Pokemon Black & White MASSIVE reveal: intriguing plot details and gameplay changes
CoroCoro scans blow the lid off the✤ Black & White mystery
BREAKING POKEMON NEWS! The biggest blowout of Pokemon Black & White info has appeared on the internet via more leaked CoroCoro scans from the August issue. Surprisingly, itsounds like this might be the first Pokemon game in the series to actually have an interesting plot (moral ambiguity in a Pokemon game, gasp!), and we have some concrete details about new Wi-Fi/infrared features, as well as a full explanation of how the 3 on 3 battles will work. Let's go through each page detail by detail!
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Pages 2 and 3(right to left) - These are your two (TWO!!) rivals, Cheren (the boy) and Belle (the girl). Cheren is the reliable and trustworthy one - he's also very intelligent and will give you guidance along your journey. Belle on the other hand is fiery and spontaneous, embarking on her Pokemon quest against her father's wishes. It sounds l♌ike he might start off a little immature but her character will grow over time.
Pages4 and 5 - The main villain, called N,calls Pokemonhis "friends" and believes that they shouldn't be subjugated by humans. To realize his idealistic vision of equality between species, he wants to divide the world between humans and Pokemon, like dividing between Black and White. This is definitely the most interesting plot detail we've heard yet, since it sounds like B&W will actually contain moral ambiguity, rather than the usual plot of Team Rocket tryiಞng to take over the radio tower, or Team Galactic trying to end the world, etc. N definitely sounds like a sympathic villain who will probably start out noble and idealistic but then take his ideas too far somehow. The article also says that N will challenge you in order to confirm his ideas about justice, but how he will do this without Pokemon to battle remains to be seen. GR editor Henry Gilbert is already predicting that N is actually Zoroark in disguise, since we've seen that Zoroark can impersonate humans, and his Pokemon liberation agenda sounds like something a Pokemon might cook up.
Also revealed on page 4, when you pick your starter at the beginning of the game, your two rivals will each pick one as well so that all three starters are taken. When you set off on your journey, you start at Route 1, which means the🀅y're starting the routenumbering system over again that began in Kanto 𓃲(which also had a Route 1 - 25).
Pages 6 and 7 - Triple battle!! Now we finally know more about how the triple battles will work and how the position of your Pokemon will affect the battle. The Pokemon positioned on the left in your team won't be able to hityour opponent'sPokemon on the opposite side (your right, your opponent's left), and vice versa. The Pokemon in the middle of the formation will be able to hit the whole field,which will make it very powerful. There's also an optioncalled "Move" to rearrange your Pokemon's formation during battle.
Also, a new ability called Telepathy will protect your Pokemon from taking damage from teammates, like from Earthquake or Surf. Also mentioned is a new move (nಌame unknown) that protects your Pokemon from attacks that hitall Pokemon for one turn.
Pages 8 and 9 - Black City (Pokemon Black exclusive)and White Forest (White exclusive)revealed, pictured in upper left. Below the art you can al꧃so see two in-game screens each for both locations. Cities will also look different in each version, which you can see an example of at the bottom of page 9. We also learn on page 8 that Gochiruzeru (the gothic Lolita Pokemon) and Rankurusu (the green cell-looking one) are version exclusives, but it doesn't say which is exclusive to which one.
Pages 10 and 11 - More details on new Pokemon:
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Pages 12 and 13 - Mushaana (Musharna?), the Traജnce Pokemon, is Munna's evolution. Psychic type (lots of new Psychic types so far this generation!). Abilities are Forewarn or Synchronize. Both Munna and Musharna emit "Dream Smoke" which contains the drea♌ms of Pokemon. You need Dream Smoke to use the Game Sync that allows you to upload your B&W savedata to the internet.
Professor Araragi's friend, Makono, pictured bottom right. She gives you the C Gear whichcontainsvariousWi-Fi and inf♋rared f𝓡eatures.
Page 13 gives more details on the High Link feature, which is accessed in a building in middle of the Isshu map (which we detailed on澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Pokemon Monday). The High Link lets you join ot🐽her players' games and adventure with them (🐭this sounds promising!).
Pages 14 and 15 - Local trades and battles have been totally streamlined. Using infrared you can quickly join up with people to trade or battle and automatical♛ly exchange friend codes (yes!!). Trading has al𓂃so improved, and you can access any Pokemon from your PCor party now while trading. No more going in and out of the Wi-Fi/Union Room to access your PC!
A new feature called Passing By (which is part of the C Gear) automatically det꧒ects nearby B&W players and interacts with other games in some beneficial way.
If you have a DSi, you can use the Live Caster feature which is a video chat which allows up to four people locallꦬy or two people over Wi-Fi. Local video chat sounds silly, but it does have some art tools like pens and stamps so you can mess with the video images. Ther🌟e will also be a Liver Caster component to the single player game, where NPCs talk to you and each other via the Live Caster.
There's a new feature c🤡alled "Feeling Check" that tests the "compatibility" between players, like with biorhythmꦿs or something. It sounds cockamamie, but whatever.
For 🦩the Japanese version only (pertinent to importers), B&W will have a text option so that kanji will be used in the text instead of just kana.
Pages 16 and 17 - The Pokemon Global LInk has two modes, one wওhere you play in a dream and one where you can battle online:
World of Dreams allows your Pokemon to play in a room and make friends with other Pokemon via a minigame.You can then transfer one of these Pokemon back to your game uꦺsing the C Gear and obta🎀in it as an actual Pokemon. This is one of the ways you can obtain Pokemon outside of the Isshu Pokedex. So, it kind of sounds like a more robust version of the PokeWalker in a way.
Once you register throug𝔉h the Pokemon Global Link, you can play online battles accessible via the Global Terminal at Pokem🌄onCenters.There aretwo modes - Rating Mode or Random Match, and it looks like there will be some kind of online leaderboards so you can compare your battle records against other players.
Pages 18 and 19 - There's going to be a Japanese version event from Aug 7 - Aug 31that allows you to encounter an Eeveelution in the World 𒅌of Dreams via the Pokemon Daisuki Club website.
Wow! So, let that all sink in for awhile, and tune in to澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Pokemon Mondaynext week where we'll probably still be talking about all this 𝄹new info.
Jul 14, 2010