Topic: Pokémon 25th Anniversary

This thread will be talking about what is happening for Pokémon's 25th anniversary and what we think about what has been released and ideas on what might be released this year

I believe the leading rumor is an updated remake of Diamond and Pearl for Switch.

We're also waiting for a Pokémon Snap release date and a Detective Pikachu 2 teaser.

@Magician they're making a sequel to that movie? Wow the more you know

@TheSmashTheorist

No, the movie was based on the 3DS game.

Game Freak announced the sequel to the 3DS game nearly two years ago.
https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/05/a_new_detective_pik...

In all likelihood, we'll see Let's Go Gen II or a full-blown Gen IV remake in the style of Sword/Shield. I think the latter is inevitable (it is the 15th anniversary of the Japanese release of Diamond/Pearl this year), but the former also makes too much sense as about half of the work is already done for the developers as the Kanto map and the first 151 Pokémon animations are all good and ready to go (though it's like that they have already future-proofed every other Pokémon).

Gen II is my favourite of all, so, I selfishly want another remake of that (a full-blown remake would have been preferable, but I won't complain if it gets the Let's Go treatment either) before a remake of Gen IV, but we'll like get both before the end of the console generation considering that the current anime is currently revisiting all past regions, which indicates that perhaps TPCi will be spending a little more time on revisiting old games than past generations.

Best case scenario will be that we get both Gen II and IV remakes this year, but getting two main series games in the space of a year is unprecedented and highly unlikely. It would be nice if we get another spin-off game in addition to Snap 2 though.

I want gen 5 remakes purely for the music

I wonder if they will actually reveal Gen 9 instead of DP Remakes or Lets Go Johto.

Yeah I know, it's too early for Gen 9 (next year is more likely) but on the other side, after seeing how the Wild Area and both DLCs featured a fully controlable camera I'm sure that GF wants to make their future games fully controllable. And I think since that would be a big step for Pokemon games, that's something they would introduce in a new Gen instead of in the Remakes.

Also a new Gen would make more sense for a big anniversary than remakes. And usually while there are 3 years between new gens (Gen 5 - 2010 in Japan, Gen 6 - 2013, Gen 7 - 2016, Gen 8 - 2019) I think they still could release a new gen only two years after the last one, I mean it doesn't make that big of a difference. Also there weren't new games last year (only DLC) and the last year before 2020 where they didn't release a new game was 2015, and one year later in 2016 they released Gen 7. Therefore I think maybe they actually took that one year off to make Gen 9.

But I guess we'll see in about one month

@mariomaster96 I feel like this isn't the case, following patterns. Generally, remakes are made during generations that are double the ones they originally came out in, excluding the Gen 1 remakes, in which came out during Gen 3. Gen 4 had Gen 2 remakes, Gen 6 had Gen 3 remakes, so it's fair to assume that Gen 8 will get Gen 4 remakes, if Let's Go didn't replace the remakes.

The only reason I believe Gen 7 happened earlier than expected was partially due to the fact that it was the 20th anniversary, which is a bigger deal. I doubt that Gen 9 would come so soon, as Gamefreak just released DLC for sword and shield, and they'll probably need more time than just a year to finish that up. It's just too early for a new generation of pokemon, and I'm sure not many people would be pleased by it, especially due to what happened with Gen 8 itself.

@TheSmashTheorist You are right! Nimbasa City theme is still in my head!

I need a DP remake. I need infernape. I need!

Any main line Pokémon game released between 2021-02-27 and 2022-02-26 would be best thing for 25th Birthday even if it's Let's GO type main line game.

If they do DP remakes (which seems inevitable), then I really wish they would mix things up in terms of how they present the games. We all know Game Freak isn't gonna spice things up difficulty or gameplay wise, but I would at least really like to see them try a new artstyle instead of this bland, generic anime thing they've been going with lately. Like maybe try a cell shaded thing like Breath of the Wild, or perhaps go for the diorama look like in the Link's Awakening remake. Diamond and Pearl are my favorite Pokemon games but I don't really want to see remakes of them at all if they're just going to be given the Sword and Shield treatment.

Just use the new Pokemon snap graphics or even something similar to the the ni no kuni art style would be nice but I really hope it’s not just another let’s go game.

@Commandervide0 for such a big graphics improvement we need wait till 9th Generation and soonest that could happen only in mid November 2022. So for this years game we most likely get SWSH or LGPE graphics with slight graphical improvements. And on the note both LGPE and SWSH use the same engine, so rumors which mentions one of those 2 games as engine are automatically fake or stupid in that part.

@SViper I guess I was being a bit too hopeful

I'm not expecting much from these remakes if they happen. No style changes or anything that big. Especially since the development team barely even finished Sword and Shield without rushing it to hell and back. I hope they remake them in the style of the let's go games, not gameplay wise, but graphically, so that they can actually remake the map itself without changing it drastically, and cutting corners. However, it's useless speculating about said remakes since it's going to be what it is. I'm expecting them to be a disappointment, but if they're good, then I'll be happy when they're actually out.

Any release needs to have the presentation of Let's Go or what the new Pokemon Snap looks like and not Sword/Shield. I wouldn't mind another Let's Go game for the Johto region with alterations to Kanto as long as the catch combo can be saved without the game having to be open. I'm also down for D/P remakes and finally fully enjoying an adventure in Sinnoh.

Honestly, Sword and Shield wasn't bad graphically, as long as you just ignored the existence of the wild areas. Animation wise, it's questionable, but the graphical style felt like a proper pokemon game. I don't expect anything among the levels of Pokemon Snap honestly, since the only reason a game like that looks as good as it does is due to it being on rails.

@VoidofLight i wish the game had a better story. I feel like you should get eternatus AFTER you beat leon

@1ofUs I wish the game had good level design, and features outside of the story. Not to mention how the sense of exploration is pretty much gone now in modern pokemon..