Topic: Pokémon Winds and Waves

Pokémon Winds and Waves, revealed in today's Pokemon Presents, will be releasing for the Nintendo Switch 2 in 2027. They showed off gameplay and the three starter Pokemon.

What are your thoughts?

Are the graphics good enough?

Can you wait for 2027?

My thoughts overall: not enough Spheal
The graphics: not Spheal-y enough
As far as waiting goes: too long before Spheal

(I'm joking, of course! ....mostly)

@UpsideDownRowlet, it appears that we both had the same idea immediately after the Presents 🤣

I don't want the conversation to be split across two threads, so is it possible that mine can just be deleted?

Anyway, I'm definitely looking forward to it, but the wait for 2027 is going to be freaking LONG. Also, how late in 2027 are we talking about?

Gosh, this looks like it will be awesome! Love the new starters for sure Pombon... hope their last evo will still be good

Ok I'm going to rewatch the trailer and make note of every Pokemon I see (and by extension their evolutionary lines):

• Pichu, Pikachu, Raichu
• Oddish, Gloom, Vileplume, Bellossom
• Tropius
• Wailmer, Wailord
• Nymble, Lokix
• Tailow, Swellow
• Tangela, Tangrowth
• Ledyba, Ledian
• Slugma, Magcargo
• Sizzlipede, Centiskorch
• Wingull, Pelipper
• Krabby, Kingler
• Sandygast, Pallosand
• Mareanie, Toxapex
• Corsola
• Tympole, Palpitoad, Seismitoad
• Carnivine
• Duskull, Dusclops, Dusknoir
• Slowpoke, Slowbro, Slowking (based on Slowking poster)
• Browt (NEW)
• Pombon (NEW)
• Gecqua (NEW)
• Finneon, Lumineon
• Frillish, Jellicent
• Tynamo, Eelektrik, Eelektross

Does the cramorant in the artbook imply that you can catch cramorants in game?

@CaleBoi25
Btw, what is Spheal?

Pokemon Winds and Waves Website Link: https://windswaves.pokemon.com/en-us/

There isn't really any information of note I can glean from this website other than that it shows the version exclusive attire. I personally prefer the Pokemon Waves outfit.

I wonder which country representation of Gen 10 with Winds and Waves.
I'm already thinking about GREECE by looking at the water building architecture and the windmill.
It could be other country with water and windmill, NETHERLAND.

@CobaltFan No, that was just showing nostalgia for each previous generation.

However, since this game seems to have an emphasis on the ocean and because cormorants live by coastal areas quite often in real life, it wouldn't be surprising if Cramorant was in the games.

Here's the announcement trailer in case anyone missed it:

@Anti-Matter

Behold! Spheal!

I found from Google after I typed Pokemon Waves and Winds

"Based on early leaks and announcements, the upcoming Generation 10 games, Pokémon Winds and Waves (expected 2026/2027), feature a new, as-yet-unnamed region heavily inspired by Indonesia and Southeast Asia."

So Gen 10 will be representation of my country INDONESIA ?! 😯😯😯

If this region represent of my country Indonesia, I believe there will be something about Balinese or Javanese themed Pokemon in Gen 10.
I imagined Gamelan, Kecak, Hanuman, Barong, Keris, Batik, etc from Indonesia.

I like the starters well enough.

The world looks nice. Looking forward to how they do the under water sections.

We don't know the combat yet but I'm hoping the one ball throw implies we can capture directly like in Arceus.

I'm guessing the gimmick will somehow relate to the Tides but that is just my random guess.

Shocked that they pushed this to 2027. Not only that, but supposedly the JP stream said it's mid 2027. They're actually listening to the people that want them to take their time. If the mid 2027 thing is true, I'm predicting Summer (maybe around June). The tropical setting for this game would make it an excellent Summer game.

Yeah, this is pretty much the Teraleak, but the game looks great, very exotic environments and the game looks polished so far as I can see. But then I'm not really a graphics connoisseur, so that doesn't say much.

Also they showed off diving, nice return for that. Hopefully it works more like a typical 3D adventure game where you can dynamically dive and resurface at will rather than "press A to warp to underwater map" like the older games. Although given that this is a 3D open world game, I suspect they will.

Not really impressed with the starters, they look fugly. I guess I'll choose the Fire starter, but the art design for these starters is not great.

@Anti-Matter Let's hope it's not a Game Key Card then, for your sake.

@FishyS The fact that it zoomed in on the ball implies that it was probably an in-battle capture.

@FishyS Yeah I was wondering that as well, I'm hoping they do bring in overworld captures from the Legends games. It's just too convenient a feature not to do.

Please Arceus no. I am very concerned about some of the details in terms of how you can buy the game. GKCs is one, the other is that they might charge $80 for this. Hopefully neither of those happen, I'd strongly prefer a $70, fully physical release.

Brout is the bean chick pokemon, Pombon is the puppy pokemon, and *Gequa*is the water gecko pokemon.

I'm a bit concerned about how they cut to black before showing the underwater section. That might indicate that it is separate. It could just have been for dramatic effect, but I don't know. Perhaps they need to separate it to keep a stable frame rate.

Browt is my personality now.