Game Freak is not the problem, the problem is TPC.
Eh, I wouldn't absolve GF. While TPC surely pushes GF, does GF ever push back or do they just go "yeah we can do that" and end up rushing to fulfill a deadline they shouldn't have agreed to?
I definitely wouldn't mind ILCA coming back to work on another remake, and maybe being given more [whatever] to see them experiment with different design spaces in it, mind, but there's quite a leap some folks are making if you catch my drift.
Here's my more exact on this: ILCA likely can't create a full Pokemon game from scrap without several years, likely more years than GF does to make a Pokemon game. Not because they aren't talented, but as many stated this is sort of their first full game they made, and it was still under the watchful eye of a bigger game company who gave them a blueprint to follow.
I wouldn't mind ILCA coming back and helping in developing trainer teams and general development stuff like they have for other games. However, for them to make a game all by themselves? I am a bit iffy on that. And sadly I don't know really a solution: the best would be ILCA promoting a Pokemon game idea to GF, GF approving, and GF giving ILCA the additional staff and resources to make the game. However, at that point GF might as well be in charge of making the game (also, we don't know whether ILCA is interested in making their own Pokemon game; for all we know this experience showed them how complex things are and decide if they were to make a game it would be something their own and thus they own).
GF picked ILCA because they're a small game development company they worked with already so probably knew for this project scope they'd be able to do it and get these games out there. But to make an entirely new Pokemon game, I'm sorry ILCA, but I'd rather another more well known game development company like say Monolith Soft take the reigns.
But if extra help or idea is ever needed from GF or another studio than I think ILCA is a good auxiliary company to bring in.
Also, since ILCA has shown they can at least make a remake, I wouldn't be opposed to them making more Pokemon remakes (with maybe more freedom if they were given strict orders).
I guess what I'm asking here is what some of you think in regards to getting this game if you were to be in a situation like me where:
1. I not only have all the Gen 4 games, but even multiple copies of both Diamond and Pearl
2. I already have a game budget plan for other genres (see me in "Congregation Of The Masses" for more details)
It's your decisions and I don't want to put words in your mouth. But applying those scenario to me and my feelings: skip. Especially if you have the Gen 4 games and a way to play them. Unless you're interested with the rematch teams and Ramanas Park, just wait till Legends for your next Pokemon game purchase. Maybe consider it if you can get it on sale, but in my opinion its not a "must buy".
You know they really should have just placed the evolution items around the map where they are in Platinum, like how they plopped the gracedia's npc down.
Well there's your problem.
Anything from Platinum they added in was because they were kind of forced to.
Well, it is the generation that introduced the lowest amount of Fire-types, with only six (one of them a legendary, another a cross-gen evo, another wasn't a Fire-type back then, and the last one the starter)
And so the obvious solution is to fill out the gap with Fire-types from prior gens. This is not something that they would only be able to do in a third version, as soon as they added in a FIRE-TYPE ELITE FOUR MEMBER and realized they didn't have enough Fire-types they should have thrown in some more in a few places (you're telling me in a coal mine there aren't some Fire-types around? Some who made a lair in Mt. Coronet? Hidden away in Wayward Cave...).
I found this video of a Cynthia fight (might get taken down):
Oh, so they sorta updated Cynthia's DP room with now moving panels. Guess it makes it more visually interesting if they weren't going to include the holographic cubes (still don't know what they had to do with Cynthia).
But sadly this also means no fancy rooms for the other Elite Four members. No rocks & logs for Aaron, no cliffsides for Bertha, no OSHA violating pits of fire-y death for Flint, and no glowing orbs for Lucian. *Sigh*
Empoleon: Gets destroyed by Earthquake
Infernape: Gets destroyed by Earthquake
Torterra: Resists Earthquake
Torterra enjoyers stay winning
ICE BEAM!
