Pokémon Scarlet and Violet simply received a brand new trailer, and oh boy — this one is fourteen minutes lengthy. That is quite a bit to dissect, so discover a comfortable chair and make your self a cup of Sinistea as we undergo all the pieces new (and expanded!) on this newest trailer, which you’ll watch right here:
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Every part we observed in Scarlet & Violet’s new trailer
New Pokémon
We’re beginning robust, however small, with the brand new Pokémon that we noticed on this trailer. Just one was formally introduced — Farigiraf, the hard-to-spell evolution of Girafarig, the place the tail has turn out to be the top. Farigiraf additionally comes with new skills… However we’ll discuss these later.
A number of different new Pokémon appeared within the trailer, though we did not get any info like names, sorts, and even what they really seem like. Right here all of them are:
Our guesses on what these are:
- Armarouge’s pre-evolutionary kind
- Some sort of snow-mouse
- A parakeet
- A salt…mushroom…home?
- A spider that is maybe a coin, somehow?
Truthfully, who is aware of.
If you wish to discover out which pre-existing ‘mons are getting added to the Paldean Pokédex, we have added those from this trailer to our ongoing checklist:
Picnics
Pokémon’s ever-evolving makes an attempt to make a Poké-hangout with our ‘mons continues with the brand new Paldean Picnics, that are fairly just like Sword and Protect’s tenting. As an alternative of a static first-person digicam, it seems such as you’ll be in third-person, taking part in ball together with your group to bond with them.
There’s additionally a first-person washing minigame (with a bit of Mareep spoooonge!!!) on your filthy Pokémon, which appears to make them such as you higher. Additionally, makes them clear.
For some cause — it wasn’t defined — there’s an opportunity {that a} Pokémon Egg will seem in your picnic baskets, supplying you with free Pokémon, so long as you do not fry the egg, you monster. Is that this a selected Pokémon that loves laying eggs in baskets, or is it any previous Pokémon? We’ll have to attend to seek out out.
You too can customise your picnics a bit of bit — by altering the tablecloth! Essential.
However one of the best a part of picnics is the meals, after all, and ScaVi replaces Sword & Protect’s curries with Paldea’s sandwiches. It seems like you should purchase sandwich substances like lettuce, tomatoes, and ham (presumably from Lechonk) on the town, after which use these substances to create a sandwich inside a ten minute time restrict (which is a extremely very long time, for those who ask us).
It additionally seems just like the sandwich has actual physics, which means that the arduous half is balancing substances and bread with out all of it falling aside. We are able to see some hilarious physics-related antics occurring right here… and a few actually nasty sandwiches.
The sandwich’s parts dictate how good it’s, and what buffs you get from it — larger EXP charges, higher catch charges for particular sorts, and assist with raid battles are all doable, plus extra that we have now but to see. Love sandwich.
New Pokédex UI
The Pokédex has taken its design cues from Apple Books, it appears, with Pokémon showing extra like books on a shelf than entries in an encyclopaedia. Every Pokémon can have its personal photograph, plus the standard Pokédex stuff of top, weight, animations, and so forth. It is quite a bit prettier, however possibly rather less accessible?
New Skills
Girafarig’s evo, Farigiraf, introduces two new skills to the sport:
- Chew Cud: Permits the Pokémon to eat a berry twice, over two turns
- Armor Tail: Stops opposing Pokémon from utilizing precedence strikes
Armor Tail particularly is a possible game-changer for aggressive play, however we’re to see if gamers can do something cool with Chew Cud, too.
Character Customisation
Pokémon video games proceed to extend the quantity of character customisation that gamers can do, with haircuts and hair colors returning, but additionally eye form, eyelash and eyebrow type, magnificence marks, freckles, colored contacts, lip form, and make-up choices.
As a bonus, it seems like all of those choices are not locked to a selected gender. This not solely means you can create a gender-neutral character if you need, but additionally a genderfluid character that readily switches between a extra female look and a extra masculine one!
Digicam app
We knew in regards to the digicam app, however we received a greater take a look at its capabilities on this trailer. It seems like you’ll be able to take selfies and pictures of individuals and Pokémon, in addition to landscapes and different attention-grabbing phenomena. There are a number of filters you need to use, poses and emotes on your character to do, and one thing to do with eyes — we might guess that it is a “Look Over Right here!” command like Animal Crossing: New Horizons has.
In case you take an image you want, you need to use it as your character’s profile card background. We’re additionally curious if you need to use pics of Pokémon as their Pokédex profile, like in Breath of the Wild.
The TM Machine
We just like the TM Machine. In addition to discovering TMs scattered internationally or shopping for them in outlets, TMs can now be crafted at a Pokémon Heart. Utilizing League Factors and Pokémon supplies, you’ll be able to craft something you may have a recipe for — how we get these recipes, nevertheless, remains to be unknown.
League Factors?
However wait, did you say League Factors? What are League Factors? We’re going to assume for now that they are earned by way of gymnasium battles, however there aren’t a variety of these, so possibly they’re additionally earned by way of common coach battles. Within the newest revamps of the Pokémon anime, Ash and pals have their League rating monitored and up to date by a Rotom Drone each time they battle another person within the Pokémon League, even random trainers, so we might guess it is one thing like that.
Pokémon now drop supplies
You will have observed that the crafting supplies for TMs are Pokémon bits. Don’t fret! These are simply bits that fall off a fainted Pokémon, proper? Like Snom Thread. We do not know what a part of a Snom is thread, nevertheless it would not sound like a physique half! And Shinx Fang, properly… okay, that feels like a physique half. Possibly you simply punched a Shinx so arduous its enamel fell out. Don’t fret about it.
Subject HUD
Whilst you’re within the discipline, the Heads Up Show — the time period for the interface that is on the display, like maps and well being bars — has been redesigned to restrict your view as little as doable. As an alternative of your Pokémon group showing in a separate, full-screen menu, it now seems as a semi-transparent sidebar, permitting you to proceed no matter you are doing whereas checking a Pokémon’s standing.
Mini-map
The mini-map seems prefer it’ll present a variety of helpful information — close by wild Pokémon, pins you can set your self, and the areas of helpful locations like Pokémon Facilities.
There is a menu you can open whereas within the discipline that allows you to entry a number of choices:
- Union Circle
- Tera Raid Battle
- Hyperlink Commerce
- Shock Commerce
- Hyperlink Battle
- Battle Stadium
- Thriller Present
Beforehand, lots of this stuff had been solely accessible from both a selected location (like raid battles) or from the beginning menu (like thriller presents). Now, it seems like all of those options will be accessed wherever you might be!
Offline buying and selling?
We’re prepared to take this one with a pinch of salt, as a result of the sport remains to be in growth, nevertheless it regarded to us like the sport enables you to do a hyperlink commerce in Offline Mode. However sure, this might simply be as a result of the servers aren’t open but.
New information on terastallizing
- There are 18 Tera sorts in complete
- Tera Pokémon have a sort that may not be something to do with their fundamental sorts
- Terastallizing could be out there from the beginning — we see an unevolved Quaxly utilizing it
- Tera Pokémon will be discovered within the wild — they sparkle
- Catching a wild Tera Pokémon is a matter of getting its HP low, at which level it’ll flip again into its fundamental kind
- There are uncommon Tera sorts, which will be present in raid battles
- There is a new transfer known as Tera Blast, which modifications its sort to regardless of the Tera-type is of the Pokémon utilizing it
- Sudowoodo lastly will get to be a grass sort!
Raid battles
Tera raid battles characteristic as much as 4 gamers in a timed combat with a Terastallized Pokémon. Very similar to Sword and Protect’s Dynamaxed battles, these Pokémon are further robust and additional uncommon, with Tera sorts that maybe cannot be discovered within the wild.
In case your Pokémon will get knocked out in these raid battles, don’t fret — they will be revived after 5 seconds, however that could be valuable time misplaced all the identical.
In case your chosen Pokémon is a bit pants, or in case your group wants assist, you’ll be able to select to cheer your allies on as an alternative of creating a transfer. This allows you to improve their Atk and Sp. Atk., their Def. and Sp. Def., or present a full-team heal.
When the battle is over, you and your friends must group as much as catch the Pokémon, as your Poké Balls mix into one huge one — nevertheless it’s not clear who will get it. Possibly all of you?
Titan Pokémon are cowards
We received to see Klawf, the brand new Titan Pokémon, in battle — however he notably scuttled off earlier than being absolutely defeated. Does that imply we’ll should take him on once more in a number of rematches? Most likely!
The Titan Pokémon are a part of the Herba Mystica plotline, known as The Path of Legends. We would not be shocked if it is a bit of extra concerned than simply “beat this huge man and name it a day”.
Day/night time cycle
There is a day-night cycle! We did already know this one, however this trailer confirmed it. No phrase on whether or not it is actual time or not, nevertheless it seems extra dynamic than earlier video games, which caught to a morning/day/night/night time cycle.
Peak variations?
We’re theorised about this for previous trailers, however the stark distinction between the little trainers and the extra normal-sized trainers makes us surprise for those who can select your top within the character customisation. The reason why this could be good — some gamers are kids. Or quick, like among the NL group! The reason why this may not be doable — mapping animations onto two different-sized frames could be fairly troublesome.
Let’s Go! instructions
We received some new information in regards to the Let’s Go command, which helps you to ship off one in every of your Pokémon into the sector to do stuff whilst you do different issues. That features auto-battling wild Pokémon, and choosing up objects — though it looks as if you may nonetheless should micromanage the Pokémon a bit of bit, as a result of it’s a must to really throw them on the merchandise. Which saves you, what, 15 seconds?
New information on Group Star
Group Star — who appear to be the primary villains, not less than that we learn about — have plenty of bases throughout Paldea, every one with a bunch of grunts and a pacesetter. You will be allowed to enter the bottom with the primary three Pokémon in your occasion, however the identify of the bottom might be a clue — just like the Fireplace Squad, for instance, which suggests it’s best to top off on Water sorts.
It seems just like the grunts might be open-field battles, moderately than locked-down enviornment fights; the sport appears to encourage you to make use of the Let’s Go characteristic to combat off waves of low-level grunt Pokémon.
Whenever you’ve defeated all of them, you may unlock the boss — on this case, the boss of Group Star’s Fireplace Squad, Mela — who rides in on a souped-up automotive that we strongly suspect is a Pokémon of some variety.
The trailer mentioned we might have to attend to seek out out extra about these battles, which occur on the automotive, so we have now to imagine that there is some neat twist hidden in amongst all of this.
Graphical compromises
Yyyyyeaaaaahhhh. Sorry.
It seems like ScaVi has some severe graphical compromises that it is needed to do to be able to get the sport working on Change, which is unquestionably preferable to a recreation that punches above its weight and runs poorly.
Even in a trailer, which is often polished up, we are able to see low ranges of element, diminished poly depend on Pokémon even in shut proximity to the participant character, low body charges on issues just like the windmill, and simplistic textures. Is it an issue? That is as much as you to determine. And in addition whoever finally ends up reviewing it for us. In our opinion, it seems higher than Pokémon Legends Arceus did, although.
Some fans have noted that the Japanese trailer doesn’t suffer from many of the same graphical issues, though we are able to nonetheless see low body charges and low-poly animations:
Rotom Telephone can get calls
Ring ring! It is Rotom Telephone. Yep, you may get calls in your Rotom Telephone, a bit like in HeartGold and SoulSilver, the place individuals would name you to ask you for battles, progress the story, or provide you with objects. Cool!
These are all the massive issues we observed — however right here, have a pleasant gallery of another cool screenshots from the trailer that we did not get to make use of already, and see for those who can spot something neat:
Did you discover something new and/or uncommon on this mega-trailer? Are you hyped to max for the sport’s launch on November 18th? Inform us all of your Poképinions within the feedback beneath!