Pokemon developer Game Freak has been suffering through leaks for the past few days, revealing everything from details about official titles like Pokemon Legends: Z-A to strange stories about Pokemon and humans having children together. Yeah, it's been pretty wild.
Nintendo has previously resorted to legal retribution in cases like this, and Pokemon feels like the biggest leak yet.
Those leaks are still happening though, and more details about future projects are leaking onto social media almost every day. Today's big leak seems to concern Gen 10 and its subsequent game, which seemingly confirms various theories that Pokemon fans have had about its setting. Pokemon insider Centro Leaks shared what appears to be a conversation between several key employees at Game Freak, discussing in 2022 how ideas in the Pokemon anime and the setting of Gen 10 may clash.
An employee called Ohmori (presumably longtime Pokemon game designer and director Shigeru Ohmori) mentions the setting for the next Pokemon game has already been decided, and that Game Freak was "planning a game with an island theme after Titan". From this conversation, we know that Titan was the internal codename for Pokemon Scarlet & Violet.
Even before today's leaks, there was...