Though the premise of everyPokemonvideo game mainly revolves around the capturing of pocket monsters, andcompleting the Pokedex of each generation’s title, another major activity usually involves the journey to becoming the Pokemon League champion. Players are always interested to discover each game’s featured element type for every gym leader, as well as the Pokemon that they will face in battle. However, new information about the video game franchise has surfaced, where developers initially planned for players to collect whips instead of the highly-coveted gym badges.
WithPokemon Legends: Arceuslaunching this month, the gaming community seems to be very excited to create content. This may be due toArceusproviding unique gameplay and features that are completely different from the series' norm. This likely also stirred up curiosity about how the development team’s thought process when producing new games in thePokemonfranchise. So it is not surprising for some content creators to do deep dives and come out with surprising new facts that will likely intrigue the fanbase.
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The DidYouKnowGaming? YouTube channel recently uploaded a video that sharedsurprising newPokemonfactsthat most fans have never heard of before. The channel’s sources came from old Japan-only books and interviews featuring the Game Freak developers, designers, and Satoshi Tajiri, the creator ofPokemonhimself. In one such book, Game Freak developer Akihito Tomisawa shared that the team was inspired by the martial arts, and originally wanted the trainers to earn different colors of belts as their Pokemon got stronger. Thinking further, the team was also contemplating having the players use these belts as training whips, but decided against the cruel-sounding treatment in the end.
Given that these books and interviews need heavy translation and contextualization, it is not surprising that the information surfaced only recently.Pokemonfans will likely enjoy the fun fact-filled video as it tackles each team’s inspiration for various parts of the video game. This includes how Tajiri gave away aPokemon Redcartridge with a unique player name in the save file, how he was inspired to putfossils in everyPokemontitle, the location inspiration for Kanto and Johto, as well as interesting design commentary about Unova’s champion Alder, and more.
Overall, learning new things about thePokemonuniverse will likely draw in a lot of the franchise’s fanbase. The video already has over 200,000 views, and will hopefully push other content creators to investigate unique yet factual sources for interesting information about their favorite gaming fandoms.
