Pokemon Should Make A Game Set In Ultra Ruin

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Pokemon Scarlet & Violet are going to be set in a Iberian-inspired region, which is great. I would have preferred something a bit farther afield like India or Brazil, but if Game Freak focuses on the football, the food (another mechanic like shiny hunting via curry would be great), and uses only new Pokemon, it’ll be great.

However, I think Pokemon should also revisit some of its more underutilised regions. Kanto’s had more than its fair share of time in the spotlight, and I feel like I’ve played through various iterations of Sinnoh for the entirety of the past year, so I want to return to Alola – although not as we know it.

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I struggled through Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon because the games really felt like Sun & Moon DLC. Slogging through that whole first hour of Tutorial Island is the main reason I don’t replay those otherwise-great games, and there weren’t enough changes to keep my interest after that. I finished them, just, but essentially releasing a Deluxe Edition just a year after the regular version was a bad move in my book. I would have played through the extra content in a fit of excitement if my progress was carried over from Sun & Moon, but that wasn’t the case. But I still think we should go back. At least geographically, if not spiritually.

Hisui showed us an ancient version of Sinnoh. I want Legends: Cosmog (there are definitely better names out there but I’ve written this now so it’s what I’m going with) to show us the opposite: a ruined, post-apocalyptic Alola. We get a glimpse of this when shooting through an Ultra Wormhole in Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon – it’s where you catch the fearsome Guzzlord – but Ultra Ruin is barely mentioned again