Thread: May issue of CoroCoro magazine leaked: Plethora of information revealed

May issue of CoroCoro magazine leaked: Plethora of information revealed

A plethora of information regarding Pokémon Black and White Versions 2 has been revealed in leaked photos of pages from CoroCoro Comics magazine. New player characters, NPCs, Gym Leaders, locations, and major changes from Pokémon Black and White like the time difference and Pokédex are only some of the things revealed.

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I LOVE IT ALL!!! Come on June! Come faster!!

I'm feeling a little...overwhelmed. At least the kid with the 'fro is the rival and not a player character. "Researching strength"...Akuroma sounds like Cheren.

Still no word on Kyurem's typing?

Oh yes, "Lapra" should be "Lapras", BTW.

Originally Posted by Shiny Porygon

Still no word on Kyurem's typing?

It's been confirmed that Kyurem will keep its typing while in overdrive.

Originally Posted by Secretive Trainer

Originally Posted by Shiny Porygon

Still no word on Kyurem's typing?

It's been confirmed that Kyurem will keep its typing while in overdrive.

Aw no, did I miss that?

The female player character has her legs covered for the first time. Sort of, if tights count. This would be due to the encroaching ice cap. So...Unova's like Sinnoh in Platinum.

WOW! Did anyone see any of this coming?

Okay, not a big fan of the new protagonists... The new rival seems interesting though.

2 years in the future? Interesting, seeing as these games are called Black 2 and White 2.

New gym leaders? Again, interesting... I had a feeling that there would be some changes to the gym leaders, but new ones altogether? Wow!

And the region! BIG DIFFERENCE! It looks like most of Unova is covered in ice! And adding a new city? They've never done that before!

I'm excited! I can't wait for these games to come out!

Whoa...

I think Generation 5 wins the "Most Different-y, Generation that Went Against Most of The Established Patterns" Award... or something.
SO MANY DIFFERENT-Y THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT. And really cool! I like the new player characters, the new Professor is pretty ultra-modern looking. The Unova regions gone through some intriguing changes, I like all this.
Does this mean we're getting a whole new 8 Gym Leaders, or are just 2 or 3 of them changing?? This is gonna be very interesting to play through.
This really makes me excited about the games, but also about where the series is gonna go from here. This is only half-way through Gen 5, so what will Gen 6 bring?!

I also did a double take at the mention of "300 previously seen Pokemon are now found in Unova pre-Nat. Dex." I mean... What? So we'll have about 350 or so Pokemon to choose from to make up our play-through teams this time? Definitely requires a bit more thinking time. :P

But all in all... THIS, GAMEFREAK. This is a step in the right direction, 100% approve, do more of these things!!

I'll admit, I'd been quite pessimistic about B2W2, and until this news I was still just expecting a third version. This shows that it is actually an entirely new game. Happy we actually have some info about them now. Anyway, it seems like this ice is going to be a major plot device, like Mt. Coronet in DPPt.

Originally Posted by jokool

2 years in the future? Interesting, seeing as these games are called Black 2 and White 2.

It also matches the real-world time difference between the release of BW and B2W2 (in Japan).



I'd like to throw a big thank you out to all the staff who helped get this news out. I was the one in the middle putting everything into an article while being bombarded with information from 4 at once, but Archaic was the one who did the translations (with some done by Umeko), Masatoshi and Sol worked on comparing B2W2 Unova with BW Unova to get all those differences listed in the article, Werdnae helped out by uploading the magazine scans and images of individual characters/locations, and various other staff helped notice other things in the images (like identifying all the non-Unova Pokémon in the scans). These kind of articles require a great deal of work to make sure they are both accurate and complete, so I greatly thank everyone who helped put this together.

The female player character has her legs covered for the first time. Sort of, if tights count. This would be due to the encroaching ice cap. So...Unova's like Sinnoh in Platinum.

However, if we ignore the tights, you know... can that miniskirt get any shorter? (Yes, yes it can, but)


Anyways. 300 added Pokemon in the Dex... so that makes up for like 450? I just hope they really ramped up the rather lacking difficulty though, so there's at least a point in trying to make a team out of sub-par Pokemon. :P

Everyone's wearing tights for some reason. Even the male character. And I'm telling you all, this is a tan line. His feet are white, and notice that the border between the two complexions don't have a solid line dividing it suggesting it just changes and isn't an article of clothing. HOW DOES HE HAVE A TAN LINE LIKE THAT WHEN HE ALWAYS WALKS AROUND SHIRTLESS.

I dare say, combined with the new male characters' hair, Akuroma's hair, and Shizui's tan lines, BW2 may have the worst fashion sense in the history of Pokemon.

Originally Posted by The Outrage

Everyone's wearing tights for some reason. Even the male character. And I'm telling you all, this is a tan line. His feet are white, and notice that the border between the two complexions don't have a solid line dividing it suggesting it just changes? HOW DOES HE HAVE A TAN LINE LIKE THAT WHEN HE ALWAYS WALKS AROUND SHIRTLESS.

I dare say, combined with the new male characters' hair, Akuroma's hair, and Shizui's tan lines, BW2 may have the worst fashion sense in the history of Pokemon.

WHAT?! THE HAIR'S BRILLIANT!!!! It's all big and quirky and unusual!

I guess they get points in that we know its actually hair, unlike with Brendan and Thorton. Professor's kind of creepy too.

Originally Posted by Bittersweet

Does this mean we're getting a whole new 8 Gym Leaders, or are just 2 or 3 of them changing?? This is gonna be very interesting to play through.

Right now it looks like the Striaton brothers and Lenora are no longer Gym Leaders due to their cities being enveloped in ice, and these two new leaders replace them. Also, if Cress is still a leader that would make two Water-type Gym Leaders at once (unacceptable). However, I would guess the other 6 leaders do not change; it will be interesting to see what happens with Iris/Drayden.


Anyway, there is a 99% that Akuroma is a villain. Whether he is Team Plasma or not however...

And 300 more Pokémon in the regional dex is a bit excessive. I mean, bringing it up to 300 I would understand, but adding 300? Not entirely sure how that's going to work. I also wonder if Victini is still #000.

Something else: since now generations do not correspond to timelines, we're going to need to start giving names to our four different time periods.

What does Overdrive do? It seems from the animation that it has something to do with the signatures but I'm not sure. I'm guessing that it eliminates the charge time hopefully.

Anyways, so glad that we finally got Coro Coro and info on BW2 finally. People were losing it when deprived of info.

Originally Posted by SnorlaxMonster

Anyway, there is a 99% that Akuroma is a villain. Whether he is Team Plasma or not however...

While the prospect is interesting, what makes you so certain? His field of research with regards to latent abilities of pokemon, while seeming to hint at Hidden Abilities, could also play a role in Overdrive status if this was the case.

Something else: since now generations do not correspond to timelines, we're going to need to start giving names to our four different time periods.

Given that no other games correspond to this generation, I don't see how that's a problem DPPt/HgSs at least spans a few months, and Colo/XD spanned 5 years and the events of FrLg and RSE occuring at indeterminate times from each other. If this is truly a sequel, simply calling it the BW era wouldn't cause much of a problem since all the other designations refer to a broader range of time.

Really, we'll only have a problem if Gen VI takes place in between BW and BW2, and another game in Gen VI takes place in RSE time.

I do like how we can no longer make the assumption that all games within a generation are contemporary to each other though.