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This is just a quick thread I'm making to post a quick question.
Very minor spoilers from Gen V and below core series follow.
Throughout the Pokémon games, there have been differences in versions of games that happen concurrently, however minor. At one point in Pokémon Black & White, you can meet Cynthia and she challenges you to a battle and kicks your ass. Though after five soft resets and the last of your reserve Max Revives, you can finally beat her and she mentions how you remind her of a trainer from a while back, who did that something or other with Giratina. (I've not finished Platinum yet actually but that the plot somehow involves the mascot of the game wasn't that big of a spoiler.)
So this got me thinking, I assume that the events of Pokémon Platinum are considered canon for the purposes of the core series, rather than Pearl or Diamond? Can we assume that the third game of each generation is always to be taken as canon over the other two? If that is indeed the case, I'm a bit thrown off when if comes to Black & White and Black 2 & White 2 versions. I haven't actually finished Black 2 yet either, but I can assume it's about as different as Black was to White, both of which I've finished. Furthermore the plot of Black 2 & White 2 didn't replace the plot of Black & White like Platinum did the plot of Diamond & Pearl, so an unspecified one of each duo would have to be considered canon? They even go so far as to acknowledge the presence of the other in each of these games (people in White Forest talk about Black City and vice versa), but it's never really expanded on.
As far as I can tell, there's no real given explanation beyond that, is there? And you're able to trade with people having the same experience as you in a world identical to your own that nobody's ever heard of because they don't exist in your world? Are we to assume some sort of parallel universe theory? Are you still reading this? Am I boring you yet? More importantly, have my italics started annoying you yet? Good, keep the tears, I want to drink them.
In Red & Blue, it's basically been as simple as minor redistribution of Pokémon throughout the region, which the professors all seem to think you care a whole lot about for some reason. But in Pokémon Yellow, the third of that series, the game is based on something that's based on the games, incorporating a whole bunch of crap that the anime made up that shouldn't really be taken as canon over the game canon (serious pet peeve). But in FireRed & LeafGreen, they added new features that weren't in Pokémon Yellow, so I guess we can assume that they dismissed any canon Yellow held (despite Yellow still having features that FireRed & LeafGreen didn't)? But then what about Silver & Gold, and Crystal? In the second generation remakes, they left out a whole plotline that they'd created for Crystal version which I was actually rather fond of, which I'm guessing isn't considered canon any more? In this case they don't have the fall-back of 'Oh, it was just anime non-canon nonsense to begin with so whatever'.
I don't know.
So many questions! =D
Very minor spoilers from Gen V and below core series follow.
Throughout the Pokémon games, there have been differences in versions of games that happen concurrently, however minor. At one point in Pokémon Black & White, you can meet Cynthia and she challenges you to a battle and kicks your ass. Though after five soft resets and the last of your reserve Max Revives, you can finally beat her and she mentions how you remind her of a trainer from a while back, who did that something or other with Giratina. (I've not finished Platinum yet actually but that the plot somehow involves the mascot of the game wasn't that big of a spoiler.)
So this got me thinking, I assume that the events of Pokémon Platinum are considered canon for the purposes of the core series, rather than Pearl or Diamond? Can we assume that the third game of each generation is always to be taken as canon over the other two? If that is indeed the case, I'm a bit thrown off when if comes to Black & White and Black 2 & White 2 versions. I haven't actually finished Black 2 yet either, but I can assume it's about as different as Black was to White, both of which I've finished. Furthermore the plot of Black 2 & White 2 didn't replace the plot of Black & White like Platinum did the plot of Diamond & Pearl, so an unspecified one of each duo would have to be considered canon? They even go so far as to acknowledge the presence of the other in each of these games (people in White Forest talk about Black City and vice versa), but it's never really expanded on.
As far as I can tell, there's no real given explanation beyond that, is there? And you're able to trade with people having the same experience as you in a world identical to your own that nobody's ever heard of because they don't exist in your world? Are we to assume some sort of parallel universe theory? Are you still reading this? Am I boring you yet? More importantly, have my italics started annoying you yet? Good, keep the tears, I want to drink them.
In Red & Blue, it's basically been as simple as minor redistribution of Pokémon throughout the region, which the professors all seem to think you care a whole lot about for some reason. But in Pokémon Yellow, the third of that series, the game is based on something that's based on the games, incorporating a whole bunch of crap that the anime made up that shouldn't really be taken as canon over the game canon (serious pet peeve). But in FireRed & LeafGreen, they added new features that weren't in Pokémon Yellow, so I guess we can assume that they dismissed any canon Yellow held (despite Yellow still having features that FireRed & LeafGreen didn't)? But then what about Silver & Gold, and Crystal? In the second generation remakes, they left out a whole plotline that they'd created for Crystal version which I was actually rather fond of, which I'm guessing isn't considered canon any more? In this case they don't have the fall-back of 'Oh, it was just anime non-canon nonsense to begin with so whatever'.
I don't know.
So many questions! =D