I discovered earlier this year, that within autumn, new games Pokémon Black and Pokémon White would be released within Japan. Having been overly pleased with the recent release of Nintendo's remake of Pokémon Silver & Gold - Soul Silver & Heart Gold - I was very excited at the idea of a new game. However, I then remembered Pokémon Diamond & Pearl. These two games were utter let downs for myself and my sister, so it is likely that a 5th generation of Pokémon will be equally as terrible. Here is my overview of my current 'research'.
Today I decided to check if any of the upcoming Pokémon had been revealed. I had previously seen the new Pokémon, Zorua and Zoruark, and was pleasantly surprised with them, but upon seeing the newly revealed starter and legendary Pokémon I was thoroughly disappointed. I never have really took a shine to any of the starter Pokémon so I wasn't expecting to be overly pleased, but come on! Grass starter - snake Pokémon - with arms and legs? What kind of snake has arms and legs?! Fire starter - pig Pokémon - has long ears. Not too bad, but still not meeting expectations. Water starter - otter Pokémon - big nose, frown, and freckles. I don't have anything against big noses or freckles - frowns I do dislike however - but when ones freckles are level with ones mouth and ones nose is level with ones eyes it does look a tad silly; also, I am pretty sure otters do not have perfectly round heads. The three starter Pokémon can be seen below.
The legendary Pokémon of Pokémon White is a large, black, Dragon-Robot-Demon-type-thingy (see top-left of this post). It's quite cool looking actually, but it does not look like a typical Pokémon, much like Arceus, Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina did not from Pokémon Diamond, Pearl & Platinum. There is far too much detail, making it look like it was taken from Digimon, or some other anime, rather than Pokémon.
Mmm, I can smell my dinner.... *is hungry*
The Legendary for Pokémon Black is white (see right), I guess this is so that the Pokémon can actually be located on the box xD Unlike the legendary for Pokémon White, it looks AWFUL. It looks like a glorified feather duster! Terrible! I was horrified when I laid my eyes upon it! And what is that between it's legs? Oh dear...
Okay, sorry, anyone reading this blog probably thinks I'm really negative! I'm not, I'm really not. I'm still looking forwards to the release, which I believe, for Europe, will be within Spring next year; I expect I shall request Pokémon White for my birthday. I just thought it was noteworthy of how much the Pokémon franchise has really overstretched itself, and quality is dropping as a result.
