Black and White Sequels: [Black 2 - White 2] News Thread

[ReignOfComputer]

POKÉMON BLACK VERSION 2 & POKÉMON WHITE VERSION 2 ANNOUNCED FOR EUROPE

Two New Highly Anticipated Pokémon Video Games Coming To Europe This Autumn

27th February 2012 – Pokémon™ Black Version and Pokémon™ White Version video games hit European stores in March 2011 and within 10 days on sale had exceeded one million units*. Coming off the record-breaking popularity of these games Nintendo of Europe announces today that two new Pokémon titles, Pokémon™ Black Version 2 and Pokémon™ White Version 2, are coming to Europe in Autumn 2012. Fans can anticipate plenty of new surprises when the games launch this year.

Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2 will be available for the Nintendo DS™ family of systems. The games can also be played on Nintendo 3DS™ in 2D. More game details will be announced throughout the year. For more information and a first look at new character art of Black Kyurem and White Kyurem from Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2, visit www.pokemon.co.uk.

Nintendo fans can also keep up to date with exclusive new game information and official Nintendo announcements by following the newly launched official Nintendo of Europe Twitter feed @NintendoEurope

Brand new #Pokémon Black Version 2 & Pokémon White Version 2 for #NintendoDS coming to Europe this Autumn http://bit.ly/kbUYRb

Pokémon Black 2/White 2 Official UK Page: http://www.pokemon.com/uk/pokemon-bl...ite-version-2/

Looks like the game is going to reach Europe in Autumn. That's a considerably short localization period compared to previous games.

[Guested]

Looks like the game is going to reach Europe in Autumn. That's a considerably short localization period compared to previous games.

That IS quite fast, but keep in mind a lot of the time inbetween releases isn't ALL spend translating the games. The major factor in deciding a release date is market timing. But that's still quite fast, especially for Pokemon.

[benbass]

im just hoping that we can travel from mistralton airport(when storyline is completed) and go to all the other regions....now that would make for a good game

[Klaatu]

The idea of "all the regions in one game" has been around since there was more than 2. And I still don't understand why people think it would be any good.


I do think the airport will be used like the magnet train for gen 6 which I'm guessing to be closely related to gen 5.
Or something. It should bring is to some new location in BW2 at least though, yeah. Not old regions, we've been there, and more than once, why would they drain the rest of their greatness by adding boring rushed versions of them into games that don't focus on them?

[Conri]

Didn't they also confirm them being released in North America in Fall this year too? Also, Pokemon Smash in Japan is suppose to release more info on the 15th or 18th of this month. This is going to be awesome.

[ScientificPikachu]

I'm not sure if it's posted here, but I do have information on Kyurem's forms as stated on the covers of the new cases of the 3DS

Spoiler

Black Kyurem
Type: Dragon/Ice (still)
Height: 3.3m
Weight: 325kg
White Kyurem
Type: Dragon/Ice (nothing surprising)
Height: 3.6m
Weight: 325kg

EDIT:
You'll begin in a place called Hiougi City. There is a NEW rival, a NEW researcher named Akuroma,who researches about Pokémon strength, two NEW gym leaders, Homika and Shizui, who will represent the Poison and Water types respectively.
The Unova PokéDex will have approx. 300 entries (with Psyduck as #026, Riolu as #033 and Metagross as #254) so basically, old Pokémon will be back along with the 5th Gen Pokes.
Also this game is set 2 years after the time of Hilbert and Hilda.
It is confirmed that Black Kyurem will learn Freeze Shock and White Kyurem will learn Ice Burn.
And the Eastern portion of the Unova Region will be partially frozen.

[Guested]

The information ScientificPikachu added to his post above comes from this month's issue of Corocoro.

The games also now have a confirmed release date of June 23rd with a retail price of 4800 yen.

Magazine scans: (hotlinked from serebii.net cause I'm lazy)

Spoiler

[wraith89]

Mmm, so that would mean a little more than half of the new Unova dex would be full of some old Pokemon. Good thing because lack of Pokemon for each type in BW made it hard for any of the Gym Leaders to not be redundant with every other trainers out there... much like Hoenn's Ghost and Ice Elite Four. So this takes place in two years after BW... but what are these new towns then? Did they magically appear or something? Oh wait never mind... I see a new starting place. Interesting.

[StreetPunkism]

I would like to be able to get shiny victini/reshiram/zekrom legit, its just stupid that you cant!

[aquaguy34]

Has pages 69-71 been leaked yet?

[Nintendo1252]

Debut Trailer (Should pop up immediately after opening link): http://www.pokemon.co.jp/ex/b2w2/?a001=news

Edit: Watch higher quality of it 2 posts below.

New info the trailer reveals:

The new Water and Poison gyms
A new criminal team
Absol and Pelipper as part of the new UnovaDex
Some 2 new arenas
Regular trainers now have animated sprites
DW returns (noted to Serebii by Guested)
A battle with Keldeo is shown at the end, scene is from BW2.

[ReignOfComputer]

Also from that,

[Nigoli]

http://www.pokemon.co.jp/cf/ <- Higher Quality since the one on the site is a converted mp4 into an flv for cutting back on bandwidth.
Mirror 750k flv <- for Untampered Framerates

[ScientificPikachu]

Absol and Pelipper as part of the new UnovaDex

Probably old Pokémon that appears in BW might be part of the new UnovaDex. (Solrock, Lunatone, Drifblim, and etc.)

Some 2 new arenas

Possibly a new Battle Frontier Facility?

And did somebody mention that these two games are still compatible with the Dream World?

Spoiler

Because it is.

Pokémon Black 2 & White 2 - Global Link Compatibility Confirmed

The official site has recently updated and has stated that the new battle season on the Global Battle Union will have a temporary pause during the duration and is scheduled to end ssometime in June. It is announced that this pause is due to the Global Link going down during June in order for a renovation based upon the inclusion of Pokémon Black 2 & Pokémon White 2. It is currently unknown how much will change and what features will be added for these games nor do we know how long the maintenance will be but as soon as we do.

[Guested]

And did somebody mention that these two games are still compatible with the Dream World?

I was the one who told Serebii that.