English Rockruff Download Event Announced for Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon

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A special Rockruff that evolves into Lycanroc’s Dusk Form has been confirmed for distribution outside of Japan for Western gamers who purchase Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. It also confirms that the form will not be able to be obtained through normal gameplay by evolving a wild Rockruff.

Dusk Form Lycanroc shares some of the aspects of Midday Form, such as a four-legged stance and obedience toward its trusted Trainer. But it’s also like Midnight Form—at the moment it attacks, its eyes turn red! Around its neck are four rocks like those of Midday Form, while the mane on its head matches that of Midnight Form.

It has also come with a new trailer starring Lycanroc’s new form which you can watch below.

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  3. Thinking about the GSC virtual console, it could have a way to transfer apricorn balls to new games, hopefully in large quantities. That or just put Kurts now grown up Grandaughter/protege in USUM.

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  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgTUuEG96K4
    GameFreak recently talked about story progression and an open-world Pokemon title in their recent GameInformer interview. Ultimately, Masuda said an open-world structure wouldn’t work well for Pokemon. Yet, options are still always open for such changes.

    Personally, I agree! An open-world Pokemon game would not work with the current mechanics of the series. I think Monolith Soft or an internal team at Nintendo could handle an open-world Pokemon title with GameFreak assisting. I would love for Pokemon to shift to the past, which would make it easier to craft a massive world! Honestly, it could be done for the series!

    Also, I doubt the Switch title would be a massive “open-world” people want. The world will be bigger, but still contain linear elements. This is completely fine by me though, I just want to see what GameFreak could do with some powerful hardware. Still, it would contain elements from open-world titles to enhance the gameplay.

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    • Yeah, I think the region will work like the others regions but with bigger cities and routes and more branching paths instead of it being full open world

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    • I can’t watch it right now but I’m calling bs. Pokemon was one of the first “open world games” and on the GB of all systems.

      Let pokemon evolve. Throw away the mechanics holding pokemon back. Let us explore a world. Fill it with Pokémon. Change the battle system if you need to.

      Pokemon is too scared to change. If I had more time (I’m in school) I could go more into this and maybe I will when I’m home but an open world pokemon game would work and would work amazingly.

      A Pokémon BotW would be amazing

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      • lol. You act like it’s a simple task to accomplish. Look at how long it took to put Breath of the Wild together. I’m honestly sick of the “open-world” trend in gaming. It’s like everyone feels that every series must be obligated to have an open-world title. I’m not saying an open-world Pokemon game couldn’t work. I think it could with the right team and people. I think Pokemon along with Shin Megami Tensei and Dragon Quest are some series where traditionalism stands true. I would like to see your ultimate thoughts on an open-world Pokemon game.

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    • Pretty much same. There are so many open world titles, pokemon could be called a break in between Botws and other oddyseys!

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  9. Let’s play a game! Which one of these CN cartoons may get an Emmy nomination according to Worner Bros (the people that choose shows that get nominated for Emmies)? I’ll wait
    1. Steven Universe
    2. OK KO
    3. Adventure Time
    4. The Regular Show
    5. We Bare Bears
    6. The Amazing world of Gumball
    7. Teen Titans Go

    Look, here’s the thing… I think TTG is over hated… Like, It’s mostly terrible, but people seem to never see the good parts. It’s 70% garbage, 20% not bad and 10% percent good, which is not terrible looking at how many episodes the creators have to make as quickly as possible. I m not saying it doesn’t deserve any hate, god I wanna hate it when I see they make a sh*tty 5 parter about the one episode that got great reviews… But it makes me laugh once in a while, some songs are OK, it has cool references to comics and its absurd creativity is neat sometimes. With that being said: IN NOOOO F*CKING WAY DOES IT DESERVE AN EMMY MORE THAN ANY OF THE SHOWS WRITTEN ABOVE, INCLUDING MY FAVOURITE ANIMATED SHOW OF ALL TIME, IN NO WAY DOES IT DESERVE SO MUCH F*CKING SCREEN TIME ON CN AND I’M REALLLY HAPPY THAT IT WILL BE REPLACED WITH A LIVE ACTION ARROWVERSE SERIES! EVEN A THOUGHT OF TEEN F*CKING TITANS F*CKING GO GETTING AN EMMY IS A NIGHTMARE!

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  15. As the discussion grows ever stronger, how do people believe an open-world Pokemon game could work? Honestly, I’m personally fatigued of the rampant “open-world” trend in gaming. I stated this in my previous comments that I believe Pokemon, Shin Megami Tensei, and Dragon Quest are series where traditionalism works wonderfully. Still, I’m open to viewing how others believe such a concept would work. I would pose some challenges to an open-world title, such as; lack of focus, lack of narrative importance (this plagued games like BotW and FF15 to a degree), apparent repetitiveness, and the fear of boredom.

    I personally do think that Pokemon could venture into an open-world eventually. I believe a wonderful team combination between Monolith Soft and GameFreak could make such a title work. Gameplay would obviously have to be changed drastically. I would love to see a shift to maybe an action battle system for the series! They could honestly craft ideas from Xenoblade and BotW to provide inspiration for the Pokemon title.

    My thoughts aren’t fully detailed, but I do believe the next Pokemon title will retain the traditional nature but obviously bring a lot of modernism and open-world concepts to the game. Still, do provide your opinions and thoughts! I’m seriously interested to know how the community feels.

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    • Oh, I think Pokemon could be more open world but not entirely open world, OW games are hard to make, I mean, both the examples you presented got delayed atleast once.

      But the issues you presented, the lack of narrative importance and lack of focus are sometimes present in Pokemon games, because they’re already a little bit open world but more linear.

      So I just want for Pokemon to be less linear and a little more open

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    • A fully Botw like open world pokemon game would not work.
      What’s best is a Pokemon game but with larger routes, towns, cities and multiple optional you can go to and explore.

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      • In Johto we could choose some of the order we did things in, it could be like that in some areas, a sort of in between of linear and open if that makes sense. Really areas just need to be bigger with more events and more to explore imo.

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  17. Was doing the questionnaires at Castelia and there’s one I want to ask y’all, which is:

    When you play a new Pokemon, what are you mostly interested in: the Story, Gameplay, the Pokemon, or perhaps the Setting?

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  24. Hmmmmmm….I already repeated this on a different forum, but I’m not a huge fan of the new form. It looks like they took Lycanroc-Midday and just made it orange, and THEN they put the mane of Midnight on it. The thing is that I’m usually not harsh when it comes to Pokemon like this but it feels like there was very little effort put into making it. I feel that the transitioning between both forms is kinda stilted and could’ve been A LOT smoother in the final design.
    The problem for me is that it’s really not different enough. Like—I get it’s an in between form but much more could’ve been done to make it stand out a bit. I suppose it’s fine, but I would like to see some more news on other aspects of USUM

    As for other things I’m loving the battle music. Glad they took the BW2 route and decided to revamp all of it. The trainer design is also growing on me as well and I’m starting to like it. As for the battle screen I like that they changed it. I was starting to get sick of the sketch mark so it’s refreshing to not see it anymore.

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      • Agreed the entire concept needs a bit more a jolt to be better in my eyes. By adding some extra teeth or even more stones, I can see it going overall much better than what we got.

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  25. Aw Lycanroc in game model looks so trash, but it’s art and Anime lookds amazing (though anime makes every pokemon look better)
    Omg. The real best thing about the trailer is the music! OMG its sooo good!!!! I cant wait to hear the other remixes!!! If the wild battle is this good. How will the totem sound???

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