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I'd love another Johto remake or something for that region. We still could get a Legends Johto game at some point, but I'm less sure that we'll get another G/S remake. People have wanted a Let's Go Johto game for years and while I'd like that too, I also feel like the time to release that game has come and gone.I'm not upset about the lack of Unova, it can wait another generation, but I'm a little annoyed we got nothing new for Johto. I feel like it deserves another remake, but maybe the reaction to BDSP scared GameFreak and ILCA away from the idea of doing something with Johto. This might also be the reason we're seemingly not getting proper Generation 6 remakes in the style of ORAS, HGSS, and BDSP.
That's basically how I feel about Legends games too. They aren't going to take the place of traditional remakes, but just a different way to explore an older region and give it new life. Plus, X/Y wouldn't be getting remakes for a long time, probably not for at least another couple of generations, and by that point, Legends Z-A would be an older game too, so they'd want to make those games accessible again. Just releasing ports of older games instead wouldn't be impossible, but I think that they could easily keep making remakes and Legends games. It would be a potentially easy way to make a generation last longer with both remakes and Legends games on the table. I feel like they'd still want to make the original games accessible beyond just ports.You know...maybe this is controversial to say, but I don't think the Legends games are supposed to function as "remakes" in the way that FR/LG, HG/SS, or OR/AS did in the past, especially since this new game just focuses on Lumiose as opposed to the rest of the region. It feels more like its own entry in the mainline games and shouldn't rule out the possibility of more "traditional remakes" for other generations in the future. Or maybe we'll just get ports of older games lol
I've never understood how Legends could be considered a spin-off game when they are developed by Game Freak. They are different kind of games than what we usually expect from main series Pokemon games, but they are still made by the same developers. It would be like considering Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee a spin off game because it was different despite being made by Game Freak. They're also most likely going to consider it a main series Pokemon game, which I believe they did with Legends Arceus too.I believe the legends games are spin offs that are closely tied to the mainline games, like how you got the reveal mirror or the ranger egg