If there’s one thing I want more of, it’s myth- and folklore-inspired Pokémon. They are The Best Ones. I don’t even care whether we’re talking about Japanese stuff, or wider Asian stuff, or anywhere else. I think one of the designers has said that there have been no Pokémon so far who are based on Greco-Roman mythology, which is the particular cultural milieu I’m interested in (though there are definitely some who are based on ideas that have Greco-Roman counterparts). I would like to see some of that. Again, though, it’s all good. Myths and folktales last for a reason; they express powerful, evocative ideas. Designs based on them have a certain inexpressible dignity… or, so I feel.
(Incidentally: at my university there is a long-standing rivalry between the Egyptian historians and the Greco-Roman historians, but I must still concede that Lucario is beyond epic)
So, in a word: Yes.
