{"id":6792,"date":"2017-06-06T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T15:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6792"},"modified":"2017-06-06T10:52:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T15:52:53","slug":"pokemon-direct-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6792","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Direct thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Pok\u00e9mon Direct happened today! I have thoughts! Excited thoughts!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ylrhSB3vz7A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><strong>Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;ll be honest, it&#8217;s not what I was hoping for, but it&#8217;s about what I expected. You can&#8217;t fault Nintendo for taking all the big games from a system that nobody owned and\u00a0re-releasing them on the hot new machine that everybody (who matters) wants.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m at a very tough crossroads with this one. On one hand, I don&#8217;t really want to buy Pokk\u00e9n again. $80\u00a0seems like\u00a0a lot for any fighting game that isn&#8217;t Smash. On the other hand, it has become obvious that they&#8217;re never releasing the DLC characters for the Wii U version, so this will be my chance to finally play as my beloved Scizor. Plus Decidueye is super cool and will probably be\u00a0a lot more useful in Pokk\u00e9n than the actual Pok\u00e9mon games.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, who am I kidding? I&#8217;m absolutely going to\u00a0buy it again. Pokk\u00e9n will be an <em>excellent<\/em> bus game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon<\/strong> &#8211; This is not what anyone expected. The whole world was set on getting Pok\u00e9mon Stars for Switch, not an alternate telling of Sun\/Moon on 3DS again. But that&#8217;s just the way Game Freak works. They love clinging to the system they&#8217;re comfortable on.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I&#8217;m\u00a0a little hesitant to get too excited here. I mean, we really only got a little teaser; I need to know a lot more before I decide how much I care about this one. Pok\u00e9mon Sun and Moon\u00a0were wonderful games, and if they craft the UItras as well as they did <strong>Black 2 and White 2<\/strong>, I would say we&#8217;ve got a definite Buy on our hands here. But that&#8217;s going to require at least three things: a convincing new plot, at least one new island to explore, and the return of that sweet movie-making mini-game.<\/p>\n<p>Ohhhhh and new Alolan Forms. Those <em>have to<\/em> be a thing.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least, the mystery of Necrozma is solved(ish): he becomes armour for Solgaleo and Lunala. Should have been more obvious, since he&#8217;s a prism and his ability is Prism Armor. It&#8217;s also another parallel to BW2, where Kyurem can fuse with Reshiram and Zekrom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Gold and Silver on 3DS Virtual Console<\/strong> &#8211; IMO this should have happened long ago, not in this coming September. Finally, we&#8217;ll\u00a0be able to\u00a0play a legit version of these games without having to worry about the dreaded battery issue! But seriously, what was the freakin&#8217; holdup?<\/p>\n<p>Actually I think that this is what I&#8217;m most excited for out of the three announcements. Though it shouldn&#8217;t come as much of a surprise, considering how much I love retro gaming.\u00a0Gold and Silver are great, though to date I have logged\u00a0uncountable hours into them and still haven&#8217;t completed\u00a0an English version of either one. I very much look forward to leaving one (or both?) half-finished yet again.<\/p>\n<p>What really boggles my mind is the complete absence of Pok\u00e9mon\u00a0Crystal, the GBC-exclusive third version. Its extra features and animated sprites are awesome, but really I want it mostly because it was the first Pok\u00e9mon game that let you play as a girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Pok\u00e9mon Direct happened today! I have thoughts! Excited thoughts! Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX &#8211; I&#8217;ll be honest, it&#8217;s not what I was hoping for, but it&#8217;s about what I expected. You can&#8217;t fault Nintendo for taking all the big games from a system that nobody owned and\u00a0re-releasing them on the hot new machine that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=6792\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pok\u00e9mon Direct thoughts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pokemon","category-retro-gaming","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6793,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions\/6793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}