More Megas, Flying, and New Ways to Encounter Legendaries Revealed for Pokémon ORAS!

Another set of CoroCoro scans this month have revealed even more awesome mega evolutions as well as some new information about the game. The new Megs that have been revealed are: Mega Beedrill, Mega Pidgeot, and Mega Latios and Latias. Mega Latios and Latias were discovered by hackers in Pokémon X and Y a long time ago and were speculated to be included in the upcoming games for a while now, but I’m glad to see they’re finally being revealed. They’re almost indistinguishable from each other, but nonetheless, they look pretty slick. I like that they’re purple, a mix of Latias’ red and Latios’ blue. Nice idea.

With these two particular Megas, though, it’s been revealed that you’ll be able to fly on them in the overworld an announcement I did not see coming at all. How cool is that? To make it even cooler, you’ll actually be able to fly on these Pokémon in order to encounter the Gen IV and Gen V legendaries, including Dialga, Palkia, Reshiram, and Zekrom. Supposedly, you’ll be able to encounter every non-event legendary in Gen VI. Wow, that’s pretty generous of them. I’m glad to see they’re making an effort to introduce these legendaries to new players as well as help us complete our Pokédexes without having to replay old games. Flying on Pokémon, however, especially the legendary duo of Latias and Latios sounds pretty exciting. This is like riding a Gogoat, but taken one step further.

Pokémon ORAS-Mega Gallade, Mega Sharpedo, and Mega Camerupt!

The scans of the October issue of CoroCoro were released today and with them came some exciting new information about Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire! What news exactly? More Megas of course!

My absolute favorite Mega we’ve seen thus far is Mega Gallade. Gallade has been my personal favorite Pokémon since Gen IV, so I’m very excited to see it getting a Mega in these new games. And it looks so cool, too! That helmet and those coat tails look awesome. They make a nice complement to Mega Gardevoir. Not much is known about him yet stat wise or even type and ability wise, but that’ll likely change in the near future as more information comes to us.

We even get a chance to see the newly designed Wally with longer hair and a new coat. His signature Pokémon is, in fact, his Gallade. This means the player will likely still help him catch a Ralts at the beginning of the game. I just hope we see a little bit more of Wally than we did in the original Ruby and Sapphire. Will his Mega Stone factor into the plot at all? Everyone else with a Mega Stone seems to have some importance to the story, so it makes me wonder if his role has been expanded.

Thoughts on the Latest Pokémon ORAS Trailer- 9/4/14

So, another trailer for Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire came out from Japan today! It’s a trailer that shows off a lot of the main features for the game, and serves as a nice summary for everything we’ve seen so far. To be honest, there isn’t a lot of new material, but there were some interesting things to be seen in the trailer. Here’s a link to the trailer on PokéJungle.net. The times I mention below refer to that particular video.

Here are some of the things that I noticed:

• At 00:39- Is that Pacifidlog Town? It’s amazing how it looks both new and familiar.
• At 00:40- Wow! Diving looks amazing now! I love how the player is shown on an actual Wailmer as opposed to just the silhouette of one. I wonder if the Pokémon the overworld trainer is riding will change depending on what Pokémon is using Dive. I hope so, because it’ll be kind of weird if you’re diving on a Clamperl yet you’re somehow riding a Wailmer. Also, the Corsola in the background really adds to the atmosphere (can you battle it?). And is Brendan wearing goggles? Nice detail. Does that mean trainer customization is confirmed? 😛
• At 00:42-It’s funny that here Brendan isn’t wearing goggles, yet in the original games you needed to wear Go-Goggles to proceed in the desert.
• At 00:50- There’s that new School Boy design. Looks awesome. The artwork for the trainer classes was one of my favorite things about X and Y. Don’t they look so much more individualized than they ever used to?
• At 01:09- Brawly’s splash screen entrance looks cool. I like the colors and the movement.
• At 01:22- Is that Maxie’s battle entrance? I hope so because that looks amazing.
• At 01:25- And I suppose that would be Archie’s battle entrance, then. It’s nice, but I like Maxie’s better. (I’ve always been partial to Team Magma over Team Aqua, so maybe I’m a little bias).
• At 01:32- Pokéjungle states that here Maxie is explaining that Team Magma is interested in Mega Evolution too. It looks like the entire focus of the game has been altered a bit to count for Mega Evolution. I wonder how much it’ll affect the plot. This scene appears to take place in the museum in Slateport, so it appears major plot elements are still intact, but will they have a different meaning?
• At 01:34- There’s Meteor Falls and the scene of the teams confronting each other. Also, there’s Professor Cozmo. Too bad we can’t see his face in this shot.
• At 01:40- Here are our legendaries. They seem to be waking up. Or are they entering their Primal Reversion form? It’s hard to say.
• At 01:54- That’s a cool looking scene.
• At 02:16- The production value for the contests appears to have gone up.
• At 02:36- Our first look at Mt. Pyre.
• At 02:38- This appears to be Mossdeep City, considering the presence of the rocket in the background.
• At 02:39 and -2:41- Sootopolis and Wallace/Juan’s gym! But, unfortunately, no Wallace and/or Juan yet. It looks like the gym has a jungle theme now to go with the ice.
• At 02:44- A Pikachu tail in the grass? Will we be able to see some of the Pokémon we encounter in the grass? That’s a cool feature.
• At 02:56- This shot of Latios flying over Hoenn looks incredible.

So, that’s about it for my thoughts on the trailer. Seeing all of this only makes me more excited for the games. Is it November yet?

We’ll definitely be getting more news about these games later in the near future and I’ll be sure to post my thoughts and speculations when more information is revealed.

 

Until Then,

-The Nintendo Nerd

Pokkén Tournament Arcade Game Coming to Japan

A while ago, we were told that a surprising Pokémon announcement would be happening today. Many suspected this might be a new game or a new venture, and what actually came was a little bit of both. The Official Pokémon YouTube channel has uploaded a short preview of a new arcade game coming to Japan entitled Pokkén Tournament. It’s a fighting game that pits Pokémon against each other in some really epic looking brawls. The new trailer shows Lucario facing Machamp and some old footage from the game also showed off Blaziken (is this a fighting types only game?) Many saw this coming thanks to some trademarks that were filed some time ago under this name, but it’s still exciting to see a confirmation nonetheless.
This collaboration game was revealed to be coming to Japanese arcades in 2015, but many believe this game may be coming to other regions as well. I’m hoping to see it as a Wii U title.
As far as the game goes, it looks pretty cool. The graphics are amazing and it seems very fast-paced and fun. I wonder, though: out of the three Pokémon shown for the game so far, two of the three are Mega Evolvers, and we see Lucario Mega Evolve in the trailer, does that mean we might be seeing a Mega Machamp revealed some time soon? One can only speculate, I suppose, but I wouldn’t be opposed to that at all. Machamp may not be my favorite Pokémon, but I’d still be happy to see a Mega Evolution for it someday.

Click here to check out the trailer for yourself!

Until Then,

-The Nintendo Nerd

Thoughts on All the New Info for Pokémon ORAS

Wow, there sure has been a lot of news on Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire in the last few days. After the CoroCoro scans showed off the new Mega Evolutions and contests as well as the official reveal of these same details later, we got even more leaked information from the Korean Pokémon website. And that is, Mega Audino and Mega Slowbro. Talk about a surprise! I would never have predicted these Pokémon would have received Mega Evolutions as well, but I’m glad to see it nonetheless.

Since there is so much to cover, though, I’m just going to give a few thoughts on each of the recent reveals.

Mega Altaria- This was definitely a Mega I wanted to see. If we didn’t get Mega Altaria, I would have been disappointed. It looks really cool and I’m very intrigued by its typing when it Mega Evolves. Fairy/Dragon sounds like a potentially big threat.

Mega Lopunny- Honestly, this Mega surprised me the most. Though Mega Slowbro and Mega Audino seemingly came out of nowhere, I really didn’t expect that, out of all the Pokémon, Lopunny would receive a Mega Evolution. What they’ve come up with for it seems pretty nice. Normal/Fighting is an interesting type and, though it’s design really hasn’t changed that drastically, I think it really does look like a Normal/Fighting type. It’ll be interesting to see if this new Mega helps Lopunny stand out more as a Pokémon.

Mega Salamence- I think everyone saw this coming. Though, maybe not everyone saw this design coming. It’s unique, for sure, and very intimidating. This new Mega seems to emphasize its Flying type over its Dragon typing with the ability Aerialate (will there be a form of this ability for every type one day?), which makes it stand out against the other Dragon type Megas we’ve seen already.