i wish you luck bro

Idea.

When you're battling your rival at Lavender Town, have him mention how his raticate is dead.

"It's gone."

He goes into a monologue about the great times they've had together.

Then, the turns around to the player, music glitching up, and all he says is:

But he tasted so GOoD

Cue rival battle.

Lt. Surge could be haunted by the memories of war, to the point where he's hardly even lucid.

The traps in his gym aren't a fun way to hinder trainers; he thinks he's still under attack so, of course, everything actually damages the player. Maybe the player is electrocuted when they look into the wrong trashcan or something?

When you finally do reach him, rather then giving you a cocky speech, he mutters about endless blood and corpses and such. As he talks he gets louder and more aggressive. Finally he shouts something about having to kill you to avenge his fallen comrades before the battle starts.

The gym itself should be decrepit, with plenty of sparks and faulty wiring. The other trainers could be just as crazy or, I dunno, people who remember what Serge used to be like and are just playing along for his sake.

Make the dude who guards the cerulean cave wear a bearskin hat. Just imagine the scared look on the player's face when the guard moves to the side and it becomes clear that he never really was wrong about what it looked like, because THE GUARD IS ACTUALLY WEARING A BEARSKIN HAT! Oh snap! And only when the shock fades down he realizes that he's playing a hack and his brain didn't fool him, all of his memories are true and he's NOT going insane.

Man, I can almost hear the frantic heartbeats. Totally do this.

Blaine as pyromaniac?

You find out he was the one who burned down the mansion?

Koga poisons you and you have a time limit on getting through the gym?

lol u kidz

FUCKING STANTLER.

Stantler can distort reality and create illusions with its antlers by subtly changing the flow of air around them. Staring into them creates an odd sensation, as if one is being sucked through them, and one may become so dizzy it makes them impossible to stand.

The curved antlers subtly change the flow of air to create a strange space where reality is distorted.

Those who stare at its antlers will gradually lose control of their senses and be unable to stand.

Staring at its antlers creates an odd sensation as if one were being drawn into their centers.

Seriously. Why hasn't anyone noticed this? It changes reality, destroys your senses and self-control, and tries to take your soul out via antlers.

>>27028
I'm pretty sure it's stated in-game that Mewtwo burned the mansion down after escaping, but he can still be a crazy pyro. I was thinking something like, Blaine helped work on the Mewtwo project and, after it failed, the horror seeing his fellow scientists die all around him slightly unhinged him.

During the game, as usual. the player must go through the Pokemon Mansion to find the key to Blaine's gym, but this time death traps have been set up all throughout the mansion to protect the research notes hidden inside along with the key.

The research notes themselves start off hopeful and calm but get more frightened and incoherent as the project progresses. By the end we're just left with a scrawled, bloody note asking, "What have we done?"

I think it's safe to say that your pokemon should die rather then faint if KO'd in battle.

You could have a plot in the Lavender Town cemetery for all the pokemon you lose throughout the game. If you visit the graves while wearing the Silph Scope you can see all their decaying souls, moaning about how you failed them and let them die.

>>27119
have it so you have to fight all your dead Pokemon like the Sorrow fight in MGS3.

>>27088
Pokedex entries are a great place to find canon creepy stuff that can just be further twisted.

For example:
The crack in shedinja's back steals your soul, froslass freezes and displays its prey Sander Cohen style, dusknoir gets messages from the dead and is essentially a grim reaper, etc.

I feel like a lot of work would have to be done with the sprites. Even the most terrifying of the ghost and dark types are aimed at ten-year-olds.There's nothing that could really strike fear into your heart.

>>27119
So perma-Nuzlock mode?

>>26987
So I'm NOT the only one who thought the guy in front of the cave looked like he had a big hat? Though I thought it was more like one of those Russian tall hats.

>>27119
With all the game's typical balance plus all this other traps and stuff through in that seems like it would make the game practically unwinnable baring loads of save scumming.