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SPOILERS! Indigo Disk Discussion
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There isn't much variety but they are repeatable, you always get new ones when you finish one of them. So it's basically an infinite loop of 10 varieties of quests or something. There are some that are exclusive to groups formed in union circle.
I don't think this is a gamefreak fuck up (TM) as it is an intentional design decision.
They just didn't want Stellar raids.
They probably did just leave it out and this is how the game handles things outside its bounds: removal.
For all the gripes about the story feeling rushed here (especially the Area Zero stuff) the Crystal Pool event was genuinely one of the best parts of the entire game and feels like a pretty good payoff for the game. Just hope there's more through a free update like Daybreak or the Pecharunt event, because I can't get enough of Paldea's lore
I will say that despite my quibbles surrounding it storywise, I did enjoy the melancholic feel of the whole scene and cutting back to the title screen with the book back and a new mix of the title theme was nice.
Also comparing to the other title screens, we went from a sunrise (with book & Ball), to midday (no book/ball) to a sunset (just the book). That's cute.
Also comparing to the other title screens, we went from a sunrise (with book & Ball), to midday (no book/ball) to a sunset (just the book). That's cute.
Or there's a simpler explanation:
It's already implied that the Paradox Pokemon in our universe come from alternate parallel universes (at least that's implied in the chat with Past!Prof), so...Past!Prof isn't from our universe. Both versions of the professor write their name on their books (I'd write my name on books I write into, too). Alt!Past!Prof receives Our!WhiteBook from us and forks their Alt!Book over to us and that's that.
Of course, this then requires Our!Prof to receive a white book from Alt!Us and not relinquish their Book to them, but they can go "But all I did was sign my Book! You can just buy another copy!" to them. The various versions of the professor do not have to think completely alike...
Of course, this then requires Our!Prof to receive a white book from Alt!Us and not relinquish their Book to them, but they can go "But all I did was sign my Book! You can just buy another copy!" to them. The various versions of the professor do not have to think completely alike...
All the drawings in the trailer were just the ones in the Scarlet/Violet Book that you can see in the library.
And no, there's no explanation to who Ogerpon's trainer was nor why he had those tera crystals with him. Maybe he was just someone from the exploration team.
I've not looked it up beyond seeing a few screenshots, since I want to experience it for myself, but I feel like I've heard it doesn't really explain anything pertaining to Ogerpon or its trainer.
I’ve actually been kinda thinking along these lines too. After all, time travel is completely fictional. There aren’t any real “rules” as to how it works. Some stories try to take a very neat and consistent approach, because that works best for the type of story they’re going for. But you don’t have to do it that way, if you’d rather go for the vibe of time travel making logically impossible scenarios possible. The professor giving away their SV Book before the story begins despite Arven having carried it throughout the story? Shouldn’t be possible, and yet it is. Maybe that’s the point.
There aren't real world rules, no, but Pokémon already has established that it functions on a system of one changeable timeline in all previous instances of time travel in the franchise.
At the very least in that light I can let it go. It at least speaks to an intentionality behind the whole Paradox thing, and probably only gets exacerbated because we had a long time to sit on it with expectations that there might be more to it.
Still gonna be annoyed at how they dropped the ball on other aspects of Area Zero in the DLC, though. Ah well...
Honestly, I don’t think the mainline Pokémon games have engaged substantially enough with time travel as a concept to have meaningfully established any rules. After all, we went through the entire plot of Scarlet & Violet without there being even a single mention of the fact that time machines used to be installed in every Pokémon Center 20 years ago, because the Time Capsule was ultimately just a frivolous side-feature that probably wasn’t meant to be taken too seriously. They’re not exactly drawing from a rich history of time travel narratives here — I think the only instances of time travel having major plot significance in the games have been the Celebi event in HGSS (which is a small but clean and self-contained loop) and Legends: Arceus (where it’s just a premise starter that never gets resolved in terms of causal impact).
I would also bring up that Pokemon has raised multiple concepts for a Multiverse or Alternate Reality approach to things with the Delta Episode dialogue and the Ultra Wormhole letting out into seemingly parallel versions of Alola. As far as the purposes of a Pokemon story tend to care, these would function about the same as its instances of Time Travel, since the Giovanni Loop prevents any change to how the other events play out and Legends Arceus not resolving your "out of time" situation means it just functions as another Isekai option.
If the story put more emphasis on things like the consequences of things being pulled out of time specifically these would be more important specifications, but the only significance the Paradox Pokemon are given is the fact that they exist in the game world and they should not ecologically, regardless of when or what they are. If anything this is about the same amount of explanation or focus something like AZ's war or the Ultra Beasts received, it just pops out here because by nature it's trying to get the player questioning it/confused whether or not providing answers is the point. On a subjective/English-Student level, I almost think the questionable info about the Paradoxes reinforces the idea that the Professor was playing with forces WAY beyond their control or comprehension using the (alleged or otherwise) Time Machine, driving home how dangerous their unchecked ambition was compared to something like SM Lusamine knowing the Ultra Beasts are Lovecraftian Aliens and still wanting to bring them to her.
Nintendo games are no stranger to throwing in massive sources of speculation that they don't resolve if the game itself and its primary story function without those answers (which regardless of the paradoxical holes, SV's does since the main purpose of the Pokemon is being displaced Entities of immense power): Zelda has its share with things like Stone Tower in MM or the vague Twili origins in TP, most of Metroid's story is in piecing together scan logs or side manga/comics, and Kirby is the poster child for a story on a pamphlet and lore that fills an Encyclopedia. SV is just one of the few times Pokemon has those elements entwined with its main narrative instead of tucked away in the Pokedex or attached to potentially-fiction-in-universe writings like Sinnoh legendaries.
If the story put more emphasis on things like the consequences of things being pulled out of time specifically these would be more important specifications, but the only significance the Paradox Pokemon are given is the fact that they exist in the game world and they should not ecologically, regardless of when or what they are. If anything this is about the same amount of explanation or focus something like AZ's war or the Ultra Beasts received, it just pops out here because by nature it's trying to get the player questioning it/confused whether or not providing answers is the point. On a subjective/English-Student level, I almost think the questionable info about the Paradoxes reinforces the idea that the Professor was playing with forces WAY beyond their control or comprehension using the (alleged or otherwise) Time Machine, driving home how dangerous their unchecked ambition was compared to something like SM Lusamine knowing the Ultra Beasts are Lovecraftian Aliens and still wanting to bring them to her.
Nintendo games are no stranger to throwing in massive sources of speculation that they don't resolve if the game itself and its primary story function without those answers (which regardless of the paradoxical holes, SV's does since the main purpose of the Pokemon is being displaced Entities of immense power): Zelda has its share with things like Stone Tower in MM or the vague Twili origins in TP, most of Metroid's story is in piecing together scan logs or side manga/comics, and Kirby is the poster child for a story on a pamphlet and lore that fills an Encyclopedia. SV is just one of the few times Pokemon has those elements entwined with its main narrative instead of tucked away in the Pokedex or attached to potentially-fiction-in-universe writings like Sinnoh legendaries.
tl;dr Game Freak wants us to ship Great Tusk with Enamorus
It's probably the Academy Ace Tournament since that's the last bit of proper "plot" and has their last normal set of teams.