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And they look exciting!

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To add on to the earlier announcement, Coro Coro scans have leaked, and it looks exciting.

Let's start with the scans, courtesy of Pokebeach: Page 1 and Page 2. Close-up: PokeCenter, Town, Some locations, a cave and the battle.

What's there to see? Well, a lot of it is, of course, up to interpretation, but we'll do our best. Perhaps we'll get some slightly higher quality shots with the upcoming Pokemon Sunday episode. Let's hope so. There's more coming for sure.

First, what stands out in the screenshots is that the angle is different from the fourth generation game, with the angle lower. While the Pokecenter looks to have a similar design on the outside, we see it from an angle and more from the front. Might we be able to manipulate the camera now? The tall buildings in the screenshot look imposing for sure.

The inside of the Pokecenter is somewhat similar to before, with similar cosmetic changes as before. The one floor design, similar to how HeartGold and SoulSilver changed the place of the wireless connections in there, is interesting. More cosmetically fascinating, however, is the word balloon setup - we can now see which NPC is talking! As if that weren't clear before...

There's a new building design, of course, in a new town, not much has changed there, a cave that's somewhat similar, and a new cycling road. The graphics themselves, while being refreshed, don't seem to be as much of an upgrade as previous generations have offered, possibly because both generations are set to run on the Nintendo DS. The angle change will, however, undoubtably proof to be refreshing.

As for our new male protagonist... White doesn't suit you, boy. Doesn't make you look very masculine. I thought that might be the female sprite at first.

Next, page 2 offers a small insight into the battling system. No new Pokemon, but we get to see Zoroark's back now. Notable is that we see all of him now, rather than just the top of the Pokemon as previous games did. Just a graphical update, it seems, but one that could prove to be fascinating.

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