Nintendo Direct Mini Coverage // 1.11.18

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Nintendo has released a small Direct presentation focused on its new Switch console with news about several upcoming titles. Most relevant to Pokémon fans is the addition of paid DLC packs for Pokkén Tournament which adds new fighters, Aegislash and Blastoise, as well as several new support Pokémon.

Content in Wave 1 will be released on January 31 with Wave 2 coming on March 23. Together the Battle Pack retails for $14.99.

Other games mentioned in the Direct Mini include The World Ends With You -Final Mix-, Super Mario Odyssey, Kirby Star Allies, Mario Tennis Aces, Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Fe, Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle DLC, Celeste, and more! Check out the presentation in its entirety above!

Which is the better addition to the roster, Aegislash or Blastoise?! Let us know below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=37&v=RFzRgLY9IG4

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406 thoughts on “Nintendo Direct Mini Coverage // 1.11.18”

  1. Decided to rework one of my fakemon lines:

    Pesweete
    Fairy/Ghost
    The Small Candy Pokemon
    They fly around, leaving a scent of Candy wherever they go. Children often befriend them, not knowing that Pesweete had in the past been human children themselves.

    Evolves at level 20 into:

    Spoocanedy
    Fairy/Ghost
    The Sweet Spirit Pokemon
    As they evolve, they get faster and more offensive. If you caught one as a Pesweete, it will always stand by your side and try to protect you.

    Evolves at level 35 into:

    Lordipop
    Fairy/Ghost
    The Candy Ghoul Pokemon
    They become quite experienced fighters after evolving from Spoocanedy. Lordipop’s main goal is to protect its trainer from any danger. Some people say that food ate around Lordipop tastes sweeter and can make you happy if you’re feeling bad.

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  2. I finally sat down and watched the Direct and unpopular opinion I really didn’t get hyped

    The Kirby series I’ve kinda steered away but I’m definitely going to get it for my brother
    I’m not TOO crazy about the balloon hide and seek which’ll boil down to scrubs hiding them in obvious nooks and crannies and hyper elitists putting them as far away as humanly possible to ensure secrecy
    And lastly the Tennis series was always a big favorite but I rather get it as a gift than spend money on it myself

    And Dark (Prepare your anus) Souls my brother would tear me several new ones if I bought on the switch (he’s always bugging me to play the original one but I was like meh don’t feel like it)

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  9. About to challenge the Striation gym, and this is my team.

    Fawkes the Moltres lv11
    Yoshi the Trapinch lv11
    Slave the Zigzagoon lv10

    I’ve randomnized the game, thats why my starter is Moltres.

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  11. If Pokken adds any two of these to their roster I will get it for da switch

    Rhyperior/Rhydon
    Excadrill
    Heracross
    Golem
    Snorlax/Hariyama
    Bewear/Buzzwole
    Incineroar
    Simisage
    Braviary
    Marowak (could be either form)
    Golisopod

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  12. So I beat clay last night. Wasn’t as hard as I was anticipating. Had a Deerling with Energy Ball on the team for this one gym. Hopefully that’ll have to be the last time I use a Pokemon that I don’t want to keep on my team. Now onto chargestone cave to get my Klink. He’ll double as my Steel and Electric type (despite not actually being an Electric type). Then hopefully once I beat Skyla I can go get my Frillish (FINALLY). Didn’t think it’d take this long to the second half of my team…..

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  13. Fakemon line that I don’t know if I’ll put in my fan game. Encountered sometimes by picking up Pokeballs.

    Huntry
    Dark
    The Specific Hunter Pokemon
    Their diet consists out of Voltorb and Amoongus. When they sees a white and red ball, it runs at it and attacks without thinking. They even learned to digest real pokeballs.

    Evolves after being given a Pokeball in a Poke Mart

    Balluntry
    Dark/Steel
    The Pokeball Hunter Pokemon
    After evolving they stop trying to find Voltorb and Amoongus. Balluntry eat only Pokeballs. They will be confused if you’ll try to feed them an other type of Pokeball than the basic.

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  14. When should I evolve my Pansear? I’m hesitant because I really like the idea of having Pansear on my shoulder and being my main dude. On the other hand I think having a fully evolved Pokemon as my main team maybe would be useful. I do like Simisear too…..I just don’t know……*SIGH*

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  15. Very happy with this direct, nothing massive but loads of great small things.

    -Never expected more pokken content but hyped for it, and hope they keep supporting the game beyond these two new characters (they managed to fill up the character select screen from the first game perfectly, I suspect they may try and do it again lol).
    Very happy about aegislash, would have expected/preferred greninja because they’ve already got every other oversaturatedly popular pokémon in the game bar that one so why not, but hey blastoise is good. I’m more suprised we still haven’t gotten a rock or normal type mon in the roster, they’re the only missing types now-expecting them in the future.
    You know what would be cool too? New battle arenas! The current ones are really cool but I’d love to see them design some new ones.

    -Now exams are passed I can finally get back into Mario Odyssey (I’m only on my fourth world), and the new content looks sweet!

    -I’m so happy they’ve seemingly gone back to putting effort into mario sports games, they’ve been getting offensively generic these past few years. I hope the story in Mario Tennis Aces Delivers, and I hope they go for some wacky character choices, that was one of the best part of older sports games.

    -Somewhat tempted to get kirby, I was pretty happy with not having to buy any games for the first bit of this year because I already have so many to complete and because money, but I might consider it in the future. Only kirby game I have is Epic Yarn and it’s massive charm and chill approach make it one of my favourite platformers I’v played. I know this one isn’t the same at all but it looks really fun.

    -Kinda want Hyrule warriors as well despite having the wii u version with all the DLC, because I never really got the time to play it much at all (not that it was a waste, my brother played it); and having bought pokken dx I actually put time into it unlike the wii u version . I’ll probably wait till I can get it cheap, like mario kart.

    -Really don’t think I’ll be getting Tropical Freeze again, I need to finish the original which I only got halfway through. I’m surprised their main new feature is an easy mode, but it looks like a very fun easy mode and it’s great fanservice too!

    Overall nintendo is off to a great start this year IMO.

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  17. I’m trying to settle on something
    I have this Alligator/Roman Gladiator Fakemon line

    Aeligo-Agladius-Gladigator
    And originally they were Water into Water/Steel with a metal scales and a long sword like tail but the more I think of it it feels more light Fighting but I don’t want anymore Fighting types in my roster

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        • How good are you at computer stuff? lol While I haven’t used it much I’d use a program called OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) It’s not too hard to get used to and it’s nice for setting up a layout.

          Now as far as the layout is concerned you’ll want some sort of image editing program. Something you can make a PNG file image with. It HAS to be a PNG file. That’s how most people make their layouts for LPs. What you do is basically cut out what are essentially holes for the game you’re capturing and the camera shot (i you intend on putting one in). Once you get the layout you want (I suggest keeping it simple to start with) you bring it into OBS and scale it to the window. You then have OBS capture the thing you want to record (in this case the Sage player window) and move the captured image over to where you want it in the layout. If you have a mic OBS can capture that too.

          It’s worth downloading OBS even just to play around with it. It may be easier to understand by playing with it rather than reading my giant wall of text haha Either way here are some links. One to the OBS website and one to a tutorial on how to make a layout. It’s done in Photo Shop, but it’ll give you a general idea of how to do it. Oh and here is a tutorial on how to bring stuff into OBS

          https://obsproject.com/
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6WG2MFGBsI

          Also doing some brief research is helpful. Don’t rush into it. Once you get a good feel for how to make the layouts or set up OBS (or whatever you end up using to capture) it gets easier. I’m still learning myself honestly

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          • Glad I could help even a little. It’s best to take these things one step at a time. Watch as many videos as you can. If you try to rush into it you’ll only frustrate yourself and your work will suffer. Start small and gradually build. Eventually you’ll become competent enough in the programs and techniques that you won’t even think about it as you’re using them. Also as cliched as it sounds practice makes perfect. I’m still nowhere near being great yet I keep trying every day to get a little better at what I do. It certainly helps me in both my channel and when I do professional editing work for clients

  21. @TheLastKurusu:disqus Also as far as my video is concerned I did it all in Premiere (altho it would have been easier in After Effects honestly) What I did was done with Key frames. You can probably get a free trial to Creative Cloud for a week to play around with it. It’s not through the capture program I talked about below tho. You can probably get the same effects through any video editing program. All fades and movements. Keyframes are you’re friends when working with motion graphics. Also I hope everything I posted helped even a little. Sometimes it’s hard for me to explain stuff even if I know how to do something. Thus why I directed you to those tutorials lol

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  22. Aegislash is better than everyone on the roster. Honestly, that was my most hyped moment of the Direct and I’ve barely played any Pokken yet (thanks Xenoblade, I love you)

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