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Pokémon Remake Discussion (Read First Post!)

When would you like R/S/E Remakes

  • Yes, this generation

    Votes: 195 47.6%
  • No, I'd prefer them in Gen 6

    Votes: 152 37.1%
  • No, wait till Gen 7

    Votes: 16 3.9%
  • No, i dont want r/s/e remakes

    Votes: 47 11.5%

  • Total voters
    410
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1. Prequel to RSE.
There are plenty of games that release the prequel much later than the first game, so wynaut RSE? We can have the protagonist be the initial helper of Birch, and travel around collecting badges.
5 to 10 years before the setting of RSE...

Rival: Steven Stone
Villains: Team Weather (Originally, there was one team that wanted to control the weather, but they eventually split into two - Aqua and Magma)

Gym Leaders and Elite Four
Roxanne's Dad/Mentor
Brawly's Mentor
Wattson
Someone who's a Fire-type Specialist
Someone who's a Normal-type Specialist
Winona's Mom/Mentor
Tate and Liza's Parents
Juan


Flannery's Grandfather (possible Ground-type Specialist)
Drake
Glacia (something like a teen prodigy)
Someone Specializing in whatever type that wasn't used.


A Champion specializing in Diversity or whatever type they want.

I don't think I like the idea of prequels for Pokemon because there's not much to go on for the regions' pasts and it wouldn't make much sense because the storyline would probably end up contradicting the originals. Just about the only prequel idea I can see working is if they did one for Black and White based on the two brothers in the Unova legend.


3. Sequels of RSE
5 to 10 years later from the plot of RSE, another trouble occurs. A new protagonist starts their journey. Depending on the gender, the initial protagonists are living differently. If the protagonist is a boy, Brendan is the 'Red' in the remake, while May works at the Weather Institute - and vice versa if the protagonist is a girl.

I don't think the older characters' roles should depend on your current character's gender, but if they don't do that, it presents an interesting problem. If the sequels aren't compatible with the originals, how will the character roles be determined? You can't use Memory Link like you would with BW1 -> BW2. I think it might be best in this case to just give them vague references and have them not show up.

Rival: Wally

This would be quite sad, after 5-10 years he becomes the rival to a completely new trainer who would end up completely owning him in every battle. No, I think they'll use a new rival. Wally would probably have a different role in the sequel and be a more experienced trainer, much like Cheren and Bianca in BW2. Maybe he could even be Champion, now wouldn't that be a neat twist?

Gym Leaders and Elite Four
Norman
Wattson's Apprentice
Brawly
Roxanne
Flannery
Tate and Liza
Phoebe
Wallace
I'm not understanding the storyline path here. Also, why would Phoebe step down from Elite 4 to gym leader?

Or a ds lite. And if they remake Ruby and Sapphire because of that, doesn't that mean they should remake Firered and Leafgreen too? Oh, and they might as well remake Diamond and Pearl because they weren't pretty enough and and DS games look weird on the 3DS. And Heartgold. And Black and White. And X and Y. (I don't like remakes ok)

FireRed and LeafGreen would get stale if they re-remade them (unless they made sequels) and Kanto is still playable through HGSS (albeit a bit nerfed, but there aren't really any glaring problems with Kanto in the remakes). As for 4th gen onwards, it's not hard to get them at this point and any existing DS/3DS model can play them, so they're far from obsolete.
 
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FireRed and LeafGreen would get stale if they re-remade them

I don't think so. They were pretty crappy as remakes, not allowing any new evolutions or anything. HGSS was a huge expansion too, but FRLG was meh. The games have changed quite a bit since then, especially this generation. Plus all of the new Pokemon since. A Red/Blue remake *now* would be in pretty 3D graphics, update the gameplay majorly, and add a ton of new Pokemon. And hopefully they'd expand the world and plot and everything. It'd be awesome. Probably won't be this generation, but it'd be nice to see that eventually I think.
 
I don't think I like the idea of prequels for Pokemon because there's not much to go on for the regions' pasts and it wouldn't make much sense because the storyline would probably end up contradicting the originals. Just about the only prequel idea I can see working is if they did one for Black and White based on the two brothers in the Unova legend.

This was simply to prove prequels were a bad idea.


3. Sequels of RSE
5 to 10 years later from the plot of RSE, another trouble occurs. A new protagonist starts their journey. Depending on the gender, the initial protagonists are living differently. If the protagonist is a boy, Brendan is the 'Red' in the remake, while May works at the Weather Institute - and vice versa if the protagonist is a girl.

I don't think the older characters' roles should depend on your current character's gender, but if they don't do that, it presents an interesting problem. If the sequels aren't compatible with the originals, how will the character roles be determined? You can't use Memory Link like you would with BW1 -> BW2. I think it might be best in this case to just give them vague references and have them not show up.

They will have pre-set teams. The 'Red' will have a team of Eons, and the Weather scientist will have Castform, a Drizzle pokemon and a Drought pokemon. Also, don't forget B2W2 introduced slightly different features depending on gender selection.
Rival: Wally

This would be quite sad, after 5-10 years he becomes the rival to a completely new trainer who would end up completely owning him in every battle. No, I think they'll use a new rival. Wally would probably have a different role in the sequel and be a more experienced trainer, much like Cheren and Bianca in BW2. Maybe he could even be Champion, now wouldn't that be a neat twist?

You forgot that Wally was a sick boy. He did manage to get to Victory Road, but that was his limits. Unlike Cheren and Bianca, he did not play a role in the Weather Crisis, and we saw little to nothing from him except for that he ran away to get stronger. Also, nothing states that he was ever completely cured. (Bulbapedia stated Asthma, but no official guide or in-game statement says it IS asthma). For all we can know, he could have fallen sick again and was forced to quit training for a while for recuperation.

Gym Leaders and Elite Four
Norman
Wattson's Apprentice
Brawly
Roxanne
Flannery
Tate and Liza
Phoebe
Wallace
I'm not understanding the storyline path here. Also, why would Phoebe step down from Elite 4 to gym leader?
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I never stated anything about storyline. It was just a random lineup.

If the game takes place in the future, chances are, her grandparents either retired or passed away. She could've been called to be the guardian of the Two Orbs, so in that case, I wouldn't be surprised if she had to completely stop battling. I thought they could give her a gym leader post because she was one of the best trainer and wanted to keep her as part of the Pokemon Association.


Also, these are just random guesses.
 
FireRed and LeafGreen would get stale if they re-remade them (unless they made sequels) and Kanto is still playable through HGSS (albeit a bit nerfed, but there aren't really any glaring problems with Kanto in the remakes). As for 4th gen onwards, it's not hard to get them at this point and any existing DS/3DS model can play them, so they're far from obsolete.

It was sarcasm.
 
Read your blog entry, Dark Kyriaki, so I understand your ideas a bit better now (although I wish you'd have elaborated here).

They will have pre-set teams. The 'Red' will have a team of Eons, and the Weather scientist will have Castform, a Drizzle pokemon and a Drought pokemon. Also, don't forget B2W2 introduced slightly different features depending on gender selection.

You're missing my point, why would Brendan be the "Red" just because you chose male for this particular game? The player may not want it to work out that way, or maybe it didn't work that way in the originals.

You forgot that Wally was a sick boy. He did manage to get to Victory Road, but that was his limits. Unlike Cheren and Bianca, he did not play a role in the Weather Crisis, and we saw little to nothing from him except for that he ran away to get stronger. Also, nothing states that he was ever completely cured. (Bulbapedia stated Asthma, but no official guide or in-game statement says it IS asthma). For all we can know, he could have fallen sick again and was forced to quit training for a while for recuperation.

That goes both ways, for all we know, he could've been completely cured and continued to improve himself as a trainer. Regardless, I think most people would want him to have a happier future, having him be stuck in the exact same situation he was 5-10 years ago would be too depressing.

I never stated anything about storyline. It was just a random lineup.

Oh never mind, this is another thing that you cleared up from your blog entry (I was under the assumption that you would've battled Roxanne in Rustboro City instead of Fallarbor Town, which would've made for a weird storyline path depending on how you get to Mauville.

If the game takes place in the future, chances are, her grandparents either retired or passed away. She could've been called to be the guardian of the Two Orbs, so in that case, I wouldn't be surprised if she had to completely stop battling. I thought they could give her a gym leader post because she was one of the best trainer and wanted to keep her as part of the Pokemon Association.

Phoebe taking over as guardian of Mt. Pyre was an idea I had thought of as well, but a gym on top of Mt. Pyre seems a bit farfetch'd, it's kind of out of the way and in an area that would get unnecessary traffic (why would you want random trainers coming to a cemetery like place for a gym battle?).

It was sarcasm.

Sarcasm or not, your point about them being obliged to remake every single game because they remake RS isn't valid, there's usually concrete reasons behind the timing of when and which remakes are released.
 
Read your blog entry, Dark Kyriaki, so I understand your ideas a bit better now (although I wish you'd have elaborated here).

You're right. I guess I should have...

You're missing my point, why would Brendan be the "Red" just because you chose male for this particular game? The player may not want it to work out that way, or maybe it didn't work that way in the originals.

It's just one method to bring back the original characters. Norman said something about his kid being stronger than him and all at the PWT, so it wouldn't be surprising if Brendan did turn out to be the legendary trainer that reawoke Rayquaza. If gender selection doesn't work, then we could have them differ by versions - Brendan being the post-game boss in ReRuby and May in ReSapphire. Or we could answer questions to predetermine certain events like we did in mystery dungeon.

You forgot that Wally was a sick boy. He did manage to get to Victory Road, but that was his limits. Unlike Cheren and Bianca, he did not play a role in the Weather Crisis, and we saw little to nothing from him except for that he ran away to get stronger. Also, nothing states that he was ever completely cured. (Bulbapedia stated Asthma, but no official guide or in-game statement says it IS asthma). For all we can know, he could have fallen sick again and was forced to quit training for a while for recuperation.

That goes both ways, for all we know, he could've been completely cured and continued to improve himself as a trainer. Regardless, I think most people would want him to have a happier future, having him be stuck in the exact same situation he was 5-10 years ago would be too depressing.

You do have a point there. Though, I like the idea of having a mentor as my rival, and I become strong enough to beat my teacher in the end. It's like what Wally wanted to do in the original RSE. Brendan/May was his mentor (sort of), and Wally wanted to become stronger to beat us.

Or we could simply change the rival idea to overcoming your mentor. Though, I don't think Wally is anywhere near the level of challenging the League - Victory Road was his limits. So at the very most, he became Norman's apprentice and took over his gym as the new leader. But they already similarly did it with Cheren, so I doubt it would be like that again.

If the game takes place in the future, chances are, her grandparents either retired or passed away. She could've been called to be the guardian of the Two Orbs, so in that case, I wouldn't be surprised if she had to completely stop battling. I thought they could give her a gym leader post because she was one of the best trainer and wanted to keep her as part of the Pokemon Association.

Phoebe taking over as guardian of Mt. Pyre was an idea I had thought of as well, but a gym on top of Mt. Pyre seems a bit farfetch'd, it's kind of out of the way and in an area that would get unnecessary traffic (why would you want random trainers coming to a cemetery like place for a gym battle?).

Or alternatively, they could build a gym near Mt. Pyre, not on top it. Iirc, there'se plenty of room on the route below Mt. Pyre - the one that goes all the way to the Berry Master's House. They could always change a few routes and add new towns anyways.
Besides, there are random trainers in the cemetery in the first place, so I doubt battling itself would be a problem...
 
i would prefer wally(in a sequel) to be champion or just a strong trainer besides that way they could introduce a new character. my idea for a rival in a new pokemon game would be sort of an arrogant guy. also bragging about his strength with little respect for anyone even adults. goes buy a self-proclaimed nick name " the greatest pokemon master". he would be extremely loud and short tampered. rarely listens. even if it's a minor accomplishment he would go on about how "great" he is. he would be pretty lively and energetic compared to other rivals but totally full of himself. alot like black star for soul eater except more selfish and rude.
 
i would prefer wally(in a sequel) to be champion or just a strong trainer besides that way they could introduce a new character. my idea for a rival in a new pokemon game would be sort of an arrogant guy. also bragging about his strength with little respect for anyone even adults. goes buy a self-proclaimed nick name " the greatest pokemon master". he would be extremely loud and short tampered. rarely listens. even if it's a minor accomplishment he would go on about how "great" he is. he would be pretty lively and energetic compared to other rivals but totally full of himself. alot like black star for soul eater except more selfish and rude.

We already had a braggy brat for a rival in the past. I'd really like a mentor figure as a rival - someone who is already ahead of us and teaches us along the way, and Wally is the perfect candidate.
OR, I also like the idea of having no rivals - just a mentor figure that we will try to overcome throughout the game.

By the way, Wally needs his own theme. Poor Wally doesn't even has his own music...
 
It's just one method to bring back the original characters. Norman said something about his kid being stronger than him and all at the PWT, so it wouldn't be surprising if Brendan did turn out to be the legendary trainer that reawoke Rayquaza. If gender selection doesn't work, then we could have them differ by versions - Brendan being the post-game boss in ReRuby and May in ReSapphire. Or we could answer questions to predetermine certain events like we did in mystery dungeon.

I like these ideas even less. Meh, maybe there's no good way to go about doing this.

You do have a point there. Though, I like the idea of having a mentor as my rival, and I become strong enough to beat my teacher in the end. It's like what Wally wanted to do in the original RSE. Brendan/May was his mentor (sort of), and Wally wanted to become stronger to beat us.

Or we could simply change the rival idea to overcoming your mentor. Though, I don't think Wally is anywhere near the level of challenging the League - Victory Road was his limits. So at the very most, he became Norman's apprentice and took over his gym as the new leader. But they already similarly did it with Cheren, so I doubt it would be like that again.

IMO, that wouldn't be a good idea for a rival, your rival should be someone who is roughly your peer in terms of skill and/or experience. Wally having already gone on a journey makes him a bit out of your league initially. I do think he should be battleable at some point in the storyline, but not early on. Hence, I don't think having him as a rival would be a good idea. The mentor idea is good, though, I can see him helping you out a lot, teaming up with you sometime in the storyline, and maybe helping you a bit with Team Magma/Aqua (or at least up until things get ugly, he might not be healthy enough to help you save the world or anything like that).

Or alternatively, they could build a gym near Mt. Pyre, not on top it. Iirc, there'se plenty of room on the route below Mt. Pyre - the one that goes all the way to the Berry Master's House. They could always change a few routes and add new towns anyways.
Besides, there are random trainers in the cemetery in the first place, so I doubt battling itself would be a problem...

Rt. 123 could certainly use another point of interest, but IDK that a new town/city would fit along there. If you're looking for a city near Mt. Pyre to put a gym in, I'd say Lilycove.

i would prefer wally(in a sequel) to be champion or just a strong trainer besides that way they could introduce a new character. my idea for a rival in a new pokemon game would be sort of an arrogant guy. also bragging about his strength with little respect for anyone even adults. goes buy a self-proclaimed nick name " the greatest pokemon master". he would be extremely loud and short tampered. rarely listens. even if it's a minor accomplishment he would go on about how "great" he is. he would be pretty lively and energetic compared to other rivals but totally full of himself. alot like black star for soul eater except more selfish and rude.

Black Star type rival would be neat, I am getting a bit sick of the rivals always being your friend.

We already had a braggy brat for a rival in the past.

We've also had tons of friendly rivals in the past, and those are way more annoying. Honestly, I'd rather have another braggy brat.
 
You do have a point there. Though, I like the idea of having a mentor as my rival, and I become strong enough to beat my teacher in the end. It's like what Wally wanted to do in the original RSE. Brendan/May was his mentor (sort of), and Wally wanted to become stronger to beat us.

Or we could simply change the rival idea to overcoming your mentor. Though, I don't think Wally is anywhere near the level of challenging the League - Victory Road was his limits. So at the very most, he became Norman's apprentice and took over his gym as the new leader. But they already similarly did it with Cheren, so I doubt it would be like that again.

IMO, that wouldn't be a good idea for a rival, your rival should be someone who is roughly your peer in terms of skill and/or experience. Wally having already gone on a journey makes him a bit out of your league initially. I do think he should be battleable at some point in the storyline, but not early on. Hence, I don't think having him as a rival would be a good idea. The mentor idea is good, though, I can see him helping you out a lot, teaming up with you sometime in the storyline, and maybe helping you a bit with Team Magma/Aqua (or at least up until things get ugly, he might not be healthy enough to help you save the world or anything like that).

...that is going to be a problem if his health fails. However, that could also be used as an important plot development. Wally could be forced to let you venture further into the enemy hideout because he can't. There were plenty of beds inside enemy hideouts in pretty much every generation, so you could leave Wally in one of them with his Gardevoir standing around (using protective barriers or something like in SSB).

And it seems we are reaching an agreement that Wally is more fit to be a mentor than a rival, I guess.


Or alternatively, they could build a gym near Mt. Pyre, not on top it. Iirc, there'se plenty of room on the route below Mt. Pyre - the one that goes all the way to the Berry Master's House. They could always change a few routes and add new towns anyways.
Besides, there are random trainers in the cemetery in the first place, so I doubt battling itself would be a problem...

Rt. 123 could certainly use another point of interest, but IDK that a new town/city would fit along there. If you're looking for a city near Mt. Pyre to put a gym in, I'd say Lilycove.

The reason why I had Wallace's gym on Lilycove was because Lilycove has the Contest Hall, and Wallace is also a coordinator. Besides, there's the pokemon fan club, and there's the Lilycove Inn where people are on vacation. Idk...unless Phoebe took up coordinating or something, I doubt Lilycove would be a good place for her.


We already had a braggy brat for a rival in the past.

We've also had tons of friendly rivals in the past, and those are way more annoying. Honestly, I'd rather have another braggy brat.
I'm not sure about this. While Gary in generation 1 was indeed a braggy brat, he was a good rival because he was the champion that you eventually had to beat. That last plot twist was what made things work. While there had been many other nice competitive rivals like Cheren or Hugh, they came to realize that power wasn't everything and pursued different dreams in the end.

And before you say Silver - he wasn't braggy. He was just a brat, but he had backstory reasons.

So in other words, if the braggy brat isn't going to be the champion or some post-game boss, I don't think the brat would have much of an impact as a rival.
 
I'm not sure about this. While Gary in generation 1 was indeed a braggy brat, he was a good rival because he was the champion that you eventually had to beat. That last plot twist was what made things work. While there had been many other nice competitive rivals like Cheren or Hugh, they came to realize that power wasn't everything and pursued different dreams in the end.

And before you say Silver - he wasn't braggy. He was just a brat, but he had backstory reasons.

So in other words, if the braggy brat isn't going to be the champion or some post-game boss, I don't think the brat would have much of an impact as a rival.

It's not just because Gary became Champion that he was a good rival. He was a good rival because his cocky attitude made you want to beat him to shut him up. Anyway, I fail to see how the friendly rivals are better, there's no reason to want to beat them. You're just battling each other for the hell of it, there's less of a feeling of competitiveness.
 
I'm not sure about this. While Gary in generation 1 was indeed a braggy brat, he was a good rival because he was the champion that you eventually had to beat. That last plot twist was what made things work. While there had been many other nice competitive rivals like Cheren or Hugh, they came to realize that power wasn't everything and pursued different dreams in the end.

And before you say Silver - he wasn't braggy. He was just a brat, but he had backstory reasons.

So in other words, if the braggy brat isn't going to be the champion or some post-game boss, I don't think the brat would have much of an impact as a rival.

It's not just because Gary became Champion that he was a good rival. He was a good rival because his cocky attitude made you want to beat him to shut him up. Anyway, I fail to see how the friendly rivals are better, there's no reason to want to beat them. You're just battling each other for the hell of it, there's less of a feeling of competitiveness.
Personally, I was getting fed up with Gary halfway through the game with him appearing out of nowhere when I'm out of potions and nearly dying. True, I did want to beat him to shut him up, but if he didn't turn out to be the champion, I would've felt exasperated and perplexed. It felt all the more rewarding when I beat him as the champion.

The only other rival who was competitive enough was Silver and Cheren. The others weren't all that serious about beating me, though arguably, Silver's goal wasn't to beat me - I was simply in the way when he was trying to get to the bottom of the Team Rocket plot and Giovanni. Cheren pursued power and wanted to be the strongest trainer so he battled me as a way to see if he was right, as if he was using me to test himself. It felt as if he (and I) were both improving in professional ways, so it felt more rational in terms of rivalry - which I would say "more competitive". Though I guess I can say that having Cheren as a rival is more like having a study rival rather than a battle rival if we look at it realistically.

I still wouldn't want a bratty kid as a rival though. At least certainly not a Gary v.2
 
It's not just because Gary became Champion that he was a good rival. He was a good rival because his cocky attitude made you want to beat him to shut him up. Anyway, I fail to see how the friendly rivals are better, there's no reason to want to beat them. You're just battling each other for the hell of it, there's less of a feeling of competitiveness.

I completely disagree. BLUE (Gary is the anime character) was a bad rival, because even after beating him countless times, he was still the same cocky douche. He was annoying and I had 0 motivation to beat him because, well, he was SO annoying. Friendly rivals like Barry, Cheren and Bianca are by far better, imo.

I didn't mind battling Cheren and Bianca 1928190 times during my Black playthrough, because they didn't annoy me at all, actually, I really liked their character developments. Cheren was kind of a moron, but in the end he became a nice guy (you can see his huge character development in B2W2) and Bianca struggling to find something to do with her life and deciding to be an assistant of Juniper was really nice and sweet. Blue, on other hand, never improved, even in GSC/HGSS he was the same annoying moron, as a Gym Leader. Unlike Blue, the worst rival by far, Silver at least had reasons to be a jerk, same goes to Hugh (who wasn't really a jerk, but a bit too rude sometimes). I am sorry, I just don't understand how one would think that Blue was a great rival, champion or character.
 
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I like rivals who evolve over time. Although Cheren is one of my least favorite rivals, you could tell that he was constantly changing throughout the story. Silver was even better because he started out a criminal, but then eventually develops a bond with his Pokemon and becomes likable.

One of the main problems with the rival in Ruby and Sapphire is that they have no personality. They're just friendly, helpful, and a bit competitive, but then that's it. And then they just quit once you get to Lilycove City. I realize that they weren't trying to become champion like you, but if they're going to be the main rival they should at least show up one more time before the game is over. Hopefully this is fixed in remakes.
 
I like rivals who evolve over time. Although Cheren is one of my least favorite rivals, you could tell that he was constantly changing throughout the story. Silver was even better because he started out a criminal, but then eventually develops a bond with his Pokemon and becomes likable.

One of the main problems with the rival in Ruby and Sapphire is that they have no personality. They're just friendly, helpful, and a bit competitive, but then that's it. And then they just quit once you get to Lilycove City. I realize that they weren't trying to become champion like you, but if they're going to be the main rival they should at least show up one more time before the game is over. Hopefully this is fixed in remakes.

It would've been much better if they had Wally as your main rival from the beginnning instead of Brendan/May who gave up halfway through the game - not even evolving their starters to the final stage. Wally was trying to overcome his weakness (being a sickly boy) by training and learning from you, and he eventually reached Victory Road - though I said many times, that was his limit. It would've been great if they gave him something to do post-game as well (like teaming up with you at the Battle Frontier occasionally). Story-wise, he had a lot of potential for character development.

I certainly hope to see more from Wally in the remakes.
 
It would've been much better if they had Wally as your main rival from the beginnning instead of Brendan/May who gave up halfway through the game - not even evolving their starters to the final stage. Wally was trying to overcome his weakness (being a sickly boy) by training and learning from you, and he eventually reached Victory Road - though I said many times, that was his limit. It would've been great if they gave him something to do post-game as well (like teaming up with you at the Battle Frontier occasionally). Story-wise, he had a lot of potential for character development.

I certainly hope to see more from Wally in the remakes.

I agree completely. I'm not opposed to having multiple rivals, but don't shove one in our face for the whole game, and then randomly switch to another character we haven't seen since Mauville City.
 
I like rivals who evolve over time. Although Cheren is one of my least favorite rivals, you could tell that he was constantly changing throughout the story. Silver was even better because he started out a criminal, but then eventually develops a bond with his Pokemon and becomes likable.

One of the main problems with the rival in Ruby and Sapphire is that they have no personality. They're just friendly, helpful, and a bit competitive, but then that's it. And then they just quit once you get to Lilycove City. I realize that they weren't trying to become champion like you, but if they're going to be the main rival they should at least show up one more time before the game is over. Hopefully this is fixed in remakes.

I don't agree that they didn't have personalities. Brendan, I felt, did have a personality that was kind of interesting (he was a bit sexist and tsundere towards the female protagonist). May is the only one I understand when people consider her bland in the games. That's why in my headcanon May is the protagonist.
 
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I agree completely. I'm not opposed to having multiple rivals, but don't shove one in our face for the whole game, and then randomly switch to another character we haven't seen since Mauville City.
While I do like Wally, it was a weird transition seeing him at Victory Road. I would hope they develop both May/Brendan and Wally better. Give Wally more battles and allow May/Brendan to evolve their starter to their final stage.

I wouldn't mind Wally being given the last starter that was with Prof. Birch. It doesn't have to be his strongest Poke, but it helps the Pokedex. It's just weird that you see this kid that wanted a Pokemon, and you as the player are aware of the last starter, but nothing was done with it. It could have been used to help capture Ralts instead of Zigzagoon.
 
I think Wally's team was fine. I mostly wish you had encountered him one more time at least, like maybe between Fortree and Lilycove City. It would also be nice to encounter him again after the E4. I'm assuming they would expand on the world in a remake, giving you more opportunities to battle rivals post-game.
 
Id like to see Wally as a rival then become the champion, it so exciting to play with Wally.
 
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