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Originally Posted by LugiaDialga
I watched this earlier today, glad to see you got a more HQ version up though, Aura~! Anyways moving on... the things that stuck out the most to me were:
- You can name the Rival
- The Rival's smoothly animated sprite
- New Pokemon sprite animations
- New music including the new (and awesome) snip-it of the Rival battle theme
- New pokemon in the 1st route (Azurill)
- June 23rd Japan release date
There is supposed to be another Pokemon Smash episode soon.. not sure when, so I'll probably try to watch it as well to see if it reveals any more gameplay. Though what today's show brought... this game just keeps getting better and looking more and more promising! |
The fluidity of the animation in his sprite also caught my attention, it's a step-up from the animation we've seen so far for the trainer sprites, and was what I was hoping for and expected of Pokemon when the feature was first introduced back in Platinum, so it's nice to see it in full swing here. For reasons stated in the opening post, it also seems that the theory of
every trainer getting an animated sprite still holds up. And yes, I also enjoyed the Rival battle theme a lot, it suited my taste in music in general and I thought it was well-composed overall. The rival character's design and music have both impressed me up to this point, so it'll be interesting to see how they characterize him. Truth be told, I wouldn't mind
him being the male player character, but I've grown to like the actual one a bit now, so it's no big deal. Diversifying my team in BW with older Pokemon seemed like a lot of fun after seeing the same ones (to me, anyway, since I spoiled so much of the game beforehand...) over and over, so being able to to that from that start without trades should be quite refreshing.
On the note of the music, I also have to say that the opening theme is much more reminiscent of older intro themes for the main series games (HG/SS came to mind somewhat when I first heard it), unlike BW, which was a stark (though very nice) departure. The theme playing at the title screen, though...it's incredibly dark-sounding in terms of tone and instrumentation, which not only sets the tone of the game as such, but also very intriguingly contrasts the opening theme. Obviously I'm hoping to see and hear more without getting too many spoilers this time around xD
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