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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I have two evil teams planned
i have the plans of one fully done
I’ll be interested to hear about them! I was gonna speak about mine but I’ll back off for now, especially since mines just a concept
YEsh!
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.
There’s zero way this would happen but this idea certainly intrigues me
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.
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
Opinions are appreciated :3
this gave me autism
Wha….
because vaccines cause autism according to moms who aren’t scientists or doctors but have done their research
(Fuckkkkk why XD)
No but seriously what do you think
This is actually really awesome and creepy.They seem like they would be the ones behind Mewtwo instead of Team Rockey :0
Thank youuu!!!
The thing is this, every single battle you have with them actually feels like something is at stake. Hell, even the grunts would high level AI, competitive movesets, and in some cases even items like mega stones or z-moves
Combine that with a nuzlocke and you’re fooked
They’re easy compared to the actual hard battles
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
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
I do get the irony, I just don’t necessarily like the negative connotation being applied to vaccine. I’m probably overreacting though hahah
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
That’s really neat. I guess my issue really lies with anti-vacciners than with you, I’m sorry xD
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)
Sounds kinda like pokemon cybermen
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.
XD
Well, let’s just say it plays a large role
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.
I actually had an entirely different idea XD
They aren’t exactly physically terrifying as much as they are mentally
If the masuda method or chaining a better way to get shiny pokemon?
Masuda Method is better if you want specific natures/IVs/eggmoves etc. but if you don’t care about any of that then chaining is the way to go
Technically chaining if you go long enough
Both can vary widely in length of time to achieve. I prefer breeding to have access to egg moves, guaranteed nature, more likely higher IVs etc, it’s also easier in that you won’t run out of the ball you want it in, should you care about that.
chaining with the shiny charm is the best way for speed, for quality control, try masuda method.
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
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……
Ive never seen it, should I?
It’s a great movie for sure. It’s a little long, but certainly worth watching.
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.
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
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 :/
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.
I agree, but there’s not so much stuff to have a have an opinion on with this sort of articles
I think it’s cool that we have a new segment, but it was hard to follow for me
Then voice that opinion, so we know.
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!
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.
I’m sorry moving and PJ if I offended you by not commenting more on the article, it’s less I’m not interested more jealousy that I can’t be in Pikapalooza with y’all…
That aside I’m sorry 🙁
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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
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
Kill them….kill them all
Here’s Chansey to heal you https://media.tenor.com/images/7bb78fca91e4d13d6cd4b0d608384c03/tenor.gif
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.
https://youtu.be/W6eVBdYRNgc
A Jessie Mimikyu bond episode..blehhhhh
Assuming you’re working 8 hours a week, you would only make 4,592$ not 17,682$.
Spam bots can’t even do simple math
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.
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?
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.
Cool
This is definitely real because in current day and age it is quite acceptable to have a suicide bomber Pokémon. Lol, totally not.
I do like the idea of a black shadow spider with red eyes though
Aren’t all Pokemon that use self-destruct and Explosion suicide bombers? They may not look like bombs but still…
Yes, but they were created before the actual threath of suicide bombers and with the attacks of the past two years it wouln’t do them a good image by creating such a form in where it is kill or be killed but still take everyone down with them.
lol let usum just be a game full of forms
The Mimikyu Creepy Crawl form is literally the description of the leak from the korean magazine of Mimikyu
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.
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
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
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?
Sun and Moon because Trials weren’t that much like gyms at all besides being boss battles
Change buildings for landmarks and Trials fit my description
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
The two versions thing is stupid and unnecessary tho, it’s just a trend they do so they can get more money
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.
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.
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.
That’s not true. That’s exactly what makes the franchise so strong.
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
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.
Wait, so you were supposed to connect to another game to get the options and it’s only post-game?
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.
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.
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.
What do Alolan starters and nachos have in common? DIP
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Deci Inci Prima
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?
Electric/Grass hula pikachuthat evolves into a New kind of Raichu that’s half Grass too
I don’t think It’d change its typing. Unless they change the typing of the other cosplay Pikachus as well.
they should
That wouldn’t make much sense, I mean, they’re just clothes
what is wrong with u
ask Earthie
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
Opinions?
Nobody has opinions?… Really?
Nobody has to always reply. dont get offended
I just need criticism, I want to make changes if they’re needed.
yea but u post at time when nobody is really here.
How would I know that?
yea but if u see people arent posting it probably that reason no need to reply to yourself asking for criticism if someone sees it and wants to respond they will
Team Harmony (based around the hippie team peace and harmony)
Team Eternal (Eternal Life)
could be better names
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.
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
The goal isn’t supposed to be so bad, it’s the way she has to archieve it. She wants to kill the legendary pokemon of summer, so the balance is destroyed. Then she will be able to make spring eternal.
That’s okay. But i just like villians who make more sense is all
And also Halloween and all spirit themed holidays are usually in autumn.
So they didn’t air the dubbed Gladion episode
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MY BROTHER GOT BACK FROM HIS ROAD TRIP AND LOOK WHAT HE BOUGHT ME FROM TEXAS https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3981d0e8e0be865598ab34330f384a5bea82170ef7e11852b194949d24260be6.jpg
He knows to well lol
You have to be thankful for a bro like that
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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.
New Article.