3D Pokemon?! We can only hope . . .

I was six or seven years old at the time.  My family and I were on Long Island, heading to my grandparents' house for a visit.  As we pulled up to the house, my Pidgey used Gust to blow away the rest of Brock's Onix's HP, or health points.  After seemingly countless attempts, I had finally defeated the first gym leader of Kanto and Pokemon: Yellow Version.

Oh boy, these were the days . . .

That is where my gaming career as a whole had begun, on a brand-new Game Boy Color with my first game ever.  Even as a fine young student-athlete in college, Pokemon still holds a very special place in my heart.  In the many games Nintendo has put out over the years, the formula has remained the same for the most part: capture strange creatures of all shapes, colors, and sizes, train them to become strong, and battle other "trainers" to become the "Pokemon Master".

Yet through all the years, it has remained as successful as ever!  Gamers will sometimes buy a Nintendo system solely for the purpose of playing Pokemon games.  Pokemon has been a worldwide sensation since it hit the shelves in the U.S. in 1998 and just keeps growing.  However,  just when you start to think the plot and formula are getting a bit stale, the masterminds at Nintendo HQ in Japan bust out something new and ground-breaking to make us shut up.

What, did they FINALLY run out of colors?

With that being said, reports have come out that the Japanese gaming company is "rebuilding" the series from its 2D origins and roots and converting it over to the 3D world of gaming in the upcoming Pokemon: X and Y.  As a big Pokemon fan and supporter myself, I have been thinking for years, "What if Nintendo made a legitimate 3D Pokemon game that is based off the original formula?"  No Pokemon Stadium or any specialty game.  I'm talking about a straight up, 3D Pokemon game with the same gameplay and plot we have come to know and love.

The best combo of examples to use would be to have an open-world as large a scale as Skyrim and have some of the battle mechanics from Kingdom Hearts.  Imagine this: you are traveling around a new world and you are far enough into the game where you can use the move Surf in the open world, which also you to journey across bodies of water, whether it's a river, a lake or even an ocean as long as you have a Pokemon who has learned the move.  As you are traveling,  a wild Gyarados thrashes out of the depths to the surface in front of you.

A step in the right direction for the world of Pokemon.

Now, the game will pause to bring up a menu with some options.  Just as in the Kingdom Heart games, you would have the option to call upon comrades, or one of your Pokemon that is in your six-member party.  You can choose one of them to go into to battle or you may simply flee the possible conflict and try to lose the opposition.

If you choose to stand your ground (or water in this scenario), you don't watch your Pokemon go into action as you bark orders to it as in previous games.  No, you take CONTROL of the creature you have chosen to battle.  Your view switches from your trainer to the Pokemon, where you can move around freely to dodge or set up attacks, with certain buttons to activate moves your Pokemon knows.

You may bring a menu up freely as well during battle if your Pokemon needs a potion or other item to heal or recover, or to choose a Poke Ball to throw if you feel the time is right to capture the wild Pokemon . . .

Something like this would be astonishing to behold.

That sort of game would be so breathtaking and absolutely stunning that it could open so many doors for so much more in the future.  Kingdom Hearts with a Skyrim-sized world that holds hundreds of Pokemon and challenges in it?  X and Y Versions could be the start of something great that could change the world of Pokemon forever, but time will only tell if Nintendo will make my vision a reality . . . or some form of it.
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