Journey of Pocket Monsters: PokéJungle @ Pikachu Outbreak!

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Today we are very excited to announce a new PokéJungle project!

We are incredibly fortunate to have two members of staff reside in Japan, the home of Pokémon. As some of you may (or may not?) expect, Pokémon is absolutely huge in Japan.  Almost everywhere you turn you can expect to find something Pocket Monsters-related, from station signage to vegetable juice drinks. It’s everywhere.

Because of this, we wanted to try something new for the site, and as such we’re proud to announce our Journey of Pocket Monsters project. Based on Instagram (for now) we will post daily photographs and stories on anything and everything Pokémon-related we find in our daily lives. In addition to this we will have accompanying articles for special Pokémon events hosted in Japan right here on PokéJungle.net.

So please, go follow the Journey of Pocket Monsters Instagram account and enjoy the journey! You never know, you might catch a giveaway or two! Let us know what other exciting projects you’d like us to undertake next… a Pokémon merch store? A subscription box?! Maybe one day…

PokéJungle @ Pikachu Outbreak 2017

As some of you may be aware, Yokohama is currently home to Japan’s 2017 Pikachu Outbreak event and yesterday we were lucky enough to attend.

Upon arrival at the nearest (ahem…) station to Yokohama’s Red Brick Warehouse Park, it was obvious that this event was hugely popular. Crowds of people filled the streets, every single one of them playing Pokémon GO despite being an almost 15 minute walk from the Kanto Park area. As we walked nearer and nearer the crowds became even larger and and it soon swelled to become a sea of cardboard Pikachu hats.

At the Red Brick Warehouse Park only Pokémon from Kanto could be found and, as such, it served as an excellent spot to find the previously unavailable (in Japan) Mr. Mime. The park itself held a few stalls selling Pikachu goods, refreshments, one specifically for the Pokémon GO Plus accessory and a few Pikachu-themed vending machines serving Pikachu vegetable juice drinks. Let’s not forget the giant inflatable Pikachu too! After walking around Mr. Mime finally appeared and after catching HER—yes, a FEMALE Mr. Mime (Miss Mime if you’re nasty)—we decided it was a good time to move on to a different area.

Next, we headed to the World Porters building in Minato Mirai. Along the way crowds thickened and it was possible to catch a glimpse of several smaller event locations as well as the Pikachu blimp in its land form. Inside the building crowds were gathering for a Hawaiian dance which involved three humans dancing with two giant Pikachu. The dance itself wasn’t all that entertaining, but the Pikachu prancing about in leis and grass skirts? Priceless. These type of events are the kind of thing that gives a sense of scale to just how big Pokémon is in Japan.

After more browsing and catching Pokémon in GO, we finally headed towards the Johto Park near the Cup Noodles Museum. Upon arrival, we spun the the special Pokémon Park Gym and picked up the badge and proceeded to catch as many Johto Pokémon as we could. The Johto Park wasn’t filled with any stalls, but instead held a few special replicas of PokéStops and Gyms from Pokémon GO, and also a special GO-themed WiFi hotspot truck. The park was probably the nicest area of the event as the crowds were much more relaxed and you could really feel a sense of community, even with everybody having their heads down in their phone. The view also particularly nice, looking out on Tokyo Bay with cruise liners and passenger boats passing through.

Finally, we decided to head home via Minato Mirai station. Just before passing through the ticket gates we noticed yet another giant inflatable Pikachu and moved towards it, discovering a small Pikachu goods pop-up store and a wall of Pikachu heads.

While we didn’t stick around for any of the scheduled events (parades, stage shows, etc) besides the Hawaiian dance, we did get a good taste of just how crazy these Pikachu Outbreak events are. If you ever happen to be in Japan next year, definitely be sure to check it out as it’s an experience you won’t forget.

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  2. Old original sketches of my starters. Thoughts?
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  3. Damn never knew Pokemon was that big in Japan, but is not surprising considering that even the All Nippon Airways has Pokemon themed aircrafts lol

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  6. Anywhoooooooo so when do you guys think Virtual console stuff will hit the switch and what titles would you be excited for?
    i’d say 3 from GBA SNES N64 and GC

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  8. ANIME COMMENTS/CONCERNS UNRELATED TO POKEMON COMING LOL: So I’m rewatching the Bleach anime……..So far I’m up the Bount arc and seriously thinking about whether I want to watch it or skip. I know it’s not the greatest, but it’s honestly not that bad either…….Either way with me doing this I can’t help but think about how I really hate how Bleach ended……It had such great potential, but due to it’s rushed ending it felt like a mess. There are so many confusing things that REALLY needs to be explained and so many characters that we are left to wonder what happened to them after the final battle. It really sucks. Also I can’t help but think about how much I don’t like the look of Ichigo’s outfit at the end or his Bankai. I don’t mind his Shikai, but his Bankai is so boring looking and I can’t stop thinking about how I really prefer his Fullbring Shihakusho way more…….This is my beef about Bleach which was really my first anime love hahahaha

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    • I skipped all the fillers. Sometimes fillers are fine, I’ve never minded the Dragonball ones, some are just poor to the point it’s like they are trying to be bad. Bleach ones are largely not worthwhile imo. What I hate about the anime is where it ends, I haven’t read the end of the manga yet but I’ll assume it’s just as annoying. I really liked Bleach, a shame it lost alot of popularity in Japan so was cut short.

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  9. This is all so cute. I like the effort japan uses towards Pokemon. I mean a Pikachu blimp thats just awesome. I think most America has done is have a Pikachu float for Thanksgiving (Think thats the holiday). My home country definitely doesnt do a single thing for pokemon :P.
    I do have a question, what type of food were they serving? Were they Pokemon themed? Were there any other pokemon represented besides pikachu? Whats the weather/season? Looks fun and seeing how pokemon is like the only game series I play. I want to join in. MAybe one day

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    • They weren’t really serving that much food. I can’t remember to be honest! Mimikyu and Ditto were both around in a few places, but they both represent Pikachu anyway.

      It’s actually summer right now, but we just went on a slightly rainy day. We originally planned to go on the first day of the event, but the heat here was insane so we rescheduled for the better

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  10. 1 hours 45 minutes ago: Hmmmm, let’s check some conspiracy theories out! Maybe I could do something cool with the evil team!
    Now: I’ve gone to far… help

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  11. I need some comforting please…. I know things man… I just wanna forget em..
    I’m never going to touch the dark web

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  12. Can I be annoying and ask you guys to review these? It’s a concept for another fakemon concept (inception) I’m doing as an alternative to Acid/Base. It’s a BW style refresh, too.

    http://pasted.co/93445a94

    Also damn I wish we got cool events like that, imagine all the streetpass you get offa that! It looks really cute and fun too so I’m definitely jealous ?

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    • Sounds like it has a poteential, but the trio sounds off. In my opinion, they don’t really work so well when they’re suposed to work together. Either make them the opposites of each other or make it more subtle. Just my opinion.

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    • 1) The spinner? What does that mean?
      2) I kinda want to know how these Pkms look like and what are their dex entries so we can criticize them better (I’m talking about Debutaunte and Aarrogaunt)
      3) Fatelle is very interesting and has a good name. Do you have more information about it?
      4)Oh your spider is based on the whole stuff that when you see a spider you day is gonna be bad but the next one is gonna be good. That’s a good concept to be based of even though you apparently took the literal meaning :p
      5) The name “whatt” is weird
      6) “Based on a ‘lightbulb moment’” ngl that’s cool lol
      7) Also basing your three legendary Pkms directly from Greek mythology seems a little weird, has GF done anything similar?

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      • 1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_spinning

        2) I defo need to add more detail on them, it’s all in my head rn because it was just the info I’d written at the time.

        3) Yup, but it’s mostly up in my head rn and will be put in its dex entries.

        4) Decided taking it literally would be more interesting for design choices than the good luck/bad luck idea, at least imo. But a luck spider could be fun tbh

        5) It’s a play on ‘What’ (it’s dim minded as well as literally dim, so it’d probably be asking a lot of questions) and ‘Watt’ (it’s a light bulb :p)

        6) Thanks! The concept itself was definitely a light bulb moment

        7) Closest I can think of is Reshiram and Zekrom literally being yin and yang personified, but even then they have a twist on it. Mines will too, but I need to sort the concept properly before sharing it

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  19. Dang I just had a fantastic game in Overwatch. It came down to stalling the point each time.
    I was on Hanamura and we almost called the first point. We were so close but I was the only one left. I saw torb and zen coming in which could both destroy me as Tracer. I blink backwards to try to get into a good position to throw the pulse bomb but I underestimate the distance and accidentally blink off the map and we lost.

    Then we couldn’t defend just barely

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  20. 2018 has a potential to be an amazing year for nintendo. I hope for Smash Switch, Maybe a XD Gale of Darkness like post apo title and maaaayyyybe just mmmmmaaaaaayyyyyybbbbbbbeeeee Overwatch for Switch

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  23. I think what they really need to do next is give us a form that has a wow factor to it. We need new Alolan forms is what we need now. Lycanroc Dusk is cool and all (I actually like it), but it lacks that oomph to really get peeps excited. Half of the fun of mid gen games is seeing new forms and areas that weren’t in the original games. It doens’t have to be super grand, but if the next form is just Mimikyu out of it’s disguise then that’ll be kind of disappointing.

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      • Only if they fix it’s move sets. Did they really think that giving it only 1 move that works for it’s different types was a good idea? At least let it learn Thunderbolt, Flame Thrower, Psychic, and Shadow ball via tm…..I mean god……

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          • It shouldn’t make a difference. Who cares if someone has a Baile form Oricorio with Psychic? lol

          • There are plenty of Pokemon that have moves available to them that aren’t their types tho. I have a Nidoking that has Thunderbolt for example. That doesn’t exactly make much sense does it? lol

    • I would be much more excited for Duskanroc if it wasn’t event only. At this stage I’m highly dubious about the possibility of new Alolan forms.

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      • Yeah the event only thing is a weird choice. I do wonder what their reasoning for that is. It could have been something special for Ash AND been something normally obtained in game.

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  26. Found some more interesting possible leaks, but it all sounds like garbage

    Trial 1 contains fighting a handful of Pikipeks, after which you battle Totem Trumbeak
    Trial 2 remains the same
    Trial 3 remains the same, but Totem Salazzle received a buff to withstand Water types
    Trial 4 remains the same, but Lurantis is replaced by Shiinotic as the Totem & utilizes more healing moves
    Trial 5 remains the same, but the Totems are different, depending on version. Passimian for US, Oranguru in UM
    Trial 6 is Bug type themed, Totem is Golisopod
    Trial 7 is Normal type themed, Totem is Bewear
    Trial 8 is just a battle with Kommo-O
    Trial 9 is Mina’s, Totem is Mimikyu
    After the ninth trial, there are 3 more Totems you can challenge freely as sidequest
    Togedemaru
    Pyukumuku
    Lycanroc

    Aether Paradise undergoes a similar change like Team Plasma in B2/W2
    Lillie only has a few cameo appearances
    10 new Alolan forms, spread out over gens 2-6

    Ultra Solgaleo and Ultra Lunala go berserk at a certain point in the story, and the PC has to tame & ultimately catch them
    New Z-Crystals which have the effect of boosting a certain stat by x points
    New Battle Tree trainers, including Sycamore and Wallace
    New area, only accesible if you have UB-03 and UB-05 in your active party

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  27. Can anyone please with bottom of my heart battle me in smash or pokemon. pleeeease. Just once more! Just for old times. We can do shinies babies, or legends or anything. Jus anything! Or else I will leave for a long time!

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      • *inhales* YOUR MAIN WAY OF PROGRESSING THROUGH THE GAME WAS A LAST MINUTE DECISION THAT YOU COULDNT EVEN GET THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO DESIGN THEM?

        WTF IS GOING ON AT GAME FREAK

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        • Further proof that gamefreak is extremely incompetent. Hate to say this, but unless they get their shit together by pokemon switch (I don’t expect usum to be any good) I may leave Pokemon..

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          • As long as they continue to develop the games for 10-12 year olds, nothing will change or improve sadly

          • Worrying when Masuda said that a BotW style game would not work for Pokémon. It tells me that they’re also not willing or maybe afraid to change the formula in fear of losing the fans

          • Pokemon is waay to popular to actually ‘fail’
            I just hope they realize it’s time to change stuff up like botw did for zelda and odyssey seems to for mario

          • Calm down fam, They’ve still make great games and in the end that’s what matters! Don’t worry so much, Pokemon Switch will be amazing and you know that inside

          • No I don’t actually. Because game freak is an indie company that got success quickly because it was picked up by Nintendo. They never got to fail. They never had to learn good design. Their games suffer for that and Pokémon Switch will be a disaster if thy don’t get it together

          • I disagree that they’ve never learned good design because you could argue that every Pokemon game was good; but we all got our favourites. It is true that they have never had a game fail at all! Still, they certainly listen to fan-feedback, but lack what fans want sometimes (ex. Battle Frontier in OR/AS). It’s perplexing, but I doubt Pokemon on the Switch would fail. I’d love to see them do more with the standard Pokemon concept.

          • How so? All Pokemon games are definitely structurally sound. I doubt their going to make a “Sonic 06” Pokemon game. Pokemon is Nintendo’s prized series, they cannot have a inherently bad game.

          • Again, debatable. I personally enjoyed X/Y. It’s what assisted the 3DS strongly and brought a lot of people back into Pokemon. I think there great games, but lacking in what some fans like you desire.

          • It just depends how much work they’re will to put into it! If they’re moving it to the switch then I hope there’s a distinct difference between the DS and Switch games. I don’t want it to feel like I’m playing it on a DS. I want to feel the power of the fewer limitations that the switch would offer. I’m certainly not asking or expecting anything like BotW lol, but it needs to be different, jaw dropping, and game changing. They didn’t need to say “lower your expectations,” but instead “don’t expect an open world game” or something like that.

          • Not being rude, but your not affecting a massive company by you solely leaving Pokemon. I don’t think GameFreak is “incompetent” as we don’t have full details of their development process. It takes a team to create a game, so nobody could be “incompetent”. Still, I don’t understand how trials were added so late? Like how are you going to progress without them. I’m assuming that they used Gyms (which as UnburdenedLegume said would explain the squares on the map) and the Trial Captains were leaders, but he swapped them for what we got in S/M.

          • Obviously it doesn’t affect them, but lately every pokemon games feels incomplete too me so if I don’t like the one on switch I’ll leave as simple as that.
            And they are incompetent. It’s not just the trail thing, it’s Every thing they’ve done since XY.

    • I mean…..If the Trials and their captains were really a rush job then good on him! The captains (minus Sophocles) are all pretty great. I love the trial concept and honestly hope they refine it going forward. Mixing things up this time around was a good choice.

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          • Stop blindly ignoring everything they do right. The list of that is longer than the list of what they did wrong.

          • No offense but outside of giving us possibly the best roster of actual Pokemon yet, what did gen 7 do right?

          • I’d say Gen 4 or 5 did that tbh. The only great things gen 7 really did was bring BACK day/night (so that doesn’t really count because it’s not new), be better than Gen 6, have good characters (though some were not great), and dismiss HM’s (which was pretty awesome).

          • A good story and the best world (as in stuff like Pokemon cries and the culture you can feel in each area)

            But for the most part it didn’t do much spectacularly

          • This is a website that allows discussion. Honesty, I like seeing people surface the negatives of a series. It adds to the flavour of video games. I love GameFreak, but they do sometimes make questionable choices.

          • Is it though? Not having the core progression system of the game established until so late you can’t even get them designed by the right people is embarrassing and shows how bad they are at planning these games. The trials were simplistic and were only really interesting because of the location, trial captain and the Totem.

            They fuck up so much shit every single game and they don’t care. They will just remove the good stuff from the last game and introduce new mechanics that aren’t fun. They are incompetent.

          • Exactly this. They take out the good and leave the mediocre. They practically NEVER build on the good things they do.

          • -Walking with pokes (they literally put the work in TWICE now to bring it back and haven’t done it TWICE)
            -Soaring
            -PWT
            -Pokeathlon
            -Actual event pokemon
            -much more if I weren’t so tired

            Like why are they taking steps back!? If it just means we have to wait longer to get the next pokemon game then so be it. Just put the damn work in.

          • I think that they were using Gyms before trials. But that’s just a theory… a Game Theory. lol. Let me get serious a bit. I’m stunned as well that they implemented them so late and couldn’t find people to design them. The team was fifty people, so I wonder what they were doing.

            I don’t think every Pokemon game is terrible all because they don’t change much. Look at series such as Dragon Quest and Shin Megami Tensei; they don’t change much but have such an amazing series. Yet, I do agree with some of your qualms. It’s like the listen to fans and ignore them at the same time (which is sometimes good and bad).

      • The concept and characters are great. I’m sure he did the best he could, but they are still very clearly rushed.

        It’s amazing they couldn’t get the actual people needed to design them. That’s a failure on their part

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        • Yeah it’s a weird that they did it in such a way. You’d think such a huge part of the game would be solidified earlier on rather than it being something they through in. It’ll be interesting to see how USUM are with the trials now that they’d have them a bit more refined. Hopefully refined anyway lol)

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    • What was in place of trials before? You literally have to progress the game completing trials. I’d say that trials came out quite well, so he did do a decent job creating the Captains. Still, seeing how late they arrived is baffling.

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  32. Nintendo needs a new Direct next week. Get that hype up for Rabbids, show those indie games for Switch, release date for Xenoblade 2,… Feel like we’re in a news lull.

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  39. Kinda wish Pokémon had a little more maturity nowadays
    Not like edgy Rejuvenation “WOW THE BADASSERY GUYS” kind of mature …

    Gens 4 and 5 had it, hell even ORAS had some due to dialogue changes in the climax… I wish the games felt more real with their NPCs, and the biggest battles in the game actually felt more impactful!
    Imagine if the champion was the head of the evil team and your elite four journey was a desperate journey to incorruptible the Pokémon league or something!

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    • I liked SuMo’s scale tbh, besides Lusamine trying to unleash UBs on the world (which even then isn’t as apocalyptic as other evil team plans) it felt like a personal journey for both yourself to become stronger and for Lillie to become a more independent character

      Also the NPCs were hilarious

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        • I don’t see the need for it always to be on a bigger scale, the small scale really worked and helped with the idea of growth of oneself. Lillie, Hau, and Gladion evolve as characters whereas you get stronger because you’re a blank self insert without a character in the first place

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  41. I find it HILARIOUS that Masuda…..the MUSIC DIRECTOR doesn’t know how to play piano/keyboard. I’m not knocking him as the music in the games is typically great, but I just find it funny hahaha

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      • I mean he can probably play other instruments or can just use the music software very well? I mean it’s funny because how much Pokémon uses piano sounding noises but the series has never used actual instruments iirc

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      • Oh come on…..Like I said it’s not a knock. They do music for the games very well. It’s not like him not knowing how to play means he can’t put music together. It’s just a bit humorous.

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          • Jesus….It’s amazing how a few months of no info on a game will make people turn on GF lol

          • I’ll admit the recent interviews were a little shaky,but if it weren’t for them would people really be shitting on them this much? I feel like people are being overly critical of them for no reason at all. It’s so weird.

          • Fair. Either way my point is if you like SM in any capacity then what’s there to worry about future games? We have no knowledge of USUM and while I’d be disappointed if it’s just a rehash of SM so soon after their release last year it’s not like that would necessarily reflect badly on the Switch game. I think part of the reason they sounded shaky on the Switch game was because people are expecting too much and they don’t want people to think the game will be more than it actually is. It’ll be a Pokemon game and if it’s anything like the past games it’ll be more or less a success.

          • …that’s a really solid explanation
            I’m just worried they’ll always be so close to being perfect but barely miss the mark
            I guess I just want another Gen 5…

          • That’s fair. I really like gen 5 a lot too. That said gen 5 isn’t without it’s faults too, but I hear where you’re coming from

          • I don’t hate S/M, just hate their anti-post game efforts. It ruins the lasting effects of pokemon games. So over time they don’t become as fond as when first playing them

          • The thing is tho, post-game for this series has a track record of being bad. Gen 1, Gen 3, Gen 6, Gen 7. Post-game isn’t always their focus, and when post game is their focus (Gen 2 and Gen 5) it tends to be that it effects the game in a way (Johto has its absolutely horrendous level curve, and Black/White (at least imo and from people I’ve talked with, this might be utter bullshit to you guys) has a fast, linear main game).

            Could they make it better? Yes. But they’ve shown themselves to not be as great as they could be with it already so I don’t see why people set themselves up for the disappointment of an amazing post game.

            And imo, Gens 2 and 5 still didn’t have amazing post games because neither had stories and didn’t make that great of a use of being in a new region/new part of a region. At least Gen 6 had all of its competitive-aimed features and Gen 7 had a return to an effort in story telling + different bits of post game activity sprinkled after Champion

          • You’re right, my expectations are perhaps high considering their track record. It’s just disappointing everyone keeps asking for post game effort and they’re ignoring us

          • Because they’re focusing on side features, mechanical features and main game (as well as their version of comp) which are all more important than post game too them (and probably to the fandom too tbh)

          • They have a relatively small team especially including the non-coding members, they’re constantly changing direction in terms of design outside of their battle systems, and genuinely there’s no point in sacrificing a decent main story (what most people will be playing) for the post game

          • Lol GameFreak has always been this ‘bad’, it’s just that it’s starting to show more + your nostalgia is wearing off

          • My nostalgia is not wearing off at all , it’s just… gf is now literally waving their stupidity in our faces

          • The ones that said that we shouldn’t hype the switch game up so we don’t end dissapointed? I mean, things shouldn’t be hyped a lot, specially when they’re doing a first timer (making a main series in a console)

          • It’s the expectations. Some fans are yearning for a massive open world, but it’s not what GameFreak is making. You could still be excited, but know what to expect.

          • Literally an entire studio sucks because they haven’t released info ever month on US/UM… lol. It’s kinda funny how everyone here turned on GameFreak suddenly.

      • Yeah it’s pretty good. From the Game Informer Podcast it sounds like he’s musically inclined, but it’s much more of a tech style than instrumental. He prolly has a very good grasp of music as far as notes and sounds go, but he just can’t play keyboard lol

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    • I was shocked until I looked up his actual work. He pretty much exclusively does the battle themes. The actual themes requiring piano are not his work (like the amazing shit from Sinnoh)

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  42. “Now imagine this with Pokemon. Imagine finding a huge tree you climb and find a nest of Pidgey. Imagine going to a beach and seeing Pallosand rise like Leevers. Krabby wash up on the shore. Zebstrika, Mudsdale, Bouffalant and Ponyta run through plains. At night time aggressive ghost pokemon appear. Murkrow swoop down from trees. Maybe you are exploring a place with rock terrain and suddenly a massive Onix appears that towers over you. Maybe you are sailing in the ocean and your boat is attacked by a massive Wailmer. These “boss” pokemon could be like Totems. Powered up pokemon that call upon other pokemon to help. Maybe they can only be caught after lowering it down to red health and it loses its power up and becomes a regular pokemon.”

    I just got really excited about this idea

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  44. Also, the trailers showed aftergame poni island areas with level 40 mons
    If this is actually in the game… wouldn’t that mean more areas were added?

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  45. Tbh I’m not expecting a lot from Gen 8 post game wise. The games with the most post game are Gen 2 and Gen 5. The Game Boy colour is very similar to the regular game boy, and tbh Gen 2 is very very similar to Gen 1. Gen 5 was the second Gen of games on the DS.

    Everytime we’ve had a large transition in presentation and/or hardware, we’ve had little post game, probably due to GameFreak having to do so much stuff with their relatively small team.

    Yes, Gen 7 is on the 3DS too and has a rather small post-game (still not the worst in Pokemon tho imo), but at least in terms of out of battle that was a huuuuuge leap. We got rid of the chibi overworld characters and the grid, which would’ve been ageeeees to do because that’s way more complex

    On the plus side, now that GameFreak has more experience with accurate sized models and off the grid movement, hopefully the transition to a console game won’t be as bad.

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    • While I don’t expect much post game from Gen 8, I do expect it from USUM, I mean, the post game size may be the same as PLatinum and Emerald, but let’s be real, it’s better than what we got in SM

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    • I just wish the storyline with the ultra beasts had been more exciting. I hated the repetitive nature of it. Didn’t feel like much of an adventure, nor did they feel like bosses. It was just -meet at hotel-
      -catch ub-
      -back to hotel for boring exposition-

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      • It wasn’t meant to be an adventure or them being bosses tho, it’s meant to feel like a clean up mission. That’s what you’re doing. Someone has to clean up the villain’s mess and tbh I enjoyed actually seeing something out of the interpol beyond Looker tbh

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          • I think that’d be more boring tbh, because then you’d either have to just walk up to them and press B rather than just go into the tall grass and have them attack you like other Pokémon (because besides being from another dimension, they’re just regular Pokemon, or legendary or anything) or you would’ve had a bunch of cutscenes that would make it even longer. Especially since all but Nihilego and Guzzlord had you catch multiple.

            The only one i feel should’ve appeared in the overworld was Guzzlord to mirror Zygarde in XY, especially because only one is found in one room

  48. Does having each gym leader in my new fan region reflecting a colour of the rainbow sound super dumb and cheesy? The whole concept is based upon creativity and stuff and is mean for call back to RBY too

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  52. HERE IT IS IM DONE. BREATH OF THE WILD POKEMON. AAAAAAAAHHH. Let me know what you think.

    BOTW-Like seems to a term I see quite a bit now. When you say it you are not only thinking of an openworld. There is so much more to Breath of the Wild in terms of the series as a whole. Breath of the Wild brought so much change to the series it is almost unheard of in modern gaming. The way you play, where you go, how you fight enemies, how you explore, all of this while still feeling distinctly Zelda. When people say a game needs a BOTW like- sequel, they are talking about this.

    The Pokemon games have always had elements of open world games. At a certain point in Red and Blue you can fight many gym leaders in any order you want. Same goes for Kanto in Gen 2. But overall, the games have always been linear with characters blocking you off until you got a gym badge or defeated the evil team. It seems like they always envisioned the world to be big and expansive. I think RBGY and GSC did the best they could with the hardware available and at the time it certainly felt like a huge adventure but time took its toll on both of them pretty hard. By gen 3 they kept doing what they were doing adding more pokemon and features (and removing features) and updating the graphics.

    When it was time to move Pokemon to the 3DS, it could’ve been an opportunity to break from this formula they had built up over the years. This is hardware that featured a remake of Ocarina of Time, which while has plenty of problems, was very important for open world games. They could have allowed us to explore freely in this new 3D world with mysteries everywhere to discover. But guess what they didn’t do that so we got X and Y which has as much input as watching a let’s play.

    But after Gen 6 had held your hand through the ruins, you left on your own into snowden and entered Gen 7 which was a major improvement. The grid was completely removed. Routes were bigger and had more to explore. Towns and Cities were bigger and felt like real cities. Pokemon cries could be heard making it feel like a world. It was filled with the air of a region with many traditions but also one that is advancing technologically. Trials made the region feel less like a place that only exists so you can visit the gyms and more like one with these challenges integrated into the culture (Even if many of the trials felt unfinished) This was such a big step despite many of Sun and Moon’s flaws. Even with the added story the world felt like a world.

    Now here we are and Pokemon is developing a game for a console. And they refuse to make a BOTW-Like Pokemon game. I can’t begin to understand how they think this. Everything about Pokemon NEEDS a BOTW “reboot”.

    Take pokemon, and remove as much as possible. Take away all the extra mechanics and strip it down to the basics. This would be battling and capturing pokemon. You could remove everything else. Items, the overworld, characters, gym leaders, E4, every single pokemon. All you need is a attack to fight and a pokeball to capture the placeholder on the screen.

    Pokemon in its most basic form

    From this, if it is fun, (which is something Game Freak should consider and something I won’t talk about here) we can add some mechanics back in. Items, Running away. Move sets and Pokemon. The battling system has always been turn based but not even that is necessary. As long as you are battling and obtaining pokemon, it is still the same game. My point with this is that the overworld is not what makes pokemon… well.. Pokemon. Think about the fact that Pokemon Stadium works well without an overworld.

    But we do need a way to encounter these different pokemon. We need a place to go when we run from a battle and a place to get items. This is where the overworld actually comes in. An open world Pokemon game could expand upon every aspect of how do these things.

    Finding Pokemon in the World
    Currently you find pokemon by walking into the grass. Maybe you find them in a cave or fishing in the sea. This really isn’t interesting at all. It’s probably more annoying than anything when you are just trying to get through the grass before you can buy repels. Now consider how you encounter enemies in open world games. In BotW in particular, they can spawn on horseback. They can spawn in camps or in tree forts. Some pop out of the ground at night. And some are minibosses that you find scattered all over the place that give you a sudden challenge for nice rewards.

    Now imagine this with Pokemon. Imagine finding a huge tree you climb and find a nest of Pidgey. Imagine going to a beach and seeing Pallosand rise like Leevers. Krabby wash up on the shore. Zebstrika, Mudsdale, Bouffalant and Ponyta run through plains. At night time aggressive ghost pokemon appear. Murkrow swoop down from trees. Maybe you are exploring a place with rock terrain and suddenly a massive Onix appears that towers over you. Maybe you are sailing in the ocean and your boat is attacked by a massive Wailmer. These “boss” pokemon could be like Totems. Powered up pokemon that call upon other pokemon to help. Maybe they can only be caught after lowering it down to red health and it loses its power up and becomes a regular pokemon.

    Finding these pokemon in the wild (where they belong) where you can see them not only makes more sense, it also makes the world feel like a world. This would encourage capturing pokemon too. Think about all the pokemon you catch in go that you would’ve passed over in a main series game. If you find a pokemon in a strange place, it will be a bigger motivation to capture it. It feels like a once in a life time opportunity. Now add shinies to that and you have some amazing moments for players.

    Of course this kind of scale is insane. All of those pokemon have to be modelled with interactions and animations. But we already have every single pokemon with a 3D model made in Gen 6 and 7. Some may have to be shaped up to fit the world but we have them. So let’s take that Onix example. The onix appears from the ground like a stone titus and the battle starts. Maybe it’s seemless or maybe it does a battle encounter transition to hide loading. From there it’s just a regular Pokemon Battle. All that has changed is the way you encountered the Pokemon.

    Teams will fluctuate more than just the planned teams people tend to make since you don’t always know what you will find. Maybe you can find a pokemon to ride to get around faster? Or maybe they can just keep the current Pokeride system.

    With this system there will be some sacrifices to be made. I imagine that they will have to once again omit the national dex and have a dex of 150-250 Pokemon (Not necessarily all gen 1 and 2) These are the pokemon you can actually encounter in the overworld. Pokemon transferred from previous generations would only be seen in battles and in menus (Maybe in Pokemon Amie if they bring that back which they should)

    Suddenly you can include every pokemon ever made since you have the 3D models already and a smaller number of them need overworld animations and interactions. You may not feel great that there will be a lot of pokemon available in the wild but it is a needed step. Future games can proceed to add more pokemon including the ones from the previous game. Gen 8 will probably have very few Sinnoh dex pokemon so the remakes can include them.

    An overworld like this would make pokemon more exciting to find and catch. It will also make exploring more interesting in a world that is alive.

    Towns and Progression

    The progression system would consist of 8 gyms and an E4. The only thing you really have to do to beat the game is beat the 8 gyms. They can be done in any order and like the dungeons in Breath of the Wild, have small story lines and challenges attached to them. Sort of like trials combined with Gyms… except they are still gyms.

    Gyms have a much higher difficulty than in previous games requiring you to explore and find new pokemon to have a bigger advantage. After 8 badges are obtained, you can enter the Pokemon League which is basically the “Hyrule Castle” of this game. Gym leaders and E4 can be rematched after the first victory and you have to defend your title like in Sun and Moon.

    Towns are similar to that in the current games. Pokemon Centers with lots of houses and NPC’s. Except with such a big world, the NPC’s can actually be useful. Rumors of a rare pokemon in this area next to this landmark, warnings of dangerous trainers that gather in a certain spot or places that contain secrets like rare items. Pokemon Centers contain healing items that cost money but heal more than the various foods and berries you can find in the world that you use to heal your Pokemon.

    Some towns can contain facilities for the competitive side of Pokemon. Places for EV training, move tutors, and breeding.

    Arriving in these towns gives you an area to warp to with Pokeride. Other warp areas in the world can be established by battling special trainers different from the normal ones that roam the world. I’m sure there are lots of other ways to get warp points though. That’s just the first one that came to mind.

    The towns and wilds are also filled with items to feed your pokemon to heal them. Lemonades, Fresh Waters, Sodas, and Malasadas in the cities and Berries, Fruits and Apricorns in the wild. Pokemon Refresh can be used to cure status without having to waste items and minimize the use of Pokemon Centers. The game could be beaten with relative ease without ever using Pokemon Centers

    Conclusion

    A BOTW-Like Open World game for Pokemon would be the best way to evolve the series. It keeps the core gameplay while making it into a true adventure in a wide Pokemon world. It doesn’t have to be as big as Breath of the Wild and in the case of Sinnoh Remakes, they are simply expanding Sinnoh and getting rid of barriers that block the way like walls and trees you get walk past. It eliminates the dreadful tutorial and let’s the story be experienced by those who want to and letting competitive battling elements be accessed quicker. It caters to both sides of the fanbase while changing just enough. It’s the change Pokemon needs.

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    • I’ll list my comment in order, so that’s its easier to digest. I can’t type an entire paragraph.
      – Overworld games need to have a lot of content to fill such vast worlds. Stripping down Pokemon to the fundamentals would create a repetitive title such as Pokemon GO, in my opinion.
      – Pacing is an issue as well, in a large dynamic world turn-based combat would feel restrictive. I believe a swap to an action-RPG would be superior. It’s similar to why majority of open-world games lack an turn-based combat.
      – Your explanation of interacting with Pokemon in the environment could be added in a regular game. I will agree that you should ultimately be able to see more Pokemon be available on the over-world, but along with tall grass. Pokemon must be more expressive in the next title.
      – I think the PokeRide system should be kept. Honestly, HMs need to be gone.
      – A small deck would not be able to fill a vast world that you want it.
      – Your essentially still restricting the player by implementing Gyms and an Elite Four. Breath of the Wild has the story content be optional. That;s going to seriously disrupt how such a world is dangerous, which BotW has completely. It would feel like your just exploring an overly large world unnecessarily.
      – Again, your statement of towns could be done in a regular game.

      Ultimately, I’m fine with Pokemon incorporating larger environments and ideas from open-world games. The necessity of an “open-world” concept is kinda useless. If you like at Dragon Quest XI as an example, that’s the perfect method of giving players freedom while still requiring progression. The next Pokemon game will obviously contain a large region, but still have natural progression (hopefully). In my opinion, it seems like your just describing a standard game with the ability to go to any Gym you want. Some other things I agree with is making tutorials optional, but it is necessary for new players. Your not changing much to the series but being able to just walk anywhere.

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  53. Team Vaccine are a mysterious team who operate under a goal to “better the world.” The leader of the team experienced a tragic accident as a child in which his Pokemon companion was slaughtered in a battle that had gone too far with a wild Pokemon. Through technology, the pokemon was brought back to life and giving enhancements making it stronger than it ever had been before. As time went on the leader experienced more and more struggles of loss that humanity and Pokemon began to deal with and created a team to help bring back the dead. After a while the goal began to shift from reviving the dead to flat out improving all living beings via enhancement, to make their lives easier. The plan was to have those who are able to tolerate the enhancement live freely forever while those who can’t would simply die out. The team has generated a rather large group of followers who have received some of these enhancements of their own. Despite the positives it is said that those enhanced lose a bit of who they are…. exactly what is not entirely known…

    Team Vaccine~ The cure for imperfection

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    • I like it a lot, but I also feel like “vaccine” is the wrong title since actual vaccines are not harmful. Maybe that’s just me though

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      • Oh I know, that’s the point though
        They don’t see it as wrong, they literally see it as a cure for the worlds issues. The name Vaccine is a name from their own view

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        • I do get the irony, I just don’t necessarily like the negative connotation being applied to vaccine. I’m probably overreacting though hahah

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          • No I mean I totally get it, I just feel like the name fits them perfectly.
            Picture how when you get a vaccine it’s meant to help you but you may have soreness or maybe a fever that follows as a small side effect
            They’re so dehumanized that they view elimination of millions of people with the same sort of severity as minor side effect

          • XD it’s okayyy
            I think anti-vaccine is pretty dumb too..
            (Doesn’t mean I’m up for getting them because I’m a sissy when it comes to needles XD)

    • Team Enhance, Team Saviour, Team we’re not secretly bad guys, Team Utopia, Team Aspire, Team Grandiose, Team Science is Cool OK.

      I wonder how enhancements would work on Pokemon. I can see the human characters with cyborg type enhancements though.

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        • I am expecting a Dr.Frankenstein-esque character to be a higher up in this team. The reviving the dead Pokemon reminds me of the animated film Frankenweenie actually.

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          • I actually had an entirely different idea XD
            They aren’t exactly physically terrifying as much as they are mentally

  55. The second team is more along the…. edgy kind of team
    Hell they’re over the top edgy…. but the actual morals and mindsets of the team are a little… different than they may appear

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  56. Just saw a brief part of Interstellar on tv and it’s already reminding me of how sad that movie really is………and how long it is……

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  57. Guys, while I’m all for active discussion in the comments it really is disheartening to see a grand total of THREE people actually mention the article.

    You can talk here, yes, but as we always say we have a chat and forums for some of the stuff you’re discussing here. For once it would be nice to see some discussion regarding the event that we went to specifically so we could share it with you guys.

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    • I……actually keep meaning to comment on the actual article, but then something comes up or I have another thought come to mind……I usually try to comment on topic before jumping to other stuff………I do feel bad tho. Please don’t take the weird lack of comments on this article as a sign that we don’t want interest pieces and articles about other stuff not relating to actual news. I think we’re all just in a very comfortable place and that may not be good lol

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    • I don’t really know what to say on such articles except I am jealous you guys get to experience cool stuff like this ’cause you live in the Pokemon capital of the world. I also have no interest in GO so I can’t really say much on that. I am interested in Pokemon merchandise but don’t have instagram or twitter and don’t care for either platform. I did read the article though, it’s just I don’t know what to say and now feel bad :/

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    • Did this event cost money to attend? I would definitely go to one if they held one in my city, but the Chicago one was too far for me to venture for whilst working on near-minimum wage.

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    • Sorry Moving, I do actually read the articles and always try to make it a point to comment on them, I was almost sure I commented on this one, but I cant find my comment so maybe I didnt. I really do apologize.

      I think this is all awesome, and just generally cute. Do you how aswesome it would be for a foreign Pokemon fan to experience this. Granted, I dont play GO, so I wouldnt be inclued in that department, but that atmosphere would still be great. I want to know what type of food they served there and did they have Pokemon themed treats? and the weather too. Definitely will join in on an event like that some day. Maybe if its about a Pokemon game I do play lol. Also I didnt know you LIVED in japan. That’s pretty cool! Definitely keep us updated!

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  58. Moving is totally correct. As the mods here have mentioned multiple times as well as the chat mods, we do have a discord server that any and every one of you is welcome to. Since i have come back to disqus, i have noticed a lot of interesting things, from speculation on what usum will bring to some cool fan ideas from you guys. We want more than anything to invite you guys over to discord as we have many times before to share your ideas that do not reflect the content in these articles. Here is the invite to the server, https://discord.gg/gkGaau, and you can always find it in the chat tab above. I admittedly have had my own instances where I have posted off topic comments because I want to hear what you guys have to say on certain things, yet not many of you are in the discord server. I understand I cannot force any of you to join, however, this article is one of the longer articles I have seen that moving put a lot of effort into. It shouldn’t be ignored. Not many of us get the chance to experience cool events like this so to have someone tell us about the cool events is amazing.

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  60. I wish there were more events here imo. I saw a pikachu costume during SDCC. I love the costumes. So far there was the unfortunate pokemon go fest that didnt go well but even so i dont play go. I just want more pokemon stuff here in general. But yeah this event looks so fun and i would love to see a hula pikachu

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  61. A small part of me just died inside.
    I had to sit in line an hour and 20 mins. for a glowstick hayride with two shrill voiced little girl neighbors while camping and got tackled by their cousin

    I have limited hearing and feel like I’ve been hit by a dump truck right now

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  62. Oh some videos including ones viewing the merchandise in some detail could be a cool thing to do for future stuff, maybe you could do voiceover or annotations after too (to eliminate background noise issues), translating things and explaining them, especially the more Japanese orientated merchandise that are seldom seen elsewhere.Just a suggestion, I don’t want to try give you guys too much work.

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  65. Sounds like a better event than what was held in Chicago lol. I hope the Shiny Pikachu make their way to the rest of the world. I have a Shiny Gyarados, now must hunt Shiny Pikachu/Raichu.

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  66. Good morning, deers~
    Today’s question is a fun one:
    if you could make a reigon variant of any pokemon to any reigon from jhoto to alola, what evo line/solo pokemon would you like to see?

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  67. Lol @ 4chan leaks

    At Worlds they will reveal 2 new forms:
    Togedemaru Bomb Form
    Fire/Normal
    Quills are gone, metal parts are black and its tail is now a fuse. Ability is called Flame Fuse, when hit by a Fire type move, its HP goes beyond its current maximum by 25% and a ”countdown” starts for 3 turns. After these 3 turns, Togedemaru will automatically (regardless of move chosen) launch an attack which is the equalivent of Explosion but Fire-based.

    Mimikyu Creepy Crawl form
    Dark/Bug
    Spiky black shadow with red eyes and 8 claws instead of the one that regular Mimikyu has. Certain Mimikyu can now have the Grand Reveal ability, which has the same effect as Disguise, only this time when hit by an attack it changes Mimikyu to Creepy Crawl form and flinches the opponent.

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  68. Reading all this open world Pokemon talk, i think it’s quite unlikely we’ll get it. But I have my own (realistic) wishlist for what pokemon switch needs to be good.

    -The best thing to do, is just make the region feel bigger. Like make the towns larger, the routes aren’t straight roads and look more like hyrule field than a typical pokemon route, there are secret areas to go with extra stuff, cool side quests.Basically not exactly open world, but with open world elements.

    -Think the story through, don’t make it like gen 6 where you make two games that seem to buildup towards something but then drop it.

    -trials and gyms don’t need to be there. They were just there for the sake of being there, either improve or drop entirety.

    -drop the two versions, then superior Version bullshit

    -difficulty options

    -lots of things to do, whether it be a large post game with stuff like bf,pwt or typical open world game stuff like sidequests and hidden areas

    -more dynamic looking battles. Sm was a step in the right direction, but at the same time they removed the important trainers Saying things when they were down to their last pokemon.

    -supporting characters like professor, rival and evil team to be well developed.

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    • it would be interesting if GF incorporated the nuzlocke system since i would hope they know how the fans are playing pokemon. also why havent there been difficulty settings since bw2? i thought it was such a cool twist. also trials and gyms were there for the sake of being there? what? can you explain? and as ive expressed before i agree i think its unlikely pokemon will get to open world. if anything there needs to be a transition. Pokemon with open world elements would be so different and strange for the series. I just dont see it working at all. It would change the games and imo not for the better

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      • gf incorporating nuzlockes will most likely never happen. And not full blown open world but with a bit of freedom and the world feeling larger will work with pokemon Because Pokemon is supposed to be an adventure and it doesn’t feel like one currently. What i mean is, the routes right now are pretty much like straight roads and the towns are small. Bigger towns and instead of typical routes expansive areas you have to traverse with secrets hidden.
        Gyms and trails are just a mandatory checkpoints more than anything is what I meant

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        • Gyms are to check how much progress you did and challenge you. They are how you progress through the adventure! They always bring us intresting characters, buildings, desings… What would a pokemon game be without something like gyms?

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          • Go to gym
            One hit leaders pokes.
            Get badge.

            If each gym had an interesting side story i would be all for it. My main issue is we do gyms and trials in the game just because. There’s no actual reason to. There isn’t even a reason to become champion. Even if they make it clear that your character dreams of becoming a champion or something like that it would be fine but they don’t. It’s just an obligation

    • Really? Two extremally charateristic traits of the series and you want to remove them? I’m sorry, but that’s just stupid

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        • I think they should keep doing it tbh. They get more sales, which means more money to produce. As well as this, the game is heavily based on its trading features, and removing the different versions just completely messes that up especially now that we’ve got a breeding system so you can’t just trade rares because you can practically duplicate them due to breeding.

          And I don’t see why it’s that much of a problem tbh? Like, you don’t need to buy both versions, especially with how easy trading is nowadays and the fact you can now use Pokébank to hold your Pokémon as well as to get more rare Pokémon to trade. Like, I literally finished by Gen 6 Livedex with only Y and Alpha Sapphire, didn’t need X or Omega Ruby thanks to trading.

          As for third versions, it’s good they have the opportunity to go back to a game they put effort into and then polish it up. Diamond and Pearl as well as Ruby and Sapphire are beloved games, but Platinum and Emerald are constantly referred to as better because they had that base to refine in an extra year or two.

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          • Tbh they only get more sales for the people who buy both versions? And that’s not a very significant number. You cant trade with the same version tho? I mean, the only difference regardings to trade are versions exclusives but there aren’t even that many anyways.

            Even though is good to have a chance of polishing the games afterwards, I’m not very found of the idea, like, why bother buying a version of the game if you know that they’re going to release a better version just a year later (I tried doing this with XY :T )

          • That’s still extra sales tho, and whilst it’s a relatively small number it’s still a decent in come. As well as that, say you’re a mother with two or more kids, you might be inclined to buy more than one of your kids Pokémon than just one because you technically buying them two different games rather than just one game

            Thing is tho, third versions (mostly Platinum, I’d say Emerald and Crystal are closer to their original versions but still change it up a bit) at least change it up rather than being a straight improvement. Like, Diamond and Pearl had huge roster differences for most trainers than Platinum, and the middle three gym Leaders are in a different order, so it’s up to you which you prefer. Hence, Diamond and Pearl aren’t made redundant by Platinum, but Platinum is still seen as the better game.

      • I mean people complain about the series being samey, like hell even CoD tried to innovate with those exoskeletons and shit and even though they weren’t received amazingly and were eventually revoked at least they tried something new

        Whereas Pokémon doesn’t really ‘change’, it adds and removes changes to the core system. The core itself has been pretty much unshakeable l.

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      • Gyms and two Version Isn’t pokemon. Catching and battling new creatures to battle with is Pokemon. What’s Stupid is recycling the same formula for 20 years.

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    • I mean, trials and gyms served the purpose to be some kind of challenging “boss battle” so I wonder what could replace them.

      I agree on the difficult thing tho, no idea why they dropped it in BW2

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      • Because they were trying to play up the interaction between versions but botched it (if you had to connect with another game to get difficulty options, they should’ve made it at least straight away and not post-game).

        As someone who managed to play. White 2 challenge mode in its entirety and absolutely adored it, I really do hope difficulty options come back.

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          • The game you get challenge (Black 2) or easy mode (White 2) from needs to have beaten the champion. The receiving game can be at any point really, as I managed to play through the whole game with challenge mode (first two gym Leaders weren’t that much harder imo but then shit hit the intensity fan)

          • Uh, that’s the weirdest difficulty selection i’ve seen in a game lol, other games just let you select the difficulty from the beginning

      • The boss battles should mean something. Gyms and trials don’t. Heck i don’t think there’s even a motive too becoming champion in the games, it’s something you just do. You can replace them with story battles, or keep them but give the player an actual reason to go and challenge them.

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        • The reason is to prove to the league that you’re strong enough to challenge them by collecting 8 badges, tirals are simmilar. How they interract with you is dependant on each of the games.

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          • I’ve never ever felt the need to go and win the league, and this is my entire problem with the gym-trail system. For something that’s supposed to be the final battle, there is absolutely zero build up to it.

  70. Tbh this whole event kinda makes me wish we got a Hula Pikachu in game in USUM, that’d be absolutely adorable :0

    Did they have any event distributions during the event? Like at least Surfing or Flying Pikachu?

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  71. Seraph posted about his fakemon Evil team yesterday, so hell, Why not do the same? I have 2 tho

    Team Spring
    Once upon a time cheerful girl lived with her Bug type pokemon. Well she was too young to catch pokemon, so she just met with her insect friend every day. But when Winter came, the pokemon died. The girl was so depressed that she became obsessed with Spring, the time they were the happiest. When she grew up, pretending to be happy, she decided to use the power of pokemon and make Spring last forever… whatever it takes.
    Team Spring grunts are based on hippies and use fairy, Grass and Bug type pokemon.

    Team Autumn
    A boy Lost both his loving parents and grandmother in one year. He became obsessed with looking for a way to bring them back to life, and he discovered the powers of Ghost types. The first step in his Big plan is to create eternal Autumn, the time when Ghosts are the strongest.
    Team Autumn grunts are based on mages, wizards and LARPers

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    • Team Harmony (based around the hippie team peace and harmony)
      Team Eternal (Eternal Life)
      could be better names

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      • I actually created the teams around their names. My games would be called Summer and Winter, so the teams finish the 4. But Harmony and Eternal are great names and I think they could be used as key words in speeches of the leaders, or they could be names for their hideouts.

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    • Team Spring is like Magma/Aqua but with better backstory. But again kinda stupid, also spring forever isn’t that bad or evil imo. Maybe change her goal to be a bit less ridiculous like achieve immortality or make it so noone she loves dies or something.

      I like this one. But ‘ghost types are strong in autumn’ thing is wierd. But i guess it fits the theme of the games so it’s fine

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  74. Finally have time to properly comment on the article. It’s cool that the event went so well. Hopefully after the disaster that happened in Chicago future events (if they do anymore outside of Japan) will run much more smoothly. I think Niantic just needs to get better at communicating with the service providers in the US. The whole story sounded messy. Anyway it’s cool that you had fun and I’m glad you shared your experience with us. I always love these interest pieces and want you guys to continue to keep posting them. News articles are cool, but having special articles about events and experiences of the staff are much more personal and interesting to read.

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