5 New Pokemon in Pokemon Platinum shown

12 August 2008

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Posted by:Josh

New details and 5 new Pokemon from Pokemon Platinum have been shown. As you can see, you can’t get a clear glimpse of the Pokemon but their silhouettes can be seen in the image above.

Here are some new details on Pokemon Platinum.

* The start of the game runs differently with quicker confrontations with the Rival & Professor Rowan in Route 201 and Lake Verity
* I forgot to note this earlier with the last scans on Thursday, but the police officer is codenamed “Handsome”. CoroCoro questions whether he’s actually working for Team Galactic or actually hunting them down
* The Battle Tower makes the return, pretty much identical to it’s running in Diamond & Pearl; Sets of 7, try to get a streak
* The Battle Factory returns in Sinnoh, working in the same manner as Emerald. Select three Pokémon at the start of battle, all rentals
* Over the GTS’s new Global Terminal, it appears you can send some sort of mail to various people, possibly to your friends and maybe even to random people.
* There are several games to be found in the new WiFi room for you to play with your friends. These include Merry Mime Jr. where you control Mime Jr. on a ball the longest, Rapid Wobbuffet and the aforementioned Swalot game
* Confirmation of the silhouettes was also included. What they are will be more than likely revealed next month.

A new trailer was also shown at Pokémon Festa which showed new clips of areas that you can get into in Platinum as well as new aspects. The most notable being a double battle with Elite Four member Flint and Sunyshore Gym Leader Volkner. It also showed a bunch of the new mini-games in the WiFi area including a game where you have to push down on a Wobbuffet head on the touch screen and where you control Mime Jr. who is balancing on a moving ball. It also revealed various Battle Frontier areas including one where you seem to select from cards which determine various aspects of the battle. There also appears to be another facility similar to the Battle Factory of Emerald.

Additionally, new scans from the game shows the Police Officer hunting down Team Galactic and the new look of three of the gyms. Eterna Gym has blades which rotate, allowing access to various parts of the gym while the flashlight portion seen in some Pokemon Platinum videos is also part of a gym (though it’s not known which), and Veilstone Gym also has a new look. It was also revealed that Sky forme Shaymin has a new Leaf Storm attack.

As far as the silhouette pic of the new Pokemon above is concerned, the leaflets showing the new Pokemon from Pokemon Platinum will contain clues regarding the new creatures and thus more data will be revealed on the new Pokemon from September 28th, 2008 through November 4th, 2008 in Japan.