Pokémon Black and White

[Kyreth]

sarcophagus pokemon aside of course!

also including stuff like double or triple battles is pointless unless you design all(or most) of the game around it. I wouldn't mind a pokemon where you'd triple battle almost all the time - if the game was designed for it.

It's one of those things I enjoy about parts like Battle Frontier- double or even now triple battles look most interesting, considering a 3v3 makes the whole weakness/resistance game a lot more complex, and probably neuters some popular moves like Discharge and Surf considerably.

I expect there will be some awesome Pokemon, some crap ones- just like every generation's visuals -but what really interests me will be the changes and new moves added to the move pool. Hopefully, seeing what kind of havoc Stealth Rock wreaks with the game and the Dragon dominance in competitive play will result in more viable counters and a little less oomph for SR.

[nekoshoonen]

News of triple battles and made me just come a little in my pants =o

[BRP]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=401102

* Professor Araragi leaves you, Cheren (the black-haired boy), and Belle (the blond girl) each a present and tells you to share it with them (they are your childhood friends). This is when you pick your starter. Sometimes you’ll battle your friends during your adventure. Belle is spontaneous and one of your two rivals. She also has a strong side to her that shows sometimes, such as when she goes out on her adventure against her father’s wishes. During your adventure she will have times where she will be unreliable as well, but she will grow as the story progresses. Cheren is very intelligent. He’s extremely trustworthy and will give you advice throughout your journey. His goal is to be a champion.

* When you pick your starter, the other two go to your two rivals Cheren and Belle. All three of you start your journey together at the same time, just like Ash, Gary, and the other Pallet Town Pokemon Trainers in the show and the three Gold and Silver trainers in the Legend of Raikou special.

* The game starts from Route 1, indicating that this region is much farther away than Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh.

* N will keep challenging you in order to confirm his ideas of justice. He calls Pokemon his “friends,” but one of the screenshots shows him saying that he wants to split humans and Pokemon and divide them so that the world is black and white. He has the unique idea to set Pokemon free from people. He’s looking for the power to grant these ideals.

* In 3-on-3 battles, if your Pokemon is, for example, on the far left, it won’t be able to hit a Pokemon on the far right. There is a button on the bottom left hand corner of the battle screen which is called “Move” and allows you to swap your Pokemon’s positions. Thus, a Pokemon on the far right can hit the opponent’s Pokemon that are on the far right as well as the middle. The magazine also says that if the Pokemon in the middle uses an attack that hits all Pokemon, then it will be very powerful.

* A new ability called Telepathy prevents Pokemon from receiving damage from teammates. For example, if a Pokemon has Telepathy in a two-on-two or three-on-three battle and one of your Pokemon uses Surf, the Pokemon with Telepathy will not be damaged.

* Rankurusu (the green cell) and Gochiruzeru (the black humanshaped Pokemon) are both version-exclusives, but it doesn’t say which is in which version.

* Pokemon White will exclusively feature White Forest while Pokemon Black will exclusively feature Black City.

* You can see Black City in the top left of the scan and White Forest right next to it. You can also see game screenshots of the two locations below their artwork.

* There will be cities that look different based on the version even though they are the same city. In the bottom two screenshots on the left page, you can see one city that looks different in both versions of the game.

* There is a new, unnamed attack which for one turn will cause all of your team members to avoid attacks that hit all team members.

* Musharna (ムシャーナ) is the Trance Pokemon and is a Psychic-type like its pre-evolution Munna. The dreams of Pokemon are inside its smoke; both Munna and Musharna give off this Dream Smoke. It has the abilities Forewarn and Synchronize, stands 1.1m tall, and weighs 60.5kg.

* If you obtain “Dream Smoke,” you can use a “Game Sync” to enable the uploading of your Black and White file to the Internet. Basically, it seems like “Dream Smoke” unlocks your ability to upload your game file.

* The player will receive the C Gear from Makomo, Professor Araragi’s friend, after they do something she asks. The C Gear has features for Wi-Fi, local wireless, and infrared.

* The High Link is a building at the center of Isshu through which you can connect to other players’ games. Using the High Link, you can travel to another player’s world and adventure with them together.

* With the DS’s infrared signal, you can have speedy battles with up to four players and speedy trades directly from your party or PC box. You can also automatically exchange friend codes over infrared now.

* A new feature called Passing By will allow your DS to connect automatically with other players that are nearby. As you advance in Black and White, you will be able to help others on their journey. It is part of the C Gear.

* The games have a Live Caster feature (not for the old DS or DS Lite), which allows you to use the DSi’s camera to talk to friends through video feed. Locally, you can talk to up to four people, while over Wi-Fi you can only talk to two. The Live Caster will have a pen and stamp tool so you can play with the pictures while using the video chat.

* Characters in the game will use the Live Caster feature to talk to you as well. o.o’ N is seen using this in the trailer that showed on Oha Suta a few weeks ago.

* As has been rumored for months, the two games will now support Kanji for Japanese players. Apparently, the game’s script will change a bit as well, perhaps since those who would change to Kanji are older players (will it be a little more detailed with more advanced vocabulary?). This feature won’t be in the English games because it’s a Japanese language thing.

* There is a new feature called Feeling Check that checks the compatibility of players. One of the things it shows is a game where two people have to keep the same rhythm.

* The Pokemon Global Link, which is the service that allows you to upload your Black and White save file to a special website, has two different modes: one where you have your Pokemon play in a dream and another where you can battle online. You can unlock the Global Link feature once you obtain Musharna, the evolution of Munna, meaning it is one of those “gimmick” Pokemon like Plusle and Minun were for 2-on-2 battles.

* If you are registered through the Pokemon Global Link, you can play online battles using a “Rating Mode” or “Random Match” mode at to the Global Terminal inside the Pokemon Center. It will send your battle results to a server and you can compare your results to other players to see who is a strong Trainer.

* In the World of Dreams, your Pokemon have their own rooms that they can play in and they can play mini-games with other Pokemon. Pokemon that your Pokemon becomes friends with in the dream world can be taken back to the real world, being your game; you can capture Pokemon not available in the Isshu PokeDex and transfer them to your games in this fashion. To transfer Pokemon to the computer and thus to the World of Dreams, there will be a new Game Sync option available through the C Gear, which allows you to choose one Pokemon to send to your computer.

I really like 3v3 battles. I hope it is the standard for now on.

[Tyrath]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=401102




I really like 3v3 battles. I hope it is the standard for now on.

I dont see them making it the standard battle, though I agree it would be pretty cool if they did.

[Imitarate]

It would be nice if it would become a metagame norm, but between the years of history developing strategy and people being generally lazy about this shit, it seems likely to be more niche. I'd love to be proven wrong, it sounds like an awesome tactical element. Of course, one of my fonder memories from 3rd gen is Metronome Battles...

[BRP]

http://www.pokemon-sp.jp/series/bw/#/index.html

and

[Shenrien]

Japan is a scary fucked up place <.<;

[Kyreth]

It would be nice if it would become a metagame norm, but between the years of history developing strategy and people being generally lazy about this shit, it seems likely to be more niche. I'd love to be proven wrong, it sounds like an awesome tactical element. Of course, one of my fonder memories from 3rd gen is Metronome Battles...

At the least, I'd like to see more 2v2 and 3v3 Trainer/Gym battles, including the Elite Four-level stuff.

[MoogleAura]

First, the evolution of Minezumi has been revealed, called Miruhoggu (?????). Next, a Deer Pokemon called Shikijika (????) got revealed, as did a stork Pokemon in a new feature that presumably replaces contests; Pokemon Musical. The video also indicates that seasonal areas exist within the game and confirm Team Plasma as the new Team within the games. The transfer of Pokemon is also now done through a mini-game called the PokeShifter.

We also have new details on a new mode utilised within Triple Battles where you only control one Pokemon within the middle and can rotate the middle one around at will. This is done on the attack selection menu and appears instantaneous, thus creating loads of possible strategies

In the High Link, you get missions as you know, but we have the first mission detailed to give us an idea on the missions; Item Mission - Hide an Ultra Ball in front of the Tower of Heaven on Route 7.(If you get talked to then you have to restart!). Time Limit of 180 seconds and the prize is 3 "Derudama". There is also a subway throughout Isshu called the Battle Subway

In addition to that, we have some new details on moves;
First, Mamanbou has a new move called Soak (?????)
Next, Pokabu has a move called Fire Oath (???????)
Finally, Tsutarja has a move called Grass Oath (??????).

~http://www.serebii.net/index2.shtml

http://www.serebii.net/blackwhite/pokemonmusical.jpg
http://www.serebii.net/blackwhite/miruhoggu.jpg
http://www.serebii.net/blackwhite/musicshow.jpg
http://www.serebii.net/blackwhite/deer.jpg



Near the end it shows the player walking around in the tall grass and is then attacked by the 2 meerkat looking Pokemon I posted above. Confirms the Japanese text that 2 Pokemon can appear at the same time now.

lol at the grass starter wearing a top hat and cane. :D

[BRP]

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/201...e_new_pokemon/

The rumored has been confirmed. The regional pokedex is entirely new.

The reason for this design choice, says Masuda, is because they want to put kids and adults on the same starting line and give all players the feeling of "What is this Pokemon?", similar to what they might have experienced when playing the original of all Pokemon games, Pokemon Red & Blue.

Masuda and the development staff had players inside and outside of the company sample the game. Comments included:

* "It's like playing something completely new, similar to when I played Red & Green"
* "You don't even know the type of the Pokemon, so you're surprised at the skills"
* "There are only Pokemon that you've never seen, so it's fresh and new"

[Draylo]

Very nice, I really love all the new features they add to each new game, poke walker was nice wonder if anything new that's similar to it will be added.

[Insanecyclone]

[Julian]

Did I just read this right?

# TMs do not disappear after use

One thing I hate

Spoiler: show

http://images.serebii.net/corocoro/plasmacoro.jpg

What is this faggotry, team rocket was the only good bad guy team, why do they keep making shitty copies that look like crap

[Warudo Ecksu]

those outfits are terrible, especially the guy's. You'd think they'd be able to come up with something better than that

[Makwa]

Makes me think of the priest gear from demon's souls for some reason. lol

[Maguspk]

Totally new pokedex sounds pretty freaking sick, I cannot wait now.

Friend of mine posted pokemon shit on my facebook wall a few seconds ago, asking if I heard about black and white, cramping my facebook style...shiiit.

[Draylo]

Looks like some weird battle nuns

[Priran]

http://images.serebii.net/corocoro/plasmacoro.jpg

so do you need to cut off your ring finger to use a HM

[Sunrider]

One thing I hate

Spoiler: show

http://images.serebii.net/corocoro/plasmacoro.jpg

What is this faggotry, team rocket was the only good bad guy team, why do they keep making shitty copies that look like crap

Hey, I like the new team's look. They're like "The Knights of Ni Who Say 'POKEBALLGO!'"

And I'm quite pleased that not every team was just flatly evil as Team Rocket, it makes Rocket special that way, and it gives the other teams some dimension.

Magma/Aqua were like environmental terrorists, which was kind of refreshing.

Galactic was a bunch of dickwads who congregated around this yutz with a god complex, whose motives ("I shall reshape the whole of creation to my design"), were grand enough to be laudable.

Really, the only other blatantly evil team was Cipher. What would be dope is a game were the protagonist is caught in between a Cipher/Rocket gang war.

[Akiyama]

Man.. #TMs not disappearing is fuckwin. I wonder what restrictions they'll add to it all though. Get T-Bolt/Flamethrower/Earthquake/Explosion and NOT WORRY ABOUT THEM GOING AWAY. FUCK YES.