Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

Black and White Discussion

I've been playing te game for about a week now and I must say it looks really good. All the pokemon have movement and idle animations, as well as the past 494 Pokemon. The battles have moving cameras ans well as camera effects on some of the attacks. The
3D in the games looks good as well, like on the buildings and such. AS for gameplay, nothing changed from the past games, just the same thing over again with better graphics but its a Pokemon game. I'm not sure of the plot yet, its all in japanese but from what I seen, it seems like a king is trying to take over or something and you're fighting his knights.

Some other stuff I like is when you see grass shaking, that means that a rare Pokemon is there or something and some of the will pokemon that appear are double battles. I have not got into a triple battle yet but thats all that I can report. Oh and there is a ticket item you can download from wifi and I think its gets you Victini. I'm not sure because I don't know where to use it at but I think thats what you get.
 
1. Gameplay
Mostly standard Pokémon fare, with a few noteworthy additions. Triple battles, I admit I was very skeptical. However, they've proven to be loads of fun, a rotation battles are awesome in their complex strategy. Poison's been changed to be like Burn, as far as I can tell. My Yorterrie didn't faint, didn't even take damage all the way back to the Pokémon Center. :) The rare Pokémon hiding in the grass is quite nifty, even if I've only found one. :/ Also, the increased number of NPCs that heal your Pokémon fits perfectly with the slightly-more-difficult pacing. Overall, 10/10

2. Plot
Granted, I'm not far enough in the game to get to the major climax. HOWEVER, Team Plasma has really struck my fancy in a way Team Magma & Aqua, and Team Galactic didn't. The characters are unique, the theory behind their works is sound, and they're very believeable. That was one of the things that bugged me about Hoenn, especially Team Magma. Really? Burn up all the water? They'd never heard of the water cycle? Even if they had succeeded in somehow making the water 'vanish', all life would have promptly died. Such a noble goal. :/

Also, I love N's character. I've been spoilered to his later character developments, and I have to say they are believeable without being predictable. Plus his theme song is freaking amazing. Overall, 10/10

3. Graphics
This is the only area where not all improvements might have been in the right direction. I LOVE the idle animation to pieces, but it makes the sprites look poorly drawn. I would have liked them to be a bit more careful on the at-the-moment look, instead of the overall look. The sprites for people are... mm, okay. The male protagonist's arms are far too skinny and a bit too long for SD, but it's overlookable.
However, the towns look incredible (I got lost in Hiun, LOL), the routes are individual and charming. The opposing Trainer classes have been rehauled, and I love 99% of them. (I think HGSS's twins were cuter, though) I particularly like the new Miniskirt class, and the new Dancer class. :) Taking the first paragraph into account, overall 9.5/10
4. New Pokémon
Ah, the secion where so many people are split. People complain at the top of their lungs that the new Pokémon are just remakes of old ones.

First off, in an interview, the designers stated that THIS WAS THEIR INTENTION.

Second off, well, it's pretty much impossible to pick up on unless you read Japanese, but the game makes it clear that Isshu is A MUCH LATER TIME than the other 4 gens. At one time it talks about Poffins that "ancient civilizations" used to make. Dragonite is referred to as a prehistoric Pokémon. Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore.

The crux of the matter is, we don't know yet exactly how far apart the games are spaced. (The anime we'll ignore. Ash is a Highlander, his mother, Professor Oak, and he all entered a stasis to stick around long enough to see the future. XD) It's fully possible that enough time has passed for evolution to do its thing. (Darwin's evolution, not normal Pokémon evolution.) What's to say that Luvdisc didn't morph over the years into Mamanbou? That a group of Bidoof became bipedal and evolved into Minezumi?

If you think about it that way, a lot makes sense. Like how there aren't any new evolutions of old Pokemon. The old ones died out. Of course, then when you unlock the National Dex, Someone pulls a Jurrasic Park and revives a whole bunch of 'ancient' Pokémon and sets them loose in the wild.

Anyways, all that aside. The Pokémon designs are overall believeable, even if I don't agree with the way some should have evolved. In my mind, Pokabu should have stayed a quadruped and Mijumaru should have stayed a biped. However, there aren't any Pokémon I consider too ugly to live. Overall, 9.5/10

TOTAL: 39/40. Not quite perfect. As always, the game has room to improve.Plus we have yet to figure out this gen's cloning glitch. :p Overall amazing game. Definitely worth it to anyone who reads Japanese.
 
Just to pick on one point, AnimeHikaru.

Gold and Silver quite clearly stated that it took place about 2 years after the events in Red/Blue.

But, yeah. I agree with you that the concept of "time" is weird across the Pokemon games. I'm not even certain if each of them takes place in the same universe. In fact, I think it would make much more sense if each Pokemon game were actually in a different universe, similar to Final Fantasy. Then you can have each game completely in its own little bubble and not really have to worry about continuity between the different generations.

Probably thinking too much about this, tho...
 
I know it was, and there was supposedly a three year break somewhere else, too. (Was it before DPPt? Can't remember) I meant that we didn't know where Isshu fit in the scheme of things, I didn't mean to imply they all took place at the same time.

(And kudos for proving that some people DO read wall of texts. XD I never expect most people to read most of my long ones.)
 
That wasn't a wall of text. It was broken up nicely into paragraphs that utilized punctuation and capitalization where appropriate. Much different from a standard wallotext post around here.

And I LOVE the Highlander reference in there ^_^.

We'll see a little bit more when the official translation comes out in the Spring...
 
Yay for grammar! XD Seriously though, Most people look at that much text and just mentally tl;dr down to the next one. Maybe because they expect the kind of post we see a lot around here?

I stuck in the Highlander bit because it's not brought up near often enough. I mean really. :/ Most anime, they embrace the inevitable age-ups as a chance to show how the character has grown, and give them a chance to show off their newfound adult thinking/abilities/whatever. Not Ash. Seriously, GARY gets more character development than he does. :( (Which Gary totally deserves because it just makes him 5000% better.)

But anyways, have you managed to get a copy of the game yet? Next time I'm going to shell out the bit of extra for Playasia. I ordered through a smaller site and was very unhappy with it.
 
BW compatability?

Hi, not sure whether to post this on an existing thread or not but...

Can you trade from DPPTHGSS to BW?
 
I'm having fun playing it. I can't completely understand the Japanese text but I can make out a few things if I have to. I'm currently playing Black and I plan to transfer these Pokemon to the English White version when it hits the U.S.

Not being able to hold items when transferring (from older games) sucks :S

Oh and what was that about downloading some ticket off wi-fi? Where would I go on the menu to access that?
 
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iggi, It was the 3rd option, being mystery gift, just hit A until you see wifi, then continue pressing A.

Going through Victory Road atm in White team is...
Daikenki (Water Starter) Lv.45
Denchura (Electric Spider) Lv.45
Chandeliermon Lv.48
Zuruzukin(Hoodiemon) Lv.48
Erufuun (Cotton Evo) Lv.50
Ononokusu (Pure Dragon) Lv.50

Erufuun (OHKO'd Fire Pig evo with Giga Drain <3) and Zuruzukin have been the most consistent members so far, although nothing has really failed after a bit of training.
 
Dual_Draw said:
iggi, It was the 3rd option, being mystery gift, just hit A until you see wifi, then continue pressing A.

Going through Victory Road atm in White team is...
Daikenki (Water Starter) Lv.45
Denchura (Electric Spider) Lv.45
Chandeliermon Lv.48
Zuruzukin(Hoodiemon) Lv.48
Erufuun (Cotton Evo) Lv.50
Ononokusu (Pure Dragon) Lv.50

Erufuun (OHKO'd Fire Pig evo with Giga Drain <3) and Zuruzukin have been the most consistent members so far, although nothing has really failed after a bit of training.
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ah ok thx for that. I should get the ticket while it's still up.

for my team i have:
Sazandora (it actually has really nice IV's :D totaling 150 ^^) *currently my favorite pokemon*
Ononokusu (speed IV sucks really bad) *comes in a close second*
Dageki (haven't checked its IVs) *Sturdy is nice w/ reversal*
Hihidaruma (haven't checked IVs) *i wish the encourage ability would negate all attack effects (not just the positive ones)*
All caught in the wild and EV trained ^^

once the english version is available in the U.S., I will start breeding for max IV's in at least two stats
 
There are a lot of places online that let you buy Japanese/Chinese/Korean stuff and they'll ship it to you. Probably the most popular is PlayAsia.com, but there are a lot of others like YesAsia, Renchi, BeNippon, and more.
 
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