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BREAKING: @Pokemon may be preparing to abandon turn-based battles after 30 years 🤯
For 30 years, turn-based combat was one of the defining rules of every mainline Pokémon game.
Then Pokémon Legends: Z-A became the first to replace it with real-time battles.
Now Pokémon Champions director Kazumasa Iwao says the traditional system may “gradually start changing” as the series moves forward.
Game Freak had a big problem.
Some players have spent decades mastering these battles, going all the way back to Red/Green and Gold/Silver. The studio did not want to eventually tell them that the rules had changed and they simply had to move on.
So it separated the classic battle system from the main series.
Champions was created as one permanent game where traditional Pokémon battles can continue indefinitely. It has already become the official software for competitive Pokémon going forward, regardless of which mainline game comes next.
This does not confirm that Winds and Waves will abandon turn-based combat. But Game Freak has now given itself the freedom to do exactly that without destroying the system it would leave behind.
I am an OG Pokémon maxi and I have a hard time feeling that Pokémon would still feel like Pokémon without turns. But I do understand that things have to move on, eventually 😭
For 30 years, turn-based combat was one of the defining rules of every mainline Pokémon game.
Then Pokémon Legends: Z-A became the first to replace it with real-time battles.
Now Pokémon Champions director Kazumasa Iwao says the traditional system may “gradually start changing” as the series moves forward.
Game Freak had a big problem.
Some players have spent decades mastering these battles, going all the way back to Red/Green and Gold/Silver. The studio did not want to eventually tell them that the rules had changed and they simply had to move on.
So it separated the classic battle system from the main series.
Champions was created as one permanent game where traditional Pokémon battles can continue indefinitely. It has already become the official software for competitive Pokémon going forward, regardless of which mainline game comes next.
This does not confirm that Winds and Waves will abandon turn-based combat. But Game Freak has now given itself the freedom to do exactly that without destroying the system it would leave behind.
I am an OG Pokémon maxi and I have a hard time feeling that Pokémon would still feel like Pokémon without turns. But I do understand that things have to move on, eventually 😭
BREAKING: Pokémon has officially lost control of its biggest set of the decade.
The 30th Anniversary set does not release until September 16. However, people have already been opening it for weeks and selling the cards/flexing sealed products online.
Now eBay is deleting listings under its Stolen Property Policy after TPCi confirmed that no 30th Anniversary product has been distributed through authorized channels.
Translation: if you already own one, Pokémon would also love to know how.
Team Rocket has apparently moved into Pokémon distribution 😂
The 30th Anniversary set does not release until September 16. However, people have already been opening it for weeks and selling the cards/flexing sealed products online.
Now eBay is deleting listings under its Stolen Property Policy after TPCi confirmed that no 30th Anniversary product has been distributed through authorized channels.
Translation: if you already own one, Pokémon would also love to know how.
Team Rocket has apparently moved into Pokémon distribution 😂
