yeah, I don't know who GameFreak thinks they're fooling. Every generation past the initial one, someone leaked all their "hidden" Pokemon from day one. Given, the past couple generations did stir things up a bit by revealing forme changes (Deoxys, Rotom, Giratina, Shaymin), but that only served to screw up trade-compatibility within the generation. They really might wanna consider hard-coded DLC or something; basically, the Pokemon's data doesn't even exist in the game until it's updated (hell, they might even be able to add new material by letting older versions trade with a newer versions, kinda like how Fire Red/Leaf Green fixed the clock glitch in Ruby/Sapphire, but I'm no programming expert).
Anyway, everyone kinda already knows about Keldeo: fourth Musketeer, gets an exclusive attack learned from an in-game event, yada-yada. Hell, when it was announced that the movie would involve the legendary trio, its debut was pretty much assured (not that it wasn't already expected given the pattern of previous generations). I'm much more interested in Kyurem there. Supposedly the Rayquaza/Giratina of the generation, and widely speculated to be the star of the third version (most likely Gray), its background in Black and White has been a bit lacking (much like Rayquaza and Giratina initially were). To spice things up even further, there was coding for two Ice-type attacks that have ties with electricity and fire (Reshiram and Zekrom) which aren't currently learned by any Pokemon. It will be interesting to see how they make those attacks available (promo Kyurem? Kyurem forme changes in Gray? Maybe the attacks aren't even Kyurem's but rather given to Zekrom and Reshiram after somehow being involved with Kyurem?).
Indeed. When I looked up Keldeo online for research, I discovered there was a crap-ton of information known about a creature that had only been "just" revealed this week. If they really wanna surprise their gamers, they should find a new way. I remember back in 1999 when Nintendo revealed that a Naboo starfighter had been hidden in the code of "Star Wars: Rogue Squadron" for the N64, almost a year after the game had come out. Literally nobody knew of its existence until Nintendo officially announced it.
it's just the era we live in. Release a game, and every single bit of content will be made public immediately (in some cases, a couple days before the game's supposed to even be out). This is especially true for a game series with a massive fanbase (and therefor, a massive number of hackers dedicated to it) such as Pokemon... though, way back in the day, I do wonder how many people knew of Mew's existence before it was officially unveiled. I mean, aside from the internet still growing in popularity at the time, it's been cited that even most of the game's staff wasn't aware that one programmer slipped it into the game's coding at practically the last minute, plus there was only a two-month window between the Japanese release of Red and Green (2/27/1996) and the very first Mew give-away, in which 20 lucky players could send in their cartridge after being drawn in a lottery (4/15/1996). Nonetheless, there were hackers back in the day, so I'd assume at least a few people managed to discover early on that the enigmatic Pokemon briefly mentioned in Mewtwo's backstory was actually an obtainable, playable character.
BTW, for anyone wondering where the hell I get some of my info... ttp://park3.wakwak.com/~pokepale/get/get.htm (Japanese page listing methods to get promotional legendaries, including every event for the Japanese version).
Anyway, everyone kinda already knows about Keldeo: fourth Musketeer, gets an exclusive attack learned from an in-game event, yada-yada. Hell, when it was announced that the movie would involve the legendary trio, its debut was pretty much assured (not that it wasn't already expected given the pattern of previous generations). I'm much more interested in Kyurem there. Supposedly the Rayquaza/Giratina of the generation, and widely speculated to be the star of the third version (most likely Gray), its background in Black and White has been a bit lacking (much like Rayquaza and Giratina initially were). To spice things up even further, there was coding for two Ice-type attacks that have ties with electricity and fire (Reshiram and Zekrom) which aren't currently learned by any Pokemon. It will be interesting to see how they make those attacks available (promo Kyurem? Kyurem forme changes in Gray? Maybe the attacks aren't even Kyurem's but rather given to Zekrom and Reshiram after somehow being involved with Kyurem?).
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BTW, for anyone wondering where the hell I get some of my info...
ttp://park3.wakwak.com/~pokepale/get/get.htm (Japanese page listing methods to get promotional legendaries, including every event for the Japanese version).
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