* Professor Araragi leaves you, Cheren (the black-haired boy), and Belle
(the blond
girl) each a present and tells you to share it with them
(they are your childhood
friends). This is when you pick your
starter. Sometimes you’ll battle your friends during
your adventure.
Belle is spontaneous and one of your two rivals. She also has a strong
side
to her that shows sometimes, such as when she goes out on her adventure
against her
father’s wishes. During your adventure she will have
times where she will be unreliable
as well, but she will grow as the
story progresses. Cheren is very intelligent. He’s
extremely
trustworthy and will give you advice throughout your journey. His goal
is to be
a champion.
* When you pick your starter,
the other two go to your two rivals Cheren and Belle.
All three of
you start your journey together at the same time, just like Ash, Gary,
and
the other Pallet Town Pokémon Trainers in the show and the three
Gold and Silver trainers
in the Legend of Raikou special.
* The game starts from Route 1, indicating that this region is much
farther away than
Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh.
* N
will keep challenging you in order to confirm his ideas of justice. He
calls
Pokémon his “friends,” but one of the screenshots shows him
saying that he wants to split
humans and Pokémon and divide them so
that the world is black and white. He has the
unique idea to set
Pokémon free from people. He’s looking for the power to grant these
ideals.
* In 3-on-3 battles, if your Pokémon is, for example, on the far
left, it won’t be
able to hit a Pokémon on the far right. There is a
button on the bottom left hand corner
of the battle screen which is
called “Move” and allows you to swap your Pokemon’s
positions.
Thus, a Pokémon on the far right can hit the opponent’s Pokémon that are
on
the far right as well as the middle. The magazine also says that
if the Pokémon in the
middle uses an attack that hits all Pokémon,
then it will be very powerful.
* A new ability called
Telepathy prevents Pokémon from receiving damage from
teammates. For
example, if a Pokémon has Telepathy in a two-on-two or three-on-three
battle
and one of your Pokémon uses Surf, the Pokémon with Telepathy will not
be damaged.
* Rankurusu (the green cell) and Gochiruzeru (the
black humanshaped Pokémon) are both
version-exclusives, but it
doesn’t say which is in which version.
* Pokémon White will
exclusively feature White Forest while Pokémon Black will
exclusively
feature Black City.
* You can see Black City in the
top left of the scan and White Forest right next to
it. You can also
see game screenshots of the two locations below their artwork.
* There will be cities that look different based on the version even
though they are
the same city. In the bottom two screenshots on the
left page, you can see one city that
looks different in both
versions of the game.
* There is a new, unnamed attack
which for one turn will cause all of your team
members to avoid
attacks that hit all team members.
* Musharna (ムシャーナ) is the
Trance Pokémon and is a Psychic-type like its pre-evolution
Munna.
The dreams of Pokémon are inside its smoke; both Munna and Musharna give
off this
Dream Smoke. It has the abilities Forewarn and
Synchronize, stands 1.1m tall, and weighs
60.5kg.
* If you obtain “Dream Smoke,” you can use a “Game Sync” to enable the
uploading of
your Black and White file to the Internet. Basically,
it seems like “Dream Smoke” unlocks
your ability to upload your game
file.
* The player will receive the C Gear from Makomo,
Professor Araragi’s friend, after
they do something she asks. The C
Gear has features for Wi-Fi, local wireless, and
infrared.
* The High Link is a building at the center of Isshu through which
you can connect to
other players’ games. Using the High Link, you
can travel to another player’s world and
adventure with them
together.
* With the DS’s infrared signal, you can have
speedy battles with up to four players
and speedy trades directly
from your party or PC box. You can also automatically exchange
friend
codes over infrared now.
* A new feature called
Passing By will allow your DS to connect automatically with
other
players that are nearby. As you advance in Black and White, you will be
able to
help others on their journey. It is part of the C Gear.
* The games have a Live Caster feature (not for the old DS or DS
Lite), which allows
you to use the DSi’s camera to talk to friends
through video feed. Locally, you can talk
to up to four people,
while over Wi-Fi you can only talk to two. The Live Caster will
have
a pen and stamp tool so you can play with the pictures while using the
video chat.
* Characters in the game will use the Live
Caster feature to talk to you as well.
o.o’ N is seen using this in
the trailer that showed on Oha Suta a few weeks ago.
* As
has been rumored for months, the two games will now support Kanji for
Japanese
players. Apparently, the game’s script will change a bit as
well, perhaps since those who
would change to Kanji are older
players (will it be a little more detailed with more
advanced
vocabulary?). This feature won’t be in the English games because it’s a
Japanese
language thing.
* There is a new feature
called Feeling Check that checks the compatibility of
players. One
of the things it shows is a game where two people have to keep the same
rhythm.
* The Pokémon Global Link, which is the service that allows you
to upload your Black
and White save file to a special website, has
two different modes: one where you have
your Pokémon play in a dream
and another where you can battle online. You can unlock the
Global
Link feature once you obtain Musharna, the evolution of Munna, meaning
it is one
of those “gimmick” Pokémon like Plusle and Minun were for
2-on-2 battles.
* If you are registered through the
Pokémon Global Link, you can play online battles
using a “Rating
Mode” or “Random Match” mode at to the Global Terminal inside the
Pokémon
Center. It will send your battle results to a server and you
can compare your results to
other players to see who is a strong
Trainer.
* In the World of Dreams, your Pokémon have
their own rooms that they can play in and
they can play mini-games
with other Pokémon. Pokémon that your Pokémon becomes friends
with
in the dream world can be taken back to the real world, being your game;
you can
capture Pokémon not available in the Isshu PokeDex and
transfer them to your games in
this fashion. To transfer Pokémon to
the computer and thus to the World of Dreams, there
will be a new
Game Sync option available through the C Gear, which allows you to
choose
one Pokémon to send to your computer.
Subject: some Black&White information i got off another poke news site 
Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:40 pm
