PMD: Magnagate and the Infinite Labyrinth/Gates to Infinity Discussion Thread

[S.S. Shadow Minun]

Finally, a new PMD game has been revealed, currently in the works. It's ready to be released in winter 2012 in Japanese Domestic Market. And luckily those elemental monkeys will not likely to be starter or partner Pokémon. And yes, Chunsoft managed to make an entirely full storyline instead of split storylines which was used by past 3 versions of PMD series, so there's no version-exclusives. But if player's team consists of Snivy and Tepig??? I think they will fight themselves because according to Chinese Zodiac, snakes should avoid pigs (or boars). Their final evo form, Serperior and Emboar, could make violent scenes similar to Zangoose and Seviper.

Pikachu is pretty much the worst pokemon ever. Give us some goddamn variety, ChunSoft.

Do you really want a Pikachu ripoff or other starters???

[Elec-boy]

Earlier, the first images of this month's CoroCoro were revealed, showing the preview page for next month's issue. Here's the image:

http://serebii.net/corocoro11preview.jpg

As you can see, there are 3D models of Pikachu, Axew, Umbreon, Espeon, and Virizion. What this could be is anybody's guess, but I'm leaning towards Stadium 3 / a sequel to Colosseum or XD: Gales of Darkness, due to the Espeon and Umbreon in the image. Another possible game would be a 3D version of Mystery Dungeon.

What are your thoughts on this?

This PMD is going to be awesome! I can finally control Archeops and Zekrom! ^_^

[Fair Verona]

It's so pretty!!! And I don't think we are required to play as Pikachu. The colorful screen looked like it was the ending of the quiz, but we'll need a translation to be sure. That being said, I am so excited for this game!

[Pidgeot]

So the starters are Pikachu, Axew, Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott? Bravo, Chunsoft, bravo! Get rid of all the Gen I - IV Starters but still keep in that annoying yellow rat? Bravo!

...

But seriously, what were they thinking? Is it really too much to ask for to have all the Starters, as well as Pikachu, Eevee, Munchlax, etc? Is that really too many Pokemon? Because that was never a problem with the other MD games.

[Miar]

Oh thank Arceus. I sold my copy of Sky a month ago. I'd been hoping for a PMD4 for a long time now (MD3 was on WiiWare, and I'm... not really all that disappointed it never got released worldwide)
And it looks amazing too, compared to the GBA graphics from 1/2 and the ugly bobble-head Pokémon in 3.

Only five choices to start with (and most players'll certainly want Axew for type advantage).
I was hoping Zorua would be a starter choice, but if they're easy to recruit that works too.

Magnagate is a neat use of AR, but what does it serve? Are there Pokémon and items you can only find in your cup/clock/globe/etc. or something?

[Infinity Mk-II]

Hm, actually, that Zorua is 100% certainly not a starter worries me. Zorua is the Riolu of Gen V in a way, so it not being included might mean the choices REALLY are just Pikachu/Axew/Starters...

Not to mention I'm surprised Axew suddenly has priority over Zorua. I expected it to be an starter choice, sure, but not that its popularity would grow so much through its anime promotion.

On the other had, Riolu wasn't in Time and Darkness either.

[Mitch Chesman]

Good god is this game beautiful. The detail is great, and while the simplicity does show off at some points, I think this step is great. Also, the release date and the platform show that this is gonna be a bridge towards the next gen, and perhaps genesect's 3DS surprise...

[Isaac Gravity]

Now that a trailer appeared and smoothed some things out I gotta admit, it's pretty interesting. They really went out of their way to make the 3D models and backgrounds as colorful and animated as they appeared in the previous MDs (but I'm happy they stuck with drawn face portraits since close-ups with the 3D models are just plain distracting).

Still, one of the main draws of the MD games was to have your absolute favorite starters (and one off extras) as your MC and Partner. Me not being the biggest fan of the present MC/Partner setup only deepens those "doesn't sit well with me" feelings but I'm willing to sit quietly on the fence and wait for more information before saying anything.

[uhhhhh]

Interesting... according to Serebii we have to take a picture of ourselves with the 3DS to determine our starter this time. If that's the case then that WAS the partner selection screen which is weird since there's only five starters so far and unless they're going to let us have two pikachus or something, there should be one pokemon missing from the choices which would be your starter.

[Pokeparadox]

I'm pretty much waiting for a new Pokemon Ranger!

[L-05308]

I'm skeptical that we must start as Pikachu, I reckon more will be revealed.

The personality quiz they did for the other two games was a great system, I doubt they would drop it

[TaiChiChasers]

I hope we get at least 8 choices of Pokémon to be.

[Infinity Mk-II]

Interesting... according to Serebii we have to take a picture of ourselves with the 3DS to determine our starter this time.

... what.

It certanly would explain the small starter selection, though.

Still. Wow. I hope isn't that.

[S.S. Shadow Minun]

The personality quiz they did for the other two games was a great system, I doubt they would drop it

That personality quiz would be difficult so I hope it'll be replaced with Pokémon selection screens (similar to Tekken series or Street Fighter series). And yes, I would like to see Pokémon dressups (similar to BW and B2W2, but including weapons including bazookas) in this game.

I hope we get at least 8 choices of Pokémon to be.

I think there will be over 10 choices, including starters of past generations, more Pikachu ripoffs, or other Pokémon such as Minccino, Emolga, Buneary, Skitty or Turtwig.

[Garuru]

Do you really want a Pikachu ripoff or other starters???

Yes. Pikachu ripoffs are at least not Pikachu. And, well, I don't care much for other starters, but it'd be nice to have them anyways, just for the sake of posterity (and also feraligatr).