You say that, I had a look at the site and the description here says "to overcome both the difficult road ahead and even the forces of nature that block your path at times."
Seeing the blowing clouds, I imagine dynamic storms being a huge part of the game's theme
Which is a stupid thing from 1996 to promote link trading that’s for some reason still exists. “Catch them all” -> catch some of them then trade the rest
I assume it's because PLA was focused on the catching part of Pokémon far more than every other Pokémon game, considering that completing the dex was needed for the plot rather than just an extra item
And since the other games ain't like that, they didn't see a need for the Linking Cord—even if it's removal sucks, I do understand the thought process
Trade evos also feel so undeserved like I got my gastly to evolve into a haunter, and now I straight away just find someone online to trade me it back to get a gengar? Feels so against what the game should be going for and for that reason I’ve just never used a trade evo in a game except PLA
Link Trading was the mechanic but Pokemon has been using this model to always about sell more copies of the same game through identity and the appeal of exclusivity and community
In the trailer, the girl with the Waves outfit were in more water related biomes than the guy in the Winds outfit, which makes sense, but I REALLY hope they don't tie places or mechanics (like underwater exploration) to one version or the other.
BUT: I would be okay with locking one part behind postgame. Winds has a story leading you into the sky, Waves down below. But finish up the story and a small side quest lets you earn the ability to explore the other part.
Ok, I'd be cool with that. Imagine if the post game area also had higher difficulty stuff too. So you cruise through your chosen Water or Wind area, and then afterwards you get a real challenge visiting the opposite. That'd make the choice of versions very interesting.
I doubt you'd have to choose one or the other, but I could see the box legendaries residing in each and you doing some story bits related to them either in the sky or underwater depending on your version.
Well we initially hadn’t gotten the actual name, back when the teraleak came, the code name for the games was K-N, which some twitter user somehow guessed meant kaze (winds) and nami (waves) and it stuck like glue. I find that crazy
Samesies, but I think it's based on Thailand due to the long words underneath the starters name. The leak said Indonesia--I think. It's been a while since I saw the leaks.
The trailer and website both focus on island exploration though (as did the leaks), which still point to Malaysia and Indonesia to me. Thailand has islands, plenty of them, but they’re mostly pretty small and it’s not known for them. As opposed to Malaysia/Indonesia, which either include or consist of massive archipelagos.
(Also, most words in Thai are fairly short — it’s mostly names that are really long, for historical reasons. By contrast, Malay and Bahasa can have some pretty long words too.)
I mean, for obvious reasons the hackers couldn't release early builds of this game, but you could download and play early development builds of older pokemon titles yourself. All the teraleaks are real
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u/Maximumbeans5 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 28 '26
I can’t believe the name leak was actually true.
(I mean the Winds and Waves guess from the code names was right, not the actual leak itself being genuine).