Thread:Mystic Monkey/@comment-2202259-20191010124259/@comment-2202259-20191018051414

I was talking about possibilities in the 90s not today. Actually Pokemon came out a year before Digimon in Japan, & Digimon is generally viewed as the better series these days. The actual overarching plots, & much higher stakes are why Digimon was able to thrive to begin with. I mean the 1st major antagonist of the series was Devimon & it took a lot to defeat him with Angemon (same Champion level) sacrificing himself for the power to win.

Pokemon Anime was just an endless journey type series much like One Piece although without storyarcs that actually had stakes to them. Even the Digimon games themselves were much different from Pokemon games. It's ironic that Pokemon is starting to suffer from the same problems as the Sonic Series these days. GameFreak had a harder time converting the series to 3D than Sonic Team did with Sonic. Then there are the problems of it feeling like the developers just don't care as much about the series these days as they once did in both Sonic & Pokemon games. Because of how Nintendo is about hiring fans, it's unlikely Pokemon will get its Sonic Mania.

I agree its unfortunate that Sega never uses half of their old IPs. Nights probably had better chances of forming a rivalry with Kirby than Ristar. I mean both Kirby & Nights fight Nightmare like monsters & are capable of floating/flight. Wizeman vs Nightmare deathbattle would be interesting to see someday.