Pokemon Platinum trailer: Pokemans as they were meant to be shown

by JC Fletcher { Jul 31st 2008 at 10:30AM }

The latest trailer for Pokémon Platinum shows the series' trademark creatures playing around in their natural habitat: a promotional trailer for a new video game. Also the woods and a field or whatever. It's a lot more pleasing to look at than the last trailer, though the excellent production values on display have less to do with that than the method of capture.

Also featured is an absolutely crazy-looking area in which your orientation constantly changes as you walk on surfaces perpendicular to each other, and what appears to be a multiplayer, Pokémon-themed version of Mr. Bucket. Without the mouth. Okay, so it's not like Mr. Bucket at all.

Gallery: Pokemon Platinum

Tags: game-freak, pokemon, pokemon-platinum, rpg

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

atastysammich @ Jul 31st 2008 10:43AM

The first to get their balls into Mr. Bucket wins!

TheCoats @ Jul 31st 2008 10:55AM

the only thing i can think now is that chimchar is the real cause of all forestfires

Mr.ESC @ Jul 31st 2008 11:31AM

There so many questions like wouldn't a fire monkey start a fire? Why is there a monkey in the forest? Or why is there Penguin in the plains?

Then you remember this is Pok�mon and things can be as incoherent as a Giant Hippopotamus attacking Japan in Christmas.

I haven�t played a Pokemon game since Gold/ Silver, then I bought Diamond for the mere nostalgia and wow things haven�t change much, then again man things haven�t change much. Seriously why Fire pokemon are so useless?

I never played after I got with the Elite Four. I got there with level 50 pokeymen and leveling up without a gameshark is a b*tch. Pure effing grinding, I just hate the leveling up System.

Maybe I'll trade Diamond for Platinum and start again with a Water or Grass Pokemon.

SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread) @ Jul 31st 2008 1:15PM

....or you could just start again on the old game. you know you can delete save files right? and that the starter water and grass types aren't the only water and grass types in the game right? there are over 400 pokemon for crying out loud, just catch some more.

Demotruk @ Jul 31st 2008 11:02AM

Do we have any info on the game's features?

SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread) @ Jul 31st 2008 1:18PM

and your title confused me lol. i thought you meant that you could actually see the Pokemon in the fields as you encountered them finally. i still think they absolutely need to do Pokemon Wii MMO. i mean everything is in place! just make it already!

Metayoshi @ Jul 31st 2008 1:37PM

Wow.

That new gravity changing dungeon looks pretty awesome. Not a bad trailer overall. I liked it!

As for Mr.ESC, I love fire pokemon. They are some of the best special sweepers in the game, and they are the bane of steel Pokemon, especially against Forretress and Scizor who are bug/steel types.

Mr Khan @ Jul 31st 2008 2:32PM

It makes you wonder why they didn't put this in Diamond and Pearl. But it really makes a much better case for purchase than "Now with WiFi Underground!"

I don't know. Maybe i'm a bit mad that i could've been doing that in the game i already bought, but a chance to do it all again might be worth it this time

Matdredalia @ Jul 31st 2008 2:38PM

*sigh* I hate this game so much, lol. Don't get me wrong, I love the Pokemon games (my copy of Pearl has almost 300 hours on it), but damnit, I'm going to have to buy this one because so much of it just looks pure awesome.

The underground using WiFi alone is almost worth it. ARRGH! DAMN YOU POKEMON!

chibi_wings @ Jul 31st 2008 2:52PM

haha...yeah pokemon always adds something awesome to the third game in the bunch, it's annoying, but that won't stop me from getting this game :P

Game_playa @ Jul 31st 2008 5:08PM

Day one purchase for me!!.

Venom @ Jul 31st 2008 5:47PM

Seems like more of the same with few gimmicks added. Don't get me wrong, I'll be getting it as soon as the international version is released, but I just wish they'd put more effort into it. Maybe prettier sprites during combat or updated sound (as nostalgic as it feels hearing same GBA sounds, the DS could do a lot better).

But oh well, gotta leave something for the next generation, right?

hvnlysoldr @ Jul 31st 2008 8:08PM

I have 383 seen 352 caught. And have currently put in 269 hours. It'll just be a question of when I'll get Platinum. This darn sapphire cartridge I bought is filled with hacked pokemon. Uggh.

Abscissa @ Aug 2nd 2008 3:14AM

Wow, that crazy gravity level alone looks worth it. Sweeeeet :)

Of course, I've yet to actually get around to trying any of the Pokemon RPGs. But if the Pokemon rougelikes (ie, Mystery Dungeon), Snap, and Genki Dama are any indication (ie, very easy, but also very charming and fun), I really should give it a try.