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11 I'm so confused. Mickey went to 23 from Eterna's 28?

26 Someone hurry up and take it before a mod gets here

Probably despises game grumps

Nope, me. mde?

Let's talk about technical upgrades. XY and ORAS brought us up into full 3D, and it seems to me that every Gen has brought us at least something new to the graphical table. This would suggest that Sun and Moon will bring us something too. Will the Pokémon models be particularly changed, with more polygons, wider colour ranges, or complex battle animations? Or do you think we're likely to see essentially imports of what we have in Gen 6 as Game Freak focus on other things? Perhaps they'll add more opportunities for the 3DS to utilise true 3D in the overworld. Whilst I've never played XY and can't comment on them much, I've found places like Petalburg Forest and Sky Pillar to be among the best places in ORAS for looks, and the 3D no doubt helped there. I don't expect them to make the entire overworld 3D, but more areas with it would be appreciated. With the release of the New 3DS last year, it seems likely that they'll make some opportunities for owners to use the C-Stick and ZR/ZL buttons in Sun and Moon. I reckon it would have to be shortcuts to features that you can already access from the menu, though, so as not to disadvantage 3DS owners. And perhaps they'll optimise Gen 7 enough that lag in 3D-enabled battles and triple battles is finally gone, or at the very least significantly reduced. Maybe it's too ambitious a task, but we'll see in due time. Any thoughts on what I've said here? Or feel free to add something I've missed.

Today I learned that the president of the Pokemon company, Tsunekazu Ishihara, is apparently frequently misidentified as Satoshi Tajiri. Pictured here is Ishihara (he was on the Direct today): whereas this is Tajiri: I wonder why this happens? If you google Tajiri and search for images, you mostly get pictures of Ishihara.

Well, I now get to look forward to starter and legendary designs.

Of note, Serebii and Bulbanews inform me that several URLS such as http://pokemon-sunmoon.com have been registered and redirect to the Pokémon website. So there's that.

I figured it would be hard, but damn if I wasn't unprepared for just what would be expected of me. You two have just started? You have a long storm coming your way. Good luck.

Not gonna lie, I would play the crap out of Pokémon Bird Version.

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Hm... This certainly is an intriguing moment. I guess we'll see tomorrow. I hope it's a legit thing anyway, but I guess I'll retain a bit of healthy scepticism. I'd like 7th Gen games to be optimised so there was absolutely no lag, since I found a bit in triple battles and 3D battles in ORAS, even on my New 3DS. Maybe they'll add a really radical new mechanic. Shake up the competitive battling ground even more so than Fairy and Megas.

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Woo, cool stuff. I still await the day it happens to me.

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