Game Freak Worried About Core Battle Systems Changing

**Steve** (0:15)
What's up, everyone? Welcome to the 735th episode.

**Austin** (0:23)
Yep.

**Steve** (0:24)
That's right. Somehow, every time I start the show, my notes are not in front of me. 735, I'm your host, Steve, but with me is Bobby.

**Bobby** (0:33)
Hello. I was just seeing a little bit of talk about how to pronounce a specific Pokemon name, so I thought I'd come in here and start it off that way. I believe Girafarig evolves into Farigaraf.
Correct me if I'm wrong?

**Steve** (0:49)
Yes. That's what I would believe.

**Austin** (0:51)
How else would you say it? Faridge.

**Steve** (0:54)
Faridge Giraffe?

**Austin** (0:56)
Because Giraffe. But I think it's Rig.

**Steve** (0:59)
Yes. Austin.

**Austin** (1:03)
It is currently storming outside, so if I randomly disappear at any point, power went out. Welcome in.

**Bobby** (1:13)
I don't know why I was picturing you disappearing, but your video still being there?

**Austin** (1:18)
I turned into Criss Angel overnight. I just disappear.

**Steve** (1:22)
Farigaraf.

**Bobby** (1:25)
Good. Glad we got that confirmed.

**Austin** (1:27)
Thank you.

**Steve** (1:28)
The Dunsparce. King Gambit. Great Tusk. Those are your Pokemon in the Pokedex order.
Here's our show. This is the last episode before the World Championships in San Francisco. If you are going to be at Worlds, very excited to see you. If you are, that'll be our second segment of the show. The first segment is going to be talking about Pokemon Champions. We have the man, the myth, the legend, Hoshino loves to do an interview, and boy, did he do another interview.

**Austin** (2:05)
We love reading them.

**Bobby** (2:06)
We do.

**Steve** (2:08)
Our Japanese has gotten so good reading Hoshino after a Hoshino interview. Game Freak also did an interview, I guess. They did a little video thing that was also translated. I will put an asterisk here on both translations. Could have some errors in it, and I'm sure we'll find out in six months that they actually meant this and not that.
Then we'll circle back to it. Second segment, like I said, Pokemon XP news related to that. Then our third segment, we have TCG Pocket, new expansion. There's going to be a new Polaroid camera coming out, three new Polaroid cameras coming out actually. And then for our bonus segment, we'll do some Pokemon Sleep. And then Costco has the Stern Pinball Table, but it's not the same Stern Pinball Tables that they announced. They're different Stern Pin. We'll talk about what if you have a Costco membership. One, you could afford our Patreon premium bonus content for $5 a month, patreon.com/pkmncast.
That's think of us like a budget Costco.

**Bobby** (3:24)
Yeah, budget, isn't Costco already like a budget?
Any other store, even more budget. I don't know.

**Steve** (3:31)
Costco feels really like nice and kind of premium when you walk in.

**Bobby** (3:35)
Well, you have to have a membership, I guess.

**Austin** (3:37)
Yeah, that's right.

**Steve** (3:39)
That's right. So if you want to hear Pokemon Sleep and you want to hear to talk about the Stern Pinball Table, that's not the three that they announced before, but is maybe a new one for Costco.
We can tell you all about that after the credits.

**Bobby** (3:51)
I really hope it's a Kirkland branded Stern Pinball Table.

**Steve** (3:57)
The reason it's cheaper is just branded with Kirkland everywhere. Okay, let's dive into this Pokemon Champions Hoshino interview.
Hoshino did an interview with Famitsu, which is a Japanese magazine. It's like Japan's Game Informer, except they didn't shut down and then start back up and I didn't know what's happening with Game Informer anymore. Can you sell, Bobby, you were at GameStop and you were a pro member. Were you still getting a Game Informer at one point?

**Bobby** (4:36)
All right, all right, hold on. I'm not a pro member anymore. I don't shop at GameStop anymore.
If you do, it's fine, but I don't like, I don't shop there. No, I think that that stopped. If I remember correctly, the last time I was a pro member, I did not get any Game Informer. Oh no, did it come back? Because it came back again. Maybe it did come back.

**Austin** (4:59)
Wasn't it digital for a little bit too?

**Bobby** (5:02)
Yes, there was a time I think where there were no physical, you weren't getting physical magazines. Yeah, Game Informer has been through a lot.

**Steve** (5:10)
It's back though. I believe it is.

**Bobby** (5:12)
It currently is back, but I don't know if it's also part of the pro membership at GameStop anymore. But I do believe it's currently issuing issues.

**Steve** (5:26)
Fumitsu was one of the reviewers that I think how their review system works is it's out of 40, but they take four different reviewers and then they can each give them a 10 So if your game was a 40 out of 40, that was like the highest praise in the world because all four people gave it a 10