In a recent interview with GameCentral, Game Freak revealed a bunch of tidbits regarding Pokémon Sword and Shield. Read on below for a few excerpts from the interview:
GC: I wonder how that sort of thing affects you personally, it can’t be pleasant when fans are accusing you and the studio of being lazy and not caring. Does that get you down at all?
Junichi Masuda: We put a great deal of effort into developing each and every game as the project begins and we do feel that everyone having their opinion is important. But from a development perspective, when we go into deciding what way we’re going to take Pokémon in the future we have to make several decisions on what to put in the games and how we want to improve things or changes things as we go.
So as part of that we reached the decision to take out the national pokédex and keep the pokémon the way it’s been announced. There are many challenges we face as we go – different styles of gameplay we want to implement and we’ve got a lot of communications features that we are working on – and of course the one really big thing we always think about is how we can work to make the game really fun for fans.
And as we were working on all of this we took the decision to make the pokédex as it is, and from a development point of view that’s something we have to do each time and we put a lot of effort and thought into making those decisions.
GC: What have you been watching? It’s going to be Downton Abbey, isn’t it?
SO: Monty Python! [laughs] I’m particularly fond of puns. Not just in preparation for this game but even in the past I’ve watched a lot of UK programmes and pun-heavy humour.
GC: And just finally, given the graphics are now so much better, I’m sure every pokéfan has thought about this but I ask this seriously: would you really want to live in the Pokémon world if it was real? On the one hand it’d be great because you can have Pikachu as a pal but on the other you’ve got spiders the size of coffee tables and ghosts that are real.
Both: [a lot of laughing and talking between each other] JM: [laughs] It’s sure to be a good thing because pokémon, really, are all friendly. So if they actually existed they definitely wouldn’t try and destroy the world or anything.
Source: Metro.co.uk
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