Here’s a concept for a Pokémon Game I wanted to organize for my friend, but ultimately discarded.

As you can see this game would’ve been based on the zodiac signs (Western&Chinese Zodiac).

It was inspired by MandJTV’s video: “If You Could Pick a Starter Pokémon from Any Type”.

Here’s how the concept works:

You pick a starter of any type, except the 4 in the middle. The type determines which region you start in. You encounter 10 Pokémon in your region, before you move on to the next region (The regions are ordered in a way that the next region is always stronger to its previous type). Some regions have a Gym Leader fight in the end- the Pokémon shown on the picture being their ace. Once you defeated all 8 Gym leaders you can fight the Elite 4. In the End you’ll have to beat the Champion and your rival.

For every fight you would earn some amount of Pokedollars that you would be able to purchase items with. You will only encounter Pokémon once, so you have to think careful what Pokémon you want to catch. There would also be custom items, for example a Stone that lets you change your Pokémon into another regional form. The Pokémon would increase steadily In level each region. But you only have one chance, if all your Pokémon faint you have to start from the beginning.

The journey would’ve been filled with lots of personal details and references. He was the guy that actually got me into Pokémon, so this would’ve been the season finale to our friendship. We met almost 3 years ago in apprenticeship class, now that we are about to graduate we will not stay in touch anymore and therefore I thought this would’ve been an appropriate way to pay homage to our mutual time together.

I wanted to play this game via Poke-Showdown. Pre-Building Teams for every Gym Leader and Regions of Wild Pokémon. This was a lot of effort, especially for a Pokémon newbie like me, so when all my Pokémon Showdown Teams got deleted for some reason, I decided to drop the project. I’m busy, he’s busy, we don’t even keep contact anymore, so no reason to continue this project. But I thought this was a cool concept so I wanted to share. Do with it what you want 🙂

What do you think? How would you have done this concept? What would you change?

I could elaborate on the items, details, story etc. but I think this is already long enough. Feel free to ask if you are interested though.