It still blows my mind that they debuted a next-gen pokemon about 2 years before the game came out. I guess it was easier to deal with then because i assume most of us were in school. But imagine if they did that today
It still blows my mind that they debuted a next-gen pokemon about 2 years before the game came out...
Jose Barnes
Aaron Baker
i played xd for the first time recently and was surprised to see bonsly show up as part of the story. its kinda cool they used to do stuff like this
Christopher Torres
It's just Moltres bro.
Angel Russell
Lucario was also a statue in the first Mystery Dungeon too. But Bonsly was even playable in XD.
Samuel Diaz
Shareholders wouldn't let them cause they can't sell merch of a pokemon that's not officially part of the roster yet.
Adrian Cruz
>XD
Fuck off
Dominic Lee
hook line sinker
Juan Morales
They did the same again with Munchlax, revealed in early 2004 when DP were released in late 2006. As a result, Munchlax features in a lot of gen 3 sidegames like Mistery Dungeon and XD.
Anthony Cruz
I thought this was Fearow the first time I saw it ngl
Jordan Young
so why doesn't Ash have a Ho-oh anyway? It's the most logical legendary to let him have
James Morales
>tfw you realise Munchlax was revealed closer to the release of RS than DP
Christopher Morris
When was the last time they did this? Magearna?
Levi Lewis
It wasn't supposed to be two years of a gap between reveal and launch though. Game Freak were supposed to have Pokémon 2 ready for winter '97, only about 4 months of a wait/tease.
Lincoln Butler
This . Munchlax was in Destiny Deoxys, released in 2004. Games come out 2 years later.
Tyler Jackson
>gen 1 to gen 4 is the same as gen 4 to gen 8
Brody Fisher
I wonder if they don't do it anymore due to crunch? Being an oldfag who played Red on launch I loved all the speculation going into the next gen mons they gave us in advance. The literal years of "what the fuck is Togepi?!" was something you just had to experience. Now it's just some generic ass mostly forgotten early gen Pokemon to most, and that makes me sad
Jackson Ramirez
They're not american user. They didn't need to set up a shell company to rob funds off retards to "make a video game", they just went to Nintendo and said "can we have some money to make a video game please?"
Zoomers will never understand the business before they were born, clearly.
Evan Clark
They always do it
Melmetal was designed for gen 8 (yet the fanbase pretend is gen 7 for some reason)
The thing is, Ho-Ho was released way too long before Gold and Silver, 2 years, and they didn't even have the colors decided yet, that's why it's fully golden.
They don't want to risk it when the Pokemon may be redesigned at some point before the game release
Nicholas Brooks
Because letting Ash catch a legendary would be gay as fuck.
There's a reason all of them only show up in the movies and it's always through some cataclysmic event where Ash and co. barely feel like main characters.
Hudson Peterson
It's crazy how a legendary at the end of Gen 2's PokeDex debuted in the anime before 99% of Gen 1's Pokemon did.
Isaac Davis
Meltan and Meltal are in a Gen 7 game.
They come before Grookey in the Nat. Dex.
>muh victini
Which Gen 4 game can I get Victini in again?
Nicholas Edwards
>melmetal
Is a Gen VII pokémon user. The fact they even had the recently-retired core game lead developer tweet about its reveal, after a community day event in GO, no less, should have told you that. They didn't say buttkiss about Ho-Oh, even when they had planned to launch the game later that year.
Zachary Mitchell
>tfw May and Brock fucking die
Liam Walker
Gigantamax machamp was in alola