Pokemon Day Updates Thoughts

The World Championships is now taking place in Yokohama, Japan. Where competions across the TCG, Game, and apps among others. I’m not really one to care for the competitive so this announcement only would make me excited if we saw some strange or new strategies introduced. Kind of like how one of the previous world Champions brought a Pachirisu a relatively throw away Pokemon and still somehow won.

TCG Classic Announcement

I find this to be the most disappointing they already had a set of cards that were using the old Base one deck for the 25^th anniversary. If I could I’d say they should have a new deck or cards based on Base set 2 or Jungle. This doesn’t seem new it just advertises stuff already on the market.

Netflix and Pokemon Concirge

I suppose this is only somewhat of a shock after Netflix got the rights. I am a bit scared what they are going to do. Television based on games hasn’t been great so far. It uses stop motion and seems to be telling some story in the Pokemon universe. So this show will only focus on lore that is already established or branch out to do something different. Though the focus on a resort is strange to me Pokemon is at its core an adventure game so what adventures are at a resort for Pokemon especially when we already have Pokemon Café Remix.

Games

Zacian is joining unite still no real reason to play that so my thoughts are I don’t care so much. Café remix got a Paldea update Sprigato, Fecocco, and Quaxly can join your café. Once again do not care remix was fun for five minutes so admittedly I played it longer than unite. Galar Trainers and events coming to Masters. Definitely the one I played the most I like seeing all the Trainers in one place and find out what happened to them. Just why so late I am aware that Masters does have content geared towards Galar, but I kind of just want them to finish the main story. Pokemon Sleep I’ve seen some useless apps but really? Go got an accessory and has functionality with Scarlet and Violet.

Lastly, Scarlet and Violet got two new Pokemon based on Suicune and Virizion. Wild Mane and Iron Thorns respectfully one clearly an ancient form of Suicune and the other a future form of Virizion are available in raids. A DLC pack The Treasures of Area Zero while not what I expected I will play both packs when they release later this year. I was only half wrong.

Sources:

The Official Pokémon YouTube channel. “Pokemon Presents|2.27.2023”, https://www.youtube.com/, Pokemon, February, 27, 2023, video length 25:46, https://www.youtube.com/@pokemon.