Nintendo have confirmed the Pokemon Typing release date. Yes, Learn With Pokemon Typing Adventure will be released in the UK on 21 September
If Learn With Pokemon Typing Adventure sounds a bit educational, you should know that speed typing along with games can be very intense. Anyone who has played Typing Of The Dead will be able to tell you that. Except rather than zombies lurching towards you as you type, this time you'll be faced with a smiley Pikachu.
Another reason for buying is to get hold of a DS keyboard which will be bundled with the game which features over 400 Pokemon, including many Legendaries.
The premise is amazing. As the latest recruit of the Elite Typists' Club, it is your duty to accurately type the names of any Pokemon you come across on your journey to help Professor Quentin Werty and his assistant Paige Down (see what they've done there) with their research.
It begins very gently with early levels tasking you to type the first letter of a Pokemon's name before moving you on to much trickier exercises as your typing skills develop. You'll also benefit from lessons on finger placement as well as other tips to improve the accuracy and speed of your typing.
As you improve, you'll build up combos and earn high scores that will improve your overall typist rank. As you progress, you will be able to unlock up to 60 different, challenging levels and go in search of rarer Pokemon to study and up to 180 medals to collect.
Learn With Pokemon: Typing Adventure comes with a special Nintendo Wireless Keyboard which is also compatible with other Bluetooth products. The package also includes the Nintendo DS Compact Stand that can be used to hold your DSi, DSi XL, 3DS or 3DS XL system as you type on the keyboard.
I know it won't since it works using Bluetooth, but I really wish you could also use the keyboard while on the browser and everything. It'd make things so much easier.
Is there any reason they couldn't update it so the browser could recognise the keyboard or is the bluetooth enabler inside the DS cartridge?
I can hardly wait.
I'm kinda looking forward to this more than Black/White 2.
I read somewhere that you can use it for an iPhone, Android, mobile devices so hopefully!
Didn't know this was planned for a western release. I'll hold off importing it now.
Sounds really good but unfortunately I need to start saving up for the Wii U and apart from NSMB2 and pokémon black/white 2 I won't be getting more new games
While I'm not that interested in the title itself, I'm rather excited by what it means for future localisations. A number of "japanese" games that I thought would never see on western shores are getting released here.
First, Theatrhythm Final Fantasy - When I first saw it via last december's Japanese Nintendo Direct, I thought that a rhythm-action game based on Japan's best loved RPG series (then again that might be Dragon Quest - may have to look into that...) with a simplistic cutesy art style would be too niche to warrant a western release. However, I now find that it hasn't left my 3DS since getting it the best part of a week after it came out.
Then Pokemon Conquest - similar story. When it was reported that this Pokemon crossover with Nobunaga's Amibiton (a series which had never seen a release outside of Japan before), we can all admit that we thought it would never come here in a million years. A few months and name change later, Pokemon Conquest is on the shelves.
Now this.
Granted, a cynical chap would say its only because it's "Pokemon" and therefore fans (of which there are thousands) will automatically buy it regardless of if it's any good or not, and I'd suspect the same would go for Final Fantasy (Theatrhythm did enter the 3DS chart at #1 after all), but I'd like to think that it's an indication that the catural divide between Europe and Japan is getting smaller and smaller. Just look at those three new and largely unknown Japanese RPGs that Nintendo published and got an, initially, exclusive translation for Europe.
Being an optimistic sort of fellow, I'd hope that this is indeed an indication that in the future we get to see the more indigenous Japanese titles, like Project X Zone, that people think will never get released here.
jesus christ you write a lot
Wouldn't be the first time I got that reaction.
Preorder price has arrived at Play.com Ł37.99 and TescoEntertainment Ł39.99. (doesn't seem too bad considering the price of a decent bluetooth keayboard)
I'd be interested to know how large the keyboard actually is, I've got thin fingers but I'd still like to know if the skills learnt would be able to translate easily to a full size PC keyboard.