Full Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFoo...

nope, but we can do it in the future!

What feels dishonest about these answers?

For SV we only know about the inspiration of the story— based on how Arven drew from Ohmori's own experience of losing his parents when he was younger.

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full interview can be found here!!
lewtwo.net/index.php/CG...

nah that's a misquote

the interview where that comes from is just Ishihara saying he thought that was gonna be his last game working on the series— plans for RS date back to before Crystal's release

This AD oversaw development, led design, cutscenes etc.— Cinematic cutscenes weren't present in past Pokémon battle-sims— Stadium and PBR.

In Summer 2025, they mentored the future lead director/design staff following a major re-organization, and departed from a design role.

Around this time, a new Assistant Director was brought in (presumably GAME FREAK) who helped to "spearhead project recovery" past the alpha/beta stages.

Given typical Pokémon pre-production length, this indicates Champions has been in development for at least 2~ years.

close!! that's pokemon diamond version