Featured Image Credit: The Pokémon Company/Pokémon Prisme
Pokémon Prisme is one of the best fan-made Pokémon games we’ve ever seen, and we’re hoping some of its features will find their way into the next mainline game.
Game Freak is taking a bit of a break from Pokémon with Beast of Reincarnation but another Pokémon is obviously on the way too. While we wait for news we’ve been checking out the fan-made Pokémon Prisme, which does just about everything we’d want a pocket-monsters game to do.
Below are five mechanics/additions in Pokémon Prisme that we’d like to see either introduced or return in the next mainline game.
Pokémon never got better than being able to return to Kanto towards the end of Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal. Sure, you can go to Blueberry Academy in Unova in the DLC for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, but does that really count when it's a brand new area?
It’d be nice if future Pokémon games were expanded with at least one returning location as bonus content, as it’d be a great way to reintroduce some classic ‘mon. Imagine a mega game that showed how all these regions connect to each other as well!
Advert
If you want to see more from GAMINGbible, make us a preferred source on Google
Pokémon Prisme teases the return of a “legendary Pokémon master” and my first thought went to one of our protagonists from the first three generations.
Gold/Silver/Crystal was genius for this. Battling our previous protagonist for the title of Pokémon master was incredible and yet it was never continued in future games. It’d be a little hard to do nowadays as our characters are more bespoke/customised but I’m sure Game Freak could make it work, somehow.
While the roster of Pokémon Prisme doesn’t include every ‘mon that’s ever been, it does give some of them some more unique designs.
Regional variants are becoming more and more common in the latest official games and I want to see it go further in the next one.
Modern Pokémon games have fallen into a bit of a formula. A new game has two or three new legendaries and then at the end there’s some magical way of catching all the previous ones.
While I do like that, simply shoe-horning them in feels like a wasted opportunity so why not weave in some of the more niche legendary/mythical Pokémon into the story or side-content. I’m thinking of Darkrai being the final boss of Pokémon Legends: Z-A’s DLC and Deoxys being present in Pokémon Prisme.
Game Freak please, please, please give us some difficulty options in the next game. There are self-imposed difficulties like Nuzlocke runs, but why not make it an official mode, or at the very least a slider for how smart/tough you want the trainers and gym leaders to be. I feel like that's the bare minimum in 2026.
Pokémon Prisme is free to download and check out right now, and it’s a very different flavour of Pokémon game to those we’ve been getting over the past few years, we think the modern games could learn a thing or two from it.
