And th
ér
é's one hundr
éd and fifty-
Two hundr
éd and two-
Thr
éé hundr
éd and
éighty six-
Six hundr
éd and fifty five, confi~~rm
éd to see! To be a Pokemon ma- Wait, r
éally?
As tim
é continu
és to mov
é forward w
é will all one day do away with our f
éars of g
étting old and
émbrace a n
éw syst
ém of counting our ag
é. The Pok
émon m
éthod. Now l
ét's do th
é math.
Pokemon rel
éas
éd on F
ébruary 27th, 1996 by
éntertainm
ént company
Nintendo. That was 17 y
éars, 5 months ago. From th
é original count of 150 it has incr
éas
éd to 655 confirm
éd Pokemon, so far. That's an rough incr
éas
é of a round
éd
30 Pokemon
évéry y
éar sinc
é release. I'm 27 years old. Therefore I am roughly 810 Pokemons old. What about you?
Wait, what do
és this hav
é to do with th
é articl
é!?!?
W
éll, the numb
ér of Pokemon has incr
éas
éd so much ov
ér th
é past 17 y
éars that th
ér
é has to com
é a tim
é wh
én
w
é will finally g
ét bor
éd of the sam
é old top down adv
éntur
é and mov
é onto som
éthing
éls
é. I m
éan, look at m
é. I'm 27 and I'm finally g
étting ov
ér my fascination with the game. Sarcasm aside, it's been a while since we actually have received a new experience from
the company.
To answ
ér our pray
érs Nintendo has finally brought the s
éri
és to it's first portable 3D adv
éntur
é in '
Pokemon
X and Y'. But th
éy r
éalize that flashy graphics will only
éntice us for so long. So to answ
ér our many y
éars of waiting for a hug
é chang
é, th
éy answ
ér with this.
Mega Evolutions!
From what I can t
éll aft
ér r
éading multipl
é articl
és today (
Sources below) a Mega Evolution is what happ
éns wh
én an
éligibl
é Pokemon in the s
éri
és holds an it
ém call
éd a, '
Mega Stone'. Th
ér
é ar
é
appar
éntly going to be various ston
és so you actually have to match the corr
éct ston
é to th
é corr
ésponding Pok
émon to mak
é it will transform. The b
én
éfit
of using this ability is that it allows your Pokemon to t
émporarily transform into a much mor
é pow
érful b
éing, but only if it's
équipp
éd with said 'Mega Stone'.
Now not much has b
één r
él
éas
éd ov
ér th
é past coupl
é days about what
éxactly th
é abiliti
és will b
é, but th
é id
éa is still intriguing.
Som
é of you might say that it copi
és the id
éa of what '
Digimon' did, but that's kind of b
éing narrow mind
éd. Tak
é
a st
ép back and think th
és
é t
érms th
én mayb
é you'll r
éconsid
ér flaming the id
éa.
Super Saiyan.
Bankai.
Nine-Tails. G
ét th
é pictur
é? Now thos
é ar
é anim
és but th
é point is that it's not copying Digimon at
all. It's just anoth
ér f
éature to look forward to in one of th
é gr
éatest series any of us has
év
ér had the pl
éasur
é of playing.
I can't
év
én t
éll you how many tim
és my DS, Gameboy Advance and Android Emulators
équipp
éd with Pokemon hav
é sav
éd my lif
é on a long flight. For you young
ér crowds? Mayb
é lunch br
éak or long car rid
és.
R
égardl
éss who you ar
é, you cannot d
ény that it's
éxciting to finally s
éé a chang
é in th
é s
éri
és. It could pot
éntially op
én the door to an
éntir
ély n
éw strat
égy outsid
é of, 'Crap. Water. Switch to grass. Crap, they switched to fire? Switch to flying water! What!? Elec'-...
You g
ét the point.
And sinc
é no d
étails hav
é b
één r
él
éas
éd outsid
é of what I hav
é just stat
éd, w
é'll just hav
é
to wait to s
éé what Nintendo plans to r
éléasé as w
é draw clos
ér to th
é jump.
Props to
Ebel for bringing this up. Apparently X & Y will be allowing you to import your Pokemon arsenal from Black and White 2 with the help of a 'Premium' app. This
app is likely to include an annual fee to use, but for some long term users it might be well worth the cost. Much more will be known if we get an annual price.
Recent News: More information has been released, thanks to the guys over at LatinTimes, on the new Fairy type Pokemon that will be featured in X and Y. Their article covers the Fairy types weaknesses and strengths, as well as some notes on
the new direction as well as personal opinions about this class. Head over to
LatinTimes.com to read more on the class.
Sp
écial thanks for bringing this up go
és to,
TheAwsome. So b
é sur
é to ch
éck out his blog, found h
éré (
OtakuElite), for a mor
é éxt
énsiv
é
first look at th
é n
éws.
I hadn't thought of looking up n
éws on vid
éo gam
és and was planning to stick only to anim
é, but with n
éws this big I couldn't h
élp but g
ét my k
éyboard on
it.
Thanks to
IGN, b
élow is the t
éas
ér trailer that has b
één r
él
éas
éd to spr
éad th
é
word.
So l
ét us know what you think.
éxcit
éd about th
é n
éw f
éatur
é?
Think it's a dud?
Not
év
én a fan of Pokemon?
Unl
éss you sp
éak it, the world may n
év
ér know.
So anyways. I'll post up mor
é n
éws about 'X and Y' as w
é approach launch dat
é.
So to all you out théré, kéép spréading that lové that is.... Vid
éo gam
és?