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Yeah, Corocoro always overhypes their news to draw people in. April news was not great as it only reveal Magearna's type that many have predicted to be. I am skeptical about the next month news but we may get the mascots. I am not expecting much to be honest.Well I guess now's a good a time as any to speculate on May.
Hopes:
Box Mascots, Starters akin to the trademarks that have come up recently. Grass Bird needs to be a thing.
Expectations:
Either Mascot silhouettes, full shot of either Sun or Moon's Mascot, or half of both of them. This is based on how they're using the drip-drip style of news release, at least so far. It's not just CoroCoro doing this, either. Somehow I don't expect them to go all-in and reveal both of the Mascots just yet, unless they're revealed elsewhere. They promised us coverage of SM features to start in April and we got basically nothing, so CoroCoro is clearly not immune to lying to or at least misleading people.
They promised us coverage of SM features to start in April and we got basically nothing, so CoroCoro is clearly not immune to lying to or at least misleading people.
Since we had to wait this dang long, I would like box legendaries and starters, and the professor and the player characters and some concept/map art, but that's probably hoping for too much. More likely we'll just get box legendaries though. *le sigh*
Since we had to wait this dang long, I would like box legendaries and starters, and the professor and the player characters and some concept/map art, but that's probably hoping for too much. More likely we'll just get box legendaries though. *le sigh*
We also got Magearna's typing.
That's not a lot to those who expected something big, but that's their own fault.
I get people like Corocoro and I do too, but I think it's time they changed their schedule up a bit more to make more sense than letting a Japanese magazine beat them to their own news every month when they have a new game coming. Although given that they've gone this many years letting it happen I guess they don't really care about it.
I still think we'll get the mascots before Corocoro next month though. But guess we'll have to wait and see.
To be fair, they did claim that Sun/Moon coverage was going to start with that issue, so I don't blame fans for thinking that there was going to be something more than just Magearna's type in that issue.
I would like a ton of information after waiting all this time, but that might be expecting too much at this point. I'm pretty confident that we'll get the new Legendary box Pokemon given that they flashed the boxes at us with the previous issue. I'm hoping for at least the starters to be included along with them. While getting just the box artwork with the new Legendary Pokemon would be better than something like confirming Magearna's obvious type combination, it would also be a bit too small for their first real scoop on the game. That would have been fine as a nice tease for this issue, but I'd like a larger amount of news after all this waiting. I'd really like to see the new playable characters, the new rivals and a name for the new region as well, but that would definitely be too much. As long as we get the new starters, I'll be happy. That's my main hope since I want to see what choices we'll have, speculation on their evolved forms and fanart of all of the starter Pokemon coming together to welcome the new trio.
I could make a massive post about this, but honestly it's disheartening to write.
tl;dr - People constantly complaining about it is the source of my flippancy on the subject.
Lufenian said:I'm hoping next month we'll get something huge too. It's been 2 month since the announcements now, and we're still utterly blank apart from concept arts, and a wire model. We need something.
I wouldn't mind if they bypassed Corocoro and released the news themselves way before Corocoro has it for SM. Like the 5th of every month they do a site update and the Corocoro on the 15th just repeats it. They have the resources (Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, the official site) to do it and it makes sense that we should get news from them first, not from a random Japanese magazine that happened to leak before their site updates (14th/15th).
To be fair, they did claim that Sun/Moon coverage was going to start with that issue, so I don't blame fans for thinking that there was going to be something more than just Magearna's type in .
^This.
I agree with those saying that media has changed, and Pokemon needs to change with it. As much as I love Coro Coro, and the nostalgia of getting hyped every month in pre-release season around the 10th, hitting Refresh on Pokejungle every few hours waiting for news to drop and sharing the anticipation with other fans...we now live in a world of global releases and social media. It *is* kind of silly that we're still waiting on a Japanese kids magazine to break news for us. I want surprise trailers dropped on Youtube with no warning. Or Pokemon Directs scheduled with only a week's notice. Or the Twitter/FB account telling us to go check the website because it has updated with news.