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Official Pokémon Sword and Shield speculation thread (Updated June 5th, 2019)

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Someone made a first 20 minute gameplay 'leak' aka fan fiction on 4chan you can read if you’re bored...

Hello,

I am going to get straight to the point in regards to why I am posting here. I have seen the first 20 minutes of actual gameplay footage from upcoming Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield. The footage I have seen and gameplay mechanics are above what even I expected for this game. I certainly didn't think I would be this pleased with it. I am sure many of you are wondering, why I would post this, and how I got access to see this. I am involved with some of the investors for the games, and we have been having regular meetings regarding the progress of game development, and the last meeting revealed the first 15-20 minutes of the game. Anyway, here is how the game starts off.


After you name/design/customize your character, you will appear in your room. Your mom will ask you to come downstairs and clean up as you guys are expecting your moms old friend for dinner (The Pokemon Professor for Galar Region). Your mom hasn't seen her in years since moving away and now they finally get to catch up. The professor shows up and the dinner takes place, your mom and the professor are chatting away, talking about how her studies are going. The professor is studying how Pokemon adapt to human impact on their habitats. A few minutes later the topic of the “Pokemon Cup Championship” comes up. You tell your mom and the professor that you will compete for one day when you get a Pokemon. They both laugh and agree. The Professor leans in to tell your mom something then promptly gets up and says she must get going. Before she leaves, she tells you to come by her lab sometime up at the top of route 4.

The professor leaves your house and your mom says something to you about how that was her best friend in school growing up. Then you hear a scream, and both you and your mom run outside to see what happened. The professor is being pushed around by two people wearing masks, that are telling her to stop the research she is doing because she won't be able to stop them from continuing to build on Pokemon habitats and taking over the region and making it the biggest modern industrial region in the world. One of the masked people pushes the professor and 3 poke balls drop from her bag. She asks for your help and this is when you will pick your starter.

Anyway, you pick which ever starter you want, and the professor asks you to help battle off the 2 masked people. The professor throws out a Galar Snubbull and you throw out which ever starter you picked. In this case, the person playing had picked Scorbunny

The 2 masked people then get scared and run off. The professor then tells you that your bravery to help her was very appreciated, she takes the Pokemon back from you and reminds you to visit her. You go back inside and your mom asks if you are alright and asks questions about who the 2 masked people were. Your mom then tells you to go get some sleep it was an eventful day and you look exhausted.

he next day you wake up and you go downstairs and your mom tells you that the professor called and reminded her to make sure you come up to her lab. Your mom tells you that you're ok to go up there as it isn't very far, just to be safe and keep an eye out for those 2 masked people.


You make your way up to the Professors lab, along Route 4, once you arrive she is very thrilled that you made it up. You ask about the people from yesterday. She briefly tells you about who they were. A couple that is dedicated to purchasing all the empty land in Galar to build refineries and modernize the city for the future. She tells you not to worry about them and asks you to come with her to the back of the lab. Once you arrive, the Pokemon that you picked yesterday with her will be waiting outside of its Pokeball. She tells you that for some reason once she got back to the office that the Pokemon wouldn't stay in its ball and kept breaking out.

She brings up the conversation about the Pokemon Cup Championship and tells you that she spoke with your mother this morning and they both agree that you taking this Pokemon would be great for you, the professor thinks you have what it takes to be a trainer with the way you stepped up to help her yesterday. You are also given a Pokedex at this time. The professor asks if you know how to catch Pokemon, you can choose yes or no. If you pick no she will show you. If you say yes she will wish you good luck and tells you to go show your new Pokemon to your mom.

You leave the professor back down Route 4 right as you get to your house, a kid walks towards you and asks if you have a Pokemon and if he/she can see it. You say sure and you bring out your new Pokemon. That is when the kid tells you he tricked you into a battle, he throws out his Pokemon. Which is whatever Pokemon is strong against the one you picked. So in this gameplay, he throws out Sobble. The player won the battle in gameplay and continued on to the house to show off your new Pokemon and tell her about you winning your first battle.

That is where the video ended, we encountered no wild Pokemon as you are able to avoid the grass to and from the professor's lab. Expect to see some of this gameplay at E3 during a Pokemon Direct.

It’s a nice way to pass time with the lack of info if you’re fond of reading fan fiction...
I can’t believe 'leakers' are pretending to know everything about 20min game footage in full detail.
It’s probably a bored writer but reading it was more fun than arguments about Pokemon going downhill based on a game that we haven’t seen more than 2 minutes of.
The sad part is, he immediately screwed up by saying the mother call you downstairs, when we see in the first trailer your home is a one story house
 

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Someone made a first 20 minute gameplay 'leak' aka fan fiction on 4chan you can read if you’re bored...

Hello,

I am going to get straight to the point in regards to why I am posting here. I have seen the first 20 minutes of actual gameplay footage from upcoming Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield. The footage I have seen and gameplay mechanics are above what even I expected for this game. I certainly didn't think I would be this pleased with it. I am sure many of you are wondering, why I would post this, and how I got access to see this. I am involved with some of the investors for the games, and we have been having regular meetings regarding the progress of game development, and the last meeting revealed the first 15-20 minutes of the game. Anyway, here is how the game starts off.


After you name/design/customize your character, you will appear in your room. Your mom will ask you to come downstairs and clean up as you guys are expecting your moms old friend for dinner (The Pokemon Professor for Galar Region). Your mom hasn't seen her in years since moving away and now they finally get to catch up. The professor shows up and the dinner takes place, your mom and the professor are chatting away, talking about how her studies are going. The professor is studying how Pokemon adapt to human impact on their habitats. A few minutes later the topic of the “Pokemon Cup Championship” comes up. You tell your mom and the professor that you will compete for one day when you get a Pokemon. They both laugh and agree. The Professor leans in to tell your mom something then promptly gets up and says she must get going. Before she leaves, she tells you to come by her lab sometime up at the top of route 4.

The professor leaves your house and your mom says something to you about how that was her best friend in school growing up. Then you hear a scream, and both you and your mom run outside to see what happened. The professor is being pushed around by two people wearing masks, that are telling her to stop the research she is doing because she won't be able to stop them from continuing to build on Pokemon habitats and taking over the region and making it the biggest modern industrial region in the world. One of the masked people pushes the professor and 3 poke balls drop from her bag. She asks for your help and this is when you will pick your starter.

Anyway, you pick which ever starter you want, and the professor asks you to help battle off the 2 masked people. The professor throws out a Galar Snubbull and you throw out which ever starter you picked. In this case, the person playing had picked Scorbunny

The 2 masked people then get scared and run off. The professor then tells you that your bravery to help her was very appreciated, she takes the Pokemon back from you and reminds you to visit her. You go back inside and your mom asks if you are alright and asks questions about who the 2 masked people were. Your mom then tells you to go get some sleep it was an eventful day and you look exhausted.

he next day you wake up and you go downstairs and your mom tells you that the professor called and reminded her to make sure you come up to her lab. Your mom tells you that you're ok to go up there as it isn't very far, just to be safe and keep an eye out for those 2 masked people.


You make your way up to the Professors lab, along Route 4, once you arrive she is very thrilled that you made it up. You ask about the people from yesterday. She briefly tells you about who they were. A couple that is dedicated to purchasing all the empty land in Galar to build refineries and modernize the city for the future. She tells you not to worry about them and asks you to come with her to the back of the lab. Once you arrive, the Pokemon that you picked yesterday with her will be waiting outside of its Pokeball. She tells you that for some reason once she got back to the office that the Pokemon wouldn't stay in its ball and kept breaking out.

She brings up the conversation about the Pokemon Cup Championship and tells you that she spoke with your mother this morning and they both agree that you taking this Pokemon would be great for you, the professor thinks you have what it takes to be a trainer with the way you stepped up to help her yesterday. You are also given a Pokedex at this time. The professor asks if you know how to catch Pokemon, you can choose yes or no. If you pick no she will show you. If you say yes she will wish you good luck and tells you to go show your new Pokemon to your mom.

You leave the professor back down Route 4 right as you get to your house, a kid walks towards you and asks if you have a Pokemon and if he/she can see it. You say sure and you bring out your new Pokemon. That is when the kid tells you he tricked you into a battle, he throws out his Pokemon. Which is whatever Pokemon is strong against the one you picked. So in this gameplay, he throws out Sobble. The player won the battle in gameplay and continued on to the house to show off your new Pokemon and tell her about you winning your first battle.

That is where the video ended, we encountered no wild Pokemon as you are able to avoid the grass to and from the professor's lab. Expect to see some of this gameplay at E3 during a Pokemon Direct.

It’s a nice way to pass time with the lack of info if you’re fond of reading fan fiction...
I can’t believe 'leakers' are pretending to know everything about 20min game footage in full detail.
It’s probably a bored writer but reading it was more fun than arguments about Pokemon going downhill based on a game that we haven’t seen more than 2 minutes of.
And that's above his/her expectations? It's basically the same old story + the evil team...but the moment I understood this is fake is when apparently: "You tell your mom and the professor that you will compete for one day when you get a Pokemon".
Since when does the mc talk? We have only been able to answer questions with fixed answers in the past...
 

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And that's above his/her expectations? It's basically the same old story + the evil team...but the moment I understood this is fake is when apparently: "You tell your mom and the professor that you will compete for one day when you get a Pokemon".
Since when does the mc talk? We have only been able to answer questions with fixed answers in the past...
That's kinda the equivalent for your character talking. Even in sun and moon, your character has some semblance of dialogue
 

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Serebii said:
As we reported on Monday, Uniqlo had a competition for various T-Shirt designs for Pokémon that will then get sold, with the grand prize winner having their T-Shirt implemented into Pokémon Sword & Shield. However, the winner was since found to have violated the rules having previously sold their own design which they entered into this contest. Due to this, that entry has been disqualified and no Grand Prize winner will be included and thus it means that none of the T-Shirt winners will be implemented into Pokémon Sword & Shield as the note about that element has been removed from all official material. We'll provide further information as it comes so be sure to keep checking back

Wait, what?
 

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I'll take 'But that would be too much effort' for 200, Alex. :bulbaFacepalm:

That's hella dickish, my dudes. "First place cheated so NO ONE gets the grand prize. owo"

Maybe they know the unknown shirt is too crappy a design to pick in the game since the majority of the 'effort' behind it would be hidden by backpacks.

It wouldn't even NEED a new model, simply a retexturing of the old shirt with the new shirt's design. It's not like it's a fancy styled shirt. They're just t-shirts. But what do I know... I mean, when I was a kid I retextured a sims 2 shirt so my adult female sims could have Knuckles the Echidna picture on their shirts.
 

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Reading this article, I'm thinking that it might actually be kind of really shitty for anyone to want Game Freak to become an AAA company- Ex-Ubisoft dev reveals the grim reality of AAA games development

Game Freak probably isn't listening all that much to the individual employees right now anyway, Japanese developers tend not to question the decisions of higher ups (can't look for the article right now, but this has been mentioned before). People like Masuda and Ohmori and probably the ones calling most of the shots in Pokemon.

If it’s anything like oras. Probably yeah lol

As mediocre as ORAS was, it was the best game we've had in this era. Granted that's more because RSE was already great, but still.
 

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I'll take 'But that would be too much effort' for 200, Alex. :bulbaFacepalm:

That's hella dickish, my dudes. "First place cheated so NO ONE gets the grand prize. owo"

Maybe they know the unknown shirt is too crappy a design to pick in the game since the majority of the 'effort' behind it would be hidden by backpacks.

It wouldn't even NEED a new model, simply a retexturing of the old shirt with the new shirt's design. It's not like it's a fancy styled shirt. They're just t-shirts. But what do I know... I mean, when I was a kid I retextured a sims 2 shirt so my adult female sims could have Knuckles the Echidna picture on their shirts.
Welcome to Japan.
Whenever a controversy like this goes down they shut it down hard.
 

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Not every generation needs a feminine plant Pokemon... Tsareena is enough for the next 3 Generations...


I’ve been saying that ever since Let's Go was released.
Let's Go relies on the Kanto Pokemon being household names your mom, dad, and maybe even grandma know to appeal to a broader audience. They also appeal to the GO players which were fans during Generation 1 and have a revived interest in Pokemon, but not enough to look for the complicated stuff like 700+ extra creatures, abilities, Megas and what not.

No other region even comes close to the household name that's Pikachu.

The only further Let's Go game I can see being released is Johto, and even that’s not a certainty imo.
I really hope that Let's Go doesn't go far, I felt like it got in the way of too many things for Pokemon and I don't think I can trust Game Freak to sort the mess that they put the series into at the moment, who knows? Maybe Sword and Shield might be the first sign of them fixing the series.
 

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I actually really like the entire concept behind the Let's Go games, and I hope they continue with Johto (though I agree that anything post-Johto is unlikely).

The graphics, the art style, the cuteness of partner Pokémon, following Pokémon, wild Pokémon being in the overworld, etc... Let's Go has tons of great concepts.

The only thing that need fixing, imo, is the glaring lack of a post game Battle Tower in LGPE. I am sorry Game Freak, but there's no proof that kids and their parents (aka the target audience of LGPE) wouldn't enjoy a Battle Facility.
 
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I do see two traditional remakes appearing in a single Nintendo system eventually, especially if Nintendo themselves do plan to support the Switch for 10 years. Pokemon is Game Freak's Mario, they aren't going deviate from their plans just to follow some non-existent tradition.
 

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Game Freak probably isn't listening all that much to the individual employees right now anyway, Japanese developers tend not to question the decisions of higher ups (can't look for the article right now, but this has been mentioned before). People like Masuda and Ohmori and probably the ones calling most of the shots in Pokemon.
Sooo they're prioritizing a project to improve the experience of their developers because they don't care?

I mean yeah people like Masuda and Ohmori call most of the shots- that's just how management works. Someone always has to be in charge of making the decisions on things. Doesn't mean they're not listening to employees or care about their work environment.
 

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Let's Go relies on the Kanto Pokemon being household names your mom, dad, and maybe even grandma know to appeal to a broader audience. They also appeal to the GO players which were fans during Generation 1 and have a revived interest in Pokemon, but not enough to look for the complicated stuff like 700+ extra creatures, abilities, Megas and what not.

No other region even comes close to the household name that's Pikachu.

The only further Let's Go game I can see being released is Johto, and even that’s not a certainty imo.
By that argument, GO should've just stopped at Gen 2 and not added any of the future generations.
 

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By that argument, GO should've just stopped at Gen 2 and not added any of the future generations.

Go is a game that’s supposed to last. It needs content upgrades to move on, and increasing the amount of creatures to catch in a game where the main gameplay is catching creatures is a way to do that! Who would’ve thought that?

And GO might add more creatures, that doesn’t mean that the general public will know them as well as the Kanto bunch.
Kanto has had a Pokemania and a 20 year+ headstart in that department.

Just go and ask any 10 random people if they know what a Pikachu is vs what an Anorith or Metagross is.
Both are currently in GO and I’m pretty positive more will know what a Pikachu is.
 

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So, two times in a row there is news and we're told to ignore them...Thanks, Game Freak.

The point of Let’s Go was being a non competitive game so I’d not expect a battle frontier anytime soon from that series...

Not all battle facilities have to be competitive-oriented. Actually, they are received better when they aren't. The game wouldn't even end with 5 battles in a row if the general public were scared of them.
By that argument, GO should've just stopped at Gen 2 and not added any of the future generations.
To me, it's clear that Go wanted to avoid the Gen I favoritism, as they included Gen II before the legendaries.
 

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Not all battle facilities have to be competitive-oriented. Actually, they are received better when they aren't. The game wouldn't even end with 5 battles in a row if the general public were scared of them.

I’ve never actually spent time in the battle frontier but isn’t it supposed to be competitive? The people asking for battle frontiers usually coincide with the people asking for challenging battles.

I just don’t see the battle frontier happening in a game which was focusing on a ‘back to basics’ and capturing instead of battling, specially when it was kept out of the actual main series because of children’s ‘low attention spans’.
 

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To me, it's clear that Go wanted to avoid the Gen I favoritism, as they included Gen II before the legendaries.
And people were getting tired of the same Kanto encounters again and again during that time. That’s why Pidgey and ratatta encounters ended for a while with them being egg exclusive.
 
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