Gen 5 rumor mill thread

I would like to see you being able to actually see the sprites of the individual Pokemon you're surfing/flying on T.T.

They didn't make the overworld sprite idea follow up into Black and White, from what we know so far. I doubt they'll have this any time soon.

What I don't get is why they add something like PokeAtholon for just 1 game. "Here's this new mini-game system we added to the game. I guess we'll throw the idea out in the next game."

It won't work the same without overworld sprites. They could probably work battle sprites into it somehow but then that'd look silly.



That aside -


Posting this in rumors, because it's obviously fake but I'd like the idea of more mature protagonists. It won't really happen, but it's a nice thought.

You know what I really liked though? Back in Red/Blue/Yellow/Green, when your rival's sprite actually changed at different points in the game to be more mature. I thought that was a pretty nice effect, made you feel as if you were journeying with your companions for a long time. A lot of hard work went into getting to that point, and it makes Oak's comment of "you've really grown into a great trainer from when I first met you" or something like that, have more meaning to it. I don't really know why they didn't really use that idea again. Instead you have that wimpy rival and D/P/Pt who never changes and almost took the "strongest in game trainer" title from Red.