Game Freak hit with another hack, info leaking

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https://nintendoeverything.com/pokemon-game-freak-hack-leak-synapse-ilca/

Oh.

There's a lot of rumor mill shit floating around rn but here's what I've got so far
-Legends Z-A is Switch 1 exclusive, Gen 10 is on Switch 2 with it being uncertain if it'll be cross-gen or not.
-Gen 10 codename is "Gaia".
-ALLEGEDLY the leaker said they are not giving anything else concrete on those two games to avoid spoiling surprises. That said, Legends Z-A seems to have a finished build.
-HGSS and BW2 source codes have surfaced.
-There's another project codenamed Synapse. It seems to have some sort of online functionality with people claiming it's an MMO. ILCA is apparently involved
 
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This will be: Anything that is from previous generations - this includes the concept artwork and sprites which have been released.

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The big leak of RS beta designs is really interesting, both for the rough concepts dropped but also how several of them were clearly attempts at long-abandoned designs from the GS era.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1845325117879964051

It's also interesting to see the diagram that shows up with Arceus' HGSS event and final battle was conceptualized early on in DP's development and seemed to have some implications on why it's laid out the way it is

https://twitter.com/x/status/1845289910321762652
https://twitter.com/x/status/1845344991197135205

The only update to this we know of is when Giratina got added to the game, as a third circle in the middle. The pseudos & gyarados get some interesting billing, and cool to see some code names floating around.
Wouldn't surprise me if by this point the original conceit behind all the meanings is a bit lost, due to an assortment of reasons (least of all, the Pokemon in Gen 4 that weren't around yet), but it's cool to see what Masuda/gamefreak felt about their legends at this juncture.




Also that Regigigas' codename was Tex. It sounds like we knew that at some point prior, but, great nontheless.
 
R_N said:
The big leak of RS beta designs is really interesting, both for the rough concepts dropped but also how several of them were clearly attempts at long-abandoned designs from the GS era.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1845325117879964051

It's also interesting to see the diagram that shows up with Arceus' HGSS event and final battle was conceptualized early on in DP's development and seemed to have some implications on why it's laid out the way it is

https://twitter.com/x/status/1845289910321762652
https://twitter.com/x/status/1845344991197135205

The only update to this we know of is when Giratina got added to the game, as a third circle in the middle. The pseudos & gyarados get some interesting billing, and cool to see some code names floating around.
Wouldn't surprise me if by this point the original conceit behind all the meanings is a bit lost, due to an assortment of reasons (least of all, the Pokemon in Gen 4 that weren't around yet), but it's cool to see what Masuda/gamefreak felt about their legends at this juncture.




Also that Regigigas' codename was Tex. It sounds like we knew that at some point prior, but, great nontheless.
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Interesting that it looks like Salamence, despite being the more traditional dragon, appears very much to be the secondary Hoenn pseudo. The graphics IDs seem to indicate it only became a three-stage line after Metagross was already established, and it doesn't get a slot in the mythos chart.

I kind of wonder if the chart is partially why BW tried to go for a soft reboot: it'd be difficult to insert more legendaries without breaking symmetry.
 
The concept art Cacturne and freaky Unown ruin/Shedinja eyes things are hands down the most insane shit I've seen related to Pokemon. There was literally no way they were ever getting into a game in that state but wow. I wonder who drew them, they could've done some crazy work on a horror game

There's mumblings of Gen 6 and 7 info coming out soon and if that's true then good lord what is even left to leak? More SWSH/SV beta stuff? If unused mega evolution and alolan form concept sheets come out it's actually GG, Pokemon story of the century.
 
Divine Retribution said:
Damn, why did they move away from that beta Trapinch design? It fits the line so much better than what we got, not gonna lie, especially if they had cleaned it up a little as clearly happens to most of the beta designs.
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It looks to me that Trapinch was always going to be present, but it didn't end up with purpose-designed evolutions and took Vibrava/Flygon instead. My guess is that with only one desert route they didn't feel they needed multiple insectoid lines there.
 
Ironmage said:
Interesting that it looks like Salamence, despite being the more traditional dragon, appears very much to be the secondary Hoenn pseudo. The graphics IDs seem to indicate it only became a three-stage line after Metagross was already established, and it doesn't get a slot in the mythos chart.
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Perhaps that may explain why Salamence is the only one of the pseudos who shares a typing with another (Dragonite), especially since in this case since Dragonite came first.

Every pseudo-legendary that came after Dragonite except Salamence goes for a different type combo, even the ones who are Dragons after Metagross. Meanwhile Salamence overlaps a lot with Dragonite in ways the other pseudos don't.
 
I have been loving reading this leak and keeping up, but my only hope is that the fandom doesn't take the idea that pseudo legends are super important to the world order or something from a 2005 lore doc.

The idea that Metagross is important to the lineage of legendaries is just a really dumb concept I can't lie lmao
 
ant4456 said:
I have been loving reading this leak and keeping up, but my only hope is that the fandom doesn't take the idea that pseudo legends are super important to the world order or something from a 2005 lore doc.

The idea that Metagross is important to the lineage of legendaries is just a really dumb concept I can't lie lmao
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Why Metagross in particular? If anything, I would figure that its space theming makes it more intuitive to connect with several legendaries that share that origin compared to many other pseudos where strength feels like the only connection.
 
Ironmage said:
Why Metagross in particular? If anything, I would figure that its space theming makes it more intuitive to connect with several legendaries that share that origin compared to many other pseudos where strength feels like the only connection.
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Space theming in general is a weird thing to point out to me because we also have tons of cosmic/space themed Pokemon that have nothing to do with legendaries

Plus the fact that non-Pseudos can do insane stuff regarding matter/space/gravity manipulation makes Metagross not seem that special to me, and you can just get a Metagross super easily in most modern games and it's never depicted as anything more than a strong Pokemon

None of the pseudos should be that important, they're just strong species of Pokemon. Besides, we've gotten a bajillion legendaries since 2005 too

Divine Retribution said:
I really like Absol's beta design and wish they had kept the yin/yang taijitu motif. The heterochromatic evil/good eyes I'm less a fan of (the 'evil half' just looks needlessly edgy lol) but with some improvement it could have worked as well I guess.
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The yin yang thing is creepy especially in the back sprite, I prefer what we ended up getting

Whenever I look at the Absol sprites I feel actually unnerved especially since it looks like no matter what way you look at its head the general shape of the "scythe" is the same, makes it feel like an Entity more than a Pokemon to me
 
ant4456 said:
The yin yang thing is creepy especially in the back sprite, I prefer what we ended up getting
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What we ended up getting is creepy anyways, the yin/yang taijitu gives it a coherent theme instead of just being an edgy emo scythe-headed cryptid thing.

I wonder, though, given the yin/yang and evil/good motifs, if its lore and dex entries were originally planned to be a bit darker. Its dex entries state that it tries to warn people of disasters but people are dumb so they think it causes the disasters, but maybe it was originally conceptualized as both causing and preventing disasters according to its whims. I genuinely think that would have been a more interesting Pokemon than what we got.
 
Divine Retribution said:
What we ended up getting is creepy anyways,
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I don't think so? It's def a bit edgy but I don't see it as like, anymore intense than something like Umbreon

Divine Retribution said:
he yin/yang taijitu gives it a coherent theme instead of just being an edgy emo scythe-headed cryptid thing.
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I just don't see it as a cryptid? I see it as just a bit of an edgy mammal which is fine

Idk I'm biased because I see Absol and I go "Wow cute!", I see it as in a similar design category as say, the Eeveelutions and Ninetales, though I'm less fond of it than those
 
QuentinQuonce said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1845267224195383341

No-one has yet mentioned these, but I'm quite taken with the early "show more flesh" designs for Team Galactic
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I WAS ABOUT TO POST THIS. for more than 15 years i have been fine with the team galactic outfits but now that i know what they could have been, i am not fine anymore :( saturn in particular looks incredible

ant4456 said:
The idea that Metagross is important to the lineage of legendaries is just a really dumb concept I can't lie lmao
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100% agree. some things end up discarded for a reason
 
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