RebelWinds
Pokémon Ranger
Preamble:
You start out by taking a personality quiz to decide on a starter for a large pool of “Baby Legends” That will start out at level 1 or 5. Arceus is not on the table. The first, asking what region you're in, deciding the starting location of the game, which will pick the location of the cut-scene (I wouldn't want to limit this choice) and a question asking if you want in game tutorials, selecting “No” will remove the “Mom” NPC from the game, and disable all other tutorials as well. The selection list only includes 680 and 670 base stat total legends (No Slacking). Then you choose your name and sprite as normal. Normal starters are rare encounters in suitable areas of that region. E.G. Bulbasaur could be caught in Viridian Forest. The wild POKEMON have become FAR stronger (The early wild encounters would need to be quite a bit higher levelled than your baby legend to make up for the sheer stat difference), as have many trainers. There are new, previously undiscovered POKEMON that are even stronger than the normal legends. (E.G. Black/White Kyurem 700 base stat total legends)
One of the main premises of this would be to keep the plot and the gym challenge completely separate, so a player can take on which ever they fancy first, even becoming the World Champion before ever touching the plot (Thus making them the first champion to actually do something about the problem). Or finishing the plot before ever taking on the first gym.
The second is a story that doesn't tell the player who they are. They can decide where they came from, why they live in whatever town, and the only thing the plot is forcing on them is the one cutscene in the beginning, and the one legendary Pokemon that they choose from that bracket, which the earliest parts of the game would be balanced around.
I'm posting this here, because I had the idea, and I don't have the skills to actually make something like this.
Message me if you'd like to work with me on it.I'm still just starting to figure out how to change scrips, so learning to write them from scrap will take a while.
Plot Summary:
You decided to visit ______ Lake (in the ______ region). You catch a glimpse of a large, white POKEMON you've never seen before, it vanishes in to the forest nearly instantly. You walk over to the edge of the forest to look for tracks. Just inside the edge of the trees you spot a strange POKEMON egg. You pick it up and take it home with you.
You stop by Professor _______'s lab, and show them the egg, explaining the events of the day. Professor _______ has developed an Egg Incubator, and asks if you'd like to use it. After an indeterminate amount of time, the egg hatches in to the legend you picked.
Professor _______ decides that since the first POKEMON you ever met was so rare that she'd like to see what other kinds of POKEMON you'd meet, and asks you to complete a POKEDEX. Thus, you leave on your adventure.
This mod will use original music for some boss battles, once I figure out how to implement it. Check out http://www.reverbnation.com/bloodandshadow to see some of my midi work.
