(Supposed to be working on my foreign policy essay during class…but this is more important. :P) Serebii officially revealed all the English names for all the major locations today!
UPD: The official site has inadvertently revealed the English name for the Miracle Shooter, it is now known as the Wonder Launcher!
UPD2: Since we now know all the English names for all the locations we can officially make an accurate map! Our previous map was spot on, with the exception of Adville Town missing. So, for your viewing pleasure I’ve created two new, complete maps (Mind you, they’re not professional) so that you can tell where everything is located within the Unova Region! Here’s the Towns/Cities map, and here’s the important locations map. Enjoy!
- P2 Lab is now P2 Laboratory
- Abandoned Lot of Dreams is now Dreamyard
- The Opening of the Underground Water Vein is now Wellspring Cave
- Resort Desert is now Desert Resort
- Ancient Castle is now Relic Castle
- Hodomoe Drawbridge is now Driftveil Drawbridge
- The Freezer Containers is now Cold Storage
- Fukiyose City is now Mistralton City
- Fukiyose Cave is now Mistralton Cave
- Electric Rock Cave is now Chargestone Cave
- The Tower of Heavens is now Celestial Tower
- The Ridge is now Twist Mountain
- Sekka Moor is now Moor of Icirrus
- Kanawa Town is now Anville Town
- Cylinder Bridge is now Tubeline Bridge
- Training Cave is now Challenger’s Cave
- Souryuu City is now Opelucid City
- Kagome Town is now Lacunosa Town
- Village Bridge keeps it’s name
- Giant Hole is now Giant Chasm
- Sazanami Town is now Undella Town
- Sazanami Bay is now Undella Bay
- Fertility Shrine is now Abundant Shrine
- Wonder Bridge is now Marvelous Bridge
- Illusion Forest is now Lostlorn Forest
I rather like all the localizations, it’s just a shame about the character limit. They make a few names kinda awkward. :s
Peace — ozymandis
I would have preferred Spiral Mountain but… meh.
Haha. Always up to date ;D But I’m actually pissed off by the stupid name-changes like: “Sky Arrow Bridge” is now “Skyarrow Bridge”. It’s pointless. Would the elimination of a space between words be that important? haha 😀 😀
Probably because of limited character spaces for location names available?
Yeah, I skipped that part of it haha. Your probably right. But I think the amount of character spaces available has increased since the first games and will continue to do so; so in the end, longer names won’t be a problem XD
but what i don’t get is why it is limited in the first place??
Because chars have fixed bytes. You can increase them, but that requires more memory.
And how does Anville town fit in with the cloud theme? When I read that name, my first thought was Wile E. Cayote trying to drop an anvil on Roadrunner.
*coyote. I can never spell that right.
Dudddeee sameeee. 8D
ahahaaaa Good times. 🙂
Haha Ozy; funny as always 😀
thunderclouds look like anvils because they flatten out at the top when they hit the next layer of atmosphere.
Nice localisations. Shame about Skyarrow Bridge. Couldn’t they have gone with Sky Arow or Arro. It doesn’t have to be full English PUSA T_T
They have character letter limits… :b
I know that’s why I removes one r or a w
It’s not PUSA anymore, it’s TPCI.
Character limit?
Character limit means that within the program of the game; placeholders for letters and numbers can only go so far without an error occuring. I think the maximum is around 10-15.
It could be in the 20’s also before the limitation hits its point XD
Anville Town comes from the Anvil formation that some clouds have like the cumulonimbus capillatus. Here’s a link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cloud_types You have to scroll down a little bit though.
Anville Town’s name comes from the Anvil formation that some clouds have like the cumulonimbus capillatus.
Twist Mountain, srsly…
It is where one goes to learn how to do “The Twist”.
I don’t see a huge problem with it besides reminding me of that song.
i’d quote the korn song “twist”, but that’s the only real word in it. it accurately represents how i feel when i’m wandering around that place though! lol
I personally found “Mt. Unova” to be a much better name for the place…..
i woulda liked it if they just called it ”The Ridge”
Or something like Spiral Mountain.
Sounds like some ride from Six Flags lol
Some of these names are good but some stink worse then Garbodor
On a completely different aspect of pokemon B&W… have you guys heard the new theme song of the anime
(i know its a bit late but ive just heard it)…personally i prefer the japanese song… at least its catchy
yeah, i also liked how in the japanese version they revealed pokémon as they were seen by ash. most of it was cut out in the dub though.
and also the ending bit where all of the pokemon(new) are are cut out because of the logo… it sucks =(
The Pokemon names are good compared to some of these, but I still will not forgive Throh and Sawk…..
so true 🙁
Belmad?! 😀
Yes!!
I’m so happy that they turned out true because they were absolutely brilliant names.
I LOVE CLOUD THEME!
I was going to use “Celestial Tower” in my fangame, but now that is useless, also, Twist Mountain, seriously, TWIST MOUNTAIN!? At least they gave the cave with the overly long name a shorter name, that being Wellspring Cave…..
Also, you spelled Kanawa Town as Kanawa Twon *laughs*
P2 LaBROtory? A good place to chill!
I blame my iPhone. :<
out of curiosity what is the starting town called ?
Nuvema Town.
I THINK.
all right thanks and just looked the name up and you were right 😀
These all actually sound great! 🙂 I’m kind of surprised. Though I probably would have changed “Dreamyard” to “Dreamlot”, but it’s nothing distracting.
Still butthurt about SkyArrow lmao I know, characters…but…sigh.
http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/UK_Celebi_event_announced
UK finally getting Celebi o:
i think they were gonna update the site but an error occurred so they have a button, which if you mouse over says wonder launcher, but no page
http://www.pokemonblackwhite.com/en-us/gameplay/equipment/xtransceiver/ (the right button)
and
http://www.pokemonblackwhite.com/en-us/gameplay/equipment/pokedex/ (the left button)
I posted this on the last article but i think it was too late for anyone to see…
So Nintendo Store New York has a 2 day event planned for the release of B&W starting on the 5th. I went there today to ask and buy a plush mew for my wife (late valentine’s ftw).
Anyway, also took some pictures:
http://img35.imageshack.us/i/img0534rc.jpg/
http://img689.imageshack.us/i/img0535uk.jpg/
http://img835.imageshack.us/i/img0536d.jpg/
The second one’s the best. Glass separations between the DSiXLs with Zekrom and Reshiram on them. Pretty cool huh?
Oh wow awesome. Im going back in April. I havent been since septemberish. Nice to see they are going all out to promote Black and white. I still remember when it was the pokemon center… Good times. Hopefully I can find some black and white plushes/ mini figures/t shirt…
Thats another place I will visit if I ever go to New York. I’m very impressed with all of the extravagance invalving pokemon black and white. The window is my favorite as well. The 5th is my other halfs’ birthday.
By the way whats a plush Mew?
This:
http://www.toystoreinc.com/catalog/mew%20poke%20doll.bmp
🙂
OMGMYFUCKINGGODTHATIZSOCUTEICANTSTANDMUSTHAVE ~OMNOMNOMNOM
Black and white got 99% from Official Nintendo Magazine. LOL!
Hey, this has some relevance to foreign policy.
Sanyou city should be named Rainbowland because of the 3 gay gym leaders
So this site should also be renamed PokéRainbow?
Dumbass.
I’m okay with all of them but Lostlorn Forest, which straight-up murders my tongue when I try to say it.