RE: Big Brother: Oh Brother Not Again! 2nd HoH challenge: Make a Game! This will end October 3rd, 9 PM Central Time
In my games, Pokémon Signur and Pokémon Gondo, a new element is introduced: the battles are based on Pokémon card games (however, the battle sequences retain the same visuals.) The storyline between the two games differs slightly, but not by much. No new Pokémon are introduced.
In the main plot of the game, the player begins in a dark room, sitting at a desk. A cutscene shows the paper he is reading, addressed to “Inspector (Name.)” The letter talks of a case in which an extremely valuable baseball card was stolen from the world’s top card collector, then unnamed. The letter is signed by a Jason Jackson. (In Signur, the card is Steven Signur, and in Gondo, the card is Joey Gondo.) The player then gains control of the character. They may maneuver the room at free will until they are ready to leave.
When the character exits, he/she runs into the police chief, a good friend of his/hers. The police chief explains that when attempting to track major criminals, the character will run into several minor criminals who will want to fight.. with a Pokémon card battle. The police chief asks if the character knows how to battle with Pokémon cards. Newcomers to the game will be able to play through a tutorial, but players who have played through the game before may skip it.
Battle Mechanics:
- The card will come to life, popping into 3-D during the battle sequences. The attacks will be listed under the attack menu.
- Rather than “Item” and “Pokémon” menus, there will be the options of “Draw” and “Hand.” The player may look at their hand and play a card from it, or may draw a card from the deck.
- A “forfeit” option will be available, however, it will set you behind the trainer you were battling, and you will not be able to pass until you beat him/her.
Before the player sets on the way to catch the criminal, the police officer stops him. He offers him three options of decks: one based around Hippopotas, one based around Raichu, and the final based around Seaking.
As the player progresses through the Ramana region from the starting point, Jagged Town, they find themselves in Huenin City-“Where everything is rainbow.” True to its word, every building is colored, on both the outside and the inside, rainbow. In the city’s Games Hall (similar to the “gyms” in regular Pokémon games,) the player makes their way through a rainbow path filled with TCG players to get to Fiona, who uses a deck based around Rapidash. As a result of winning, extra cards are received, and put in the binder. The gate to Vinegrass city is opened.
Skipping minor details, the player progresses through:
-Vinegrass city, “Every rose has a thorn”-GH leader “Cruel Crusher” or “c squared.” Uses deck based around Torterra.
-Monopoly City, “the city of wealth”-GH leader Laib. Uses Alakazam deck.
-Ecof City, “The all-natural alternative”-GH leader Fireem. Uses Vileplume
deck.
Tips for TCG playing and extra cards are given as a reward for completing each games hall. Booster packs are available at each Poké Mart, along with more expensive decks.
Also, the ability to progress to the next city is available. The tips you are given are viewable at any given time.
As soon as the player completes the fourth and final games hall and is able to show the cards he won to the guards blocking the gates to each city, he is able to move on to a path that leads to the “town of crime”- Ocity city, and is immediately surrounded by criminals, who push him into a room with one door and no windows, and lock him in. There are, however, several things inside the room with him, one including the baseball card that was stolen.
Once the player finds the knife hidden in the room, they must use it to cut their way out of the room with the baseball card in hand. However, the character is caught in the middle of his act by the world’s most renowned criminal masterminds. There are 5 of these, the last one being the original thief. After you battle through the first 4, they quickly run away, and only the original thief is left. Instead of using cards, he pulls a Poké Ball from his belt and sends out a legendary Pokémon he illegally captured: either Regigigas (Gondo) or Deoxys (Signur.) Hypnotized by the criminal, it chases you until you are cornered. Before it is about to kill you, the thief explains that the letter was simply a fraud created in order to get rid of one of the world’s greatest detectives, the card is a copy and that he is Jason Jackson. Regigigas/Deoxys raises a fist/glows under Jason’s control, but before anything can be done, the hypnotizing mechanism used on the legendary Pokémon is knocked out of Jason’s hands and falls to the ground, smashing into pieces. The person who knocked it out of his hand then ties him up, and hands him over to the police chief, who had just arrived there after receiving a message that (name) was in danger.
The scene switches to the police chief’s house, where the character, the police chief, and the character’s savior (who turned out to be Steven Svals, the world’s top baseball card collector) are all eating dinner and discussing the evening. Steven explains that he is a Pokémon card enthusiast, and tells of a games hall in a city far to the north, where only the best are allowed in. This is the aftergame. The player has the free will to explore the city, but there is now a submarine in the rainbow waters of Huenin City that will travel to TCG Island using a sub pass given to the player by Steven. The player must go through a test battle and win in order to ensure of their entry into The League, which is very similar to the Battle Frontiers.
And that’s the end.
Ramana: (Rah-muh-nah)
The green dots inside each city represent a Games Hall. The rainbow-colored blob next to Huenin City is Huenin Lake. From Huenin, the player must go to Vinegrass, then back through Huenin to reach Monopoly. The green area on the path to Ecof represents the Ecof forest, which the player must go through on their way to Ecof AND Ocity (AU-city.) The path on the water, leading to Opknot city (the city with the league) is the path the Victory Submarine takes once it surfaces. Finally, the city not explained in the diagram is Altytu (al-TIE-too) city, "The city on the hill." In order to reach it, the player must have received a special pin from being ranked a Level 50 in Opknot. Here, the player may catch real Pokémon, Safari Zone-style. After all catchable Pokémon have been obtained (which is not easy,) the legendary opposite of the one that chased the player earlier in the game (the one in the other game, that is) will be catchable here.
The game is "100% Complete" when:
-The player is ranked Level 100 in the Opknot Games Hall
-Regigigas/Deoxys has been caught
-All cards included in the game have been collected
-Each GH leader, and the major criminals, have been defeated twice (the Games Hall leaders are stronger. The criminals have retired to a life of Pokémon TCG playing, but as a result, they are stronger also.)
More minor details (Last Minute):
-In Huenin city, in order to get into the Games Hall, the player must pass Fiona's daughter (who will block the games hall) by going to Huenin's painter and getting their face painted rainbow. They will then be granted entry.