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Pokémon Sword and Shield announced. Coming Late 2019
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But why would only that be changed and hidden? I mean, he doesn't even use it a lot in the movie. It feels weird to me to tease something and have an unique name for it like it's an official form.
After Megas in Origins and Ash-Greninja and Perfect Zygarde debuting in the anime I feel like they'll keep revealing new forms outside of the games.
As far as I know, the armoured Mewtwo in the original movie never had an official name. The fact that the advertisement uses the same name as the leak is suspicious.
Thanking about it, the only reason I wouldn't trust the Armored leak is because the Gimmick doesn't seem to signify Armored Pokemon. If that was the case, I would see the Japanese logo having something like the mega evo symbol instead of the Galar Football league logo. In fact, I think with the DNA Helix and the dual mystery armored mewtwos, its gonna be Mega Mewtwo X and Mega Mewtwo Y armored. The movie promo is gonna be the gen 8 mythical
Masuda said Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee are the last Pokemon games he will direct.
I'm gonna say it's because of spoilers. I honestly don't know but still, I don't think it's going to be related to the games. I'd love to be wrong, though.
So maybe they'll have a 4th director step up to the plate. Even better.
Waiting to see what the final forms look like, but as is I kind of like Sobble's design the most.
Yeah, exactly. Mewtwo in armour only appeared for like three minutes in the original film. Unless something new is going on with it, I don't think there would be any reason to hide it.
Well maybe the movie isnt a complete remake then and is alternate timeline thing. Just my speculation but maybe in this version Mewtwo is going to be using that armour in a form. Why would the movie be titled "Evolution"? Perhaps it even goes with the whole Shield theme of defense. I dont know but it is fun to speculate.
I loved ORAS, but yes, SM were a huge disappointment, with the first half being a total borefest. I hope SS are nothing like gen 7.
I am still pissed off by that, what a waste of a generation as it just felt unanswered.
Yeah...I am not a fan of Ohmori as a director as he's a terrible for the series as with Sun and Moon, it didn't feel like a Pokémon game as I struggled to bond with my team.
I will give him a chance here but if he messes up, he needs to be taken off the director seat.
Indeed, also as a reminder;
The Genesect movie was where we got a first look at Mega, even though at the time we didn't know what it was till Pokémon World Championships where they showed off Mega Lucario and Kangakhan and gave its official name.
They might just want to save the new updated look for the gimmick reveal in the game.
I like SM much more than XY and ORAS. It has actual world building and characters. I also felt like the way they integrated the legendary/event Pokémon in the world and the story was great -- the trio legendaries are relevant and active in the main plot, the UBs get a whole sidequest that add depth to old and new characters, Silvally is the ace of one of our rivals, the Tapus fit the region perfectly design and lore-wise and are introduced in the story as well. It's really really good and I feel like this may be what Ohmori's good at and I wish to see more of this in SwSh.
That said, while I don't get the dislike people have for the story, I hope they pace it better for them and don't have unskippable tutorials. But yeah, as a single player RPG I think he did a good job. The areas where SM lacked were to me in balancing random encounters (too many gen 1 monsters, too few Alola ones), map design is bad even though the locations and art direction are great, and of course, post-game -- it sucks in this aspect like every game since BW2.
But yeah, imo, SM has a lot of heart and they can improve a lot from that.
That said, while I don't get the dislike people have for the story, I hope they pace it better for them and don't have unskippable tutorials. But yeah, as a single player RPG I think he did a good job. The areas where SM lacked were to me in balancing random encounters (too many gen 1 monsters, too few Alola ones), map design is bad even though the locations and art direction are great, and of course, post-game -- it sucks in this aspect like every game since BW2.
But yeah, imo, SM has a lot of heart and they can improve a lot from that.
That's my point. They're hiding it because Armored stuff is the new gimmick and the Mewtwo in the movie will be how they introduce it.
Unno.
Takao Unno. Sadly those are the only games he's ever directed.
It feels like Game Freak rotates Directors through. The next 3 Pokémon games could have 3 different directors.
Unno, the esteemed creator of Garchomp. I wonder what ever happened to him? Black/White 2 were excellent and he kinda got locked in the basement afterwards.
He was Graphics Director on Sun / Moon and a Model Creator on US / UM. I guess he's been on the SWSH team instead than on the LGPE team.
It could perfectly be the original armor design, now available in the games as an armor evolution and distributed by event when the games launch.
Maybe he decided to step back from directing after one go. Developing games is stressful, especially if you're in the director's chair.
That makes sense. The art direction of SS is kinda similar to XY, in a good way. LGPE looked like its own thing.
For those talking about rivals. I think the rival/frenemy should be dropped. Instead, the rival should be part of the villanious team, not the headmaster, but someone that is starting his/her own journey as part of Team [insert name] and grows as a trainer along the protagonist, but through the "evil path" even if at the end he/she turns to the good side.
And the protagonist should have just a partner that can come every once in a while, maybe a sibling or some neighbour.
And the protagonist should have just a partner that can come every once in a while, maybe a sibling or some neighbour.
Someone has to approve of the dozens of useless paragraphs of text you have to sift through in Sun/Moon.
Sword and Shield remind me of the correctly proportioned segments of X/Y, like the full size trainers in the photo booth minigame. I like that, a lot.
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Nice. I'm surprised they got this out before the Super Mario Maker 2 analysis. That one must be over an hour.
True, true. Ohmori probably told them to write dialogue for which the game puts itself on autopilot every ten steps you take. Hopefully he saw the negative comments about how handholdy Sun and Moon were.
TFW the analysis for the new Pokemon game just revealed a day ago comes before the analysis for the Mario Maker 2 trailer from two weeks ago. Bless Derrick
At this point, both scenarios are plausible.
I could see them drawing upon the inclusion of armor evolutions to get the original armor in as a nostalgia callback, tho. Makes plenty of sense in my head.
Or, as you said, it could perfectly be a new design based on the same concept.
I posted a theory earlier that the villainous team could be an actual sporting team that is competing against you and the rival could be part of said team. With the transformation of Gyms into sports arenas/stadiums in the Galar region, it makes me think that the player will choose a team, or be assigned one based on your version choice, to compete in a more tourney focused Gym journey. Not unlike a season in a football league. Travel Galar representing your team and compete in tournaments at stadiums, in order to qualify to fight the Gym Leader repping an opposition team. The Pokémon League/Elite 4 will be the equivalent of finals.
Maybe he was punished for creating the least loved Pokémon (according to that massive poll), Simisear.
Ohmori did say that they are trying new things with these games. This theory would definitely fit the bill. I've always wanted the Pokemon League to be more of a tournament like how it is in the anime, so I'd be down.
Gamexplain said there might be two professors. I was literally talking about this before the games were revealed.
That would be a nice change of pace. Especially if the rival team isn't trying to take over the world, and the stakes are smaller and more personal. Would be cool to travel normally, but at certain story beats you have to meet up for practices, then you have to partake in mini tournaments with the team. Would be a good way to have a lot of fun side characters as well.
Pokemon leagues in the games have always been so nonsensical and uninspired so having the stadiums and actual tournaments would be such an improvement. Going through a series of NPCs standing in a line to determine a champion has always been very strange, its almost Truman show like.
Wouldn't it be something if the professor ended up being the secret mastermind behind the villainous team? /fanfic_ideas
The two purple houses. The one at the first town and the other one next to the lake. It's a cool hypothesis.
That doesn't sound too crazy and would explain the Olympics-mascot feeling the starters give, especially Scorbunny.
It does seem football as the most obvious choice, because it's the one shown on the video, but what if every gym is based on a sport related to the type they specialize? Like waterpolo for water, gymnastics for fairy?, taekwondo for fighting, etc. and this is more like an Olympics kind of thing.
Off topic, I wonder if we'll see some Posh Spice representation anywhere in the game, or maybe Mr. Bean or something lol
Ah, thanks. Maybe it's like Gen 2 where Professor Oak was in a house on your route to the first gym. Maybe we'll see that