and Kalos needs it way more with all the loose ends that were never resolved with no Pokemon Z

I think there’s potential for this if they’re very intentional with the limited scope and pack it with things to do, unlike scvi’s open world areas and towns which imo were kinda meh/ uninteresting

I agree with you that the trailer leaves something to be desired, but I’m also cautiously optimistic that this does for Kalos what Arceus did for Sinnoh in that it revisits an old region and adds to the history or lore of that region (in this case, telling a brand new story)

and that validates my feelings after replaying the game a bunch, there's a distinct sense that they had to wrap up the final act faster than they'd have liked

that potential excites me a lot for this sequel even if it takes years, that they've got a lot of ideas they still want to realize

—and how unsatisfied with the original's dev was (good interview he did w ikumi nakamura this summer on her studio's channel)

he talks a decent amount about how stunted the original's development was in some ways, and how they had so much story they never got to see realized in the end product

it had a really profound impact on me as a kid and the way I think about art, games, and visual storytelling and I am so excited that more people get to experience it now

also the dev for this will be interesting over the next few years, listened to kamiya talk a lot about the original this year—

we'll see how long it lasts but I want to yell into the void more and that other site is finished, so