Thoughts From Watching Video:
0:52: Calyrex's footprints? Will we have to search around for clues of its presence?
0:59: The Avalugg floating in the water is a nice touch.
1:03: And now chasing after G-Articuno, and it's not a cutscene. Will we have to actually follow it to where it lands before encountering it? (Just when you we escaped roaming Pokemon, now we gotta do it in real time!)
1:20: So this is a surprise, we can encounter the normal Kanto birds through the Raids! Guessing they don't want to leave any Legendary behind.
1:41: Awesome that the tag partners have dialogue between each other in the Star Tournament (though why specify it's the "Galarain" Star Tournament, hmm...)! I'm hoping they did one (or maybe a few) for each combination. Let's do some math: We have 8 Gym Leaders, 4 Rivals, and 2 (Former) Champions. 8 + 4 + 2 = 14 Trainers. So if my math is correct that's a total of 91 combinations. That doesn't seem too much, like I'm reminded of DC & NetherRealm Studio's Injustice games where each fighter has at least one unique conversation between each other and those games have more than 14 characters. Though it would be nice if they also made the version exclusive characters available (that would bump the number up to 17 for 136 combinations, a significant increase but Injustice starts with 20+ characters and a bunch of DLC so I think GF can do it).
3:36: So few things want to bring up with the Legendary display:
- Urshifu, the Hero Wolves, Calyrex, new Regis, and the G-Legendary Birds are going to be available in Dens? That's a bit odd. Okay, maybe not for Urshifu, would be nice to get the other Style, but the other Galar Legends? The Hero Wolves, Eternatus & Calyrex are implied to be one-of-a-kind; and Calyrex, new Regis & the G-Legendary Birds are being given away in the Frozen Tundra DLC. Seems odd they'll make multiple available.
- Because of this, it makes me (and a few others have mentioned this), is there the "only one" limit on these Legendary Dens? Or can we catch multiple of any Legendaries? If so that would be major... though at the time makes sense. Legendaries have sadly lost their "specialness" over the years, so making them "unlimited" honestly making it player friendly. Though, at the same time, without the "only one" limit it kind of makes me (someone who doesn't participate in competitive) less interested in catching them as there's no "end goal" now. Like, I might as well transfer up all my Legendaries in my Ultra Moon file.
- Several Legendaries have signature items: The Hero Wolves have their Relic Weapons, Creation Trio have ther Orbs, and the Eon Duo have the Soul Dew. In addition the Forces of Nature have the Reveal Glass, Zygarde has the Zygarde Cube, and the
Tao Trio have the DNA Splicer which are all Key Items. How will these items be obtained? EDIT: Forgot you got the DNA Splicers and Necrozma's fusion item from the Stow-On-Side bergain seller. So will this be the case for all the items? Very likely for the Reveal Glass and maybe Zygarde Cube, but the held items too? I could believe them being held by their respective owner (or at least given one after catching it).
- With the Frozen Tundra focusing on Necrozma, would be nice if they gave Necrozma away to access its Ultra Necrozma form.
- Regigigas finally is shown. This doesn't mean it's not getting a Galarian Form... though I'm thinking it's not likely now. However I'm still holding out for a Gigantamax. Like, they wouldn't make new Regis and then do nothing with Regigigas, would they?
- Since they only show Urshifu, Solgaleo, and Lunala, I'm guessing this means no Kubfu or, more importantly, Cosmog & Cosmoem (come on GF, don't make Cosmog and Cosmoem unavailable that would be such a jerk move for those trying to complete their HOME dex).
5:02: And this is big news... and possibly not in a good way: they're releasing physical version of the games with the DLC added. So, does that mean no more DLC? Like, if they have more DLC planned, wouldn't they wait until all DLC is released before releasing a definitive addition? Also, what's the price of these? They better not be full price (or more). I don't know how to feel about this, like I agree once all DLC is released they should do this... but since they're doing it now either means no more DLC or this is a REALLY grubby money grab. Also, if this is the end of the DLC, does that mean we're not getting all Pokemon added back?
5:34: Nice to have the Ash Cap Pikachu's return, and glad to here they are going to also make one for Journey's (called the "World Cap" according to
Kanburi ).
(Ready for a world-wide journey!)
6:42: *HEAVY SIGH* Of course Gigantamax Melemetal was going to be an exclusive give by transferring a Pokemon from GO to HOME. Then again, this sounds like the easiest way to get both a Meltan and Melmetal so maybe I should just download GO to get these two...
From The Site:
Ability Patch: All I can say is finally! I still think they could have just made the Ability Capsule do this, asking you what Ability you want your Pokemon to have, but I gues GF has their reasons... probably the hoops they're going to make us jump through to even get one...
Galarian Slowbro: ... So, I'm not the only one thinking the Shellder is now mind-controlling the Slowpoke like Parasect's mushroom, right?
It's certainly an interesting twist, if not a bit disturbing. Eerie Spell sounds like it could be very annoying, and I can think of a batch of uses for Curious Medicine that could make it a very powerful ally. So final question is of its stats. N-Slowbro to G-Slowbro was +25 to Atk, -15 to Def, & -10 to SpD. N-Slowbro to N-Slowking was just a swap of the the Def & SpD. These changes don't sound like they'll fit G-Slowking so would be interesting to see what they do (I can see them not changing its stats TBH).
Also, it's the "Hexpert Pokemon".
(Shellder looks happy, but behind that shell the Slowpoke undeneath is giving the same zoned out look it always does...)
Dynamax Adventure: Stinks that the Dynamax Adventure only lets you use Rental Pokemon, though I also kind of like the idea of it letting you swap out the Pokemon with one you catch during the adventure. But does that mean you don't keep the other Pokemon you catch aside from the Legendary at the end? And if you do does that mean everyone gets a copy of that Pokemon at the end even though only one trainer can swap their Pokemon for it during the adventure?
"Special" Bonus: So apparently if you preorder the Expansions now, in addition to the Pikachu & Eevee uniform, you'll now get 100 Poke Balls... I could suggest dozens of different things they could have done, but it all ends with me being dissapointed with GF.
And those were my quick thoughts!
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