First Pokémon Heart Gold & Soul Silver footage appears

Aw come on! No battle footage!?

Oh, and first.

I have never seen walking-in-circles footage of this quality. Nintendo is always setting the bar.

If you want to see battle footage, just pop in Diamond/Pearl. It's going to be (basically) the same thing I bet.

Hopefully you can choose what pokemon follows you, not just your starter.
and that' is awesome that at least your starter follows you, that was one of the main reasons I got yellow way back when.

That looks like a fake video from youtube.com. I have seen many of them. Most likely stills from Platinum. Unless Nintendo officially releases info, I wouldn't believe it, especially anything from youtube.

@Danny August - I took an excerpt from this TV show, for the sake of brevity. Believe what you will.

@Adam: I love your comment!

@Moai Head - Possibly, I have seen too many vids on youtube to believe much from it..Never know though...thanks for the insight though...

@Alegeobla: I'm guessing you meant to say "breeding." No reason it wouldn't be there, since Gold & Silver were the first Pokemon games to have the feature in the first place. It sure makes getting all the starter Pokemon a heck of a lot easier than it was in Red & Blue (provided you have at least 2 friends playing the game and all 3 of you pick different starters, of course)!

@Adam: lol, right on the money. they could've at least shown some circles in multiple locations, like a trainer gym or out in the water or something.

If you want to see battle footage, just pop in Diamond/Pearl. It's going to be (basically) the same thing I bet.
I hope it isn't. For some reason DP seems to take the decaying speed of Pokemon battles to a new level with this weird pause/input lag after every little thing. It really doesn't help when you have cases of the game telling you it is raining then showing you the animation. Why not do both at the same time?

The slowness of battles is what really killed Pokemon for me.

I k have to admit the battles in D/P were slow, but Platinums battles were a bit faster.

Japan tourist tip #412
Japanese take their Pokemon seriously, so every sunday you will have to watch Pokemon Sunday. A show where a bunch of adults wear metallic outfits or dress up as Pokemon and talk about Pokemon.
Okay Japan. youve got our attention, you can stop with the ridicoulous TV programing.

awesome that the pokemon actually follow you,its just like back in Pokemon Yellow!now i want my Lugia to follow me

@Starwolf_UK
If you don't like the speed of animations slowing down the battles, then may I suggest turning them off in the Options menu?

I wonder if the feature involving your Starter following you is just for Professor Elm's errand, and the Pokemon is placed inside a Poke Ball after the errand is finished (possibly to stop Silver from stealing it).

Also, I wonder if Crystal (or Kris) is a character option for girls in HeartSoul (or HS for short, my name for the remakes; an homage to GS); I'd be surprised if Gold was the only option, since Leaf was an option for girls in ElementChrome, and the GS series introduced a female character (specifically the Crystal Version).

Hopefully, knowing Ninty we'll have more footage soon. I wanna see this game in action! YEEEEAAAAGH!
Got too excited!

If you don't like the speed of animations slowing down the battles, then may I suggest turning them off in the Options menu?
Turning animations off doesn't actually turn off all the animations (the battle start up complete with the pokemon doing the dances, the pokemon going back into the pokeball, the pokeballs being thrown etc...). Plus it does nothing for all the pauses/input lag that seem to exist in the game.

In short, even with animations off (and text at fastest) it is still too slow.

If you want to see how it could play out I suggest you get Dragon Quest: Chapter of the Chosen for DS and set the battle message speed to 1. Probably the best thing is the text automatically scrolls so no pressing A every 10 words.

I heard on bulbapedia that someone else will replace Kris as the female character.

It may have been brief but it still looks soooooo awesome.

"It really doesn't help when you have cases of the game telling you it is raining then showing you the animation. Why not do both at the same time?"

I'd like them to do one better than that. If it's raining or any other weather effect is going on, they should show it continuously through the battle until it wears off (if it does). Then there's no need for "rain continues to fall" every turn with an animation, because you would be able to see that's raining (or hailing or sandstorming) constantly.

Another thing I'd like to see them change is the way double team works for certain moves. If I can hit both opponents with a single move in a double battle (Razor Leaf or Earthquake for example), why can they still miss against a foe that used Double Team? If the moves can hit more than one enemy at once, surely they can hit all of the illusionary copies and the actual Pokémon at the same time.

Really looking forward to this game!

the option to have a pokemon follow you make the news for this game even better

Here are some coro coro scans,
http://pokemonplatinum.net/~timf/hgss/coro1.jpg
http://pokemonplatinum.net/~timf/hgss/coro3.jpg
http://pokemonplatinum.net/~timf/hgss/coro4.jpg
http://pokemonplatinum.net/~timf/hgss/coro6.jpg
http://pokemonplatinum.net/~timf/hgss/coro8.jpg

Awesome! I remember getting this on Import back in November 2000 when someone got hold of them. Great games but unfortunately the SIlver Versions have the tendency of the battery life dying sooner rather then later

The music along made me cry nostalgic tears of joy! And finally your little dude gets to walk with you! Diamond & Pearl may have been disappointments, but these surely won't!

Nintendo has shown multiple times that they don't mind remaking old (Pokemon) games with improved graphics. With that in mind, how come the Powers that Be don't see fit to make remakes of other popular games, of the old school variety. (I'm looking at you, Super Metroid and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.)

I know that Pokemon has a rabid fan-following, so it's a no brainer to remake them. But, come on Nintendo, if you're going to recycle old games, go for more classics! Punch Out!! is proving a huge success, so... ya know... throw us a bone here. ^_