Hey all! This is HookedOnAvatar011! I'm coming to y'all today to talk about a new pokemon game that I've come up with. Since I doubt I'll ever actually get it made it a game, I'm just going to tell you about it and then right a fanfic about it.
Okay, so this game is a lot different from other pokemon games. For one thing, the main objective in the game isn't to win the pokemon league. The hero is actually a delegate from Central Island who was asked to befriend the other delegates. Of course, there are still gyms and the only way to meet the other delegates and befriend them is to win.
Also, to befriend someone you have to talk to them (whether it's over the phone like on Pokemon Silver) or give them gifts (whether in person or by mail). There are a few characters is the game that can be bachelorettes or bachelors to add romance to the game. I guess my game is kind of a hybrid between Harvest Moon and pokemon that way, but it's mainly pokemon.
It's set in the Ingo Region, which is actually a set of five islands. The middle island is called Central Island. This is where the hero lives and begins his/her journey. If you choose a boy, your name is Youta (or in the American version it'd probably be something like Topaz) and if you choose a girl, your name is Honoka (or maybe Gem in America). Just like in other games you can change your name to whatever you like.
Next-door is your rival/ best friend who is the son/daughter of the resident professor. You two are always competing and trying to one-up the other, but you usually seem to win. Even still, to two of you remain best friends. This kid is actually the character you didn't choose in the beginning. If you're a girl, this kid will be Youta, and if you're a boy, it's Honoka. They both have different personalities. If your rival is Youta he is kind of quiet but very smart and very straightforward. If your rival is Honoka, she is hyper and a little annoying at times but she is very passionate about everything she does. If you get either of these up to 5000 friend points they become a possible love interest.
Anyway, also living on Central Island is Professor Oak, who is actually Gary Oak and is the father of your rival. He's a little mean at times and very blunt about what you're doing wrong, but he's very passionate about pokemon. In the beginning, he gives a choice between three pokemon. An oddish, a poliwag, and a cyndaquil. The one your rival chooses is the one with the exact opposite element as yours. Yours= oddish, Rivals= cyndaquil.
Anyway, living with Oak, is Akira Ketchum, son of a renowned pokemon master. It'll never be revealed in the game who his mother actually is, but here's a hint. She's gym leader and likes water pokemon. Plus Akira has orange hair, so it's kind of implied. Akira is living with Oak because he wants to hone his pokemon training 'gifts' and doesn't feel like he can do that living with a father who talks to his Pikachu over the phone as if he can actually understand him. He's kind of full of himself and doesn't get why people would want to become best friends with their pokemon, but he learns along the way. He shows up a lot demanding pokemon battles and the farther along you get, the more humble he gets. If you choose a girl, and get Akira up to 8000 friend ship points he can become a bachelor.
The villain in this game is the notorious Team Chaos. They are against the Summit taking place and are out to destroy to whole thing by targeting the delegates. That's also part of your job. You have to fight the assassins from Team Chaos and protect the delegates.
You meet up with Akira, your rival, and grunts of Team Chaos at various times in the game where they challenge you to matches. Akira gets the extra pokemon that you and your rival didn't pick.
Anyway, after you get your pokemon at the beginning, you fight your rival and then travel to the only other town on the very small island to board a boat and get stopped by Akira, who you've only seen around town a few times, and he challenges you to a battle. Whether you win or lose, he rants about his mighty powers as a trainer and then when he's done you get on the boat and travel to Fire Island.
Just because it's called Fire Island, doesn't mean that all the gyms leaders use fire pokemon. One this island there are three gyms. You have to defeat Kyron in the first gym to meet his daughter Sarai, the Fire Nation delegate. She is gorgeous but really down to earth. She's not a trainer but prefers to spend all her time dressing up her pokemon for contests. If you're a boy, and get her up to 5000 friends points, she becomes a romantic interest.
After you defeat all three leaders on that island, you catch a boat to Water Island. Water Island has five gym leaders and is the biggest island of them all. You meet Hina, the Water Island delegate, but she refuses to even talk to you until you have at least two Water Island badges. She's kind of snobby but is a very strong pokemon trainer and you have to beat her to get the HM surf, which you're going to need because after that, you find out that the boat is broken. To use the HM surf you need a badge from Jericho, the last leader on Water Island.
Hina cannot become a bachelorette, however much you want her to, but if you're a girl and get him up to 8000 friend points, Jericho can become a bachelor.
Anyway, after that, you surf to Earth Island, which has three gyms. The delegate from Earth Island is actually the first gym leader you come across, Haruto. After you beat him, he invites you to his house for dinner where you meet his two sisters, Kaori and Kaoru. If you ever want him to agree with you when you finally go to the Summit, you have to befriend them. If you're a boy and get either of the twins up to 5000 friend points, they can become bachelorettes.
Next, you take a plane to Air Island, which is actually an island that floats in the clouds, and has four gyms. The Air Island delegate is blind boy who uses a pigdeot on a leash to guide him places. You don't have to beat anyone just to talk to him and he's actually the easiest to get along with and befriend. But, he has a bit of a mean streak and refuses to give you the ticket to get back to ground level until you defeat all the gym leaders. If you can get him up to 7000 friendship points he becomes a bachelor.
After Air Island, you travel back to Central Island and meet up with Oak. He takes you back towards the lake that had been guarded by dogs if you had tried to go in earlier in the game, and you find all the delegates are meeting lakeside.
This is the Summit.
You're given a variety of problems going on in the pokemon world and you can choose whichever side you want to be on. It's your job to convince the other delegates that your side is the right one. The better friends you are, the easier it is to persuade them. You have to get them all to agree with you nine out of ten times for the game to progress. If they don't, then afterwards, go back and better befriend the ones that disagreed and try again.
After you get them to agree with you nine out of ten times, Team Chaos attacks you all! The group is taken into the forest and you're separated from them back at the lake. So, you have to fight grunt after grunt as you make your way through the forest to meet up with the two generals. You have a doubles match against them. If you lose, you're sent back to the last pokemon center you were at but if you win they rant about how the Summit is just a way to conform to the man (They're evil hippies) and then run off, letting you rescue the delegates.
After the Summit you have a chance to take on the Elite Four at the Pokemon League. But before that, you will approached by the different bachelors (if you're a girl) or bachelorettes (if you're a boy) with friendship points over 10000 and asked to pick one. The one you pick becomes your boyfriend/girlfriend and travels with you as you make your way from Ingo to take on the Elite Four in Kyoto, because Ingo doesn't yet have an Elite Four of their own. During this time in Kyoto, when your boy/girlfriend is with you, most of the battles you get will be doubles, but there will be a few where either you or your partner will be challenged alone.
While in Kyoto, you can choose to take on the different gyms there on your way to the Pokemon League if you want, but you can also choose not to.
As with the other pokemon games, catching all the different pokemon is one of the side goals.
Pokemon battles and contests are the exact same as all the other games. There's really nothing in those that you can change. I pretty much just took the standard pokemon game and added a plot to it. Tell me if you like it and if it sounds like something that you'd actually play. I'll get the fanfic about it up soon.