First female professor! That's new.
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Pokemon Black & White, aka Gen 5. Coming to Japan in Fall 2010.
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Dangit. I was looking forward to the good-or-evil options.
That doesn't make much sense to me. Wasn't the last Corocoro leak directly followed by Pokemon Sunday with the same thing but with video to show things like animated Pokemon sprites? Personally I feel like it will be the same case. But that thought process makes sense logically, since they pre-record shows. But last month was followed with video of the new information, don't know why that wouldn't be the case this month. Then again, who knows.
Also, yes, female professor = ftw.
I don't really like the new pokemon. Well i do like the Zebra Unicorn whatever it is, but the rest are just not appealing to me :/
Specially Gears, that thing is really bland.
Do like the typing for both dragons, too bad they are dragons, but at least they have interesting secondary types. Liking the new region map, and female professor.
Edit: I wonder if these evil and good options will be taken in depth, but either way i don't expect Mass Effect stuff, it will be nice enough that we get to choose something.
Specially Gears, that thing is really bland.
Do like the typing for both dragons, too bad they are dragons, but at least they have interesting secondary types. Liking the new region map, and female professor.
Edit: I wonder if these evil and good options will be taken in depth, but either way i don't expect Mass Effect stuff, it will be nice enough that we get to choose something.
What WOULD be cool if the Good or Evil Choices was there...
would be if you could design your own Evil Team. Like...Choose the colour of the uniform from a list, choose which basic pokemon they use commonly use (say about...5 different lines), and maybe choose from a small list of Evil Plans. That would be awesome. I'd go for Team Metallurgy, grey uniforms with Aron, Shimama, Gear, Mamepato, and Magnemite as the most common pokemon, with a Final goal of expanding Huin City at all costs. Maybe even could battle other people's Teams online in a Team Magma/Team Aqua way.
Yeah, its gimmicky, but would be fun.
would be if you could design your own Evil Team. Like...Choose the colour of the uniform from a list, choose which basic pokemon they use commonly use (say about...5 different lines), and maybe choose from a small list of Evil Plans. That would be awesome. I'd go for Team Metallurgy, grey uniforms with Aron, Shimama, Gear, Mamepato, and Magnemite as the most common pokemon, with a Final goal of expanding Huin City at all costs. Maybe even could battle other people's Teams online in a Team Magma/Team Aqua way.
Yeah, its gimmicky, but would be fun.
I seriously doubt we will see "good vs. evil" because these are considered superficial labels. Yin and yang are supposed to be about the balance of things. We might have more options, though.
That Martijn guy seems to be insisting on two bits of information that he absolutely swears came from a Nintendo representative-- that there will be new/renewed battle mechanics and that yin and yang is a more prevalent theme than just being related to colors. These sound really vague and could probably end up being true just because both are very vague assumptions, but who knows.
Thing is, Yin/Yang doesn't translate well to a Western audience. I wonder if it'll get changed?
I think most Americans at least have an idea of what Yin/Yang is, even if they don't fully understand it.
of course americans understand it..there was that one cartoon that was called like xiaolin showdown or however you spell it and it had a butload of things about yin and yang
Yeah. I just expect they may just refer to it as balance in general and not Yin/Yang. I mean people in the west do know what Yin/Yang is, but it might be seen as too Japanese for a high profile game like this. Usually they tend to westernise the game a bit when its plot-important like that. Western's equivilant of balance is Yin/Yang, unless we want to get into Alchymical concepts. (Oh how I would love it to invoke the balance of Alchemy!)
Americans don't learn about Yin and Yang from anime, but we do have a general concept and we relate it to things like rain/droughts, night/day, women/men, etc.
Good/Evil? Hmmm...
it was more of a joke if anything... but us americans learn about it through other methods... dont know what...but ya
Yeah, I think most people get the general idea that it's opposites that together are harmonious.
I honestly only think the Martijn guy said that stuff to save whatever credibility he had left. Now in the likely event there is some battle mechanic change and that there is a big yin and yang theme besides Reshiram being the White Yang and Zekrom being the Black Yin and the colors, he probably thinks "oh hey turns out he was right!" when they were really just educated guesses about what would happen. You know, like, Nostradamus.
I honestly only think the Martijn guy said that stuff to save whatever credibility he had left. Now in the likely event there is some battle mechanic change and that there is a big yin and yang theme besides Reshiram being the White Yang and Zekrom being the Black Yin and the colors, he probably thinks "oh hey turns out he was right!" when they were really just educated guesses about what would happen. You know, like, Nostradamus.
Good/evil are subjective, and thus cannot be appropriately contrasted. Whereas the things I listed are clearly factual and objective, yet retain a balance.
Ah, but without Evil, Good can't exist, as what would be Good then? Same for Evil. While they are subjective, they are also in balance.
Actually, I'm pretty sure he just speaks Engrish. So he isn't American.
That is my point, though. There should not be an emphasis on the two themes because what is good and what is evil is often a blurry distinction. Your theory about them being balanced is not in line, either. Evil does not need to exist for something to continue.
Going all philosophical on us I see.
They are around 10 feet, which is relatively short for legendaries (in comparison to Groudon, Dialga, etc).
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