Quote:Here are some new images and preview video of Nintendo's Pokemon Colosseum for GameCube, the game is scheduled to release in Japan on November 21, for 5800 yen. A free Memory Card 59 will be bundled with the game.

A 30 hours long RPG mode will be included in the game, you can battle against the main characters from Pokemon Red/Blue, Gold/Silver, and Ruby/Sapphire.

Quote:30 hours

Quote:From what I've learned about Colosseum there are normal RPG parts to it, but they probably won't add up to 30 hours. They are pretty much just ways to travel between battle venues.

Quote:*spits drink all over screen, defying all logic as DJ wasn't even drinking anything, um, DJ hopes it wasn't blood*

OB1 got a joke of mine, and even corrected someone else who may not have been aware of this? Call the police, I think this isn't OB1 but rather an evil witch!

Quote:but it definitely is serious as well... like, 'that post was just so dumb'.

Quote:There are sure many Pokemon games. But Pokemon Collosseum is the first to be a Full 3D RPG. The the story of the RPG mode begins at "Oren"Province.. A whole new place unlike "Kanto" or "Houen".. Its full of new Ideas.You will be surprised as you play the game. The Stadium mode is like the old Pokemon Stadium games. But its also playable alone.. You can get special Pokecoupons to buy upgrades for your Pokemon Now lets start to look at the game

1. Scenariomode

"Oren"Province is a deserted area.. As you play the game youll discover the truth bout this place . Youll have different Pokemon fights with Trainers from the Area and get your Pokemon stronger...

The different thing from the GB pokemon is that there are no wild pokemon cuz the Province is totally deserted..

Instead there is another way to get them.. Thats the Snatch ability It means you can Snatch other peoples Pokemon.The important thing is there are only some Pokemon available to Snatch. The Dark Pokemon, which are directed by a evil force. You snatch the Pokemon to free them. The only way to know which Pokemon are Dark and which are not is to use your female Partner.

After you snatch the Dark Pokemon you have to look after them and win their trust.

This is a very important part of the Story. Are the Dark Pokemon really turned into good ones.. that is unknown and will be revealed as the story develops. The animation and Modelling of the Pokemon are as great as there can be.

2. Stadium Mode

This mode is Focused on the Traditional Stadium fights.. The 3D graphics will be top notch.. And there are different rules for great battles. The main Focus on this game are the special effects on the Pokemon fights. Youll just enjoy watching the game.

In the Stadum Mode you can either use your Pokemon from the GBA game Pokemon Ruby Saphire or from the Scenario mode. And of course the Pokemon of the GBA remake from the first Pokemon game which will be released soon. You can battle with every pokemon ever created!

Pokemon Collosseum is like two games in one. Both title are great enough to be released separately





-Interview with the Staff-

Genious Sonority started last year. But the staff is more then Famous. Developers from Nintendos Earthbound Series and Developers from Dragon Quest 7 joined to make this company.





1. To creat something new.

¡öSo Genius Sonority was built last year.

Yamana: ¡¡Yes we wanted to make a whole new Pokemon game. We first named it Sonority. But it was not enough so we added Genius

Orio: Its a very uncommon thing. The Best developers in Japan just gathered together to make a new title.

--How did Pokemon Collosseum start

Yamana: We wanted to make a "whole" new Pokemon game. And Miura came up with this Idea

Miura: ¡¡I wanted a Story that is a little bit advanced then the other titles. The Main Character is therefore no Kid, he is 17 and pretty dark. The game itself has new things like the snatch system, which is basically stealing things. So its very different.

Yamana: ¡¡Thats the concept and hiromoto will tell you about the story.

Hiromoto: ¡¡When this project first started I actually had a Idea or vision what Im gonna do. Therefore I joined. Im very pleased that the thing I imagined is nearly finished.

Miura: ¡¡I always was looking at hiromoto carefully. Its a very sharp calculated world and in the same time it has the characters with Impact. The concept I started and was finished is "A deserted world with deserted characters" Its different then the other pokemon were everything just grew...

Yamana: Therefore we needed a great Scenario. I asked my old Comrade Orio to do the job. He is a type of developer who makes a scenario to fit in the game system¡_.

Orio: ¡¡The Pokemon World is pretty much finished in its previous games. So I had to think about something to make it new. But as I saw the Illusts and the Characters I thought "aha, I only need to keep the basic rules of the Pokemon world... and I can do everything I want with the rest". This game is something that was never shown before on a pokemon game so Im very happy to show it to the audience.

yamana: The next thing is bout the Music.

Tawada: The scenario and the concept includes a common thing. Its like when I was a Kid and wanted to be a grown up. Therefore the music is very dry like a adult city. The model of the game is Phoenix, Arizona.

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--Wasnt it hard to make the music..??

Tawada: Im a type of guy who has fun with music. And this time the Teamwork was so great that it made me feel even better...Sometimes there was great pressure but I had fun(laughs).



2. Almost like a movie?

Yamana: ¡¡Ok the things that we talked about are just the first steps of the game. The real stuff is how it is expressed

Wada: ¡¡First we made the Illusts into a Full 3D form. We were surprised how the Pokemon world turned itself out. The World hiromoto created into 3D and then turning into Pokemon¡_that was the hard part. But after making the fields and placing the pokemons on it I realized that this is great. A dry deserted rotten area with cute Pokemons on it. It seems like a missmatch but was actually great.

Kawamoto: There is no Pokemon Specialist in our company. But we learned a lot about the game. First there are a hell lot of Pokemon and many equipments too. We had to make a scenario and a battling system that was though.

yamana: ¡¡The pokemon basically have 4 abillities. And there are more pokemon then just the GBA Pokemon Ruby Sappire.. there are even some original Pokemon. And even Pokemons from the Remake. So all the pokemon have their abillities and there are many pokemons and they fight each other¡¤¡¤¡¤, That was so much that I said to nintendo "How can we check all those Pokemon there are too many" Nintendo just said "Do it"(laughs).



--Whats the main focus point?

Yamana: ¡¡The Battling of course. I made it as Stylish as possible. We used cameras and graphics to make it top notch. And it was the part we were worried the most, too. You need many special effects and great performance. Its almost like a movie

Orio: ¡¡I think many adult Pokemon players were forced to play alone.But we focused to make it more mature. The Main Character is almost an adult and the story is much deeper then other Pokemon games. So I think it is Ok for adult people to play it. The scenario mode itself contains many individual characters.. Escpecially the enemies. Well but is still contains idea of the series.

3. About the Snatching system.

--The two modes are completly different

Yamana: Yes. All of them are perfectly made. None of them are a bonus. and it took much work to complete the games.

Miura Its friendly to people who start pokemon with this games, too. If you play the Scenario mode youll want to play the Stadium mode. If you play the Stadium mode you ll want to play the Scenario mode.. its made like that

Yamana: I one played the Stadium mode till 4 in the morning.. I was really tired but couldnt help it.



--So you' ll need competetors to play with you?

yamana: well its great to play it alone.

¡ö In the Scenario mode the Snatch system seems to be important .

Orio: ¡¡In the Pokemon world Snatching is a crime. a bad thing(think about the GB pokemon games you cant catch the pokemon of other trainers.. they`ll be mad at you) Of course you got a reason but its still bad. So we focused on that

Miura: ¡¡The main character is not only adulted he is also some kind of Dark hero, It wont be easy to get near him, But of course youll learn hes not a bad guy during the game. The gameboy Pokemon games are RPGs so we had to make completly new things in this game.

¡ö "Snatch" and "Relive" thats completely new in this game right..??.

Orio: ¡¡Snatch and Relive is a crime a bad thing as we mentioned. Its like destroying the Pokemon world. but we learned to love that feature

Miura: ¡¡I really want to thank Nintendo Gamefreak Creatures and the Pokemon Company for letting us make such a great game.

Yamana: ¡¡This software has so many people involved that we actually added two minutes extra music for the step roll then planned.

Tawada: ¡¡Its a long ending theme now.(laughs)

¡ö Youre message to the players

Yamana: Its great! play it! have fun!

¡ö Thank you for the Interview