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Rumors and leaks are going wild, as the minutes count down to the awaited reveal of what The Pokemon Company has in store for the future of the franchise. Whether or not you believe the "leaks" that are being passed around, it's time to hand in your hype train ticket and board, as today's Pokemon Presents is just about to begin.

It begins.

We get a retrospective on how Pokemon has evolved, and the various media that it had over the years. Even the Pokemon Mini got a shoutout.

Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the Pokemon series.

First off is New Pokemon Snap gameplay. You can edit your photos with stickers and frames. Photos can be shared online.

Next are some events that will be held to celebrate the anniversary. There's a Gigantamax Pikachu raid in SwSh, Go will have a Kanto celebration, and Pokemon Cafe Mix will have free tickets. Pokemon Masters EX adds Leon and Charizard.

Finally, the next games.

It's a DS...Diamond and Pearl's intro screen...

Remakes confirmed! Just as the rumors said, they'll be in a chibi-fied form that emulates the sprite look of the originals, but in 3D. Battles will instead look like Sword and Shield's. Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl release Late 2021.

It's time for a new era...

It's a prequel to Diamond and Pearl, taking place in the ancient era of Sinnoh. The gameplay shows open fields where you catch Pokemon by sneaking around and throwing Pokeballs yourself. Arceus is teased at the end. This more action-based take on the franchise is called Pokemon Legends: Arceus. Releases early 2022.

The DPPt games will be "faithful remakes". ILCA is developing them, the team from Pokemon Home. Game Freak's Masuda will be involved, though. The Underground is shown, too, confirming that it'll be included.

Legends Arceus is a different take on Sinnoh, with Pokemon from other regions appearing as well. The village is your base, and your goal is to create the first Pokedex. There are normal turn-based Pokemon battles.

 

[KnightOfRoses]

Nice, now we have Pokemon Buddypoke

 

[jomaper]

That's fine, you don't like it. As I previously mentioned, you can't please everyone. This same rhetoric circled around Links Awakening. I'd rather they pay proper respects to the games they're remaking (which this did) instead of something dramatic like the FFVII remake.

It also helps to have constructive criticism instead of yelling "this sucks!". Easier to take you seriously this way.

As far as Legends. Your main critique is framerate? Because that can't be fixed, right? They clearly can't optimize the game, according to you. It seems they learned with Sw/Sh and I hope they have better insight. The game isn't coming out until next year. Let's at least save the optimization criticisms until then, yeah?

You're right. GF has a great track record of fixing issues before release and optimizing games. I should wait since they deliver so well.

 

[WaffleRaccoon]

because they're entitled whiners constantly reinterpreting what they want so that they get to feel smugly outraged at everything, even when they've been given what they wanted five seconds ago

haha true. I think they'll still be mad when Pokemon finally become real.

 

[guisadop]

Honestly, the remakes are kind of meh. If they don't dumb stuff down and don't add stuff it'll just be a worse version of the originals.
Arceus Legends has potential, but I'm sure they'll screw something up. I hope it has turn based battles and random encounters.

 

[jesus96]

I don't like chibi models at all but the rest looks beautiful for DP,I knew they would ruin with something anyway so no surprises

 

[1B51004]

chibi cynthia

 

[Jayro]

chibi cynthia

They didn't want to have to render those mega mommy milkers.

 

[Valwinz]

Where is the Platinum stuff

 

[plopo]

welp, another game since oras that i will not buy.

I guess megas, zmoves and gmax are gone for good...

 

[1B51004]

They didn't want to have to render those mega mommy milkers.

alright but
shortstack chibi cynthia
shortstack chibi cynthia

 

[masagrator]

Honestly, the remakes are kind of meh. If they don't dumb stuff down and don't add stuff it'll just be a worse version of the originals.
Arceus Legends has potential, but I'm sure they'll screw something up. I hope it has turn based battles and random encounters.

By looking at gameplay - there will be turn based battles, but no random encounters.

 

[The Catboy]

We did it, y'all! We finally annoyed GameFreak enough to get a Sinnoh remake!

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

God, I was sleeping and I feel like I missed a ton

 

[DSoryu]

I see that the reason for the disappointment of those who did not like the remakes, is because these usually adopted the graphic style of their current generation, so they surely expected that, like the previous remakes, these would adopt the visual style of SW/SHa, which for the first time did not happen.

 

[GoldenBullet]

Nintendo Fans: Gameplay is more important than graphics!
Also Nintendo Fans:

 

[Treeko]

Where is the Platinum stuff

In Episode: Distortion world/Giratina take your pick, they have been doing this with all their remakes lately, HGSS was probably the last time they did a proper remake with good added content.

 

[BitMasterPlus]

Let's hope they put more effort into the remakes and such unlike Sword and Shield and Gamefreak could be on top again.

 

[raxadian]

Not gonna buy them.

My DS still works after all.

 

[GanjiMEX]

finally, my man furret will stop walking from that elevator

 

[tfocosta]

Let's hope they don't ruin it!