bluesun

You missed it because I edited my VM as you were writing yours, apparently. Those new references are fairly random, considering that none of the Magma or Aqua grunts stood out. What are they doing in someone else's house? They clearly don't live there because their wives aren't with them, right? Unless they are each other's spouses...

Yanape? As in Pansage (I'm used to the Yanappu romanization)? Regardless, I haven't heard anything about such an event.

I've just noticed that the Lock Capsule event has been expanded in B2W2. Look at record number 59 in the second text dump; the first seven lines are new, but starting from the eighth line it seems that the original event is repeated. I know that Team Plasma is mentioned in one of the new lines, which is interesting due to Team Rocket's relevance to the Lock Capsule.

I'm intrigued as to the new lines, but the event as a whole is more pointless than ever now that TM95 is regularly obtainable. Speaking of Team Rocket, what's changed with the grunt that lives in Icirrus? There don't seem to be any references to Team Rocket outside the Lock Capsule event.

Oh... Most of them are indeed not Gym Leader-like at all... Only Ryuuichi, Thatcher and Illusane seem like they could be worthwhile characters. I wouldn't say I expected much better from the short introductions, but having a trainer who says "even running away to avoid losing" in a type-expert League is not appropriate at all...

Thanks for the translations!

He doesn't mention Team Plasma at all? And is it implied that Sugimori has been interested in fusion since before this generation?

I don't see how replacing all of them would have made sense story-wise... Unless they seriously considered using another region as the main setting.

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What happened after B1W1 wasn't thought about until development of B2W2.
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It shows.


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They didn't change all the Gym Leaders as they wanted to balance nostalgia with newness.
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Does he mean physical change or actually replacing the characters?

AAPF has scanned an interview with Game Freak's Toshinobu Matsumiya. Does he say anything interesting? I rather doubt it, but I hope to be pleasantly surprised.

In Generation II she said that she had foreseen the player's victory three years prior. I guess they more or less reused the line.

I wish they had made some effort to show that time has passed for these characters.

The participants have bios? In what fashion? What does Giovanni's bio say?

What does she do at the World Tournament? She isn't a participant.

What about Iris? Does she still hang out with Cynthia and the other female Unova characters?

It's good to know that Game Freak have time to add things that don't have any purpose.

Does anything change in Lacunosa Town after the events with Kyurem? There are two ladies who talk about its legend, right?

On an unrelated note, do you know what the deal is with the chamber in Village Bridge? There is a girl there who kicks the player out. I am wondering if she changes her mind when Meloetta is present (since she talks about music), but the text dump only has one notable mention of Meloetta (the Castelia event).

http://vgboy.dabomstew.com/other/BlackAndWhite.txt

I think that was someone's translations, but here's the more likely candidate quote I was thinking of:


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Cynthia: Once every couple years, the Champions of the various regions should get together and decide who is the strongest of all! Don't you think such a gathering would be amusing?
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If its accurate, then its not even every year, but may be more like the Olympics or something being held every few years.

The English line is right here as well:

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"Once every few years, the Champions of each region gather and compete to see who is the strongest! An interesting idea, don't you agree?"
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I may have actually misconstrued Cynthia's line in memory since that's likely the quote I was thinking of.

Does anything special happen once the Liepard is returned to the sister?

Awesome. Cheers!

Hey bluesun, hope you don't mind me asking you this here. But do you know whether the colour shards (red, blue, yellow, green) are programmed into BW? I'm just wondering whether I could trade them back from B2W2 to BW, really.

Serebii's Team Plasma page states that after everything is said and done, the Ex-Team Plasma members still wait for N to return. Is that really true? I don't recall asking you for Rood's final dialogue.