Remakes, Reimaginings and Reboots

[Goemar]

Grim and real and death, maybe not.

But a darker Pokemon I can more than imagine. There's already a lot of dark avenues in the Pokemon world, like how Hypno steals children. I think it could be fun if the franchise explored those parts of the mythos.

The freaky "man that's creepy" effect of the PokeDex would be lost in my own personal opinion if Nintendo delved deeper into it.

I love it how people want a game series which is nice, bright, colourful and cheerful to have GRIMNESS and DEATH.

With this we got the Zero series of the Mega Man franchise ladies 'n gents, as not only we got dark n' gritty, we got roboboobies as well.

Also, Anyone want to look at Bomberman: ACT ZERO and Shadow the Hedgehog? I can name a few other origionally kid-friendly franchises that went that road if you want. That and the Final Fantasy series in general. It wasn't a kid's game mostly, but somewhere down the line.. yeah.

Save the grit for the first person shooters, please. Though if you do it right you might get a good game (custom robo gcn for example).

Bomberman and Shadow are examples of why games shouldn't switch to the "dark and gritty" path, though I'd argue they didn't. They took the "this will be so cool to a ten year old" path.

And as much as I love the Zero series (minus the 4th ones big F U to the main story) I would hardly say it's dark and gritty. It's more comic book cool (and I mean like The Spectacular Spiderman cartoon not The Dark Knight Returns). I'm not saying that that's a bad thing - but I would hardly call the series dark. More mature than the original, sure - but dark? Seems a bit of a push.