An "Alternate" Story

[PurplePopplio]

What if Team Skull never formed and Guzma actually became a Trial Captain?

 

[Soki]

What if Team Skull never formed and Guzma actually became a Trial Captain?

And we become the Team Skull leader instead?

I'm only half joking, I'd love that.

 

[zoroarctic]

Hopefully it's something more like Platinum and HGSS than ORAS.

 

[Silktree]

Many people would beg to differ...

 

[StephenNParker]

My bad. Anyway, another/alternative is just a literal translation thing. The translators knew what they were doing.


All the trailer means is that adults play Pokken while kids play USUM. It's actually a very sad message.

I am not sure what point you're making with the hat. If the uncle is supposed the player... then he is not the player's uncle or brother. Nevermind the fact that the SM player didn't have a brother.

We don't know if SM player has siblings or not, the only thing we know is he/she moved to Alola with his/her mother, that's all.

We don't know if he/she still have a father, why he doesn't move here with the player? Maybe he lives in Kanto with player's siblings.

 

[Silktree]

By that logic, every player character has a sibling and a father with an interesting backstory. Yeah, no.

 

[Lufenium]

All I ask is for more Lusamine. pls, gf

not thirsty at all honest

 

[PinkIceFox]

Press A to smack Lusamine during one of her 'beauty' rants. Yes please.

Man I just hope this alternate reality has a mom that knows how to unpack boxes. Sweet jesus, woman.

 

[Cilantro]

it takes place after the events of S&M. Guzma is now a trial captain and we get to battle Hau and Lillie.

 

[Team Gaara]

The designs of the playable characters look as if they are vastly different from SM

"Vastly" where? They literally look the same with different hair and clothes~

 

[SirOni]

it takes place after the events of S&M. Guzma is now a trial captain and we get to battle Hau and Lillie.

He's over the age limit to be a trial captain. It's kinda part of his whole deal.

 

[Soki]

"Vastly" where? They literally look the same with different hair and clothes~

Which means they only have the same face, which is the same face every PC has, so that seems different enough to me. Or are you saying that every PC is actually the same person or family of each other because they only have different hair and clothes?

For a better comparison, here are pics of both:

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(sadly couldn't find a same sort of screenshot for the SuMo girl)

I would definitely say they look different enough to be different characters. The eye color is the same, but about 50% of all PC's have that eye color so that hardly counts either.

 

[Silktree]

We need to see official art, I guess. Either way, they're in the same bloody house as before, and the visual differences are nowhere near the case for the Unova protagonists.

And I absolutely don't buy that we're dealing with a massive time skip that would allow them to be the children/nephews of the previous Alola pair. That reminds me of what people said about FRLG Red and Blue...

 

[Soki]

tbf some of the colors of the room are also different, the cupboard, tv table, wall, window and curtains all have different colors (checked the room of the girl ingame and the wall is beige, the window grey and the curtains yellow, so way different than in the picture of USUM girl).

So either this is indeed an alternate universe in which the PC chose different colors for their room (not sure if this also happened in other third versions?), or a different family moved into the same house, maybe some years later. I mean in those trailers with the kid, he moved back to his home country at the end right? Could be a hint that the SuMo PC's returned after a while too and now new people moved in?

 

[Silktree]

In the trailer, that Pokken fanatic visits his brother's family. There is no indication that he ever lived there before, and I can't see how someone in his 20s (who clearly moved on from the main series) would be comparable to the SM protagonist.

And all of the differences boil down to the alternate universe idea, almost surely.

 

[DoctorWhy]

The designs of the playable characters look as if they are vastly different from SM

You're joking, right?


I'm begging for a sequel, but nothing is going for it right now.

 

[Anime Psyclone]

You're joking, right?

I'm begging for a sequel, but nothing is going for it right now.

I said this before, and I’ll say it again

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If, and this is a big if, SM were kind of rushed and the game devs didn’t have time to put everything they wanted to in, and USUM would have most of that leftover content, then we have a big reason to play it.

 

[Silktree]

That depends on your tastes. I don't care much about extra features... especially if it means waiting an extra year for them and shelling out another $40.

I'm so over Alola, and I liked SM well enough.

 

[Almonds]

Mohn deserves his own backstory.

 

[Silktree]

Sure, but that could have happened in Kanto considering Lillie and Lusamine...