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Unova – Accumula Town

By Matt

In the Unova region, Accumula Town is the first town you will encounter. If you can remember from the first few minutes you spent playing, you, Bianca and Cheren caught their first Pokemon in Route 1. There was also a small contest to catch Pokemon if you can remember that precisely. When you walked up to Accumula Town, you would see Team Plasma for the first time announcing their plan to make a better world by having all Trainers release their Pokemon.

The basics of the game are also covered in this town. Professor Juniper teaches you how to use the Pokemon Center to heal your Pokemon, and the functions of the Poke Mart. As part of the storyline, when you walk outside the Pokemon Center, you will meet N for the first time. He is still a vague character who claims he has the ability to see the bond between you and your Pokemon. It’s a very short battle that can be easily won if you have some backup Pokemon you caught in Route 1.

To the south of Accumula Town is Route 1 as well as your home, Nuvema Town. The west is a gate; follow it and after a few patches of grass, you will reach Striaton City, where you can find and battle the first Gym Leaders in Unova. Like Viridian City or Cherrygrove City, this town can be considered a warm-up town because of little Trainer challenges and its lack of activity. Each of the buildings feature people who will tell you some rookie tips, which are unnecessary for the Pokemon veterans. Also, everyone you talk to will either mention how relaxed and at ease they feel or some more Trainer tips; this town hides, unlike most Unova towns. On the topic of aesthetics, you will notice that there is a soft music in the area, which can only be disturbed by riding your Bicycle.

Like Castelia City, you can alter the music, but not entirely. The first time I entered the house, I didn’t realize that the theme had been altered. It is located north of the Pokemon Center on a hill. Once you go inside, you will find a girl pianist and a guy drummer. You can ask them to play their instrument if you want a slight change in the soft tones of the theme. If you talk to them again, it will say that they are concentrating on their performance. You will soon find that the theme has changed, adding his or her instrument. I haven’t tried this, but if you exit and return to Accumula Town, the theme might be reverted, allowing you to mix with the instruments a little. Regardless of the lack of activity here, Accumula Town is a great place to wind down if one is a real Trainer.

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Pokemon Global Link – Interactions With Other Players

By Matt

The Global Link has quite a few ways in which you can communicate with other players. In order to keep everything clean, though, sending direct messages through text is not possible. That means even a single message with free-floating words cannot go through, since any message with vulgarities or insults won’t suit the peacefulness and serenity of the Pokemon environment. How you want to communicate depends on who you want to talk to.

In your profile page of the Global Link, there are your Trade Pals next to your Pal Pad friends who have also made a Global Link account. Next to their icon symbolizing their relation to you, there is a button that says, “Send E-Z Mail”. E-Z Mail is a feature where you can pick a prearranged message and insert your own words into it, which are also provided. The selection is kind of limited, which explains why people don’t use it too much, especially between strangers, like Trade Pals.

The other way of indirect communication appears through the Dream World. It is very tough to find your Friends or Trade Pals, since there are about 1 million accounts made in the Global Link. Finding them is slim to none; the odds are even worse than finding a Shiny legendary Pokemon without hacking. But it’s a good thing to make use of what you have; whoever you can find will make a good friend as long as they are active players. By helping them with their world, they can be notified of it and help you with yours, thus making things easier for you and lessening the times you have to go back on. For example, you can help water someone’s Berry garden if it’s becoming dry and earn a few Dream Points on the side, which can help unlock new maps or Pokemon found in there. If there’s a Berry that’s been eluding you, you can check from people anywhere around the world, since in the Dream World Map, there is always a house of one random person with a different Share Shelf each time; they will also be notified if you trade items with them. One more interaction with others is by visiting their house.

You can also see the kinds of Dream World Furniture people place in their houses. In Japan, some items are released early, like the Unova starter Pokedolls, so you can prepare yourself for them. When you enter their house, your Pokemon will leave a mark (if they have a footprint) on the other player’s Footprint Mat. The most recent footprints will show on the Footprint Mat, while all people that have visited can be archived in the “See More” section. If you keep running around, doing favors for everyone, you’re sure to get favors returned, and be sure to add people as your Dream Pals periodically. They can help on a daily basis, and you never know when you will need that help for more Berries or a different item.

 

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Review Of Pokemon Black And White

By TokoyamiTheDark

Pokemon Black and White are the newest trend in the Pokemon franchise and the games are just as great as the other generations. There are a few things I really like about this game, but we’ll talk about that later. The game begins with Professor Juniper giving a gift to you, Bianca and Cheren. The gift are the 5th Generation starters ; Snivy, the Grass Snake Pokemon, Tepig, the Fire Pig Pokemon and Oshawott, the Sea Otter Pokemon. Bianca always takes the starter who’s weak to yours while Cheren takes the one who has an advantage over yours. If you want to know the rest, then buy the games! As I said earlier, there are things I really like about the 5th Generation, and here’s a few of those things I’m delighted to have in Black and White :

– No Safari Zone : These areas are so annoying, you can’t even send your Pokemon to battle them. However, it has been completely removed from Black and White, making filling the Pokedex easier and with more fun.

– Critical Capture : Another new thing added to the 5th Gen is a mechanic called the Critical Capture. This is really helpful, exept if the Pokemon has a low catch rate. If the catch rate is 45 of below, it WILL break free of the ball, no matter what. However, there have been reports of Critical Captures still failing on Pokemon with the easiest catch rate, HP in red zone and affected by a status ailment on websites like YouTube. It CAN happen, as it happened to me once with a Whismur in the White Forest, but you really need to be unlucky for this to happen.

– Re-usable TMs and HMs : THIS is probably the best thing ever added in Black and White. In any other generations, TMs disappears once you use them, but in Black and White, they can be used indefinitely!!! No more worries of teaching a TM to the wrong Pokemon, as you can use it over and over again. It’s like if they have been converted into HMs, but moves are still erasale without the Move Deleter, unlike HMs.

– Dream World : A new online feature that happens not on the Nintendo DS, but rather on the Internet! This new feature requires an account, however, but it’s really easy and fast to create one. You can get items, befriend a Pokemon with a different ability than usual, play games, download C-Gear skins and more!

Pokemon Black and White are games that any audiences may enjoy, as they are fun, challenging, complex, and the game also change along with the seasons, where two Pokemon, Deerling and Sawsbuck, changes form when the seasons changes. I bought the White Version the same day it was released, but I first imported the Black version from Japan so I could get a taste of what’s the new generation of Pokemon. Well, have fun playing these games!!!

 

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Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Series Review

By TokoyamiTheDark

I was really disappointed when I first received Pokemon Mystery Dungeon : Blue Rescue Team along with a Nintendo DS Lite, because those games are too tough, even for a hardcore player. Simply, what I am talking about? First off, these games were not made by Nintendo, but by a third-party company named ChunSoft. There are various reasons why I loathe the series so much, and I thought I would share my thoughts with you. So, here we go.

– Difficulty at the beginning of the game : Hard to believe, but the game’s very tough, even on the beginning when you’ve got to rescue a Caterpie, then a Magnemite. Face it; Magnemite’s rescue is so tough, because if any of you or your partner gets KOed, you get nothing but a big, fat GAME OVER screen, lose ALL items, ALL money and ALL EXP. Gained!!! What the … !? I couldn’t bypass this level without cheating, by the way… And let’s not even get started on Monster Houses…

– No selection of Starters : In any Pokemon game, you get to choose which Pokemon you wanna use, but in the Rescue Team games, ChunSoft decided to do it in ‘their’ manner, a stupid quiz about yourself. And they even ask you to be ‘honest’. If you are honest, you’ll wind up with the same Pokemon forever and ever after finishing the quiz. There are guides to help you to have the right starter, though.

– No evolutions : Sadly, there’s no way of making Pokemon evolve in those games, and even recruiting an evolved Pokemon won’t make it stronger than its pre evolved form. For example, a Graveler and a Geodude will have the same stats. Really. This has to be the MOST disappointing thing in those games, but there’s still something even worse…

– Recruiting Pokemon : Very tough to do, as you must leave the dungeon with the newly recruited Pokemon along with you, No fainting, no Escape Orbs! This is really annoying when you’re in a dungeon with many floors, like the 99 floors ones. But the most annoying of all is Kecleon, in which you must steal from his shop to recruit it. But, you only have a chance of 1 of 1000 to recruit one! And since they’re so powerful, you’d be mostly killed before even recruiting one! It’s been almost six years, and I still haven’t recruited any Kecleon. My opinion is, that the recruit is actually impossible, as all videos shown were people cheating with Game Sharks, Action Replays and such cheating devices. For me, the way to obtain them is obvious ; cheat.

Those Pokemon games are so bad, they goes into the same category as games like Mario Is Missing (where Luigi is called ‘Weegee’) or Mario’s Time Machine (Mario’s called ‘Malleo’), made by Phillips in 1993. Well, I really don’t like those games, and that’s my opinion about them. I’d rather play REAL Pokemon games than spin-offs, since they are most likely unrelated to the main series…

 

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Pokemon Attack And Natures #4

By Harry Ackerman

First off starting this article I will only be talking about 3 Pokemon instead of 4 in each article I make, because first of all with that much I need to do I feel really burned out whenever I finish one, which then takes me a while to make another, and often takes a lot of the fun out of writing them. Second of all with 4 Pokemon per article the word count has been going far over 1000 every time so there is plenty of room for a small cut back, and more articles with a slightly lower amount of words each would make everyone a bit happier. 🙂

I’ll still do articles with 4 Pokemon on the rare occasion that some how writing about only 3 makes me short on words (under 700), or sometimes for special “exclusive” articles. 🙂

Now back to the actual article, as usual I’ll be talking about good natures for your Pokemon to have if it doesn’t have that one specific best nature recommended by someone, what some bad natures could be, and some good attacks (in my opinion at least) for them to know.

I also thought I should state that 99% of the information I put in my articles is based around the 5th generation Pokemon games (Black and White version). A lot of it could probably be used in previous versions but might not be 100% compatible with the workings of the older games (for example, learn-able moves, TMs , etc).

This time I shall talk about Luxray, Lapras, and Typhlosion. 🙂

Starting off Luxray! 🙂

Almost all the attacks Luxray can learn are physical moves and all but one of them it learns while leveling up are physical attacks, so physical attack raising nature would be the best. Especially because Luxray has base Attack of 120 which is pretty impressive if you ask me. The best stat of Luxray’s to be lowered by a nature would probably be Special Attack since you’re going to be using only physical attacks. If you can’t manage to get the nature that raises Attack and lowers Special Attack (the Adamant nature) then Speed would be a good second choice stat to lower. 🙂
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Pokemon Black And White: The Abyssal Ruins

By Matt

The Abyssal Ruins are located in a remote region in the sea. Being only in the Unova region, it is a place located east of Undella Town. To access this mysterious place, you need Pokemon that have learned the HMs Surf and Dive. During your journey, you will receive the HM Surf from Alder before reaching Twist Mountain. Dive can easily be obtained by talking to the Lady sprite in front of the houses. She will tell you that it’s a move used for dark spots in the water and it accesses the deepest parts of the ocean. Once you’re ready, you can use Surf and look for a dark circle in the water. It is about three tiles across; when you get there, press A. After your descent, you can see a huge building in the middle of the ocean.

Proceed to enter the building, and you will find that it’s not as empty as many would think it is. The strange part about it is that it has managed to stay intact all these years. There’s something about it that makes it haunted; you’ll find it out right after you take your first step inside. It says that you will hear a click. There’s something suspicious about it: every hundred steps you take, there will be the sound again, repeating itself, but getting louder. After you take five hundred steps, there will be a huge torrent of water overwhelming your Trainer sprite and the game ends – I mean, take you back to the spot you were before. Keep in mind that there are four different entrances to the Ruins. I usually take the north entrance, since it is most convenient.

The Ruins is a complex maze divided into four floors. Once you find your way to the second floor, a pillar will move out of the way, granting you access. The same will go for the next floor, except that you will need a Pokemon with the move Flash. Strange, but this will let you proceed. Finally, on the third floor, you need Strength to move the pillar out of the way and get to the final floor. This holds the rarest item which can be sold for 300,000 Poke Dollars: the Relic Crown. Each floor has unique items increasing in rarity: the first floor has elemental plates most notable for changing Arceus’ form, the second and third, Relic collectibles for selling to the collector at the Riches’ villa.

After you’ve found a map online, you can spend as much time as you want searching to get every item in there. The collectibles are worth almost 2 million Poke Dollars, so you could really profit and spend it any way you want. The mystery of the hieroglyphics still must be solved, though. Some players have deciphered it through Caesar cipher, which is a complicated term that shifts letters either up or down one position in the alphabet. They found that the letters were moved sideways, and the trend goes from one position to two and even three in the successive floors. Eventually, I believe players will be curious or mad enough to solve the mystery of the Abyssal Ruins.

 

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Pokemon Global Link – Eevee’s Evolutions Event

By Matt

The Pokemon Global Link has featured one event that allows you to get a new Pokemon. This is the only one so far, so expect more to come in the future. Starting in around April, the Global Link had launched a promotion for the dedicated players who signed up when it opened. The event started around April, and ended May 19th, 2011. Specifically, the game that had to be played in order to obtain the Pokemon ended on that date.

It was very exclusive, seeing as the time to encounter it in the Dream World was about one month later, and one couldn’t play the game once the event ended. The game was called “To Befriend a Pokemon”, and its concept was very simple. Like a few games on the Pokemon Trainer Zone site, this game’s build was similar to that of Brick Breaker. The objective is simply to break the tiles with the ball provided. You can control a small platform at the bottom to let the ball bounce of when it reached the bottom. Once all the tiles from a certain stage are cleared, one can proceed to the next stage; this process continues to the last stage, which is the fifth.

Instead of just a plain game of Brick Breaker, there were a couple of modifications to the simple concept of just watching a ball bounce of surfaces. Like many alterations to the spin-offs today, there is a Pokemon-themed twist to this game. My memory of this game has faded, since it is a very exclusive game, but I’ll do my best to remember everything. Along with the tiles came spheres that were colored with a certain element. The element is restricted to a certain element of any one of Eevee’s evolutions: Water, Electric, Fire, Psychic, Dark, Grass, and Ice.

When you hit it, you would get extra points. The hidden mechanic here is that the most spheres you hit will get you that element of Eevee’s evolution, so keep that in mind. Each stage doesn’t feature every element; the first stages feature the Kanto evolutions, followed by the Johto evolutions, and, finally, the Sinnoh evolutions. And the game could be played with multiple times in order to get the evolution you wanted. Some might be thinking it isn’t a big deal, but these evolutions are extremely rare in that they have the featured Hidden Ability for their species. Plus, they are male, and if you know a lot about breeding, it means that their Ability can not be passed on. Once you send them via Entralink, you will find them at level 10 in the Entrée Forest. Their nature is completely random, but their moves are basic, much like a newly hatched Eevee. You can catch it at a 100% rate with any ball, so you could make it themed if you want to. I’m looking forward to much more exclusive Pokemon releases in the future.

 

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Pokemon Attacks And Natures #3

By Harry Ackerman

I decided to make this one a 5th generation exclusive article, so all 4 Pokemon I cover in this article will be from the new 5th generation. 🙂 In case you’re wondering I will make exclusive articles for the rest of the generations too, but probably not right away.

Anywho like always I’ll be talking about other good natures for your Pokemon to have if it doesn’t have that one specific best nature recommended by someone or somewhere, what some bad natures could be, and some nice attacks (in my opinion at least) for them to know. 🙂

Just keep in mind this isn’t 100% accurate because the most beneficial nature for a Pokemon to have can be highly dependent on what moves you teach it.

For this 5th generation exclusive article I will talk about Reuniclus, Victini, Excadrill and Unfezant. 🙂

So first off Reuniclus, my favorite jelly Pokemon. :3

Reuniclus’ highest stat is Special Attack with 125, so a nature that boosts that stat would be the best, and with a Speed stat of 30 (being its worst stat) that would be the best to drop. So the best nature for a Reuniclus to have is Quiet, but any stat that is boosting Special Attack would be good for the awesome psychic jelly buddy. 🙂

As for attacks like almost every psychic type Pokemon, Psychic is one of the best moves you can teach Reuniclus. A few more decent special attacks you could teach it are Shadow Ball, Energy Ball, Future Sight, Focus Blast, Hyper Beam, and possibly Hidden Power depending on what type it is. Just make sure you teach it Psychic!

I wouldn’t recommended you teach Reuniclus physical moves because it’s Special Attack is so much higher than its Attack, but if you absolutely must teach it a physical move the only good one it can learn is Dizzy Punch. Psyshock would be quite a bit better if you want your Reuniclus to know a physical damaging move though, since it’s a special attack that does physical damage.

Now I honestly think that teaching your Reuniclus Pain Split would be a bad idea, because of Reuniclus’s high base HP you’d have to wait until its health is really really low to get any sort of healing benefit out of that move. If you want your Reuniclus to know a healing move then teach it Recover (learned at level 24).

The attack Trick Room is a must to teach your Reuniclus, especially if the nature your Reuniclus has lowers its Speed stat, because this attack makes fast Pokemon slow and slow ones fast, and because Reuniclus is so slow you can see how this attack would be beneficial.

Substitute coupled with Recover is another great move combo as well because of Reuniclus’s high HP.
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Pokemon Power Points

By Anonymous

Are you familiar with a Pokemon game? Now something like Pokemon Battle Revolution, something more like Pokemon Heartgold or Pokemon Soulsilver version. Now, do you know how to do a Pokemon battle? It is when to Pokemon battle each other to prove who is stronger, if a Pokemon beats another, the winner gains experience points which will allow the Pokemon to level up and can then become stronger. It is great, for the Pokemon and for training the Pokemon.

How do Pokemon attack? Pokemon attack using moves, they can’t just use the same move five hundred times during a battle though. Each move has a special and unique limit to how many times it can be used. These are used in a number system, these numbers are called power points. Power points can also be abbreviated as PP, which is what the games do. An attack like Dialga’s exclusive and signature attack, Roar of Time, it only has five power points. On the game it will show up as Roar of Time 5 PP. Meaning Dialga can only use the attack Roar of Time five times, when it has been used five times it will show up as Roar of Time 0 PP.

After that Dialga will need to use another attack such as Metal Claw. When it runs out of power points for that attack is will to say Metal Claw 0 PP. And so on until all four attack say this. What happens when all the moves run out of power points? Well, the Pokemon is then unable to attack, so it will have to use something called Struggle. Struggle is an attack that really doesn’t have a type. It isn’t like Roar of Time which is a dragon type move or Metal Claw which is a steel type Pokemon move. Struggle also has no limit to power points. If it is possible you can use Struggle five hundred times! The only thing is that Struggle attack the foe, but it also takes damage to the user known as recoil damage.

When a Pokemon uses an attack like Take Down, or even Struggle for that moment, it will lose some of it’s on health, known as health points (HP). If it uses Struggle just a few times it will lose all of it’s health points, you will need to keep reviving your Pokemon with a Hyper Potion or something of that nature in order to restore the health points. Ethers and Elixirs can be used to restore power points. It is very important to keep a well balanced set of power points in Pokemon battling.

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Pokemon Video Games

By Anonymous

Are you familiar with the Pokemon games? These games are among the most popular of all things Pokemon. Everyone uses them and really tends to enjoy them. You can start as a new, rookie trainer and slowly gain your experience and can challenge the Pokemon League. You start out in you Hometown which will depend on which version of the game you got. If you got a game like Pokemon Firered version or Pokemon Leafrgreen version, you will start in Pallet Town. If you got a game like Pokemon Heartgold version or Pokemon Soulsilver version, you will start out in New Bark Town. If you got a game like Pokemon Ruby version, Pokemon Sapphire version or Pokemon Emerald version you will start out in Littleroot Town. If you get a game like Pokemon Diamond version, Pokemon Pearl version or Pokemon Platinum version you will start out in Twinleaf Town.

The regions you can start in are Kanto, Johto, Hoeen and Sinnoh respectively as the towns are listed. Once you start your journey you will need to get your start Pokemon so you can travel. You have to get your starter Pokemon from the local Pokemon Professor. Professor Oak in the Kanto region, Professor Elm in the Johto region, Professor Birch in the Hoenn region, and Professor Rowan in the Sinnoh region. You can get your start Pokemon in the town you start in, this is fact for only the first three regions though. In the Sinnoh region, Professor Rowan’s Lab is in Sandgem Town which is the neighboring town to Twinleaf Town.

Once you begin your journey with your start you may catch and battle Pokemon. You can also trade Pokemon with friends and play online, it is really fun and quite addictive. Your goal is to gather the eight badges of whatever region you start in and challenge the Pokemon League to become the champion so you can become a Pokemon Master. The Professor asks you to complete the Pokedex which is quite hard now, but can still be done. There are more games, but these are the most recent one’s and are considered the main series. What is you favorite Pokemon game?

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