Collecting the Gym badge in the Pokémon series is just something you do, but it wasn’t always planned this way.
‘Do you know how to play games?? ‘ spent a lot of time looking for some new information about the popular RPG series – translating 100 pages of the book “only for Japan”Game Freak: The Creative Team Rewrote the Rules in the Play World‘, written by Game Freak developer Akihito Tomisawa.
Instead of badges, the original plan for Original Pokémon game is to represent the rank of the trainer through the colored belt – similar to martial arts. These belts will at one stage also be used as the trainer’s Pokémon whip.
“… The development staff decided that humans should have ‘rank’ as monster trainers. The original idea was that when the player’s Pokémon reached a certain level of strength, they would be earned. ‘belts’ like a boxer.”
“Not only white belts and black belts like in Judo, more colors are needed. If you can get the belt, what if you can use it as a training whip? Like red whip, black whip, or yellow whip.”
In the end, the team decided they wanted the trainers to develop a closer and “friendly” relationship with the Pokémon – like a pet, so they scrapped the idea and went with the badge. .
“…in the end, it was too cruel to force players to whip their Pokémon, so the idea was dropped. Their relationship with the player should be more friendly, like the object owner. So in the end it is decided that you will earn the badge [instead]. “
Although the belt concept was not implemented, the whips still appear in the original game. Red didn’t make the list, but many of the other trainer characters in the game still have whips in the final build.
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