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Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon announced: Brand new 3DS game

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If they bring back the personality test, it should be optional. And if someone does skip it, they should be given a list of natures and after selecting one, a list of Pokemon to choose from.

Those are all good candidates, but since the starter list is typically nature based, I'd expect more than 10. I think the starter list would look more like this:

-Bulbasaur
-Charmander
-Squirtle
-Treecko
-Torchic
-Mudkip
-Chespin
-Fennekin
-Froakie
-Pikachu
-Meowth
-Eevee
-Togepi
-Riolu
-Pansage
-Pansear
-Panpour
-Zorua
-Bunnelby
-Litleo
-Pancham

Most of these Pokemon are fairly marketable Pokemon that have been featured recently and represent a variety of types (not necessarily all of them, it seems unlikely that we'd get a Ghost, Dragon, or Steel type starter for example) and a variety of generations.

What about Shinx and Dedenne? They could also use Gible, maybe.
Also I don't think Togepi is really right for a possible Fairy representative, considering it's shown to be premature in design while Riolu isn't. Perhaps Ralts would be a better choice?
.. I'd also suggest Espurr, but I'm not even too sure about that really, it could work.
 

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Cool!

I was worried it was dead after Gates to Infinity didn't do so hot.

I'm mainly looking forward to the special or short. Those are always sweet! :)

Though does this mean no Main Series game this year after all :confused:

I was kinda worried too and same towards the specials.
PMD being released this year doesn't affect the main games at all.

Also I'm curious on how Mega Evolution will work, sure, your character was a human, but now they're a Pokemon. And how about the future forms, Mega Evolutions, and possible Primals in Gen 6? I think they should be added as DLC.

I imagine that the main character might not be able to Mega Evolve, but having been originally a human, and having a bond with your Pokémon partner, that could allow THEM to Mega Evolve. Although a loophole around that might be that both the main character AND the partner were both originally human, allowing for mutual Megavolution.

Or it could end up being something corny in-game like "You are both human and Pokémon. You have complete and utter faith in yourself and your friends. This will allow you to Mega Evolve." -_- Either way, I expect all Pokémon available. And as for forms and mega's to be released, who knows? We might get a sequel like Time and Darkness got Sky.
 

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If they bring back the personality test, it should be optional. And if someone does skip it, they should be given a list of natures and after selecting one, a list of Pokemon to choose from.

Those are all good candidates, but since the starter list is typically nature based, I'd expect more than 10. I think the starter list would look more like this:

-Bulbasaur
-Charmander
-Squirtle
-Treecko
-Torchic
-Mudkip
-Chespin
-Fennekin
-Froakie
-Pikachu
-Meowth
-Eevee
-Togepi
-Riolu
-Pansage
-Pansear
-Panpour
-Zorua
-Bunnelby
-Litleo
-Pancham

Most of these Pokemon are fairly marketable Pokemon that have been featured recently and represent a variety of types (not necessarily all of them, it seems unlikely that we'd get a Ghost, Dragon, or Steel type starter for example) and a variety of generations.

What about Shinx and Dedenne? They could also use Gible, maybe.
Also I don't think Togepi is really right for a possible Fairy representative, considering it's shown to be premature in design while Riolu isn't. Perhaps Ralts would be a better choice?
.. I'd also suggest Espurr, but I'm not even too sure about that really, it could work.

Shinx, Dedenne, and Espurr could work. As for Togepi, I don't really get what you mean. I chose Togepi because I wanted to make sure every generation had some kind of starter and Togepi was a mascot in 2nd gen. If there's any reason why it shouldn't be a starter it's because it hasn't been marketed recently. Ralts is probably more relevant, though.
 

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If they bring back the personality test, it should be optional. And if someone does skip it, they should be given a list of natures and after selecting one, a list of Pokemon to choose from.

Those are all good candidates, but since the starter list is typically nature based, I'd expect more than 10. I think the starter list would look more like this:

-Bulbasaur
-Charmander
-Squirtle
-Treecko
-Torchic
-Mudkip
-Chespin
-Fennekin
-Froakie
-Pikachu
-Meowth
-Eevee
-Togepi
-Riolu
-Pansage
-Pansear
-Panpour
-Zorua
-Bunnelby
-Litleo
-Pancham

Most of these Pokemon are fairly marketable Pokemon that have been featured recently and represent a variety of types (not necessarily all of them, it seems unlikely that we'd get a Ghost, Dragon, or Steel type starter for example) and a variety of generations.

What about Shinx and Dedenne? They could also use Gible, maybe.
Also I don't think Togepi is really right for a possible Fairy representative, considering it's shown to be premature in design while Riolu isn't. Perhaps Ralts would be a better choice?
.. I'd also suggest Espurr, but I'm not even too sure about that really, it could work.

Shinx, Dedenne, and Espurr could work. As for Togepi, I don't really get what you mean. I chose Togepi because I wanted to make sure every generation had some kind of starter and Togepi was a mascot in 2nd gen. If there's any reason why it shouldn't be a starter it's because it hasn't been marketed recently. Ralts is probably more relevant, though.

Yeah, I just realized that, I thought of some alternatives for a Gen 2 representative: Mareep, Marill, Snubbull, or Houndour.
 

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I would think 30 choices for the Main Characters might seem too much, but it does give each generation a good choice of Pokémon.

For Kanto:
Bulbasaur
Charmander
Squirtle
Pikachu
Meowth
Eevee

For Johto:
Chikorita
Cyndaquil
Totodile
Togepi
Marill

For Hoenn:
Treecko
Torchic
Mudkip
Wynaut
Ralts

For Sinnoh:
Turtwig
Chimchar
Piplup
Shinx
Riolu

For Unova:
Snivy
Tepig
Oshawott
Axew

For Kalos:
Chespin
Fennekin
Froakie
Inkay
Dedenne
 

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I would think 30 choices for the Main Characters might seem too much, but it does give each generation a good choice of Pokémon.

For Kanto:
Bulbasaur
Charmander
Squirtle
Pikachu
Meowth
Eevee

For Johto:
Chikorita
Cyndaquil
Totodile
Togepi
Marill

For Hoenn:
Treecko
Torchic
Mudkip
Wynaut
Ralts

For Sinnoh:
Turtwig
Chimchar
Piplup
Shinx
Riolu

For Unova:
Snivy
Tepig
Oshawott
Axew

For Kalos:
Chespin
Fennekin
Froakie
Inkay
Dedenne

I don't think every generation needs a good choice of Pokemon, especially when they're not really marketing all of them at once (again, they're not really promoting 2nd, 4th, and 5th right now so we don't need as many of them). But they should at least have one from each gen.

Also, Inkay is an odd choice for a starter, it's probably not something that they would consider mascot worthy (better choices for 6th gen starters would be stuff like Litleo, Espurr, Pancham, etc.).
 

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I don't think every generation needs a good choice of Pokemon, especially when they're not really marketing all of them at once (again, they're not really promoting 2nd, 4th, and 5th right now so we don't need as many of them). But they should at least have one from each gen.

Also, Inkay is an odd choice for a starter, it's probably not something that they would consider mascot worthy (better choices for 6th gen starters would be stuff like Litleo, Espurr, Pancham, etc.).

Well, every PMD (minus GtI) had all the starters up to that point (the five Kanto starters up to the three Sinnoh starters). Aside from that, I picked Pokémon that are cute, evolvable and recognizable as belonging to characters from the anime and therefore marketable as well (Team Rocket's Meowth, Misty's Togepi, Tracey's Marill, Jesse's Wobbuffet as a Wynaut, Max's unofficial Ralts, Clemont's Luxray as a Shinx, Iris' Axew, James' Inkay and Bonnie's Dedenne, the remaining characters would be linked to their respective starters like Pikachu, Torchic, Mudkip, Piplup and Fennekin). The reason why I did 6 for Kanto and 4 for Unova was because I couldn't really think of any Unova Pokémon that were marketable and linked to Cilan. Then again, I could've done Zorua, which is always fun. LOL

But I don't think that what the main series is marketing should reflect PMD's starter choices. Gen. 4 wasn't really marketing Hoenn or Kanto, yet all of their starters were choosable in the Explorers Triology (except Eevee, which was exclusive to Sky) and Gen. 3 wasn't marketing Johto, but their starters were in the original Rescue Team. And GtI made it very clear it was all about Unova, yet it featured Pikachu as a playable character, which wasn't available in Unova at all! lol
 

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Well, every PMD (minus GtI) had all the starters up to that point (the five Kanto starters up to the three Sinnoh starters).

Again, I don't think that's feasible anymore, there's a ton of starters now and it would limit variety if they have to include every single one. That's why I narrowed it down to the ones that are currently marketed, it's a reasonable compromise.

But I don't think that what the main series is marketing should reflect PMD's starter choices. Gen. 4 wasn't really marketing Hoenn or Kanto, yet all of their starters were choosable in the Explorers Triology (except Eevee, which was exclusive to Sky) and Gen. 3 wasn't marketing Johto, but their starters were in the original Rescue Team. And GtI made it very clear it was all about Unova, yet it featured Pikachu as a playable character, which wasn't available in Unova at all! lol

And yet the plot focused heavily on the generations' respective legendaries, so clearly it has some bearing on the roster.
 

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Again, I don't think that's feasible anymore, there's a ton of starters now and it would limit variety if they have to include every single one. That's why I narrowed it down to the ones that are currently marketed, it's a reasonable compromise.

Putting GoI aside, PMD's main draw has always been the fanservice level of being your favorites and partying with who you damn well pleased across the gens in a rougelike lite setting since stats were a moot point. IQ and movesets were the separate point and even then they were workable (min/maxers aside).

I get where you're coming, from talks of "variety" in a Pokemon side game that's not Ranger is a slope.
 

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Again, I don't think that's feasible anymore, there's a ton of starters now and it would limit variety if they have to include every single one. That's why I narrowed it down to the ones that are currently marketed, it's a reasonable compromise.

Putting GoI aside, PMD's main draw has always been the fanservice level of being your favorites and partying with who you damn well pleased across the gens in a rougelike lite setting since stats were a moot point. IQ and movesets were the separate point and even then they were workable (min/maxers aside).

I get where you're coming, from talks of "variety" in a Pokemon side game that's not Ranger is a slope.

I think the biggest thing that they could fix here is probably just allowing all 700+ Pokemon to appear and be recruitable in the game. That way, even if the starter selection is very limited, eventually you could find and dungeon-crawl as your favorite 'mon.

That said, I'd like a large variety of starters to come back. Also, although each PMD game's plot usually gave a good amount of focus to the legendaries of the gen they were released in, both Rescue Team and Explorers (I haven't played GtI so I can't say for sure) were also able to use and focus on Pokemon that were from older times as well. The cast wasn't exclusively Gen 3 or 4 in either of them, and would give some spotlight to Pokemon that are not market figureheads, incredibly popular, or anime icons. I'd like to see that again.
 

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But I don't think that what the main series is marketing should reflect PMD's starter choices. Gen. 4 wasn't really marketing Hoenn or Kanto, yet all of their starters were choosable in the Explorers Triology (except Eevee, which was exclusive to Sky) and Gen. 3 wasn't marketing Johto, but their starters were in the original Rescue Team. And GtI made it very clear it was all about Unova, yet it featured Pikachu as a playable character, which wasn't available in Unova at all! lol

And yet the plot focused heavily on the generations' respective legendaries, so clearly it has some bearing on the roster.

But I never said they didn't? I said that previous generations which weren't marketed were still very much represented in the starter selection. Rescue Team had you do the Delta Episode by destroying a meteor with Rayquaza, Explorers had you take down Dialga and Darkrai and Gates had you deal with... actually, a non-Pokémon entity, the Bittercold LOL So yeah, I know that the games are heavy handed with the newest legendaries.
 

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I think it's safe to guess that we are, at the very least, going to get the Kalos starters and Pikachu, because it's ALWAYS those Pokemon (except the Wiiware games, but that's kinda awkward).
 

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Hey, PMD is said to take place in a different world than the core series. Pokemon, moves, items and landscape (the dungeons) all behave pretty differently from their main series counterparts, so who's to say that Megavolution has to follow the same "Megastone + trust w/ human = BOOM" formula? For all we know, it could simply be a temporary power-up that can be used when a gauge is filled by taking or dealing out damage, or something like that.

If the story has to explain why Megavolution seems to be happening, I could see an explanation that describes it more like how Primal Reversion works; a Pokemon receives a massive overflow of life energy from a held item, causing their body and powers to change for a short time.
 

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With a title like "Super" Mega-EVO is definitely gonna play a role somewhere done the line...

*laughs* I wouldn't be surprised if the initial hero/partner roster have a few Mega candidates that have smaller forms.
 

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I wouldn't be surprised if the initial hero/partner roster have a few Mega candidates that have smaller forms.
What if your starter roster consisted of entirely potential Mega candidates? A wild idea, but then the main character evolving could be used in the main story for once (plus letting you use Mega evolution personally) ....
 

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I wouldn't be surprised if the initial hero/partner roster have a few Mega candidates that have smaller forms.
What if your starter roster consisted of entirely potential Mega candidates? A wild idea, but then the main character evolving could be used in the main story for once (plus letting you use Mega evolution personally) ....

It would make me want to EVO my hero (and possibly my partner) for once, yeah.
 

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I wouldn't be surprised if the initial hero/partner roster have a few Mega candidates that have smaller forms.
What if your starter roster consisted of entirely potential Mega candidates? A wild idea, but then the main character evolving could be used in the main story for once (plus letting you use Mega evolution personally) ....

So no Pikachu or the 6th gen starters? They're more likely to be starters than any Pokemon with a Mega Evolution.
 

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I'm still expecting the Kalos starters to get their respective Mega Evolutions in the Zygarde game, so if we get them announced before the game's release I expect them to be in it. I don't think all main playable Pokemon should be able to Mega Evolve, although I'm still expecting a Raichu Mega Evolution down the line so that could work. Mega Evolution would probably be usable once in a floor in one dungeon run. If you move to a new floor while using it, it would be gone. I'd like if that wasn't the case since we'd be able to enjoy the Mega Evolution more, but I can see it as being one of the more likely design choices for Mega Evolution. I'm also expecting a subplot like where the main characters go save somebody in a dungeon, and in its end they find a mega stone and try to take it, only to be interrupted by the Pokemon who can mega evolve with it, in which they beat its Mega Evolution and take the stone for themselves, with even inviting the Pokemon they beat to their rescue team. I don't think it will go exactly like that, but similarly.
 

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I don't think this MD will be a disaster.

If GF has decided it was worth another shot at the series again they KNOW they'll have to make it good, maybe that's why it's called SUPER. Amirite?
 
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