Konnichi wa, minna-san!
As much as I would like to keep my GOTY Awards at the top of my blog for a while, this is Pokemon news to share! So, Nintendo has teased today for being a big day for Pokemon fans. The announcement was made at 8 PM JST (Japan Standard Time) which meant... 6 AM EST for me. As much as I like sleep like any teenager, I like Pokemon more. So after getting up at 5:50 AM to get ready, I told myself: This better be good.
I was a couple of minutes late to the video since I couldn't find it (usually Nintendo Directs are on Nintendo's FB page), Nintendo posted a link that allowed me to find the video. Basically the first 7 minutes of this 11 minute video was a recap of the Pokemon series from its humble origins of Pokemon Red and Green (in Japan) to the juggernaut it is now with the most recent release of Pokemon Black 2 and White 2. As soon as Satoru Iwata said that the DS was the first Nintendo handheld to support multiple games in the series and it was time to basically change, I knew immediately that it meant a 3DS game. Finally! Now, the next question was, what kind of game would it be? A new series or a remake of an old one? With the focus on Pokemon's past in the beginning, a remake of an older series wasn't out of the question.
The minute and a half video starts off with Pikachu informing us of this big Pokemon game. I was excited to finally see the game with 3D sprites. The battles now have the console level of detail in battles. Well, maybe not that much but it was still exciting to see each Pokemon reacting as they attacked and were being attacked. Now these Pokemon were also new which of course means the 6th generation of Pokemon has arrived. This is a little too much for me. I'm still getting used this generation and here comes the 6th. I feel it's a little too soon to be starting the next generation of Pokemon since it's only been a couple of years and there were 150+ Pokemon this time instead of the usual expansion of about 100 - 120. Regardless, I'm just glad the series is on 3DS now. Oh, one more thing to mention, the new legendaries look really cool. I like the Y one better than X but X's is still good.
While I'm not that excited for the start of another generation of Pokemon, I am excited to see the game on 3DS with 3D sprites and the consoles' battle animations. The best part is that there won't be the usual delay of a few mohts' time before the rest of the world gets the game. Satoru Iwata talked about how Japan always got the new Pokemon games first before anybody else. Now for the first time, everyone gets it at around the same time. The worldwide release date for Pokemon X and Pokemon Y is October 2013. Now I think I see why Nintendo made Pokemon Black and White 2. They just copied and pasted most of the game so that Game Freak would have more time on this series and so they could release it worldwide instead of Japan first. Well s that's that! Next generation of Pokemon on 3DS is coming October 2013!
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