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After a busy week we’re here with our usual Pokémon Smash post! This week is the movie special episode so expect lots of craziness based around the movie that released recently in Japan.
This week I will not be posting live updates as the episode airs, instead I will provide a write-up with any relevant information. Apologies for this, I’m away from my computer so won’t be able to watch and update at the same time. However, NL should be available in the PJ chat!
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Because we didn’t provide a live write-up of what happened in this weeks episode, below you can find a quick bullet point list of what happened.
- Movie Time! Zorua in “The Legend of the Pokémon Knight”! was this weeks anime episode.
- After discussion about the movie a small feature showed Shokotan and her voicing Sylveon in a studio.
- Smash had Pokémon Tretta in the studio for a demonstration.
- In the XY Corner Gym Leader Viola and Alexa were shown off.
- Finally the episode ended with a small TCG section and the preview for next week.
The episode next week is said to have a BIG announcement for X & Y!
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Hopefully a little new trailer! (I know we already had one) but I can’t wait for next week! When they show GAMEPLAY 😀
You might be shown the trailer that was shown before the movie. There’s not much in it , it mainly shows off the bike and that it hasn’t been fully replaced. Then just the Pokemon oorotto in a horde battle. 🙂
I hoping we will get the Demo “sorry” of the game next week 😀 We need it seriously
Demon? XD
I think he means the 3rd in the trio like giratina or kyurem
I think he means demo. Maybe.
Yea! I think he means I’m hoping we will get the demo of the game next week 😀 We need it seriously! And the demo will be on PKMN Smash next week 🙂
sorry is demo
Its alright 🙂
who cares
Hopefully the preview at the end of the episode gives us a glimpse of what kind of gameplay we’ll be getting next week.
I hope it’s not the same as the Game Show Demo and I hope it’s not at the beginning of the game, as I want that to be a complete surprise to me when I play the game myself.
Maybe they’ll show Orotto during their time playing the game copy they got.
Or maybe during commercial breaks?
Maybe! But that is next week, July 20th for us and July 21 for Japan!
I hope we get the new tree pokemon today!
A little bit of nostalgia while waiting!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZOUdSFlFI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quVvV016LPk
I think today’s just gonna be a filler episode:
Gameplay of newly revealed Pokes vs old gen Pokes
Yea! Next pokemon smash is when we get the gameplay
Yeah I know…it should be smashing!
No it wont I would expect some of the new pokemon from corocoro
I have a feeling will be seeing the New trailer that was shown along with the movie.
Don’t expect too much from the trailer. There’s not much in it as I said before.
Where is the stream
Should the stream b up now?
Pokemon Smash episodes are pre-recorded so this one could have been filmed an x amount of time ago. Which means I doubt we will see the tree Pokémon or maybe even the Pokémon recently revealed. Who knows, maybe they planned the schedule, etc. to coincide with the release of the Pokémon. (Just lowering everyone’s expectations just in case nothing new is shown) :]
I just CAN’T at their Genesect costumes. Those pieces are supposed to be at back not front.
Now semi-naked male is imitating Pokemon and there is endless laughter going on. WTF is going on?
No.
Japanese commertials are weird
Important anouncement for smash next week and CoroCoro promised to be the biggest scoop of the century. Gonna be tons of awesome info coming these next few weeks! 🙂
Except Smash will have nothing. Corocoro is the only hope for some serious info and it is still 4 weeks away.
i know right the BIG announcement for X & Y is most likely some thing everyone already knows
Yup. If it is a reveal of Orotto I’d be happy with that. But it is probably just the Corocoro pokemon.
This is where I get your hopes up. What if they show us the final evolved forms of the starter Pokemon!
then i would be really, really happy but i never get my hopes up for smash. they have yet to reveal any pokemon for X and Y so why start now
The revealed the mewtwo forme.
oh yea huh. but they have not done any besides that and i don’t know if a would call revealing the mewtwo forme as revealing a new pokemon for X and Y
They have done so in the past and although the forme may not be officially a new Pokemon species it is in fact a new Pokemon in the forme sense. So you both should just agree to disagree 🙂
I’m actually betting that we’ll see Mewtwo Y pop up in CoroCoro next month. It’s obvious it has two formes because the source has always been correct from Pokebeach and the site data suggesting “M2X” as the label for the one we do know. The source said Mewtwo Y looks more close to Mew and I’ve heard part of the movie is about trying to perfect the cloning process or alter Mewtwo.
They won’t.
The scoop might just be the confirmation of the final typings , it would be great however to see final evolutions.
I trust CoroCoro more than Smash. And there are only 2 issues left (!!) to go before release, so hopefully we get some more good stuff soon.
But considering that only a little while ago CoroCoro *promised* to have new info the next month, and then came up empty handed and were basically like ‘LOL we lied sorry!!1!’ I wouldn’t hold your breath for them either. The good stuff comes when it comes 🙂
Finally someone with sense within all the madness 🙂
A 3d trailer for eshop
so what is everyone else hoping for on the next smash gameplay wise? i mean besides the catching of the new pokemon. Do you want to hear more about team flare or something???? i know i do.
I honestly don’t care. I just want more pokemon. 😀
Hundreds and hundreds of Pokemon. 🙂
Why is the spoiler thing empty?
The ‘spoiler thing’ is a chat between members. And it’s sure not empty.
Hitotsuki/Honedge is the first time in this franchise’s history that I have been disappointed with a Pokémon design. I don’t have a problem with a sword Pokémon, I have a problem with how it was designed. It is literally a sword with just an eye on it. The eye doesn’t even make it look like a creature when it’s unseathed. The blue cloth “hand” at least wins some points.
I know it’s a possessed sword, but Rotom’s forms were possessed appliances and had cartoony shapes instead of being just like an appliance with two eyes and a mouth. If you’re going to make a sword Pokémon, then at least give the blade one of those crazy shapes you see in anime and tokusatsu or some design quirk that makes it look alive/like a being like a mouth-shaped scratch and don’t put all the creativity (and the face) only in the scabbard.
I just hope that when they make a key Pokémon they give it a creative shape or color like you see in Keyblades or a face that makes it look alive and don’t make it literally look like a key with eyes (and possible mouth).
Magnemiteeeeeeeeee.
Have you seen Magnamite & Voltorb!? :]
Looks like I’m being mistaken for a genwunner.
Well, Magnemite and Voltord, despite being uncreative, have big eyes that make them look alive, like creatures. Electrode and Ditto have tiny eyes, but they a big mouth and a smiley face that make them look alive. If they were mouthless, then they wouldn’t look as alive the other two.
Voltorb and Electrode, Magnemite and Magneton, Ditto, Grimer and Muk, Unown, Beldum, Solrock and Lunatone, Bronzor and Bronzong, Lampent, Trubbish. Just name it, so far every Pokémon based on inanimate things had some trait that made them look alive. Honedge is the first one who has a problem of not looking alive when unseathed.
Honedge’s face is located on its scabbard, and when it unseathes itself in battle, which is when we see Pokémon for the most part of the gameplay, it doesn’t look alive because it has no face. Its eye alone cannot make it lively due to how the eye is designed. This is not good design. A good design would have been putting a face on the sword and treat the scabbard as some sort of mask. But no, they had to use all the creativity on the scabbard and in the end there was nothing left for the blade.
Due to the statement that it unseathes itself in battle, there are rumors it will be seathed during the Pokémon-Amie, but it still has not been confirmed. It that’s not the case, then it will only look alive in the Sugimori art, which is a big problem. I hope the rumors are right.
Don’t say ” this is not a good design ” this is your opinion so start saying its your opinion before making outrageous comments like that, the majority of people disagree with.
I agree with Simkenno this is your opinion just don’t go around saying ”it’s not a good design” because I think Honedge looks quite ”alive” The eye & the arm are unique & give it, it’s own unique Flare + the fact it holds it’s own sheath is alive enough for me (that’s probably dumb but hey that’s how i see it) I & many other ppl love the design. And I just want u to know I respect your opinion :/
I can get where you’re coming from; the yellow and silver in-game looks somewhat bland; an evolution might solve that though. Not to say I don’t like it sheathed, though.
I’m a little sad that it’s more of a Western ‘Excalibur’ design than a katana or something, but hey *shrugs* the game is set in a region based on europe so it’s not a massive surprise.
But I’m definitely with you that they could’ve done more with the design. I hope this guy’ll grow on me because the idea of a sword pokemon is still fun, even if it didn’t live up to expected potential.
You never know. This might just be the first evolution. The French one is called “Mono”(i forgot the rest) and the English name is called H”one”edge. There’s gonna be a second evolution and possibly a third which will take the design to a whole new level… hopefully.
Some one in another discussion on Honedge’s announcement, I think it was Kriffix or Dae, mentioned something about three European swords owned by some Count or knight, suggesting Honedge may instead have two counterparts. I don’t remember the full explanation.
Either way, there must be something special about Honedge for Masuda himself to announce it. Maybe it and another shield and armor/helmet Pokémon fuse to evolve into a ghost knight? Now that fusion has been introduced by Kyurem, I think they should introduce some evolution method based on it, and retcon Slowpoke’s evolution method to this.
Am I still the only one who thinks it’s intended to be pronounced as “On Edge” (silent H in French, you know). It fits a ghost type and a sword, as well as Honour, Hone and Edge.
Actually, the opening in the sheath and how the sword looks inside it does make it look like a mouth. So you can argue it does have a mouth already.
Yes, but only when it’s sheathed. The problem is that when it’s unsheathed, which is how we’ll see it during most of the gameplay since most of it is spent battling, it doesn’t have a proper face or any feature that makes it look alive. This is the problem I’m having with it.
For all you know it may end up being covered by the sheath in battle at some point. So relax complaining so much and think positive 🙂
I would to agree that honedge has a very disappointing design, unsheathed. however with it’s sheath on, it looks awesome!
It isn’t really meant to look like a creature, it’s literally a spirit that has possessed a blade – be grateful it has an eye peaking through the crystal on the hilt at least! I’m not happy with the sheath though, it looks odd.
I want to see a shield Pokemon next (Bronzor is more like a badge).
You know what would be awesome? A motorcycle Rotom as one of those alternate means of transportation.
I wouldn’t dig that, and for the same reason I think mow rotom was a poor choice. Rotom is an electricity ghost. It shouldn’t be haunting things that run on gas. Electric scooter rotom would be interesting, sure, but it wouldn’t make for a good interesting typing like the others do.
um on that note, not all lawnmowers run on gas, some of them are electric. You plug them into an outlet on the outside of your house, and away you go.
Never seen them in my area. Everyone has gas-powered ride-on mowers or gas push mowers.
But the main idea is that non-electric rotom forms are a no-go.
While I’m genuinely pleased that many people find this program entertaining, I can’t help but wonder if there is not something more they could be doing with the show. As it stands now the episodes seem to be fairly uneventful.
so the sableye evolution wasn’t revealed in the movie then?
Both sableye and feraligatr were HEAVILY featured in the move. Feraligatr to put out fires but sableye for no apparent reason. Probably promoting it for a possible future evolution soon 🙂
It could evolve in the movie. That’s a possibility.
No its not a possibility. The movie is out in Theaters already in Japan, many thousands have seen it already. There are plenty of full summarys around the web , eg on serebii and pokebeach. Sableye does NOT evolve but is given a noticeably larger role than any other non – important character. Therefore many have decided that its shown on purpose to hint at a possible evolution in X and Y. 🙂
Their ‘big’ XY announcement is going to be Inkay, Malamar, Spritzee etc isn’t it? Oy.
I think that what Corocoro means with (biggest scoop of the century) is for the pokemon Anime
and i wish that they’re bringing Misty and Brock back
That would be the best news for anime since mistys return in hoenn for the mirage special 🙂
And the number one thing to take away from this episode is that next weeks will actually be worth watching 😉 🙂
You know how they keep saying “biggest scoop of the century”. Sounds to me like they’re going to talk about the journalist character, Alexa, and how she fits into the game.
In the preview, when they showed the XY stuff, they had the usual flipboard with the question mark hiding it’s content. IIRC, the flipboard in that preview was huge. So, The big announcement might just be about the July corocoro bunch. You never know though, we might get something gameplay-wise.
I hope we do, it just seems like interesting wording to call it the “scoop of the century”…
Unless it’s another ice-cream pokemon, in which case I’ll be happy.