Pokemon Legends Arceus – SoraNews24 —Japan News— https://soranews24.com Bringing you yesterday's news from Japan and Asia, today. Fri, 04 Mar 2022 13:00:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/05/en_rocket_1024.png?w=32 Pokemon Legends Arceus – SoraNews24 —Japan News— https://soranews24.com 32 32 176746664 This is chalk?!? Yep, and it’s a touching Pokémon goodbye from a Japanese teacher to his students https://soranews24.com/2022/03/04/this-is-chalk-yep-and-its-a-touching-pokemon-goodbye-from-a-japanese-teacher-to-his-students/ https://soranews24.com/2022/03/04/this-is-chalk-yep-and-its-a-touching-pokemon-goodbye-from-a-japanese-teacher-to-his-students/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2022 13:00:20 +0000 https://soranews24.com/?p=579552 
Teacher bookends three years with his class with two stunning pieces of chalkboard art.
Because the Japanese school year both starts and ends in spring, third-year students in middle and high schools are getting set to graduate over the coming weeks. Moving on to the next stage of life, whether it’s continuing education or joining the workforce, can be a scary step, but it’s also the start of a grand adventure, with all sorts of possibilities waiting for those who are brave enough to chase after their dreams.
With the time to say goodbye to his third-years coming up fast, Japanese art teacher and Twitter user @wistariavillage wanted to remind his students of all that, and naturally he chose to do that visually. So after all the school’s students had gone home for the day, @wistariavillage stayed behind, wiped his classroom’s board clean, and started drawing, so that the next time his students walked into class, this was waiting for them.
▼ “Set forth on your new adventures!” @wistariavillage says.
三年前に入学式でドラクエの黒板アート描いて入学を祝った生徒たちが今日巣立っていきました。今回はこれ！新しい冒険に旅立て！#黒板アート #ポケモン #卒業おめでとう！ pic.twitter.com/TDaoFKZE74
— TOSON’S（トーソン） (@wistariavillage) March 1, 2022
That’s the cover artwork for the latest game in the Pokémon franchise, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, reproduced in amazing detail. And while the game’s Hisui region is a wild, forestry environment, the green borders on @wistariavillage’s artwork aren’t something he added to give the impression of vegetation. They’re simply the sections of the chalkboard he didn’t use.
Yes, the chalkboard. @wistariavillage didn’t do this with dry-erase markers on a whiteboard, but instead drew the entire thing with chalk.
It’s not just the skill that’s impressive, but the speed too. @wistariavillage didn’t do the drawing over a weekend or school holiday. Between staying late after work and arriving the next day as soon as staff could get into the school, he managed to get everything done in seven hours, applying the last strokes of chalk just four minutes before students started showing up.
▼ A work-in-progress shot of where @wistariavillage stopped on the first day
こんなにたくさんの方に見ていただくのは初めてなのでビビってます。制作途中、昨日帰るまではこんな感じでした。手前さえ何とかすれば、後はどうにか形になると頑張っていた時です。ここから2時間で死に物狂いで仕上げました！実際の色は少しくすんだ感じですね。 pic.twitter.com/ZYDugja3Et
— TOSON’S（トーソン） (@wistariavillage) March 1, 2022
Oh, and the story gets sweeter still. Those third-years who are graduating this month? Three years ago, to celebrate the friendships they’d be forming with their new schoolmates, @wistariavillage drew the cast of Dragon Quest XI for his students.
新入生とともに頑張るぞということでお祝いの黒板アート描いてみました！冒険の旅に出発です！#黒板アート #ドラゴンクエスト pic.twitter.com/OYLmiTNlOb
— TOSON’S（トーソン） (@wistariavillage) April 10, 2019
“Because of the pandemic, we haven’t been able to hold fun school events for the students as often as we usually would, so at the very least, I wanted to give them a place where they could pose for photos together today,” says @wistariavillage of his Pokémon chalkboard art, but it’s a safe bet that the memory of a teacher’s kind gesture will last a lot longer than a day.
Source: Twitter/@wistariavillage via Jin
Top image: Twitter/@wistariavillage
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If you’re so bad at action games that even you non-gamer spouse clowns on you, will you still have fun with the newest Pokémon game?
“Do you want to play the new Pokémon game before it goes on sale?” should be a rhetorical question. Honestly, the answer to even “Do you want to play the new Pokémon game?” is an obvious “Yes” to most fans, so getting to try out Pokémon Legends: Arceus ahead of its official release date is just the cherry on top of the Poké-parfait, right?
And yet, when presented with an opportunity to do just that, our Japanese-language reporter P.K. Sanjun said “Thanks, but I think I’ll pass.” We were all baffled by this. The guy is an unabashed Pokémon fan, and one of the most dedicated Pokémon GO players in Japan. He’s also played plenty of video games in his life, starting with the Famicom/NES and continuing on through the 16 and 32-bit eras, with one of his greatest gamer boasts being his ability to beat rhythm game Bust a Groove without missing a single beat.
▼ And yes, that’s a PaRappa the Rapper toaster in the Soranews24 office.
But while P.K. doesn’t have anything against video games in general, he absolutely hates analog sticks. He finds them so awkward that after watching him clumsily spinning around and firing his gun into the ceiling during an hour-long Star Wars Battlefront II session, P.K.’s wife declared him “So terrible at analog-stick games that it makes me want to throw up.”
Since Pokémon Legends: Arceus is an action RPG, and the first game in the franchise fully set in a real-time, 3-D environment, you have to use the analog sticks to play it, and that’s what had P.K. worried. But his initial “No thanks” was overruled by the rest of us, since the Pokémon Company had invited P.K. specifically and he was now our only source of a sneak preview, so off he went.
Once P.K. arrived at the play test venue, he was directed to his seat at a monitor with a Nintendo Switch. He started the game up, and he was instantly enthralled by the beauty of the Hisui region (as the Pokémon world’s Sinnoh region is called in the time period when Arceus takes place). As he gingerly fiddled with the analog sticks to move his character and the camera, he noticed there were grassy fields, rocky mountains, and an inviting alpine stream in the immediate area.
And there were Pokémon, too! Right away, P.K. recognized some Buizels hanging out by the river, as you’d expect Water-types to do.
P.K. decided to mosey on over and see how he could interact with the cute creat- Wait, Buizel, what are you doing?!?
▼ “Sho [P.K.(s character’s name] blacked out.”
P.K. was equal parts heartbroken and terrified. The very first Pokémon he’d approached, basically the games’ equivalent of a sea otter or weasel, had killed him, showing absolutely no mercy despite his inexperience and goodwill.
For purposes of the playtest, the Pokémon Company had assigned an attendant to watch over P.K., and he was quick to offer some gentle advice about how P.K. could dodge his enemies attacks. On each of the many, many subsequent times the local Poké-life beat him to a pulp, the attendant dolled out a few more pointers, such as how the best tactic is to lob your Poké Balls at the Pokémon you’re trying to capture from the side or behind, or how you can use attacks from Pokémon you’ve already captured to weaken tough foes.
Little by little, P.K. started to get the hang of things, and could survive long enough to further appreciate the flora and fauna of Hisui. He was excited to find both Drifloon and Shinx in their natural habitat. Bidoof has suddenly become one of his favorite species because it’s a peaceful Pokémon that won’t attack you unless you provoke it, and P.K. needs all the friends, or at least non-enemies, he could get in this unprecedentedly harsh, by Pokémon game standards, environment.
The goal of the playtest session was to defeat a powerful King Kleavor, and at the risk of bragging, by the time P.K. felt confident to challenge the Bug/Rock-type he was able to beat it on his very first try. Pokémon is, after all, a franchise that’s meant to be enjoyable for even elementary school-age kids, so once you get used to having to stay on your toes in real-time combat in a Pokémon game, Arceus feels like a relatively easy action RPG, at least judging from the section P.K. played.
P.K.’s favorite part of the game, though, is its ridable Pokémon!
The 3-D environment gives a dramatic sense of scale and freedom as you travel by Pokémon steed, and P.K. got rides from a Wyrdeer, Basculegion, and Braviary. Out of the three, the eagle-like Braviary was the one P.K. had the most fun with, because who wouldn’t want to fly through the skies of this fantasy realm?
Of course, P.K. couldn’t spend all day in the sky. Most of the Pokémon, special locations, and other things to discover are down on the ground, so after he’d had his fill of soaring and swooping, he figured it was time to get off, so he pressed the button to let go of the hand glider-style grip…
▼ “Sho blacked out.”
,,,and plummeted to his death.
For the first time following one of P.K.’s deaths, the Pokémon Company was as amazed at P.K.’s lack of survival skills as he himself was. After a few moments of silence the rep recovered from his shock enough to say “Umm, you…you want to make sure you’re not up too high when you let go.”
▼ Trailer for Pokémon Legends: Arceus, showing all sorts of things you can do when you’re not getting yourself constantly killed like P.K. did.
So in summary, yeah, as an action RPG Pokémon Legends: Arceus is a pretty big departure from previous games in the franchise, but it still feels like a Pokémon game, and even if you’re not normally a fan of the genre and all thumbs when using analog sticks, you’ll get used to it quickly enough that you’ll have plenty of fun with it. The really big change to keep in mind, though, is that Pokémon now has fall damage.
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Enjoy Hisui Region Pokémon in edible form!
The Pokémon Café is back at it again! This January, to celebrate the upcoming release of the Pokémon Legends Arceus game, the Pokémon Café will be offering a special limited-edition menu featuring the Pokémon that appear in the game.
The new menu includes Japanese-style dishes, drinks and desserts themed on the Pokémon of the Hisui Region. Take, for example, the “Harikiri Pikachu Plate” (1,958 yen/US$16.86). Featuring an adorable Pikachu looking over its shoulder and lots of lightning bolts, this is a beautiful plate as well as a tasty one.
Or you can take your first step in your Hisui region journey with the Rowlet, Cyndaquil and Oshawatt Oiwai Chirashi-zushi plate (2,178 yen). This dish features the three starters available in the Pokémon Legends Arceus game, so you won’t have to choose which one you want to become your companion Pokémon.
The Chirashi-zushi plate is a bargain because it comes with a special chopstick set, complete with a chopstick wrapper, as well as a unique lunchmat with its own chopstick rest.
But you will have to choose one starter Pokémon if you want one of the limited-time-only Hisui Region Sweet Drinks (1,210 yen each). These dessert drinks are themed on the three starter Pokémon and come in three different flavors: matcha milk for Rowlet, roasted green tea for Cyndaquil, and black sesame milk for Oshawott. It might be hard to choose a starter with such cute and tasty options, but that’s the first step every trainer must take!
And for dessert, you won’t have a difficult choice, because obviously you’ll want to try the Hisuian Growlithe’s Territory Pie with Matcha Cream (1,848 yen). This adorable dessert comes with two Growlithes with the trademark fluffy hairstyle of the Hisui region crouching in the tall grass, ready to pounce.
Hisuian Growlithes are serious about protecting their territory, so approach carefully. But if they like you, maybe they’ll let you get a taste of the crunchy pie!
If you’re not hungry but just want to enjoy a hot cup of coffee, look no further than the cafe’s new Pokémon Lattes (770 yen), Mocha Lattes (825 yen), and Caramel Lattes (825 yen). Those might sound good enough on their own, but you can also choose the latte art you want to go on top! There are nine different Pokémon designs, inlcuding the three starters as well as Bidoof and Lucario, so maybe your favorite will appear in latte form.
Plus, for every drink you order, you’ll get a clear coaster of a random design to take home, with 10 different designs available. If you’ve been to the Pokémon Café, you’ll also know that every diner receives a lunchmat, and in celebration of the new game coming out, there are now even more lunchmat designs to look forward to.
These new features will be available on January 28 at both the Tokyo and Osaka Pokémon Cafés. Both locations currently require reservations, so if you want to check out the new menu items, make sure to book ahead of time. With the borders still closed, reservations are easier to get than usual, so if you’re already in Japan, don’t wait to go!
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