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Wakaba Town! The Town Where Winds of New Beginnings Blow! / 'Pocket Monsters HeartGold - SoulSilver' Pre-Launch Special!! / PokéSun Company VS the God of Games - A Dream Showdown with Masuda-san at Pokéthlon!
The rerun serial "Pokémon Selection" debuted a new theme, "Journeys and Meetings in the Jouto Region", with today's episode showing the gang arriving in Jouto, meeting professor Utsugi, and learning about the local starter Pokémon.
In today's episode of Pokémon Sunday, Jun'ichi Masuda (増田順一) was on to deliver copies of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver to the set. Director Golgo played through the opening of the game as the crew commented.
Below is a list of new features in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver that were announced or featured in today's episode.
The game features wind. Objects like windmills are affected by the wind.
The name Kotone (コトネ) was confirmed for the female player character.
Trainers have in-battle comments
Jun'ichi Masuda (増田順一) hinted that the Pikachu flying with balloons in the Yellow Forest poster was related to the special move.
Catch Saucer (キャッチソーサー) - A Pokethlon event where a bunch of Pokemon jump around on the bottom screen waiting to catch the incoming Saucers.
Steal Flag (スティールフラッグ) - A Pokethlon event where multiple flags appear and players try to get as many flags as possible.
No new Melee! Pokemon Scramble codes were announced today.
While I'm not as hugely interested in every minor detail revealed about HGSS as certain other people, I found this playthrough of the first areas of the game rather interesting. Sure it's not overly different from the originals, but there's still enough new things there to make it a good preview. The new Pokethlon events introduced also looked very fun, and the rerun episode is a great example of an episode that manages to make a lot out of what little plot it had with tons of funny moments all the way through.
Excellent episode.
In a way, I didn't like how much they went through the intro of the game. That was a bit too much of a spoiler in my opinion. I wish they just sticked to features rather than a walkthrough. The new Pokethlon events do look quite good.