Your:
>3 Hopes
>3 Fears
Scarlet & Violet
Leo Martin
Jonathan Brooks
>Hopes:
Following pokemon
Truly open world as in I can do gyms in any order I want
A well designed world worth exploring with secrets and many side quests
>Fears:
Ugly pokemon
Plays like swsh without legends catching and QoL
Bad story
Adam Scott
Hopes:
>Type chart changes
>Frostbite and drowsiness replacing freeze and sleep
>Difficulty modes
Fears:
>Motisma dex
>As much or more handholding than in the latest games
>KANTOOOOOOOOO pandering at the expense of the new gen
Jose Scott
>Hopes
All Pokemon are in the data and can transfer in the Pokemon you can't catch in the game
Turn off EXP share
The game doesn't suck
>Fears
Limited Pokedex
Dynamax
Any PLA mechanics other than Frostbite
Colton Collins
>Bad story
That's every pokemon game.
Connor Bailey
>Hope the game is shit
>Fear the game is good
such is the life of a pokemon fan
Juan Nguyen
>Hopes
Choices that actually matter, even if it only does minor changes.
Difficulty modes
Postgame
>Fears
Rotom dex
Forced EXP share
Boring rival
Isaac Thompson
>it has pla style boss battles
>pla catch mechanics
>open world
>is just another boring mainline
>world divided into shitty zones like pla
>fuckton of useless cutscenes for a story nobody gives a shit about
Jonathan Moore
No hopes
No fears
No thoughts
Brain empty
Joshua Moore
Hopes
>Build upon the good aspects of PLA (the new catching system, being able to select/swap moves at any time, crafting, side quests, new cross-Gen evolutions, to name a few) while making it still feel like a classic Pokemon game (wasn’t a fan of how little I felt bonded with my pokemon in PLA because of the constant EXP I didn’t feel like I raised them)
>A large amount of new Pokemon
>An open world that is full of secrets and things to do, rather than randomly placed trees and materials
Fears
>Takes nothing from PLA and is just SwSh 2: empty maps boogaloo
>God awful story
>Even more cut content than SwSh
William Mitchell
Honestly all I really want is pokemon to be sized properly, unlike S*SH. We are already getting that, so I'd rather just have a traditional Pokemon game for the most part.
Hopes
>no dynamax thank god
>decent artstyle unlike that sports theme S*SH had
>some side stuff like Contests
Fears
>zero endgame (just beat Champion and thats basically it)
>catching pokemon is too easy like PLA and you can just run around throwing balls
>tutorials and dialogue out the ass every 5 seconds
Andrew Cooper
Dylan Taylor
the back of her head is resting along a very bad spot
Isaiah Watson
>Hopes:
More regional forms
Crafting
Actually open world and no road blocks
>Fears
No gyms
Charizard is there
Rival that's more like Hau and less like Hop
Aiden Sanders
>Fan favorites Swordward and Shieldbert return as postgame villains for every future game
Julian Cook
>3 Hopes
New cross-gen evolutions
Difficulty setting
Good online and multiplayer content that keeps me playing the game until the next generation
>3 Fears
Jobmon starters
Dynamax
My 6 bromons not being in the game
Leo Allen
>Hopes:
Raids return
PLA catch mechanics
Open World or areas ala Monster Hunter/PLA
>Fears:
Loss of battle mechanics rather than rebalancing
Same shit game with a new coat of paint
Small pokedex with bad designs
Nolan Parker
Considering it checks two of my "lifelong" hopes, a Mediterranean region and a seamless open world:
Hopes:
>A well developed story, characters and region comparable or better than BW2 given that have been in development since those games came out or even before.
>Keeping the good balance of new and old Pokemon with RFs and grossgen pre/evolutions of Legends without mega/dmax-esque gimmicks.
>Old school side content and minigames not focused on battling or "contests" like the Trick House or Safari Zone with Legends mechanics.
Fears:
>A one trick pony story focusing on a flavor of the day gimmick like megas in ORAS or Dynamax or multiple dimensions capeshit.
>Squeaky clean Disney/furbait starter evolutions and overall forgettable/bad new mon designs.
>PLA and LGPE barebones character customization.
Christian Ward
hopes:
>they delay the game another year to optimize the game performance
>get rid of the uncanny round doll eyes from the player characters
>retain some level of extra mobility from PLA with ridable pokemon
fears:
>the game runs worse than PLA on release
>PLA catch mechanics are removed
>gyms replaced with school shit
Brody Torres
Forced EXP Share that gives 3x exp
Handholding the entire game
Enemey trainer lose even if they win.
>Fears
None gamefreak never lets me down.
Ian Smith
>hopes
cross evos
new megas
pokemon and types buffs/nerfs
>fears
tranny and kanto pandering
boring rival
full turner dex