I was thinking about the posibility of Stars being a sequel to SM but there's lots of stuff that makes me realise its unlikely
1. Who would be the bad guy?
Team Skull split in a peaceful way and its obvious neither Guzma or Plumeria are really evil. Lusamine also feels very unlikely to be bad after everything that happened and wht went with lillie at the end. Faba is more of a lackey (like Zinzolin or Xerosic) then an evil boss material. There's literally no one who could play evil role (not to mention a whole team)
2. Alola is way too tight as a region to add more to it. For example adding more cities and towns in Unova was simple because the region was on a big mass of land (same with Johto or Kalos). With Alola we have 4 island set in stone because of its lore: 4 islands guarded by 4 Tapus and leaded by 4 Kahunas. Adding more islands to the region just wouldnt work and the islands are pretyy full already. Maybe you could've add a city in Poni but thats about it
3, Any Kanto theories are jus wishful thinking at this point. If GF really wanted Kanto anytime soon they would've just go with it on the annivesary. Besides its a lot more likely we'll get Kanto remakes at some point anyway (25th annivesary?)
Personally i think we'll get just a simple, updated third version with few more buildings (on those empty lots), few more old characters in Battle Tree and some other extra features
the villain team's motivation will be wanting to put alola back to its previous traditions instead of adopting the same gym and e4 format as other regions
>>30805631
That doesnt even make sense since no one seems to be bothered by the league and no one says there will be gyms
>>30806947
No one's bothered by it because it's not until the very end of the game and no one speaks up about it
Gyms will be in the empty lots to establish a proper league
>>30804560
Faba's the villain in Stars. It just feels like he got way too much attention for how little a role he played.
It'll be a third version of the game that extends beyond what we've already gotten as a postgame. More to do with UBs, Zygarde, the battle tree, etc.