The connections between the Paldea region of Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Purple and the real world have always been very visible, but it will be from 2023 when we break the barrier that separates them: Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have begun to break down the plans of face to connect the Nintendo Switch game with Pokémon Go. Moreover, thanks to this we can obtain a very unique form of Pokémon: Gimmighoul Forma Andante.
Taking advantage of the revelation of the new Ghost-type Vault Pokémon, The Pokémon Company offered a new preview starring two very particular characters: Professor Willow himself from Pokémon Go and Cinio, our tutor at the Plateau City Academy in the Scarlet and Purple editions. The topic of conversation: the two forms of Gimmighoul.
The new Pokémon from Paldea that we can capture in Pokémon GO
To date they have shown nothing less than 21 new Pokémon species will debut in the ninth generation through the editions of Scarlet and Purple. However, it must be recognized that Gimmighoul is especially peculiar: its shape is reminiscent of a spoon with very Martian features, although in the game we will not see them directly: they usually hide in huge chests.
As told in Paldea, Gimmighoul inhabits sturdy chests for hiding and protection. Chests, by the way, full of coins: This Ghost-type Pokémon uses its spectral energy so that people and other Pokémon in the vicinity collect the coins in the vicinity and add them to the small fortune it accumulates in its chest.
Something very own, since Pokemon Scarlet and Purple it is literally one big treasure hunt.
A very unique quality, of course, that is presented to us through ‘And those mysterious coins?’, a nice suspense story. A belated Halloween giveaway from Nintendo that you can see just above.
The most curious thing about this is that in this story something very unique is revealed: Gimmighoul lives in the hidden chests of Paldea in sparsely inhabited areas, but also there is an alternate way loose in the real world, that we will be able to capture through the Augmented Reality system of our mobiles and that, at the latest, in a few months we will be able to take it to the Nintendo Switch game.
What we know about the connection between Pokémon Go and the Scarlet and Purple editions
In addition to the Gimmighoul that lives in the chests of Scarlet and Purple, The Pokémon Company has advanced that there is also a walking form. His design is very similar, although instead of bathing in coins he carries only one on his back, which gives him much greater mobility. However, the biggest peculiarity of this one is that we will not capture it in Paldea, but In the real world.
It’s not that he doesn’t appear in the game, but Nintendo anticipates that no trainer has been able to capture him so far as he is very elusive, although if we run into him it is very possible that we will end up receiving a reward. So how can we add him to our team? The idea is that it be an additional incentive for an even more interesting initiative: taking the contents of Pokémon Go to the editions Scarlet and Purple.
It is foreseen that Gimmighoul (Form Andante) appear in Pokémon GO in the future. Most likely in the form of a special event, although we don’t know if it will coincide with the Switch game’s launch or in the not-too-distant future. However, Nintendo has already warned that we will have to wait until 2023 in order to access this function.
From here the question of rigor: How to send Pokémon from Pokémon GO to Pokémon Scarlet or Pokémon Purple? The bad news is that they cannot be sent directly from the mobile to our Nintendo Switch: the process goes through the Pokémon HOME application.
Pokémon Home is an application shared by all recent Pokémon installments using our Nintendo account. It was enabled with Pokémon Sword and Shield and the process for this new installment is expected to be very similar, if not the same, although it will not be available together with the launch of the editions. Scarlet and Purple.
The Pokémon Company has not set specific dates for the new installment, but has advanced that the compatibility of Pokemon Scarlet and Pokemon Purple with Pokémon HOME it will arrive sometime in 2023. Posts to speculate, at the beginning of the year or at the end of February in order to coincide with pokemon day and the franchise anniversary celebration. Although, as we say, nothing has been announced.
From the Pokémon Bank to the Pokémon Home service (and its Premium options)
It is not the first time that Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have wrapped up the launch of a new installment on Switch with a special collaboration with Pokémon Go. What’s more, in 2018 Meltan and Melmetan were designed as an additional claim, so that we could also enjoy it in Pokémon Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! But what exactly is Pokémon Home? and the most important, It’s free?
Pokémon Home is a service that centralizes in a cloud server up to 30 of our Pokémon captured in Pokémon Go, Pokémon Sword, Shield, Let’s Go, Pikachu! y Let’s Go, Eevee!. Also, if we are subscribers to the plan premium From Pokémon HOME we will access new advantages, a larger warehouse and it even lets us transfer what we have stored in the Pokémon Bank from deliveries of previous systems, such as Pokémon Sun and Moon from 3DS.
El plan premium of Pokémon HOME is valued at three rates: 2.99 dollars for 30 days, 4.99 dollars for 90 days (about three months) or 15.99 dollars for a whole year (365 days). Is it worth spending them? Here is the breakdown of services included.
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Basic Plan |
Plan Premium |
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|---|---|---|
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capacity for pokemon |
30 |
6000 |
|
Prodigious box capacity |
3 |
10 |
|
Moving Pokémon from the Pokémon Bank |
Not available |
Available |
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GTS CAPACITY |
1 |
3 |
|
group exchange |
To participate |
Participate and create groups |
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Judge role |
Not available |
Available |
From here a nuance for the future Pokemon Scarlet and Purple: To date, when a Pokémon is transferred from Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! o Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! a Sword Pokemon or Shield Pokemon, you can’t go back to your original game. Logically, it is possible to freely transfer between compatible editions (from Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! to Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! and vice versa). It will be time to see what happens in this new open world installment.
The countdown begins for Pokémon Scarlet and Purple
The Pokémon Company has never been so transparent with a new Pokémon installment, and that’s a good thing: instead of the secrecy usual has been explaining everything that will make the ninth generation of Pokémon different from the previous ones and has strategically reserved surprises. Including the evolutions of the three initial Pokémon.
It is expected that Pokemon Scarlet and Purple be the top console sellers of a Nintendo Switch that, unlike the new generation consoles, has not stopped receiving great games every month and throughout the year. Only in 2022 have we received new installments of Splatoon, Xenoblade Chronicles, Kirby or Mario + Rabbids. And not only that: he started the year with a Pokémon Legends: Arceus that soon razed sales, distancing himself from the traditional formula.
Pokemon Scarlet and Purple It preserves the essentials of the classics and, definitely, it is far from offering the best graphics of a Switch capable of moving DOOM Eternal, The Witcher or Monster Hunter Rise, but its great milestone does not go through its presentation, but because of how it is will fill you with a sense of adventure and discovery to a well-loved saga that had been stuck in the same formulas for too long.
That, in addition, in a future to be specified we can take all those Pokémon that we capture with our mobile in the real world makes Pokemon Scarlet and Purple score extra points before you’ve launched. Now it only remains for him to meet the enormous expectations placed on him, which are not few.
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