stay the Champion. You’re in the Hall of Fame and everyone knows you’re cool, but it’s still Lance or Cynthia or Steven Stone sitting in the chair. We know that Champions can be supplanted, we’ve seen it happen with Blue, Wallace, and Iris, so why don’t we get a shot?
Here’s the pitch: start the game right at the end of your Trainer’s Pokémon journey. They’ve just beaten the Champion and they’re standing on top, but instead of going home, they decide to take the job. Now, instead of going around challenging progressively harder Trainers, all the best Trainers in the region are coming to you, and you have to hold your throne for as long as possible.
This could actually be a great concept for a roguelike Pokémon game, having you engage in special training between battles to keep your Pokémon in the best possible condition while occasionally dealing with the doldrums of being a League figurehead in random events.
3 Perform Real PokéDex Research
Someone’s Writing These Weird Entries
In both the Pokémon games and anime, whenever you find a new Pokémon and scan it with your PokéDex, you get a little blurb of information about their habits or bodily compositions. The question is, who’s actually writing and compiling these entries? We’re supposed to be the ones doing the Dex research, but clearly, someone else has already done it!
What if we could be the proper creators of a PokéDex, researching and cataloging Pokémon without engaging in the usual trappings like battling and catching? You could watch Pokémon in their natural habitats, note down their behaviors and interactions, and catalog them to go through a fine-toothed comb. It’d be like a cross between Pokémon Snap and Pokémon Legends Arceus.
In addition to studying wild Pokémon, perhaps we could see Pokémon in domestic environments, chat with Trainers who live with their Pokémon at home and see how they conduct themselves in the company of humans. We’re supposed to be coexisting with Pokémon here; we’re not going to get anywhere with that from exclusively watching them in the wild.
2 Survive As A Pokémon In The Wild
No Talking, Just Living
To my recollection, we’ve never had a Pokémon game where you get to just… be a Pokémon. I don’t mean like in the Mystery Dungeon games, where you’re just a person in a Pokémon body living in a human-adjacent Pokémon society. I mean a proper Pokémon in a proper, wild Pokémon environment, evolving through your natural lifespan and staking your claim on food and territory. In other words, a Pokémon survival game.
We could start out as a particularly weak and tiny wild Pokémon like a Pidgey or Weedle and do our best to survive, fighting off other Pokémon for berries and establishing nests, as well as establishing groups with Pokémon of the same species line and type. Learn to coexist with other, similar Pokémon, or drive away invasive Pokémon while you continue to grow your own territory.
For added fun, you could have the occasional Trainer trespass onto your turf, stirring up trouble with their own Pokémon and even catching the others in your group, dwindling your numbers and resources. Perhaps a particularly ill-mannered Trainer could release Pokémon of wildly different types and dispositions nearby, sparking off major wild conflicts.
1 Grow Up With My Pokémon Partner
To Be Loved Is To Be Changed
If you ask anyone who has grown up with the Pokémon franchise what they want most in life, it’s to have a Pokémon partner of their own. I’d like a Squirtle, personally. As cool as being a «Pokémon Master» sounds, more than anything, I’d just want to spend time with my partner Pokémon in a quiet life. Not every NPC you meet in the games battles, so why is that the only thing we can do with Pokémon?
We need a Pokémon-adjacent life simulator game a la Stardew Valley. Give us a little plot of land in an out-of-the-way spot like Pallet Town to occupy ourselves with, while we explore nearby with our partner and meet the neighbors. By «neighbors,» I don’t just mean people, but the familiar wild Pokémon who hang out nearby, establishing a relationship that goes beyond just words.
More than anything, I want to grow up and grow old alongside my partner. We don’t get to see elderly Pokémon very often, and while it’s a little sad to think about your Pokémon growing old, I also think it’d be kind of heartwarming, like see a dog with greying whiskers. You spend your whole life with a Squirtle, then a Wartortle, then a Blastoise, and while he can’t fire off a Hydro Pump anymore, you still relish the little smirk on his face whenever you see him.
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