[DS] Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver - All over my face, please

FUCK YES. Gold/Silver/Crystal are the last games in the series that actually sucked me in. Everything since has been decent, and maybe it's just irrational nostalgia kicking in, but I'm so fucking excited for this.

I'm hoping they keep the region from the first games as a post-main-game bonus - that was one of the best features of the originals.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

There's some news! Leaks! Unconfirmed drivel from some Brazilian forum nobody's ever heard of!

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First gameplay footage shows the player's starter following him around. RIVETING. Hope it's not something permanent you have to live with throughout the entire game.

YouTube Video

Here are the (tentative, rumoured, probably mostly bullshit, scraped from all over the place) details so far:

Pokégear's back. Phone and radio are in, along with all the poketch shit from Diamond/Pearl/Platinum.
There are event Pokemon, and they'll have their own special areas (islands?)
Kanto is in, and you can apparently catch its legendaries/starters.
Safari Zone and Cinnabar Island are intact.
Hoenn's starters are available, too.
There's a Battle Frontier.
There's no red Gyarados.
DSi camera functionality.
I will never know the touch of a woman again.
New DSi app (supposedly called "Pokebox") allows you to trade between two games with only one system - presumably by saving to the DSi's internal memory or an SD card.
Honey trees from DPP replace headbutt trees from the original GSC.

Nintendo did say that there'd be future DS games with DSi-only features, so it'd make sense that they'd use one of their flagship franchises to show such stuff off. I'm calling bullshit on the Gyarados point, though; that was one of the most memorable things about the originals. A decade ago, in the run-up to the release of GS, that shit was somehow the talk of lunch break. They'd be mad to leave something so significant out.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Some more tidbits of information have surfaced...

Japanese release date is September 11th of this year.
There's a skateboard - interesting, because it was a feature slated for the original games.
Online functionality plays a bigger part this time around.
FR/LG-style cutscenes will be shown when entering a new area for the first time.
US trademarks have been filed for Pokémon Heart Gold and Pokémon Soul Silver.

Here's a picture of the player characters:



And there's some kind of new event in that one forest (the name of which I forget); it's apparently some kind of movie tie-in or something:



The full scans from corocoro will hit sometime in the next few days.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Full scans from Famitsu:

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Closeups from Corocoro:

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Other new shit gleamed from the rumour mills that are Japanese imageboards (take with a pinch of salt):

- Pokemon in first slot will follow you
- Item menu now allocated to the touch screen
- Possible to assign more than one item hotkey
- Eusine, Crystal, Cynthia, Drake and Giovanni make reappearances
- Expanded storyline involving the red-headed rival from the original games
- All the gyms have been redesigned
- New TMs
- New radio channels
- Trainer house and battle frontier are in
- Pokemon contests are in
- Weather conditions on certain routes, new weather condition "gale"
- Minigames
- "Sky zones", whatever that means
- New forms for pre-existing Pokemon
- Celebi storyline

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?