09/30/06 Genius Sonority
So, Pokémon Battle Revolution has been confirmed to be developed by Genius Sonority.
As seen in that thread, a lot of people aren't too happy about that:
this really stinks. v_v
shadow pokemon got boring after the first game.
If it is another shadow pokemon game, i'll be sure to NOT pick it up at the store.
Ah damn it. Genius Sorority cannot make a good game, let alone a good Pokemon game. Nintendo should develop this in house, or let the guys from Stadium do it.
I totally agree the coloseum (sp?) games IMO sucked..... i thought the stadium games were 100 times better.
damnit,i hate genius sonority...they arent exactly genusis. I hope they make the game good,I hate the shadow pokemon plots.
Sigh. I can hear my heart breaking.
Now, while I personally very much enjoyed Colosseum and XD, that is the subject of my Colosseum review, not the Cave of Speculative Theories. The thing I do want to talk about here is just how much like Colosseum and XD we should expect Pokémon Battle Revolution to be.
So what do we know about Pokémon Battle Revolution? Unfortunately, not much. We do, of course, have two videos, but that's very nearly about it. However, we can from the videos (and the commentary in the first one) tell that:
- For the first time, Pokémon actually touch one another when attacking - in fact, for the first time, we see Pokémon from two opposing teams on-screen at the same time doing something. This is what we were all dreaming about for the next 3D game, and we got it.
- It has all the new Pokémon, and is compatible with Diamond and Pearl - both rather obvious.
- The battle environments have been vastly improved, as well as making them destructible.
- The trainers are a little more active - while Pokémon XD added a little animation when a trainer's Pokémon fainted, Pokémon Battle Revolution has the trainers actually commanding them, making the game look much more alive.
- Pokémon have little animations upon entering and winning battle.
- Battles are much more fast-paced - instead of repeatedly cutting back and forth, the scenes run smoothly together, saving a lot of the redundant time it took to battle in Colosseum and XD.
Hmm, it looks like so far they've got, uh, everything right. Come on, give them a chance. The game looks awesome so far, and because it's developed by Genius Sonority doesn't mean that for some reason they'd make the rest of the game suddenly suck.
Honestly, we have no evidence that Pokémon Battle Revolution will be anything like Colosseum and XD even if it's developed by Genius Sonority. We haven't seen any of the supposed RPG mode at all - we have no reason to assume it has shadow Pokémon, or in fact that any of the things people didn't like about Colosseum and XD are still there. The graphics look an awful lot better, the Pokémon touch, the battles aren't slow and boring - so far, anyway, Genius Sonority has been changing everything we ever disliked about their previous games.
I'm thinking Pokémon Battle Revolution de-emphasizes the story mode (which admittedly I'm not particularly happy about, but I have a gut feeling). They just seemed to be wasting so much powder on the battling that it didn't seem like they were focusing on an RPG. If they do have an RPG (which has been suggested by official sources), I highly doubt it will have shadow Pokémon - Pokémon XD was a sequel to Colosseum, but Battle Revolution is giving me the impression they want a fresh start, with all the changes that have been made to the basic battle engine, the completely different look of just about everything, etc. It's not like Genius Sonority has some sort of "obsession with shadow Pokémon" - Trozei doesn't have any, and although it uses the theme of stolen Pokémon, I don't see why stolen Pokémon are necessarily bad in themselves (people's complaints about shadow Pokémon are mostly about how boring it is to purify them or how you're forced to use weak Pokémon, neither of which is a direct consequence of the "stolen" theme). There could very well be real wild Pokémon in it - they took a step in that direction with XD, and while Colosseum and XD were set in Orre, a region generally devoid of wild Pokémon in which it would have been odd to suddenly make them common, Pokémon Battle Revolution's RPG might as well be set in another region where wild Pokémon are plentiful.
Don't lose your faith in the game just because you don't like the previous games of the company that makes it. If it looks promising, it's still promising, okay?
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Feralig8tr
What I don't get is how people can complain about having to use Shadow Pokemon in XD, when the purify chamber is simple to use and available relatively early in the game.