Pokémon Sword - Pokémon Shield (Isle of Armor, June 17, 2020) [NSW]

[Dantrag]

hole - e - fuck lmao

[Corrderio]

Pokemon Direct June 5th: https://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/06-05-2019/

[6souls]

https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1133000046381752321

Pokemon press conference tomorrow

[Vaspinne]

This picture in the twitter replies made me laugh

[silverdragontyr]

Big leaks around it seems. Like, entire pokedex. Seen a couple sites talking about it, click at your own discretion.

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainm...Pokemon-Direct

[Souj]

Pokemon, leaks, I'll wait for the official stuff before I bother with the 200th "leak" of the week.

[Kaslo]

Going to be updating this post with screens from the Direct today

[Kaslo]

[Corrderio]

There's a a douhle pack that contains both right? Was getting ready to leave when they talked about the game release

[Obsidian]

Those designs are way better than most of the Sun/Moon pokemon. I'm pretty pumped now.

[Kaslo]

There's a a douhle pack that contains both right? Was getting ready to leave when they talked about the game release

Yes there will be.

For EU, Steelbook confirmed (awaiting NA confirmation)

[Kaslo]

[Kirin]

Everything looks great except for Dynamax.

I get that they're trying to introduce new modes for battles, but with 3 different additions now over 3 different generations with minimal flow between them it's kind of becoming a "okay, so what?" type of feel for me. How is bigger + stronger different from stronger (Z-Moves) and flashier + stronger (mega evolve)?

Aside from that, this is looking like it will deliver exactly what most everyone has been wanting from a console Pokemon.

[xElipsis]

Dynamax reminds me of the gigantification in Mario Tennis...

[Scythiroth]

Yeah, dynamax definitely seems really lame to me, but everything else is looking pretty great so far in this game. I'll be curious how big that "open world" area really is because I've always wanted to Pokemon to go that direction eventually. At least they seem to be making progress towards getting to that point, even though I still assume more than 50% of this game will still be normal routes and towns.

[Corrderio]

Yeah I'm iffy on dynamax myself. Though I'm sure macro artists will love it... urgh.

As for the open world... cautiously optimistic. Good idea in theory but Nintendo being Nintendo means there's always a catch with how they handle online gameplay

[Kaslo]

Yeah, dynamax definitely seems really lame to me, but everything else is looking pretty great so far in this game. I'll be curious how big that "open world" area really is because I've always wanted to Pokemon to go that direction eventually. At least they seem to be making progress towards getting to that point, even though I still assume more than 50% of this game will still be normal routes and towns.

It looks to be this part of the region map.

[Kirin]

I think you could take "The Wild" as they call it two ways:

One is the way Kaslo outlined; a specific region, zone, or area within the game that has specific qualities akin to Pal Park or Safari Zone.

I kind of took "The Wild" as any area between towns and cities that will basically be heavily influenced by day/weather as to which pokemon appear; something similar to the past 2 gens but taken up to a scale that influences ALL pokemon in a zone instead of just 1 or 2. Basically, if its raining on Route 3 in SS you can catch pikachu or squirtle, but if it is sunny you can catch volbeat and charmander, and little will overlap otherwise.

[LinktheDeme]

So did they get rid of mega evos and z moves then?

[LinktheDeme]

https://snag.gy/umzO15.jpg not sure if anyone saw this