Cyphre

I dont think Champion is Alexandra for one simple reason. Last Dark type leader died around 16-18 years before, and as Amber said, there havent been a Dark leader since, ergo no one during that time couldnt complete the League and take a stab at being the Champion. The Champion must be at least 30-something+, probably more, and im sure Alexandra is younger. My guesses for the the Elite 8 members are: Karen, Tesla, Volta's Mom, Rune, Augustus, Risa.

Also i have another question. First, considering the events with doctor Isha, is Mosley questline now officially missable unless you do it by the end of v12? Are you okay with quests being missable or do you plan do implement some way of warning players?

Have you considered doing "in the next episode" stuff at the end of an episode? Showing a few frames, dialogues or screens to hype future events and so we could keep speculating.

2 bugs here. First, if you Destiny bond kill someone during the first hit of the double battle, and then attack hits second character, the sprite of the pokemon using double attack will appear behind UI in the lower right corner and... kinda hangs out there. This is hilarious, tbh. Second, you can completely skip a huge portion of Narcissa side quest and use the key on the mansion in the past, it still triggers the scene and progress.

Thanks a lot as usual to the modder community, doing gods work. Quality life improvements are important, cant thank you enough. However for some reason when i turn off Itemfinder game crashes and gives me this error.

To be fair, a plot has never existed in a mainline pokemon game. And yet, we have Reborn, Rejuvenation, Insurgence, Uranium and many others.

So, first and foremost, i created this topic so i and everyone else could see the reaction of the community on the topic, and put my own thoughts in here, as a simple member of the community. Second, i fully respect Jan's way of doing things, and whatever he says will be it, but i feel like this is a topic that needs to be adressed and at least structured in some way. In Q&A Jan stated that there will be no romance options for MC, thus prompting me to speak about this topic in more details. RPG's in general, especially great RPG's, there are 3 main focus points: you either base your plot on 1) some very unique points of view and ideas, which become focal points of the narrative 2) interesting and likable characters, who you grow to love in time 3) adventure itself. Rejuvenation, while having great plot, mostly focus itself on characters and adventure, and during my personal multiple 140+ hours runs, i grew to love absolutely every character in the game. And this is absolutely natural to wish to see, how the future of your beloed characters unfold. Different games deal with it in different ways, for example, Fire Emblem series (even pre Awakening) often lets you not only see their epilogues, but directly influence their friendship or romantic life. Certain JRPG's like Mana Khemia allow you to go on personal bond-deepening quests and thus choose the closest character to you personally, allowing you to live your life after the events with those characters, and it's not necessary romantic. Obviously, we dont know how things will end or even if we gonna survive the final battle, but i can give you few examples of how things can end, based on how things are at the end of v12. We can talk some reason into Flora, especially if we chose to go with her in the cave, and try to make the world a greener place together. We can stay with Ryland as a guard of the pyramid. We can go back to Sheridan with Aelita and become dual sensei together, romance or not. We can go with Valarie to her home. We can go climb mountain Donkeyass as the best trainer in the world and wait for the next challenger. We can travel the world with Ren as best buddies and Rivals. We can go with Agate circus together with Adam, for example. We can choose to live in Telia resort with Amber and Tesla. Maybe we can go and become a journalist for Gearen News. The thing is, Pokemon as a series is the most personalised AND personal journey among all RPG's. You choose your own adventure, this is how it has been since gen 1, this is how it should be. It makes sense for such a character driven narrative to be a personal journey for everyone, to decide, what kind of champion you want to be. Do you want to be champion at all? What do you want, what will you choose? This is what pokemon is all about for me, it's a personal journey. And Rejuvenation took it much further with its supreme characters, and every person got it's own attitude towards those characters. Now i heard few times that it wouldnt make sense narrative-wise, romance or personal deeper connections with the MC, but i beg to differ. We've had quite a few pivotal moments in character's fates, becoming quite important people for them. We showed Kenneth his long forgotten light inside him, making him alive again, fighting along each other, gaining respect towards each other. We bonded with Valarie a few times, most notably inside the Aquamarine cave. We obviously mean a huge deal to Amber and we turned her attitude around, helping her better herself. We have created a deep bond with Narcissa during her sidequest. We've had our moments with Adam and Ryland. Not to mention main cast like Nim, Venam, Melia, Alexandra, Ren e.t.c. There are a lot of things that already made us closer narrative-wise, and there are always opportunities for more, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. My personal opinion that in the end we should be able to choose our own personal conclusion to our own personal story, whatever form it might take, and i dont think romance or chosen character epilogues will not fit the plot. All of this is my own opinion, and i want to know your thoughts on that matter, where do people stand on this.

Just a thought, but it doesnt have to be dating per se. There are a lot of games that had personal quests for characters, and later off allowed you to take this chosen character into the last fight or be the one to save you e.t.c., thus allowing to do epilogues with them. Naming one good example is Mana Khemia series. For example, if you pick one guy, after the events of the game you go and become a partner-mercenary, or you can instead retire to the woods and lead a quite life, or pursue infinite studies with your rival. I think this is the kind of system Rejuvenation could benefit from. Again, i am not in any way telling Jan how to deal with his game, but i want to throw this as an idea, which, i think, would work well within the already constructed plot.

Will we get an official way to change the pokeball for our pokemon?

At this point its almost a complete crapshoot, there is no 100% to win this. The most logical thing in this situation would be to pick the 6-1 column and try the point of its interception with 7-2, but then its pretty much pure luck for a few turns. And even the most logical choice gonna have like 30% bomb. it got a huge element of random, there is just no way around it.

Im sorry for answering this, but he is not mute. We choose dialogue options, we talk. Just not much.

Is there anything you personally would do differently in the course of the development, if you have seen the game in it's current form in the past?

Thanks for clarifying, because her blue outfit and hair really confused me. Literally everyone else looks exactly the same, and Erin dont recognize you later, unlike Saki. Will Zetta be relevant again? He is my personal favorite character and it really sucked how he was basically written from the story. He is one guy i absolutely wanna save and befriend. Is there a reason we cant get more than 6 character sprites as a choice? I feel like girl characters are made way better and guy sprites are extremely generic and underwhelming, while i loved some of the previous ones, the one with long red hair in particular. Will we be able to get more character choices or is it final? Was there a particular reason Protagonist wont have romance options nor some VN-like routes in the end? I personally think this is something community will support wholeheartedly and the choice to exclude it just baffles me. Also personal question, its no secret that time travel is a bi**h to write as a plot device and it leaves an astounding amount of plotholes, what was your thought process when including this? Werent you afraid this would cause problems in the long run?

So i've been replaying v12 from the beginning, and there was a small event with a blue model of Erin when you enter Magnolia library, blue hair, blue clothes, in the very beginning, and i think it was already there in v11. Is it some leftovers from previous versions and should not be in the game? Or is it actually part of the story? Also is there a chance of more people appearing in the game as NPC's as a result of some sort of maybe contests or lottery or smth like Ice Cream Sand Witch?

Got the ice stone, pretty sure its random.

So, i started to replay v12, and i just got that thought. There is one guy who basically still didnt do much in terms of story, yet has an interesting role. Not to mention he experimented with Pulse Musharna, a pokemon, which creates mist, filled with dreams of pokemon and people, and overall Musharna is the pokemon, assotiated with dreams. His overall colour is purple and his smile is similar to the Puppetmaster mask. Yes, i think that our crazy beloved Dr. Jenkel might be the Puppetmaster.

For me i tried Ryland fight from few angles, but his Claydol AI was basically turned off, he didnt use any moves ever. Not like i mind, but still find it weird.

You need to finish v12 to complete it anyway.

My current team, didnt make a screen of swaps.

No, some bugs usually pertain in Beta and few even after release, some gamebreaking, but then patches come out.

I can see her having Drampa and or Cinccino.

Yeah, i dont think its even a contest, Zetta and Geara are definetly the hardest one. Besides them, gym leaders, depending on your team. Angie, Crawli, Amber and such can pretty much force you to change your team for their fight.

Looking forward to it, however i think it would be better, if you coordinated this with Jan to begin with. I doubt he will be very much against it, and he can give you pointers plot-wise, to not contradict his own ideas and canon.

But she didnt have any need to appear during the bad future, we kinda fix this problem on our own. I just think it's worth considering as an option at least, im really interested where Jan leads this plot and if he can make time travelling actually work.