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Pokémon Day 2026 - Pokemon Winds and Waves coming 2027! Champions April 2026
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Honestly all jokes aside it really is shocking that it's taken this long to get another Pokemon game with underwater exploration as a major focus. It's a feature that offers so many additional map design, theming and ecological worldbuilding possibilities
yeah my impression of the trailer was that they really wanted to revisit ideas in gen 3 and gen 7
this is the most hoenn + alola looking game ever
also SEA is a really cool area to base a region on and fits the whole winds and waves thing as places like malaysia and indonesia get swarmed by storms all the time lmao
you can see a lot of architecture and plantlife that looks distinctly SEA as well but its still weird to me that the player characters appear to be Australians lol
Star Force? Pfft. Try Legends.
Naming the player character Rover in WiWa is what I'm going to do and no one can stop me.
First Wuthering Waves with the version names, now Varsapura with the region design? What Chinese games are Game Freak taking their notes from lmao
interesting tweet on the japanese names
i thought of legends when writing that comment but i genuinely think it's the more recognizable subseries. you still see a decent amount of people with tron bonne pfps
Capcom will never make a Legacy Collection for the Legends subseries.
One underspoken key reason why WiWa looks so much better is because they figured out how to do fluffy textures for Pokemon that look far more convincing than whatever SV was cooking
Okay I might have gotten some of the specifics wrong, but you look at those freakish hyper-realistic pikachus and tell me they wouldn't eat their own vomit.
speaking of ursaring, I think this dog starter would be a great chance for them to revisit the canned gen 2 fire starter line of bear-dog-cats
they were canned and replaced with the cyndaquil line, and the first stage was changed into teddiursa over several of the in development betas
Of course, there's the implicit assumption we're dealing with major subseries and not, say, Xtreme.
The point I was trying to make is that Legends at least has some vague cultural footprint with the general gaming public, right down to MvC appearances, whereas literally no one who isn't a hardcore Mega Man fan gives a shit about Star Force. I've played several games in the franchise and I cannot name any of SF's characters or point out any bit of its iconography
Yeah, I was sure the trailer was Gen 10, but I kept doubting and being like "is this revisiting old regions? All region game confirmed?" The floating town looked just like Pacificlog and there were a few other things that I kept thinking were specific elements from a previous region.
also this game looks so much like a sequel to New Pokemon Snap visually
Water in Italian is Acqua, btw.
That might hint the new region is based Southern Italy.
let go of europe
nah the region looks way too much like southeast asia to be southern italy
also having cowboy hats for italy would be really weird, only way it makes sense is that if the region is close to a place where people wear a lot of cowboy hats (australia)
edit: also stuff like this points to southeast asia
Makes sense, wind & waves both get turned into disaster forces in a storm. Maybe the box legends will have a "calm" and "storm" form
other examples pointing to southeast asia
Anyway now that all that is out of the way let's turn our attention to what really matters
The absolutely nothingburger that was the Go segment.
Blink and you'll miss it. The worst descriptor of an event i've ever seen, puts "first partner pokemon" and "pokemon fire red version and leaf green version games for the nintendo switch" to shame. "There's a tour tomorrow btw". Starter codes.
Bro it's your 10th anniversary where's the anything! Tease some big Pokemon drop. Talk about your go fest again. Shadow drop a Pokemon! Have a fun retrospective!
The absolutely nothingburger that was the Go segment.
Blink and you'll miss it. The worst descriptor of an event i've ever seen, puts "first partner pokemon" and "pokemon fire red version and leaf green version games for the nintendo switch" to shame. "There's a tour tomorrow btw". Starter codes.
Bro it's your 10th anniversary where's the anything! Tease some big Pokemon drop. Talk about your go fest again. Shadow drop a Pokemon! Have a fun retrospective!
I thought SV looked good when it came to scaly Pokémon and metallic Pokémon, but I always thought that a lot of the fur textures looked more like felt…
And Pombon is literally taken from Cassette Beasts Pombomb. Even the name sounds the same.
Go's continued success is only surprising because of how many times they've tripped and fell flat on their faces. Baffling choice followed by baffling choice, poor optimization, poor design choice. Not to mention raids represent everything I hate about modern Pokémon. The fact thay I still play these games is only down to how much my friends and family love these games.
But I really don't understand why people are still giving them money.