Game Freak: Pokemon battle system may start changing as the series moves forward

Pokemon video game developer Game Freak has recently uploaded a behind the scenes interview on their Youtube channel. The video features both Shigeki Morimoto, the series battle director and Kazumasa Iwao, the director of Pokemon Champions. The two revealed that the Pokemon battle system that we all know could start changing with future entries and that they made Pokemon Champions to to preserve the classic battle system. Here’s what was said:

“I think one of the biggest reasons behind it was that the battle system, the rules for competitive Pokémon battles that we’ve been using throughout the Pokémon series for so long, may gradually start changing as the Pokémon series moves forward. 

And when that happens, there are people who have been enjoying the existing style of Pokémon battles for decades, going all the way back to Red and Green, Gold and Silver, and so on. So simply saying, “The battles have changed, so now please go play the new version,” didn’t really feel right either. That was something that had been bothering us at Game Freak for quite a while.

At the same time, we obviously want the series to continue taking on new challenges. But we also didn’t want to neglect the battle system we’ve had up until now. So we thought: maybe it would be good to make one game that carries forward the existing battle system and lets people continue playing it indefinitely. I think that was really the starting point for the development of Pokémon Champions.”

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