Is this your rival?
June 26, 2010 Tags: black, japan, sunday, translation, video, white
Category: Black/White, Games 1 Comment 
This is a screenshot of Pokemon Sunday and the above screenshot is saying “I will become the champion”. Could this be our rival…? If so it looks like he’s much older than any from previous generations.
Also important (in order during the clip): Battle animations are shown and look AWESOME if I may be so bold. Very animated <3 We also see someone with a mask covering one eye (male Lady Gaga?) who looks quite evil… Then we see a scene which looks like it could be a gym battle with the familiar sprite vs sprite, the female is named Cheren. Gym Leader? Evil syndicate member? Also a rollercoaster :p We’ll see B&W hit Japan on the 18th of September… although that date has been floating around for forever.
Originally linked to Filb.de, but found a better vid for you guys: (why SPP didn’t link it, I dunno. That’s why you visit PJN right?! 8D )
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG-R-t2o-AA
<3 pokejungle
ps- Let’s talk a second about the ‘Cheren Dilemma’ if you watch the video, you’ll see the main character battles her and a “VS” screen comes up, like Gym Leaders and the Elite 4 had in 4th Gen games. HOWEVER if you look closely at the room they are in it is clearly unlike any gym in any generation so far, mainly because it looks like just a messy house room. So now we have to speculate… do we really think she’s a gym leader? Or is she someone else? Perhaps connected to the evil team? She is shown right after the evil looking guy. Comments?
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Looking at the Cheren battle scene, I doubt he/she’s a Gym Leader. Not only does it look more or less like a messy, grubby bedroom (you can see a bed in the bottom right corner), but there’s also another person in a beret, very close to the battle. Now, unless they’ve done something like introduced Gym Battle Referees, and this is one of them, I think it’s more likely that Cheren is either an important NPC, like a Rival/Pseudorival, or a high up level villain, akin to the Galactic Admins.
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/6185/cherenbattlescreen.png
As for the other news, I quite like the new character designs. I particularly like the character-art perspective for the conversation with (who may be) the rival. It brings to mind the Persona series of games, which I personally love, so I’m quite excited about the style similarities.
Also, in the rollercoaster scene, there is a figure (who I presume to be a woman) is quite characteristic clothing in the top left corner. If you notice, there is a gateway to the rollercoaster track to the side of this woman. Now, from here, I’d suggest that if any of these scenes was displaying a Gym, this would be it. The distinctive appearance, and her position on a purple shape brings to mind a gym, where the badge design usually appears somewhere in the gym. From the atmosphere, I’d guess at it being a Dark, Ghost, or possibly Poison Gym, if it is a gym at all.