Battle Alongside Your Favourite Trainers In DeNA's New Mobile Game Pokémon Masters

Ok, now THIS is cool. Glad they’re putting effort into making exciting mobile games instead of GO 2. It’s also not completely outrageous like the Sleep thing.

Great, now make sure to include these trainers in Sword and
Shield, or the fanbase will go insane.

This is probably the only mobile game in history that I'm excited for

I never understood why people are so happy to see these trainers again.
You don't fight them, you fight their Pokemon that multiple trainers have so they aren't unique and the trainers themselves don't really have any character/personality to them at all.

Going all in on the mobile I see. Not surprised but I’ve yet to play a Pokémon mobile game more than twice. When you get older it becomes less about catching ‘em all and more about the journey and adventure itself.

This could be interesting. I hope it has some connectivity with Pokemon Go and Sword/Shield. One thing I have always loved about the series was cross-compatibility between the games.

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this could be promising. can't wait to hear more soon

@Xaessya They have voice actors in this game, so now there's even more reason to look forward to seeing these characters again. Okay, they'll just use anime VAs for characters that been in the anime before but for your obscure game only characters, kinda a big deal.

In the original Pokémon game, Professor Oak is who welcomes us to the world of Pokémon.

Now it's his grandson who welcomes us to Pokémon Masters... Awesome.

@penamiguel92 Or heck, just port it to Switch. Not like you can't turn the Switch around like a phone...

Brock is pretty ripped. He'd actually have a shot with Nurse Joy if only he'd open his eyes every once in a while.

Brock Solid, yo.

This feels pretty fanservice-y, even for a Pokemon title, but I can't say I'm not interested. It was really cool to see returning characters in Sun and Moon, and having a game dedicated to interacting with them seems cool. I need to see the gameplay and monetization to get a real opinion on it. If nothing else, I wouldn't mind this happening in the main games, especially with other MC's like Red and Blue.

Im on the fence about this. They'd have been much better off going the Moba route with pokemon imo. But here we are, getting... whatever this is. It reminds me of Yokai watch, strangely enough. Ah well...

With the emphasis on the characters, I get the feeling that this is going to strongly follow the FE:H formula.

That style battle...
Pokemon Battrio / Tretta, are you?!

Now THIS is a must have Pokémon mobile game, a really ambitious "core" Pokémon game on mobile that has every trainer from every region thus far, yet they'll reveal more info in just one month... Maybe on a Pokémon-related panel at E3?
Also, voice acting?! They really seem to be pushing the mainline series this year!

3 on 3 battles?

Shirtless Brock doing a DragonBall charge?

Not sure where this is going.

I'm not supporting ANOTHER Nintendo gacha which is what this looks like so I'm not interested

Looks like Brock decided he had enough of that shirts nonsense and went back to his roots.

I have a strong suspicion the new trainers will be unlocked in a gacha manner.

So basically the Pokémon version of Fire Emblem Heroes, I'm actually surprised they didn't come up with it before lmao

That sounds promising anyway

This and Pokemon Home were the only good things announced at that conference.

This legitimately looks great

@ThatNyteDaez funnily enough for some reason it reminds me of that "cards" based Dragon Ball World Heroes(iirc the name?) that released on Switch this year where the cards were not abilities but rather mostly characters fighting on this sort of top down face-to-face grid against each other.

The pre-Switch version was apparently kinda unique as though you used actual physical cards to collect characters, ...the cards were used to interact with an Arcade machine where you would actually control the actual "party"/deck of Dragon Ball characters against another player in a PvP bout iirc what I read.

In a fashion the original thing would be comparable to a kind of like a hockey game arcade boot where your team of players depended on whose cards you physically owned except it was a turn based dragon Ball character battle.

This feel like that anyhow except Dragon Ball fighters are replaced by Pokemon Trainer and it's entirely mobile without the need for physical cards(which, when you think about it, random "booster packs" are the "original" pre-video games gacha-style mechanic considering how most cards pack were just as much randomized without guarantees regarding the strenght of the cards you'd actually get in the decks you purchased usually iirc).

@NinjaWaddleDee tbh as soon as they confirmed Sword and Shield infos would be exclusive to the Direct, I figured this would be primarily a "business"-type event primarily aimed at investors who never followed the core game but wasn't reassurances of more of that mobile GO money(and would have cried a hissfit if this focused too much at "outdated" non-mobile phone games) rather than gamers who'll likely get everything they want/are interested in from the upcoming dedicated Direct. Especially when you consider the content of a dedicated core game Direct would likely only just confuse "investor types" who would likely try to "armchair developer"-ing asks tons of question asking why the game would be "so different from wildly popular pokemon GO?" without concerns about the possible differences in markets.

In a odd way this weirdly reassured me since the core game still get a dedicated Direct for the core fans while the investors preemptively got plenty shiny babble to keep them distracted from trying mess with the core game or going into stocks-dropping "why is it not like Pokemon Go???" panics like Nintendo often got in the past from refusing to immediately/ instantly support mobile gaming in the past.

Which now make me wonder if all that talk about Nintendo's mobile growth when it's still such a minute part of their business might be just that; a distraction to keep investors distracted and away from their core business while still making some money on the side even as they continue making plenty of "core" games.

If this were on Switch I'd be all over it. Sorry but I really don't like using my phone as a gaming device and I just wish mobile gaming would.. stop.

Whatever though. Enjoy, everyone who does like playing games on mobile!

Ugh. Would prefer a real game over phone crap

I'm looking forward to all of those classic trainers get full 3D models. I really hope Kris (Marina in the anime) gets the attention she deserves. She was the first female playable character and she has been mostly shelved.

Oh and hello "Waaaah, No phone game" people. Your tears are delicious.