Pokemon Sun & Moon officially announced!

So, I’m definitely hoping to get Moon personally at the moment :P It does seem likely that these will be Gen 7 though which I do still feel is a bit too soon, but I’m excited nonetheless.

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But yeah. While I wish the Direct did talk more about the games themselves over the big 20th anniversary trailers (though, they were well done and I did enjoy them), the direct did bring us lots of cool concept shots:
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This first one is mostly of a lot of interiors. The one being pointed to kind of reminds of a cafe/coffee shop though. These also lead right into the next concept we’re shown:
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Pokemon Centers! I have to admit, I already really like the design.

Then we move onto a lot of car concepts:
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Are we hitch-hiking? Do we get a car? Are we rich and have our own driver? Is it similar to the taxis in Lumiose? Regardless, we see a truck with Machoke, Furfrou, and Wobbuffet in the back while a trainer and driver are in the front. We also see a few different colors.
At the bottom, there is most likely a Firetruck with a Blastoise and an Ambulance. We also see part of a Wingull–possible cutscene being worked on?
Maybe Mew will even finally be under a truck. :P

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We see more Interiors in the next shot too including one that still looks like it’s being mapped out. We also see outside with a truck parked and it almost reminds me of a motel. As for the image on the right… At first, I was thinking maybe it could be a fancy PokeMart, but when we got the close-up of it:
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There is a girl with what looks very much like a suitcase and so it could actually be a fancy hotel. Or at least partially–a gym wouldn’t be that far out either. I wonder if the Hotel will be like the one in X/Y. With the Palm Trees though, I feel like this could be a tropical area and maybe we can finally have the Strange Souvenir addressed:

We also got a glimpse of some kind of new bird/flying Pokemon being worked on:
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I wonder if it will end up being a starter? We will have to see. The game is currently scheduled for Holiday 2016 so hopefully we will hear more about it throughout the year :)

On things I’d like to see:
-Trainer customization come back, please
-Our own customized room (in the hotel maybe? Something. Maybe we live in the hotel?? That would be cool)
-Being able to play with Megas in Pokemon Amie (As I’m assuming that is just a staple now, but if not, whatever the similar version is in this game)

Things I expect to happen:
-More Day & Night exclusive things
-I’m guessing we’ll be getting new Megas. Cresselia, Solrock, Lunatone, Espeon, and Umbreon are the ones I’d most expect to get them if so.

As for non-new game stuff, the ports of the first generation of games will actually be compatible with Bank and that’s probably been the most tempted I’ve been to get them. That said, I still have my original games and it doesn’t really fix the fact that my originals are stuck there. I could maybe get a Surfing Pikachu again? But there is also the 20th Anniversary Pikachu available right now in Japan that has Surf and Fly and I wish it was available worldwide. I’ll probably still pass for now, but it’s definitely nice for those planning to get one (or more) of the versions.

Finally, if you missed the Direct, you can check it out here!:

The opening is pretty cute so :)

Finally, a Mega Audino Badge! & Pokemon Rumors

So, not too long ago, the Nintendo Badge Arcade in Japan came out with a Mega Audino badge and I’ve been anxiously awaiting for it to appear over in North America’s Badge Arcade. It actually came a lot sooner than I expected, but with Pokemon’s 20th Anniversary on Saturday, I suppose it’s perfect timing. I recorded a quick video of getting one and placing it on my homescreen:

And then proceeded to get over 30 more:
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Along with posting two Miiverse posts.

I really hope Mega Audino could show up on a nice girly theme soon.
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The only theme that even slightly features a Mega Audino is the Pokemon Shuffle theme and only with that one little box on the top screen XP

Moving onto some of rumors at the moment…. I normally don’t talk too much about rumors, especially not here (which is why I haven’t brought up the Style Savvy 3 and Disney Magical World 2 rumors right now, though, my fingers are crossed for them–if they are true, Style Savvy 3 will be out in late Summer and Disney Magical World 2 will be out in the Fall. While I am disappointed we seem to be getting Style Savvy 3 so much later, I’m happy we’ll be getting it at all), but the main reason I decided to bring this up is due to the logos. Trademarks for two Pokemon games have shown up–Pokemon Sun and Pokemon Moon each with their respective logo:
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And it’s the logos that really sell me on it.

I feel like most people expect a new game to be announced (with the only ones not expecting are the ones going in with zero expectations whatsoever) and the last time there was a photo leak, that was when Mega Audino and Mega Slowbro leaked. If it wasn’t for the logos, I could just shrug it off as a “Just incase” thing, but since they have such nice logos, I can’t help but wonder if there is a good chance they are true.

I do feel this means it will likely be Gen 7 though which I have mixed feelings on. I just feel like there’s so much in X/Y they could expand on and I genuinely want to hear about so I really was hoping for a sequel game. Regardless, I’ve spoken a lot about what I hope the next generation will bring so the only hope I will say is it better have trainer customization again.

Now to just decide if I want to try and have a permanent 6 team or pick 5 Pokemon from the new Generation + Mega Audino for the team… probably the latter.

Tomodachi Life: Several Accomplishments and Pink Sea Island’s Update

So, it’s been nearly a year since my last full Tomodachi Life update–not due to lack of playing, of course, but just due to wanting to accomplish more big goals before I did a big picture overview and well, I finally managed to finish nearly all of my goals! While I didn’t have as much fun yesterday as I’d have liked, I got a lot of Tomodachi Life StreetPasses along with getting lucky with the final food I need and thus, four goals were completed.

As expected, this year has mostly just been unlocking the rest of the DLC colors rather than new DLC outfits:








I’m guessing this will also be the last year we get any kind of new DLC if they even continue to loop the rest of the outfits.

A few new couples finally got married:






I really wish I could do more to get these to happen along with keeping them together. So many couples break up while I’m not playing and it’s so depressing.

This gets picture heavy though so, if you’d like to continue…

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Nintendo Store reopening

So, as many people probably know, Nintendo NYC, previously the Nintendo World Store, reopened yesterday after a month of renovations. They’re doing an event for the reopening this weekend and I made sure to go yesterday for the first day or it which… may have not been in my best interests.

The store itself looks great. Despite being the same squarefoot, they managed to make it look a lot roomier and with so many things on wheels, I’m guessing it will be easier to move things around. I feel like how things are organized now will make it easier to find stuff as well.

While Press and People with young kids were allowed in at 9AM (to cupcakes and hot drinks while everyone outside was freezing–I feel especially bad for people in the front who had to watch food when many of them were starving due to having been there from as early as Thursday morning), everyone else had to wait until noon at the earliest. Despite that, I tried to take some nice photos from outside:
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The Golden Mario at the corner of the entrances–I wonder if it will be a permanent addition or be switched out from time to time for events. I feel like a lot of choices in the store were made for easy switching though.

The familiar screens are still along the front wall and look nice:
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And the backs of the various demo stations on the first floor:
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Also, these were the press-cupcakes which a few people first got excited for thinking they were for everyone, but ended up just being for press:
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Now, before we get into interior pictures, I want to talk more about the opening event itself. We ended up getting there between 7AM and 8AM and were right around the corner. When the line was condensed a bit about 11:30AM, we ended up being about 80% down the first block. We’ve been down that far before for the Black & White 2 event. It took 30-40 minutes tops that day and everyone on the line was given a scarf while we waited.

This time? It took us over 3 hours to get in. People were barely being let in, the lines itself took roughly 40 minutes (and there weren’t even that many people–I’m not sure what the delay was), the autograph wristbands were gone nearly instantly. The Splatoon Posters and Lanyards were gone shortly after we went in. The line was all the way around the block and over to the next. There were at least several hundred people on line. The frustrating part is a lot of this could’ve been subsided if things were more prepared (and there really were way too few Splatoon posters and Lanyards–rather than making it a three day thing, it may have been better to have all three posters for people to pick from). The special shirts were only available in Small hours after we left and have since sold out earlier today.

Fates Special Editions also were gone shortly after we got there, though, we already had a copy preordered so we didn’t need to pick one up there. So many people came just for Fates, the autograph signing, and/or the Splatoon Poster and actually -mentioning when these things sold out- probably would have helped a lot with the disappointment some fans felt. Not to mention the running out of the Splatoon Posters and Lanyards were really silly and besides the fact that there should have been much more of them, it would’ve been a lot better to actually hand those out to everyone who was waiting in line. It would’ve given people something to be excited about rather than freezing and hoping there could be something by the time they got into the store.

Back to the interior, I want to show one of my favorite aspects of the redesign which is the giant flagpole in the center of the staircase with Mario at the top:
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(photo from NintendoNYC’s own website as we were unable to get a picture with all the crowds)

I do feel the event was poorly done and makes me worried for next weeks. There just needs to be better crowd control. Like I said, the overall design is great. My only mixed feeling is with the big screen as I feel that could’ve been put into other things rather than just one big gameplay screen–but it’s probably a good way for people to try out upcoming games.

As a note, they ended up giving out some Fire Emblem: Fates posters after running out of Lanyards and Splatoon posters (Though, I don’t believe too many as I believe they were supposed to be for those picking up the game). Besides the two shirts and retrospective coins, we got a few other things as well:
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With that out of the way, onto some of our own interior & display pictures!

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Miitomo and My Nintendo

So, as many of you may recall, I’m looking forward to Miitomo a lot! While I’m not a huge fan of social games (Hate touch screens and just find cellphones kind of annoying in the first place along with many being rather cheaply made or super money hungry when they don’t need to be), I still have a few I play from time to time.

The reason I’m excited about Miitomo though is I just really enjoy answering questions. I always loved taking tests while I was in school and taking online personality quizzes as I just thought they were fun ways to learn things. Sometimes you just don’t really think about how you feel about something until you’re asked. And as a fairly shy person, sometimes answering said question can help a lot with things.

I will most likely be trying to make my same Mii from StreetPass and Tomodachi Life unless there are new options:

The website does mention setting personality as well so I am wondering if it will be the same ones from TL or give you a few more options (which would be nice as for some reason my Mii tended to hate poofy dresses due to her personality and I love poofy dresses :( )

I still think more ponytail hairstyles would be nice (Right now there’s only a low ponytail or a high ponytail and the latter doesn’t even have a no bangs option). I just really want ponytail versions of these hairstyles/long ponytails (so maybe they won’t completely disappear in a hat):
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I mean, even a longer version of the existing ponytails would be great:
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(please ignore how badly drawn this example is)

But I mean, there are longer pigtails than ponytails too. Curly/long/wavy side ponytails or pigtails always seem to make it, but regular ponytails are constantly forgotten and it drives me crazy. Going back to Miitomo, while it does seem like a lot of clothing from Tomodachi Life will be in the game, it looks like there will be new clothing items as well:
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I do not see a color option, but I would think that would make an appearance considering… Items are bought with Miitomo Coins which can be earned just from playing or bought for real life currency. I am hoping that will be the extent of real life purchases and it won’t become a gachapon limited item fest like most other Social Dress-up games.

One of the things the website mentions though is the ability to Mix and Match outfits–I am wondering if it’ll be the same as Tomodachi Life’s (where you can mix the main outfit and a hat/accessory–such as my Mii wearing the Versailles Dress with the Princess Tiara) or if it’ll be much more expanded with each outfit giving you parts such as various shoes to choose from and jackets you can remove and matching a different top with a different skirt and etc. Considering the various icons in the image above (Which look like Outfit Sets, Tops, and then One-pieces), it may actually be the more expanded–I am curious though if the Outfit Sets are literally stuck as outfit sets or are deals if you buy all the items together (which would be much nicer as I’d hate to buy an outfit set just for like… the shoes or top. Or have to skip out on something I really like due to it being stuck to that outfit set).

Moving along, we have Miifotos which are similar to the various Amiibo Card functions. Not to mention Tomodachi Life had them as well:

And other social games do too, such as Pokemini:
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Though, while Pokemini has the option to take a picture while moving your character around, it seems Miitomo will just be focusing on the inserting your Mii into photos after which Pokemini also has:
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That said, it looks like Miitomo will give more options and be easier to control your Mii’s position:
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Plus, the pictures honestly look like they will come out much better rather than the quality nosediving after you put the character in.

Of course, you can find out more about Miitomo by going to its website which is also where you can find the Pre-Registration Link! Even if you may not be interested in Miitomo or have a phone that may run it, I’d recommend pre-registering if you’re at least interested in Nintendo’s Club Nintendo replacement–My Nintendo. You can already sign up for your account now and link it to your NNID. But yes, as for why my recommendation, well:
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You get Platinum Points for it! While I recall it being said you’d get 100 points in the past, it doesn’t seem to specify here so I’m not sure if that has changed. What points will be used for just yet hasn’t been fully said (Discounts, special items, etc.), but it doesn’t hurt to save up just incase, right? For now, I’m just hoping for more special physical items that Club Nintendo showed (and maybe actually making them appear in each region? Japan got so many amazing things and PAL regions did too like the Captain Toad Lamp T__T) as I feel like all the digital stuff was part of the downfall in the first place.

But yes, Miitomo and My Nintendo will be launching next month and I am super excited for them <3 Finally, for those who have been really wanting a Tomodachi Life update, I'm REALLY close to getting the last couple of items so if all goes well, except several fun newsflash videos and a big entry filled with photos to close off my gameplay of the game :) It's a really fun game and if I ever manage to also get all the couples married that I wanted to with nobody divorcing before I can say anything, I'll be sure to mention that :P But that seems to be even harder than item acquiring, sadly.

On Magiana and the possibilities of Gen 7

Originally, I wasn’t planning to talk about any of the recent news beyond some tweets on Twitter, but despite that, I just keep thinking more and more about it in my head and can’t help but want to say some things. I was up when a lot of the news was just leaking and I will admit, it got me hyped up. While Magiana isn’t one of my top favorite Pokemon designs, I do still like its design a lot (Afterall, it looks like a Princess).
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(Photo credit to Serebii)

That said, the resemblance to Diancie (just with Carbink ears) jumps out to me immediately:

Along with some things from the Klink line.

And it really brings up a lot of the “Could it be a form change?” questions. On one hand, I do feel forms have showed up a lot lately (I mean, between mega evolutions and Zygarde). It could even be another fusion thing like Kyurem. In general, I would prefer a new Pokemon just due to being tired of seeing all of these. I do feel the similarities are more of a coincidence though (Afterall, they say it was “made by human hands”–maybe the person found inspiration in other Pokemon) depending on how it was created, I wonder how it was officially considered a Pokemon.

Of course, Magiana isn’t the first that was created largely due to humans. Ignoring ones that seem accidental (Such as Grimer or Voltorb), there was Mewtwo (made from Mew’s DNA) and Castform (though, specifically how the Scientists made it is unknown). Golett and Golurk were probably the closest to Magiana due to being made by people and also being robots. While the movie largely seems to hint there is only one Magiana at the moment, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s legendary of course. Both Lucario and Zoroark had big purposes in movies despite being normal Pokemon. But with how Magiana is, it makes me wonder if it could be a Pokemon you actually have to make by bringing the “materials” to a scientist. Could the next region possibly have a Steampunk element? While I still would prefer to see more done with our current regions (And Pokemon being shown in the movie both for new regions or expanded for current regions has happened previously), for some reason I still feel Magiana is leaning towards a new region and I do feel a new region coming out or being announced would be more exciting for the 20th anniversary barring a game that works similar to Detective Pikachu (As in being fully 3D and seeing Pokemon interact with the world around you) with online and local multiplayer where you can travel along with your friends to various regions.

It could even tie in to the Strange Souvenir from X/Y as Protector has been thrown around quite a bit–Magiana is somehow important to Volcanion, Golett and Golurk were made for protection, and the Strange Souvenir is of a protector “somewhere far from Kalos”.

Of course, I’m just thinking out loud. At the very least, it’s just getting me more excited for any future Pokemon announcements this year.

Edit: Magiana is officially being localized here as Magearna and we got some Higher Quality pictures too!:
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Very surprised that Pokemon.com has already acknowledged it, but happy to see it. I hope maybe we can even start getting Worldwide everything when it comes to Pokemon.