12/18/06 More PBR videos, Perappu's English name and American D/P release date!

There are more videos of Pokémon Battle Revolution to be found here. You need to download the DivX player to view them, but it's free and these are pretty nice-quality videos and the guy doesn't always start with the same Pokémon, so I'd recommend them.

Among the more noteworthy things I've discovered there so far off the top of my head is that Machamp has been fixed up and now actually has fingers rather than mittens with tacky lines drawn on. Nice one. I think they were very sensible; it was undoubtedly very much to ask for them to remodel every single one of the existing 386 Pokémon, but at least they're fixing some of the worst ones. I'm getting fairly confident, without actually knowing it, that they probably fixed Charizard. If anybody finds a video with Charizard in it, please let me know (there might even be one there; at the moment I've only watched the first eight). Rain Dance also looks pretty cool; the camera gets covered with raindrops and stuff.

Anyway, I doubt you're all interested in watching PBR videos, so I'll get to the other things. Serebii insists that Perappu's English name is Chatot, but he doesn't appear to say that it's been officially confirmed so I'm going to take it with a grain of salt until it is official. (He also says that the ninth movie is called Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea in English, by the way.)

Recently, Pokémon.com put up a D/P section (with shockingly bad-quality Sugimori art on it - don't they have access to high-quality versions of the files? o_O), and thus it's only appropriate that it has also been revealed that Diamond and Pearl will be coming out in America on April 22nd next year. They've clearly not gotten very far with the translation of the games yet, because the page refers to Futaba Town by its Japanese name, with "All names are tentative" noted at the bottom. Bleh, that would have been the perfect place to find out some English names and tickle our curiosity into name-guessing, but apparently not - the page contains nothing new.

Stay tuned for more news undoubtedly coming up soon.

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Malachite Treecko
Heh, Pokemon.Com is rubbish as usual. Chatot is kind of boring... But it still could get worse *points at Manafi*.
The PBR videos seem good, and Rain Dance is cool. Hope there will be more information about English names soon. I'm particularily interested in what names the Gym Leaders will have...
Piika
Pokemon.com reveals stuff that was revealed months ago, how typical. I'm going to name my Chatot Perappu when I get the game. And I see they're saying the Poketech is a watch. Geez, they don't want us to know anything anymore, do they?
umbreon
chatot is even cooler than perrapu! they did something right fo once!
T-man
sheesh pokemon.com
why don't you tell us that RBY are out


>.<
atleast we rednecks get DP next year *looks for a preorder sheet*
Iveechan
More videos are getting added... Charizard is in one of the later ones, and it looks recycled to me. It's too bad the ice eon gets killed so fast, I wanted to see more of it.
Mikurage= CUTEST THING EVER. I may have to train one just because I love the way it looks in 3D
Machamp= finally, fingers
middle fire monkey= it's too bad it's a middle stage and will never be used, because I find it highly adorable
Rapidash= IT IS NO LONGER BLOCKY. It has proper legs, yay! Arcanine still looks blocky though, which is too bad because it used to be one of the more impressive models.
Lucario= not impressed. It looks too stiff and jerky. Good thing I don't plan on training one.
Suicune= it's too bad it's the same model, because I always found it hideous. It looks like it's made out of fat blue sausages, and why are the front legs so short?
The customized trainers are also great. One of the later ones with the lady in the striped shirt is quite sexy, I may use that base if I get this game. I still miss the Pokemon doing an intro dance and the improved game cries from the N64 stadium games, but I can live without it.
Black Mage
heh, this is why I usually go to Serebii.net for the latest news, he usually has it up within a day or two.
Myra
*sarcastic tone* wow, I had no idea that you could use Weavile in Diamond and Pearl.

Well, I can *sorta* understand why pokemon.com isn't telling us anymore. One, yeah, they haven't gotten far with the translation. Two, if they told us everything now... then it wouldn't be as fun when it comes out, as we would've known the information for ages (say you don't check Serebii and other sites like that)
Happypants3
Well, I have great news! The images on the official D/P site have improved! =D Also, I personally prefer Perap over Chatot. I'm hoping it's the real name, though, because it's better than what else they might come up with... o_o'
person
hee hee... machamp with mittens...