Throwing Stories into the Wind

[Sereza]

This thread is six years old but where else are you gonna throw out random ideas, huh?

I was playing through Shattered Dimensions recently, and (spoilers for that) there's a part where an NPC speculates that the heavy snowfall is caused by a Pokemon. When I saw the alternate dimension was sunny, I thought that it was going to turn out that in one dimension, there was a stand-alone legendary like Heatran causing the snowy weather, and in the other, a different legendary that fit the same role in the story but with a totally different legend and powers. I got to thinking about what that might look like with some of our canon legendaries!

• Mew/Mewtwo - Switch their roles with Arceus and the Type: Null line! Gladion escapes the Aether Paradise with a grumpy cat in a clunky helmet, who evolves and can learn every move through the M.E.W.v2 System, while in Cerulean Cave, a horned creature with the ability to change types hones its powers... (And if you believe in the "Ditto is a failed clone of Mew" theory, maybe Cinnabar Mansion has curious little deer scampering about with Color Change as their ability)
• Legendary beasts - Three Pokemon were killed during the creation of the Brass Tower - a Grass-type, as wood was cut to build it, a Ground-type, as the foundation was being set, and a Steel-type, as the brass was being melded. It's said their spirits still haunt the tower's floors, though the tower's guardian manages to keep them confined within...
• Regis - Five artistic Pokemon collaborated together on a masterwork, a mosaic-like golem with traces of each creator within.
• Lunar Duo - A lunar trio, with a gibbous, a half moon, and a full moon Pokemon! (not sure what they'd represent - non-REM sleep, maybe...?)
• Lake Trio - Three Steel-types based on Asimov's laws of robotics - one for obedience, one for self-protection, one for protecting humans.
• Swords of Justice - A Dark-type group based on some famous villain team instead!

(I guess this isn't really "fitting the same role in the story with different powers" so much as "having a different story entirely", haha)

Your Regi idea gave me an amazing idea for my game, May I use it?

 

[TechSkylander1518]

Your Regi idea gave me an amazing idea for my game, May I use it?

Of course! I'm excited to see what you do with it!

 

[TreadingWater]

One idea that I had for a game before settling on my current project was that each town/city is a horror-story in its own way with a mystery to solve in each one.
It eventually leading to the reveal that the entire region has fallen under the spell of Darkrai who has been captured by the villains and that by solving the mystery in each town, the player is coming closer and closer to escaping the nightmare and setting the region free.

 

[LinKazamine]

I had two little ideas for my game (that I don't know if I'll ever do because all I have been doing is adding mechanics I want to include and nothing else).

The first idea is that there were (or are) temples in the different towns of a region led by a kimono girl (or any other figure of authority that fits the game and theme) and they would hold trials for people with pokémon. The trials could be for many reasons, like testing the bond and strength of the people and their pokémon (like the gyms and the Alola trials); as a rite of age, so that the young could probe if they have become adults; as a test to see if the person in question could bond/see the legendary pokémon the temple worships; maybe even as a test to see if the person doing it was apt to become part of the temple.

The second idea is that there are centres (or simply people) that hold tests for travelling trainers who do not participate in the pokémon league (or the equivalent for the region) as a way to let them use field moves outside of battle and/or let them have stronger pokémon without them disobeying.

Edit: I saw after I posted this that this is to share ideas one isn't using for their game. While I still have the idea of using the above two for my game, I thought of leaving them here since I'm doing practically nothing to actually make my game nor do I know if I'll end up leaving those two ideas in my game (neither is the main plot, just side things the player could do).

 

[thebigguy270]

I have a few ideas for my game so far:

• One of the main villains is a subversion of the usual rival/friend who's mysterious at first but has a sad backstory, who befriends the player over time, has a garbage parent and leaves the region. Except here, said character is the main villain for 2/3 of the story, and their parent is a faller in the current day, remembering nothing about their former life or family. When he leaves the region by the end, it's ambiguous whether he's alive or not - all that matters is that he's finally free of the vendetta that poisoned his life, and that he can be together with the love of his life no matter what.
• The postgame is a conclusion to the story of the Aether family from SM, with Lusamine tending to other fallers, and helping the International Police catch Ultra Beasts to make amends for her past crimes. Even after being sick in SM, she struggles with the aftereffects of the neurotoxin, and comes off as a struggling, selfish addict. We find out Gladion stopped being president out of burnout, that Lusamine lost custody of her own kids after her misdeeds were revealed to the public, and that Whitney's Miltank stopped Lillie's journey cold in Johto. Over the course of the story, Lusamine grows even further out of her own flaws, and reconciles with Lillie and Gladion, letting them go on their own terms.
• In contrast with a former female villain redeeming herself, the real villain of the story is a female clown from who knows where with magical abilities, pulling the strings of everyone in the story to conquer and destroy the world. Comical yet sociopathic and sinister, the idea was to make her Pokemon's answer to Kefka or Dimentio

 

[Mr. SU]

I had a really fun idea a few years I ended up scrapping for a prequel to Pokemon Black and White or possibly a re-imagining of its lore

You take a personality quiz to determine whether you play as one of two princes/princesses
The Black prince/princess is in favor of the burgeoning sport of Pokemon battling and wishes to make it widespread so the people can use it to find their place in society through their skill with the support of the great dragon
The White prince/princess wishes to ban pokemon battling so people and pokemon can continue to live in harmony and wont uproot social norms with constant social mobility with the support of the great dragon

The Black prince/princess's starter is Seviper and the White prince/princess's starter is Zangoose. The great dragon refuses to work with either of them unless they gain the support of the people so the two both set out on a quest to earn the people's support with the one you don't play as being your rival.

I had a lot of fun imagining scenarios with this concept but I don't think I could write this kind of story with a chaos/law dynamic when I'm just a bit too biased towards chaos.
Zangoose and Seviper are the perfect starters for this kind of game since they're also white and black eternal rivals defined by their conflict with each other just like Reshiram and Zekrom.

I have a history of my fangame ideas involving these two as the mascots since I had another fangame idea even longer before this where the player had Zangoose as their starter and Seviper was the main villain's ace and even now, the game I'm working on that I'm determined to finish has the player use Seviper and Zangoose as their starters like how in Colosseum you start with Umbreon and Espeon. I just can't get these two out of my head.