Monday 17 June 2013

Are we being lied to?

Gamefreak is toying with us. Virtually every pokemon has some connection to sound, from Noivern to Parting Remark to Fletchling to Battle Cry to the somewhat tenuous link to a tuning fork in Yvetal. And yet we're being drawn away from the idea of a sound type, with Noivern and Fletchling both having conmfirmed double typing and the moves belonging to pokemon with confirmed typing. This leaves two possibilities: one, we're being lied to, and all of these things will be sound type, including Yvetal. Sound  is, in the heads of Gamefreak, quite a masculine thing, so may make sense for Yvetal's typing. But when they released the first fairy type, Sylveon they released it with no typing, rather than faking it, and anyway I don't quite see the interactions of the sound type with other types, because it's not really either natural or abstract like other types. And that means a helluva lot more reshuffling, so much it'd be baffling to players. Which leads me to the second possibility: They're doing this deliberately, to send bloggers like me wild with cries of "The sound type! The sound type!" If this is all the sound there is, then the fact they've released it now means they're doing just that. Let's face it, a bit of speculation is good for business pre-launch. That's what I think is happening. If they've deliberately released fake information, I don't think i'm the only fan who'd be furious.

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