CoroCoro Cover Teases New Lycanroc Form? (UPD)

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The first images of CoroCoro have begun to surface!

As per usual, the cover is first to appear. And upon closer inspection there’s something that looks incredibly Lycanroc-like – albeit with a different color palette and, most notably, green eyes.

This is not confirmed to be related to Pokémon in anyway as of yet, however the similarities are simply uncanny.

Time to weigh in your thoughts! Pokémon, or nah? Are we looking at a dusk/dawn Lycanroc form? Maybe Ash-Lycanroc? And are those Necrozma-like extensions coming out of it?


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          • I think GEN 5 were the best games in the series esp. Story/Plot wise.
            The sequel idea was just great and well executed.

        • However.. i disagree!

          It totally lacked and sort of nuance the first games had. BW had a brilliant plot that even tied into the titles. It was about not everything is so Black and White. Dreams and ideals are different for everyone. There is no one right way, there are multiple perspectives.

          This is shown through the dynamic between N and the player.

          The player is put into a roll of a trainer who brings out the strength in pokemon and betters not only themself but also their pokemon. N only sees Pokemon being trapped and wants to free them.

          Why Team Plasma works is because they take a side then radicalize it. They steal pokemon, they make speeches without any actual debates, and they have motives that are unclear.

          But B2W2 turns Team Plasma into fully evil with no reason to be evil other than they are evil. Ghetsis just wants world domination and the player doesn’t take any roll. I feel like they were aware of this because Marlon questions if team Plasma is truely evil which doesnt work in the game where they just did a terrorist attack on a highly populated city.

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          • Like literally every other game in the series, making it worse than BW but not bad overall.

            – Wraps up lose ends

            – Your rival has a relatable goal even if he’s a bit of a doof

            – Mostly well paced until the end

            – Sensible evil team, they want to use power for dominance rather than to… Destroy the world they live on? Commit misguided genocide?

          • -Wrapping up loose ewnds IS really nice. B2W2 arent bad games obviously, but its a huge disappointment after bW
            – Hugh sucks. I’ve talked about this before but it makes no sense for it to be his sisters purrloin he is after. He is also an edgelord but not the entertaining kind. He has basically no character development and bianca and Cheron are so much better
            – The end gets REALLY bad with pacing
            – I guess but it felt like they were trying to do Rocket again

          • The little sister is really young? Like I know our protags tend to be early tens but why would he let a little girl without any other Pokemon go out herself to get it?

          • You are missing my point. Why would they write it so that he has a sister who had a purrloin that got stolen then have him rescue it.

            -Purrloin is a super common pokemon anyways so it has little value, therefor no stakes if you want to be cynical about it
            – Why not make his sister older and be the rival
            – Why not remove the sister entirely and just make it Hugh’s pokemon?
            – This sister is seen like… once and doesnt even have a name or a unique sprite so why care about her

          • Dude the first thing you get told about that Purrloin is that it’s from their late grandfather, meaning it has sentimental attachment. Especially for a little girl.

            Also for someone who loves BW you don’t seem to get Team Plasma’s point? Even common Pokémon aren’t disposable items lol, at least in universe. You ever had a cat or dog? They’re about as replaceable as a common Pokemon is in universe. That’s seemingly the common view in universe seeing as they actually bother to bury their Pokémon.

            Because it speaks more for one’s character if you’re willing to act for others, especially those who cannot help themselves. If Hugh just reduced his own Purrloin or had his sister be the older one for some uneccessary reason, it wouldn’t have as much impact on his character. He’s a caring person. Characterisation can exist outside of BW and Lillie you know?

          • But we never SEE that grandfather. Or the moment that she got the pokemon. So we have no connection to it as a player. A purrloin is just a purrloin to us, players who see them every single time we walk in the grass. It doesn’t click. We are told all of these connections but never see them so the character is never built up enough.

            Hugh is never shown to be compassionate though. He helps people but he always does it angry and full of rage. He seems more like an ass with anger issues than a caring person. A character that is constantly angry is unlikable.

          • Hmm no.
            I think Hugh helping his sister gives some development to his character. That he cares for his little sister. You know the big brother to the rescue. Without it he’d be like another Blue/Barry

          • If you can’t connect with people just because they were never part of your life, I’m sorry for you. But it’s not meant to be the player’s driving force at all. It’s Hugh’s. Look at his perspective rather than yours.

            By that logic, we shouldn’t feel bad for N or Lillie because we never see their sad upbringings, we just see the aftermath and interaction afterwards. The exact same as the Purrloin plot.

            That’s called being passionate. He feels emotion strongly, as shown by his love and anger.

          • The thing is though, when someone tells you that something sad happened to their family member, you feel bad for them and you sympathize. But in a game or a movie, you have to have a reason to sympathize. Its what makes characters into people. Because you can’t relate to fictional characters. You can relate to fictional people.

            When we hear that Hugh (who we dont even know anything about at this point because the game just started and he isnt in BW so we have no idea what kind of person this is) has a sister who had her purrloin taken, we don’t feel that sympathy because in this world, everyone gets their fucking pokemon stolen. You cant even go to school without someone taking your pokemon. So why should we as an audience care,

            The game fails at making us care about these people because their perspective is never properly shown. We never meet this sister and have an actual moment where we understand what it means to her. We are told that by Hugh.

            And hugh is literally ALWAYS ANGRY. He never has any moments where he is a friend to you or he talks to someone like a regular human being. He is always pissed about something. he sees you and anyone else around like allies to help him get his fucking pokemon back and not like people. It makes you ask why are you friends with this kid

        • Agreed, it wasn’t that bad imo. The cool region and new order of it made of what it lacked anyway. Plus the new features and stuff like low level volcarona, mandibuzz, and braviary was great

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          • My first even ahead of hoenn in terms of story is BW/BW2. I don’t class them as separate they’re like one big game.

            You can’t hate on Unova. The characters and depth was out of this world.
            Hmm should play them again soon I think! =)

          • I think Hoenn has one of the stories tbh :v

            At least we can both agree Unova had amazing plot XD

          • What was better than Unova?
            I guess Sinnoh was good.
            Not played SM yet so can’t comment on them.
            But yh gen 5 was just amazing:)

        • Agreed. And you know what it didn’t have to be better coz BW set the foundations and BW2 just picked off from where BW ended. Great games

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          • Black and White literally came down to evil VS good too

            There were legit evil grunts

            The whole plot was orchestrated by Ghetsis who is evil

            The final battle is literally good VS evil instead of VS a champion

          • Sure but that was because it was a radicalization of the idea that Pokemon shouldn’t be captured and used which is what N felt. Ghetsis took advantage of N but it was still N’s story.

            The grunts ween’t all evil either. In B2W2 there are still Team Plasma members that wear the old uniform because they still believe that Pokemon shouldn’t be captured. You never battle them.

          • And that’s what makes it interesting. Old Plasma and then you have new plasma. The division and separation was interesting as ever.
            Then the shadow triad and Colress just added to the suspense!
            Also return of old characters like Cheren, Alder and Bianca.
            Iris being champion. All the changes made an interesting revisit of Unova

          • BW2 also posed the idea of people having to stay with evil teams because they have nowhere else to go and the idea of repenting (N, Plasma Grunts, etc)

          • There’s people that kicked Munna and others with pretty fishy dialogue

            There was evil plasma grunts

          • … I know there were evil ones. But you’ll notice that those Munna grunts were following Ghetsis and were frightened by Ghetsis. Not N.

            There were Plasma grunts that followed N and wanted pokemon to be happy truly, but there were many others that followed ghetsis and used it as a shield for evil actions

          • The game still comes down to good VS evil in the end tho? And the second game does tackle issues such as repentance and reliability in regards to evil teams

          • Plus there’s so much depth to the story regardless if its an evil vs good. Isn’t it always good vs evil?

          • Yeah but thats not what its about. It only ends with fighting Ghetisis because he was using N. The whole game you talk to N about what he thinks and fights for. NPCs all talk about different perspectives. The brothers in the story who had Reshiram and Zekrom fought over their ideals, The game is called Black and White.

            Its not about Good vs Evil

          • Ghetsis is evil. You are good. The game is far deeper before that, but the game does just come down to good VS evil. N would not be involved at all if it wasn’t for Ghetsis’ evil.

            You can say it’s deep and all that because it is but it does just boil down to good VS evil in the end.

          • Yeah basically BW2 were still very good games story wise. I think them being sequels set 2 years later in enough.

          • … no. just.. no.

            Star Wars comes down to Luke vs the Emperor but he isn’t the villain. Not really. It’s vader. Vader is the one who is always there. Same with N and Ghetsis.

            Saying the plot is good vs evil because it ends with fighting an evil character is overly simplistic and robs the story of its depth. You are ignoring 99% of the story because of the ending. Thats ridiculous.

            B2W2’s plot is centered around good vs evil unlike BW which is centered around the multiple perspectives clashing. A purrloin is stolen, a city is attacked, a pokemon is used for power. None of this is in BW in the same way

            Wanna know why N wanted the legendary? Not for some ultimate power of evil, its because he wanted to shape Unova to his ideals.

          • I have to agree with what ur saying but I do disagree that BW2 weren’t good plot wise they were good just BW were better in terms of being more versatile and different

          • See the thing? Star Wars is still good VS evil, jedi VS sith. Luke VS Vader is a morally grey area in a tale of good VS evil, just as BW is. BW is a story of good VS evil in the end, because Ghetsis is the source of conflict, not N. N is barely autonomous, he spends the whole game as Ghetsis’ bitch and doesn’t really even has his own ideas or truths – everything given to him was from Ghetsis. N used the Dragon because Ghetsis wanted it for his evil plans.

          • Oh so because Ghetsis was feeding N these beliefs i guess all of that other stuff is just meaningless. Nevermind the fact that Zekrom and Reshiram’s backstories are entirely cewntered around opposing ideologies yet neither of them is the evil one. Forget the fact that in the second town of the game you see people reconsidering their beliefs. Forget all that.

            There is a villain so its good vs evil with no other depth and so BW is the same as b2W2

          • Sit down kid.

            I said it is deep. I said it’s better than BW2. But in the end, BW still comes down to good VS evil. Did I say it was just barebones good and evil? No. Did I say it had no depth? No.

          • But its not a story about that! Having an evil villain that you fight doesn’t make the story about good vs evil. It’s not the destination, its the journey and the journey is filled with people’s perspectives. Not the villain you fight at the end.

          • Maybe so but I don’t think they were bland. They still had depth, unpredictability to some extent and just because of the fact they were sequels that made them great. Never mind anything else. That alone is like 500 plus points (Or BW2 medals lol)

          • Yeah the plot couldn’t be as good as its predecessor but does it really matter, the plot is still good in Pokemon standards and the great gameplay makes you forget the plot anyways. It didn’t surpass BW and character plot wise, but it surpassed BW in everything else.

  3. Good evening, i am still rocking Miitopia, and my first person almost reached level 50, the first hero i had to date. but here’s a strange fact, levels for relationships extend well beyond 50… i think my highest is at 76 (soulmates)

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  6. So the new Lycanroc form seems to be on all fours. I imagine that’s the Pokemon we all thought was Midday in the June trailer. they seem to be similar in looks so it’s not like we could have known any better

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  7. I have super high hopes for USUM.
    Like story wise, post game and plenty of new forms. I feel GF will be going all out to keep us busy till gen 8 which may take it’s time to come out on the switch

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    • I just hope it has a different enough story that it’s worth buying. I really don’t feel like buying and playing through SM again in less than a year. I love Alola and I loved SM, but I want a relatively new story with the characters we’ve come to love lol

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      • Ahhh don’t worry they’ll be much different. If they aren’t then..
        Me and you will jump on a mega mence and rain destruction with hyper beams and draco meteors!

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    • Will it even be a real stream tho ?

      Also someone already posted where to watch it + Pj’s maybe streaming think?

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  11. After ORAS I actually have high hopes for the eventual Sinnoh remakes.
    Can you imagine an “Arceus episode”?
    That would be amaaazing!

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