Today we have two exciting developments in Japan:
The first is that brand new Pokémon Sun & Moon information will be released on August 1st at 10PM. This will probably be another trailer showcasing new Pokémon or game systems.
The second is that the birth country of Pokémon has, at long, long last, received GO! Fans here have been waiting an eternity, but can finally see what the rest of the world is going crazy over. And yes, that means I will finally be able to try it myself!
<3 PJ
so how bad would it be if they announced these would be New 3ds only?
They would never do that; they would’ve said already (Although I’d be fine, as I just got a new one :p).
I know they wouldn’t but I guess the question there was more “how many people wouldn’t be able to play these if they were new 3ds only?” lol. speaking of which, how is new 3ds? is it worth getting one? I never really use the 3d, and as much as I loved Xenoblade chronicles on the wii, I don’t think id ever play it again (just…. too long, you know?)
Well, I would definitely recommend it if you’ve got the money to spare. I don’t use the 3D either, but I feel the screen is much clearer and easier to look at, even when not in 3D. And loading speeds for starting up games, connecting to internet, etc. are much faster which is a blessing.
alright I may consider it someday. its just something I overlooked as something I didn’t need. thanks for the insight though.
I hadn’t considered it either, but when my old one stopped working, I decided to go ahead and upgrade.
yeah that’s definitely a good reason to get on. I guess If mine ever broke, id get one too, I mean might as well. unless its like the sun and moon release date and I need one ASAP, id just get a 2ds lol
I don’t know if this is important or not, but I just noticed that the next Corocoro claims to have a “Southern Islands Alola Guide.” Note that islands is plural, not possessive. Does that mean there are more islands, or is it simply referring to the southernmost island?
From what ive see it’ll either be just talking about Alola AS the southern islands or it’ll be talking about the two islands that are technically more southern. They’ve focused a great deal on MeleMele island and I’d be willing to bet the majority of the Pokemon we got reside on either MeleMele or the Volcano island next to it. That could mean we’l start getting Pokemon specific to the island with the snowy mountain and the island that appears to be where the legendary Pokemon end up being. Either way it’ll be interesting. I’m hoping they start talking abut the region itself and less on the Pokemon. We’ve seen so many and I’d like to hear about Alola and it’s feature now lol
That’s what I assumed originally, but I thought I might’ve been on to something. Oh, well. I do hope we get more focus on features. As many Pokemon as we have, we hardly know anything about the games themselves.
Oh yeah definitely. I think this is the first time we’ve had so many Pokemon, but nothing specif on the region. We have a small handful of characters, but we know nothing about the evil team or story. I really hope that means they’re hiding something awesome for us lol
*Pokemon Festival train continues its 10-day Journey throughout the land,until it was Blocked by a band of fairy-type pixies *Blow train whistle* Hey move out of the way we’re trying to get to our Pokemon destination! XD
And I’ll add large rusty spikes and a cow catcher that’ll show those stupid fairies
Good job the path is unblocked! *Blow train whistle* train continues its Pokemon destination! XD
I kinda wish they beefed up the Elemental Punches to a base power of 90
the need to be as strong as flamethrower, ice beam, and thunderbolt
I hope next update they reveal some stuff about riding pokemon in the next update, and whether scolipede can be ridden or not. It’s one of my favorite pokes and I just got a shiny one from Wes and it would be just be awesome.
I seriously doubt that the models when riding would be shiny, but it would be nice attention to detail.
yeah same, they weren’t in XY or Oras (aka no shiny lapras or sharpedo)
I don’t know I don’t see why they wouldn’t do that, I don’t think it would take that much effort you would just have to recolor the models in some cases. But still they didn’t do that in XY or ORas so I dont know, I hope ;~;
Japan has been waiting an eternity and my country still doesnt have it .-.
Hopefully we get a 2nd Guardian pokemon and the Trainer for it.
I hope we`ll get a bit more game play, enough pokes for now.
I bet you the “Southern Island” that is being referred to is this island https://i.imgur.com/hjNfpfR.jpg
It’s the southern most island on the map that Kukai shows us at the beginning of the game and on the official map that that image is cropped from.
Did you link the right one? Judging by the in game map, http://i.imgur.com/5vCASoB.png the most southern island should be http://heavy.com/games/2016/06/pokemon-sun-moon-alola-region-hawaii-hawaiian-island-comparison-map-landmarks-high-resolution-pictures-photos-maps/2/
Hoping that those clouds are hiding something
You messed up the photo link, it links to a slideshow on an article not an image 😛 The particular island on the slideshow you linked is the same as the one I linked.
That southern island on that map looks like the one I linked to me 😛
It’s hard to say what they meant as “southern island”. Some people are saying that they were referring to the region as a whole as the southern islands rather than the islands that are more south in Alola. It could be talking about one island or all of them and the region of Alola is south of something. I guess we’ll find out next month tho. Either way I think we’ll definitely get more characters other than Pokemon. As well as a feature on the other islands in general. They’ve been going so hard on the actual Pokemon reveals that it almost feels like they’ve been biding their time before revealing new people and story elements.
I hope chain fishing returns because I desperately want to see what shiny Bruxish looks like.
that thing would have lethal levels of fabulousness
Hmmm somebody snag some official art and replace
Magenta with Lime green
Yellow with orange
Aqua with violet
And purple with pink
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if any of you have the balls to add my fabulous ass. Love you all (even Earthen) <3 <3 <3
I’ll try and remember to add you when I get home from work 😛 I’m not sure what my fc is off the top of my head
One thing that has been in the back of my mind, do you guys think that there will be sidequests (like the ones from Yo-Kai Watch) in this game? Especially since Yo-Kai Watch has been a huuuge success in Japan and the fact that upcoming Nintendo games seem to be breaking out of the usual formulas. Removing gyms (unconfirmed, coming from the Chinese leaks) could also be due to Gamefreak favoring sidequests instead.
I honestly hope so because side quests are often my favorite aspects of games, especially in the Ranger series.
Speaking of the ranger series, I’m bummed out that they never made a new ranger game for the 3DS or WiiU.
Same, although I never played the third installment. I simply have not found it anywhere.
I would definitely recommend it, if you can find it. Maybe online.
If they did do side quests, I hope they would be a lot less frivolous than the ones in Yo-kai Watch. You don’t actually get anything from doing them in Yo-kai Watch.
Your avatar just made me realize quests could be easily made possible through the Rotom Pokedex. It can show you the location of new quests as well as where to go for ongoing quests.
Well you get Exp. and if the little scene is good you get an item
Well the items aren’t ones that are really rare or anything, I would hope in sun and moon you would get something more than some not very rare item for completing a mission, maybe you could get bottle caps from them.
For anyone interested, gamexplain made a video about stuff found in the Pokemon GO data mine:
http://youtu.be/IDVyQYMzzv8
Still looking for ditto.
I think the reason why ditto hasn’t shown up yet is because they don’t know how to implement transform as a move to use in gyms.
Is chain fishing in ORAS? I’ve been chaining Carvanha, and I lost count after 70, and I’m starting to get irritated. x-x
I thought so, although I tried to chain feebas and I got really long chains and never found a shiny one so I don’t know for sure.
Yeah it is. Perhaps you just had bad luck :/
Well, my chain broke somewhere north of 100, so yeah I’d say it was some pretty bad luck. I even had the shiny charm…
I used to chain (pokeradar) in X/Y, but I’ve since moved onto full-odds hunts.
I caught a shiny Corphish in AS. Took an hour to fish out so hang in there.
I hope towns and cities are bigger in S&M. I’m tired of them consisting of like four or five houses and a Pokémon Center. Yo-kai-watch had nice cities and areas.
Looking at the map, I wouldn’t count on that :/
That’s hard to say though. XY’s map did not show every building, but ORAS’s map did. It could go either way.
Eh. I don’t know about that based on some of the areas we’ve seen. Also, Yo-Kai Watch has a hub world. You can’t even enter all of the buildings.
Yeah, the world in Yo-kai watch is one big city that is smaller than the worlds we traverse in Pokemon games. Pokemon games have small cities because if each city was the size of a city in yo-kai watch the world would take a painful amount of time to traverse and would have a lot more filler/unenterable buildings.
They could be treated the way the apartments in Mauville Hills are- some locked, some vacant, some owners telling you to go away. Realistically, you wouldn’t be able to walk into everyone’s houses anyway.
I just feel if they are going to make huge areas, I’d honestly like them to be areas such as caves and forests rather than large annoying cities, I like there being cities like castelia and Lumios but I wouldn’t want all of the cities to be like that.
GameFreak did something similar with Castelia and Lumiose City. I just think it would add some emphasis to a living world! Yet, it’s rather unnecessary to fill areas more than what’s needed. It could be possible, not every door should be unlocked anyways.
Am I the only one who gets lost in Lumiose City? I honestly have to use Fly multiple times or call a cab to make sure I get to the destination I want or start all over via Fly and then try to find my destination.
Me too. I still get lost in it. It’s too damn big.
At the beach Go hunting there are 3 Psyduck and a Golduck
I adore all of the new Pokemon we have gotten, but I want to see more of Alola. I know CoroCoro will cover one of the islands, yet I’d like to see more info on Alola lore. I also want to see the clarifications of Mega Evolution and the Special Attacks, more mechanics, and details of some areas. I would take less Pokemon in this update to see the aformented details.
I mostly want to learn about some characters. Some more details on the ones we know, and maybe a reveal of some ones we don’t know.
I agree. We barely know anything about the region/new mechanics, plus I don’t want to see most of the new Pokemon leaked by GameFreak like what happened with XY
Really? Lol, some of them make me want to puke.
The mons I mean.
My roster is looking thin
Popplio my creative battler
Rockruff gutsy and loyal
And Mudsdale the stoic powerhouse
I need something the spice this team up maybe a Grass/Fire type
And speaking of fire types I think it’s high time we got a Specially Defensive Fire Type, since to date the highest in Sp Def non legendary fire type is M Char Y at 115
And non mega is Flareon at 110
Since some asshole had the nerve to say “go get a water counter on a Fire Mono” seriously… outside the abysmal Char Y’s sun that’s fairly difficult to do
Shaymin event ends Sunday people
Better get your sanics fast!!
I could use another doorstop
Poor shaymin
Id just like to take a moment to say that Splatoon runs perfectly with my internet speed. For team Marie, in my very first online turf war, we covered 96% of the stage. Then i lost 2 but we arent gunna talk about that lol.
I bet comfey will be a gift pokemon….!