- Joined
- Apr 17, 2010
- Messages
- 7,435
- Reaction score
- 475
- Thread starter
- #161
@Rockapheller: I think the important thing to keep in mind when contemplating a retelling of the games is to think of what could make things different but having those diffferences impact on the story and the society. A lot of people go for changes that are pretty minor and are only really aesthetic changes that don't make a whole of a lot of difference. Think about why your characters are going on the journey, give them a reason other than just 'I want to be the very best', and think of the society you want your story to be set in: how do people view Pokemon, Pokemon journeys, the trainers that do them? What has happened in the past to shape the society as it is today? In my story, Eight Easy Steps, after many years of it being fairly standard, I went back and edited it so that the protagonist was influenced by the destruction and subsequent gentrified rebuilding of her hometown. Changing genders and giving them different Pokemon as starters isn't enough to make it different - BUT, as dp said, write the story you want to write. Just have a think about how you could expand it before you do so.