Restructuring Pokémon Swish
Jun. 8th, 2021 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetI'm sure I've mentioned here before that I feel like Sword and Shield put the final boss and the post-game boss in the wrong order. I think I might have a more comprehensive fixed storyline for that now:
Though the game's been out for more than a year now, I don't know how spoiler-averse I really need to be...
Anyway. Team Yell is effectively gone. Marnie is still one of your rivals, but she snuck out of town and is trying to keep a low profile. Trainers from her hometown/her brother's gym are looking for her, and occasionally ask if you've seen her/that sort of thing, but mostly she manages to keep out of their sight and stay ahead of them. (I know we just did a "runaway kid" storyline in Sun and Moon, but repeating that would still be better than Team Yell. Plus, it could be more from a perspective of "I want to do this on my own, not with help from you/I want to make my own name as a trainer, not be constantly compared to you" than Lillie and Gladion's thing.)
The "evil team" you're up against is one that's trying to reinstate the monarchy and put Swordward or Shieldbert on the throne. (Hopefully with better designs for both of them, good grief...) The main plotline for them becomes "monarchy vs democracy", and there should be stuff about how heroes aren't infallible, and even if a hero comes really close, that's no reason to base a system of government around them.
Meanwhile, in the background there's still all that stuff with Chairman Rose being super concerned about renewable energy and dynamaxing and stuff, but we don't get the payoff until the post-game.
Working in the legendaries might still need some tweaking, but probably not too much.
Anyway, opinions on Pokémon storytelling, I haz them.
Though the game's been out for more than a year now, I don't know how spoiler-averse I really need to be...
Anyway. Team Yell is effectively gone. Marnie is still one of your rivals, but she snuck out of town and is trying to keep a low profile. Trainers from her hometown/her brother's gym are looking for her, and occasionally ask if you've seen her/that sort of thing, but mostly she manages to keep out of their sight and stay ahead of them. (I know we just did a "runaway kid" storyline in Sun and Moon, but repeating that would still be better than Team Yell. Plus, it could be more from a perspective of "I want to do this on my own, not with help from you/I want to make my own name as a trainer, not be constantly compared to you" than Lillie and Gladion's thing.)
The "evil team" you're up against is one that's trying to reinstate the monarchy and put Swordward or Shieldbert on the throne. (Hopefully with better designs for both of them, good grief...) The main plotline for them becomes "monarchy vs democracy", and there should be stuff about how heroes aren't infallible, and even if a hero comes really close, that's no reason to base a system of government around them.
Meanwhile, in the background there's still all that stuff with Chairman Rose being super concerned about renewable energy and dynamaxing and stuff, but we don't get the payoff until the post-game.
Working in the legendaries might still need some tweaking, but probably not too much.
Anyway, opinions on Pokémon storytelling, I haz them.
