PokeMon Black and White

[incredibledave]

doesnt look any worse than generations 2 - 3.

[BreakABone]

3 on 3 battles are added to the series.

[TheSlyMoogle]

Looks like from the video that the japanese release date is sept 18th.

Probably makes US release around December. Just in time for the holiday season in the US of course.

[Vampyr]

I can't believe this is coming out so soon. I really need to start SoulSilver back up and catch'em all!

Probably the game I'm most excited about this year...love me Pokemons.

[BreakABone]

- only encounter new Pokemon until you clear the game
- the dev team wanted new and old players to share the experience of finding new Pokemon for the first time
- the dev team had people inside and outside the company test the game, and they made the following comments

"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"

- the devs admit that designing the new Pokemon is still tough


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.

[BreakABone]

The list of the 156 Pokemon

[Angrist]

Lol @ the broccoli monkey. 40/40 from Famitsu btw...

[jayv]

i haven't played pokemon since gold/silver. and i got pokemon ranger on the DS which was kind of fun but ultimately didn't keep my attention.

but i haven't been excited for a pokemon game since silver until this one. i may just get back into pokemon playing. i can't wait for it. 3-on-3 battles?? i missed the 2-on-2 battles from the previous one. i would have been excited for that, but NOW I'M EXCITED FOR 3-ON-3!

YEAH!

ok i'm done.

[TheSlyMoogle]

Some of those pokemon. Just wow?

They looked retarded.

[TheSlyMoogle]

Game is out today. Just to let you know, tepig is da coolest MFer alive. Also Broccoli monkey is the shit. That's all.

PanSear
PanPour
PanSage

Monkey love.

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by TheSlyMoogle

Game is out today. Just to let you know, tepig is da coolest MFer alive. Also Broccoli monkey is the shit. That's all.

PanSear
PanPour
PanSage

Monkey love.

I'm assuming you restarted until you got a female starter, too?

If so, want to breed me a tepig at some point and trade for an oshawott?

[TheSlyMoogle]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

I'm assuming you restarted until you got a female starter, too?

If so, want to breed me a tepig at some point and trade for an oshawott?

yeah that's cool. Tepig nation.

[TheSlyMoogle]

Ahh yes.

[Vampyr]

This is the best part of that comic:

[TheSlyMoogle]

Finally got my DS Lite working with my wireless router. So just got my liberty pass. Hmm why aren't we doing a journal for this game?