Discuss what you see.
No battle frontier
>>26574275
Are those water things next to the lava place like hotsprings or something?
>>26574464
Sluice.
I'm inclined to believe that thing in the believe is the new battle tower/maison. It looks sorta shitty but I am curious as to what the mansion is going to be (a haunted mansion perhaps?)
>>26574275
Link to better quality high res: http://pokemon.gamespress.com/releases/2056/legendary-pokmon-unveiled-for-pokmon-sun-and-pokmon-moon
It's on the right side bar.
I see rocks conveniently placed around the beaches to prevent you from surfing, and a bunch of docks. Looks like we'll be taking boats from island to island.
>>26574572
>151MB
>>26574275
>all those pokemon centers
Hello, 6th gen difficulty.
>>26574572
what the hell these things just keep getting bigger
ENHANCE
>Designated mountaintop to catch ice types
nice
>Island in the center that's either the Pokémon League or some post-game battle tower
nice
>Bell Tower replica on the big island
cool
>what looks like a fortress on the top of the big island
cool
>ferry ports on every island
good, so you can just avoid constant surfing.
only thing that's getting to me is that all the cities/towns are really cramped together. it's like there are hardly any routes inbetween them all. it'll probably be more spaced out on the game map rather than a drawing.
>>26574572
Took some screencaps too.
Some trailers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmzDL1l3Fag [Embed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn25hijDL7c [Embed]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW14HO7C1Dg [Embed]
(Link any I'm missing.)
>>26574663
>>26574275
B U L I D A W A L L
>>26574689
>>26574715
MAP SPECULATION SO FAR
>>26572749
>>26572749
>>26572749
>>26572749
THEY DID IT
I WAS ONLY SHITTING BUT THEY DID IT
>>26574275
>two elevators going up the big mountain
No Mt. Coronet-like climbing allowed I guess.
>>26574275
>forest island
>canyon island
>volcano island
>snow island
interesting
>>26574764
Well duh. Where else where they going to have a ice zone?
>>26574752
How the fuck is that shit at the bottom right a Safari Zone? There's a fucking Battle Platform literally in the water.
Water gym confirmed.
This region looks fucking huge.
>>26574752
>didn't bother circling vaguely hidden giant palm tree in the back
Do you even speculation?
>>26574816
for you
>>26574689
I guess noone really cares that day and night has been confirmed based on these pics.
I fucking love this region already.
>>26574275
A shitty small region with no routes and like 2 towns
>>26574275
south alola confirmed for pokemon mars
There's a building behind the mountain. This makes me think they're using the mountains to hide stuff, like they did with the clouds and shit.
>>26574275
seems kinda small/unpopulated
where even are the 8 gyms and the elite 4?
WHERE IS THE BATTLE FRONTIER!?????????????????????!?!
>>26574978
The island in the middle
>>26574950
It definitely seems like there's routes that continue behind the islands. For example, it seems that continuing past PokeHonolulu is a long path that goes behind the island, looping back around to near the start. I'm guessing that's how you reach the waterfall in the top-right.
Goddamn this region has some interesting looking places
For once I'm actually excited to explore the region
>>26574391
>generations with battle frontier: 1
>generations without battle frontier: 5
Anon, I...
I wanted surf routes between the islands to explore. I'm sad that this map seems to indicate that won't be happening.
I had really liked the big ocean routes in Ruby and Sapphire. They had more freedom to them than the more linear land routes.
>>26574275
honestly even with 4 islands it still does look pretty small, hopefully that's not the entire thing
>>26575270
oh shit
>>26575145
>>26574275
FULL HD MAP
http://www.mediafire.com/download/jimlhrlb550h991/alola_region_map_final_rgb_300dpi.png
>>26575315
waddup
>>26574709
Unova's obssessed with cities inside walls...
>>26574580
Then how are we going to make the use of surf?
>>26574275
I'm guessing the Elite Four reside on the snowy mountain?
>>26575541
The summit of Mauna Kea was seen as the "region of the gods", a place where benevolent spirits reside.
It sounds like where you'll encounter the legendary mascot instead.
>>26575541
That's Icecrown Citadel
>>26575270
Real life locations
>>26575233
There were two, the Sinnoh one and the one in Hoenn. Still doesn't excuse the lack of it tho
>>26574275
>those perfectly aligned chains of rocks
Thanks Masuda, now I really know how little I get to explore
>>26575270
>>26575601
Suicune, too.
>>26575589
I mean the Alola map is literally Azeroth so far.
Shit, the whole AZ thing has me convince.
The small house looks like a repainted Battle Maison. What I want to know is what's the thing in front of it.
>>26575676
PWT
>>26574464
It's supposed to resemble the Pamukkale hot springs found in Turkey.
>>26575676
Pokemon League with no victory road confirmed. SM is going to be easier than XY.
>>26574601
I count 12. Fucking christ.
>>26575715
Victory Road isunderwater
>>26575676
The League, perhaps? Underwater Victory Road?
>>26575676
My brother said that the artificial island looks like some millionaire's private island. Guess which character said her hometown's region is a secret?
Time for another round of Gamefreak's Lightning
>>26575712
>Turkroach
>>>/out/
>>26575270
>>26575601
Ho oh being in the game actually makes a bit of sense.
Ho oh has always had a connection to rainbows, and Hawaiians love rainbows. Hawaii is often called the rainbow state, even.
>>26575608
Mauna Kea should be where the observatory is. That icy mountain range is Mauna Loa.
>>26575766
There's literally nothing wrong with Turks.
>>26575723
And I looked at Kanto's map and counted at least 13, so that's a retarded point to bring up
>>26574275
>Arizona Memorial is the pokemon league
nintendo gives no fucks
>>26575646
One if these is not like the other
>>26575723
The centers act as a checkpoint when you enter each town as usual. The time to freak out is if they were in the center of each route.
sand waterfall
Rock climb confirmed as an HM
>>26574275
pokemon centers in towns are magenta pokemon centers (presumably) out of town are blue.
only 9 towns? wut
>>26575898
Sinnoh confirmed
>>26575941
nevermind, looks like actual houses for the towns haven't been added to this map for some reason. lonely centers could very well be in towns or villages
>>26575817
Somehow, I am more impressed with the sheer testicular fortitude than offended.
Well played, Nintendo, well played indeed.
>>26574876
Updated on higher res map. Had to drop the quality to actually be able to post it here.
>>26574876
those nothing.jpg islands interest me for some reason
Who made this one? I want their thoughts for Alola.
>>26576210
Link to higher res?
>>26575629
>Hoenn
Ain't nobody touching that shit, yo
>>26574709
Pokemon region composed of Italian City-States when?
>>26574978
They always hide postgame areas under clouds. How new?
>>26576210
I think the evil team's HQ is the most westward island. It's an abandoned island that they basically took over.
The tree can be anything. Maybe the evil team is using the photosynthesis as energy?
>>26575608
This is kinda strange.
Hawaii is known as the Big Island. Which it is in Alola.
Maui is known as the Valley Island, but doesn't feature any Valleys.
O'ahu is known as the Gathering Place Which fits because it's where you start off and shit about gathering.
Kaua'i is known as the Garden Island, but instead features a desolate valley (primarily).
Then you have Ni'ihau the Forbidden Island, which looks like it fits since it doesn't look like there's anyway to get there (other than boat) and no one lives on it.
Though, these maps are never representative of their original places, I feel Maui and Kaua'i should have been swapped.
>>26576239
...Did you not see the OP?
>>26574275
Things that caught my attention
>The amount of volcanoes
>Those water fountains on the top right island
>The Japanese based town on the bottom right island
>That giant tree on the bottom left island
>The icy summit
>That weird sprout behind the cloud at the top right
>>26574978
>People still giving a shit over Battle Frontier
It's not gonna be in this game you plebbit loving fuck. Go back to your shit site
>>26575715
Kalos' Victory Road was brutal for me, way more trouble than I had ever had with a Victory Road then before.
>>26576370
Hawaii is basically a Japanese colony.
>>26576341You better not be tierqueert. /wfg/
We're gonna go inside a humongous tree at some point
>>26574275
There is a Chinese looking archway, and a Chinese looking pirate ship right next to it
>>26576214
Lower your hype, I don't know why Nintendo thought it was a good idea to take the generation everyone thought was the worst because of 70% empty water tiles and duplicate it for their send-off to the 3DS.
Maybe it's because they can shit it out in a few months or something.
>>26576479
already did that in white 2
>>26576507
Ok
Still looks like we're gonna go in a humongous tree in Sun and Moon
I seee
i seeee
I SEEEE....A YO YO!
>>26576473I have no idea who that is
>>26575766
butthurt german spotted. 2 million german women raped by russians you cuck
Farm
Not Elite Four. Observatory or Laboratory of some sort.
>>26576279
Tfw no spark in popularity of frontier brains
>>26574876
i wonder if that waterfall is the reverse flowing one talked about in x and y.
>>26574572
>14192x10032
>>26576590
Observatory for sure. Since Hawaii is one of the telescope capitals of the world.
>>26576590
Based on Mauna Kea Observatories, so yes.
unless the scale is different for the starting island and the others this region is absolutely tiny
>>26575496
Probably just part of the game does this, then once you get surf later in game.
>>26576738
It is
>Hawaii is home to some of the world's most spectacular cascades. Some are easily accessible but most are tucked away in the islands' rainforests and hidden valleys. One of Hawaii's waterfalls that is best viewed from afar is the Waipuhia Falls, aptly nicknamed Upside Down Waterfall, which is visible from the Pali expressway in Oahu.
>The Upside Down Waterfall is not your usual waterfalls. Flowing over the edge of a cliff on Mount Konahuanui, powerful northeasterly trade winds, channeled by the location's topography, catches the falling water and draws it up the Canyon even before it reaches the bottom, creating the illusion that the falls is flowing in reverse (watch the video below).
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXOkmcfefQc
That's a lot of ports. Which island do you get surf on?
>>26575941
there's definitely some underwater shit in the middle no doubt
>>26574391
That thing in the middle might be some kind of battle tower.
Probably the Pokemon league though.
Reminder your worth as a human will be determined by your score on the golf minigame
>>26574709
John Gamefreak here. The elite 4 is located in that city.
>>26574275
There is a hidden Pokecenter and town behind that mountain which we can't see on the artwork.
There might be even more on the other islands.
![1360032621674[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/NkguhW8.jpg "1360032621674[1].jpg")
>>26576479
>yfw that's where Team Flare caught Xerneas
>>26575676
I'm more interested in the old sail ship there.
Pokemon battles/old ship explorations when? Have we even ever had old wooden sail ships at all?
>>26574275
There's a poke-center on top of that mountain. And the ice on the other side is dotted with holes in such a way that it looks kind of like a building.
Are we getting an ice building in the Hawaii region? If so Gamefreak are absolute madmen.
>>26574275
Anyone who knows HI geography wanna take a guess?
>>26574852
Fuck Day and Night. I'm just glad we've got Dawn and Dusk as shown by that glorious golden sunset.
>>26577097
>pokecenter
>outside of e4 building
you fucked up
>>26576452
When I first moved here, one of the first things I noticed walking around Honolulu in the afternoon on weekdays was all the Japanese school kids in their uniforms.
Felt like I'd fucking walked into an anime.
>>26574464
They're tidepools
>>26574876
You should be able to catch groudon there.
>>26575792
Spot the turkroach.
>>26576555
>2 pokemon centers literally 50 feet away from eachother
For what purpose?
>>26574275
Chinatown.
>>26575823
yeah that damn group of genies, why are they so similar they only get one cloud for all three
>>26577811
I know there are a few that are right before caves and such. Maybe one is in Rocktown, and another one is just outside Rock Mountain?
>>26575601
>enter the tower
>first thing you hear is YOOOOOOOOOOO
Is that a quaver on the bottom left island?
>>26574464
Reminds me of Meteor Falls.
>>26574275
I dunno why people are scared of Hoenn 2.0 routes, it's pretty obvious you're going to travel to each island via boats. You can clearly see the boats and docks in the map.
>>26574275
Comfiest region confirmed
>>26578109
And you can even see the surfable areas bordered by shitty rocks like in every previous games
>>26578109
>scared of water routes
Seriously fuck these people. They're the reason why >>26578167 happens. There's barely any surfing area at all.
I would like to know what these clouds are covering up.
It's not surprising that there are areas clearly oriented towards certain types like the snowcap mountain, volcano, rocky plateau, the big tree, etc., but does this area look like it might a swamp or marsh?
>>26578167
>>26578206
I'm fucking mad about it desu
It's a fucking archipelago region for fuck's sake
One big water route between each island would have been the minimum, and since there's only 4 of them it wouldnt have been too much
Instead they have us surf along the coast and we get shitty boat cutscenes when we must change islands...
>>26578167
>>26578206
>Hawaii
>Can't go on surfing or diving adventures because people don't know that you can use a fucking repel to avoid encounters
I hope there's some nice post-E4 area which makes up for this. Maybe a Sevii Isles 2 or something.
>>26578231
Southern Kalos
>>26574709
Azoth Kingdom.
>>26578265
I seriously hope GF doesn't abandon that.
What's with the Pokemon Center by the tidepools or whatever?
It's the only one that's green.
>>26575676
>implying this isn't the evil team's base
>>26575747
That could be fun
>>26578254
NW hawaiian islands postgame confirmed
>16 pokemon centers
lyl
>>26574572
Can't download it for some reason.
Is it possible that anyone could post it here?
>>26576590
Why not both?
Does anyone remember the "leak" of the Alola region? The leak's image had the region shaped the same and it had routes go all over the place until they linear'd the fuck out.
>>26574275
They've got all three types of volcanoes.
>>26578231
if it's chock ful of rare pokemone then they're not exactly rare are they
or is it like a "chock full o nuts" thing
>>26578714
http://pokemon.gamespress.com/artwork/2016/06/na-1-20160602120607/ef9d9a752c6f1a8d/alola_region_map_final_rgb_300dpi.png
So what if that big building in the manmade island is Victory Road and the building north there is the League?
>>26578365
>yfw it's an abandoned Pokemon Center filled with ghost types
>>26578801
Probably means rare in a global sense.
As in, Pokemon exclusive to the Alola region that can't be found anywhere else.
>>26578365
artist couldn't be bothered changing colors to white
>>26574275
The best is the snow region on top of the mountain. I love snowy areas.
The islands on the right are big as fuck
Plus it looks like we have interior shit on both giant mountains,not just outside
All together look likes it's going to be great
Judging by the map isn't simply good enough
But I like it already
Those clouds seem to be covering some post game stuff, this region looks fun so far.
I hope this place has some Johto lore.
>>26578845
>it's an abandoned poke centre with no point or other references that has this game's ghost person
That seems like a building covered by clouds.
You can see a straight line.
>>26578959
Alola has huge potential for lore from every pokemon region. Real life Hawaii has cultural influences from all over the world from when different peoples were exploring, settling, and moving there for work. Not to mention all the foreign tourists I expect to be littering the beaches in the game.
>>26574275
>>26578959
>>26579244
>It all comes together.
>>26574275
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>26579461
thanks for crashing my computer, faggot
>>26579461
>RETURN THE SURF, DUDE
>>26574275
Islands aren't square like in ORAS.
Also wilderness sections look small compared to the urban areas....
>>26574275
30% game 70% boat rides
>>26575608
>Niʻihau or Niihau (/ˈniːhaʊ/; Hawaiian: [ˈniʔiˈhɐw]) is the westernmost and seventh largest of the inhabited Hawaiian Islands in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi
> Several intermittent playa lakes provide wetland habitats for the Hawaiian coot, the black-winged stilt, and the Hawaiian duck. The island is designated as critical habitat for Brighamia insignis, an endemic and endangered species of Hawaiian lobelioid
> The island is generally off-limits to all but relatives of the island's owners, U.S. Navy personnel, government officials and invited guests, giving it the nickname "The Forbidden Isle." Beginning in 1987, a limited number of supervised activity tours and hunting safaris have opened to tourists.
Either a based Safari Zone or an island for the Legendary only. I can smell it already anons
>>26578529
>tfw hyped for ghost-ship
the anxiety is killing me
>>26579693
shit meant to reply to >>26577425
>>26579461
Blah blah blah, i aint returning nothin
>>26574275
>Lots of different biomes, including what appears to be an icy mountain top and savannah
>More comfy ocean traveling ala Gen 3
>More faggots bitching about all the water
Future's so bright I gotta wear glasses
I think it looks quite exciting. When I think about how little detail of the towns the Kalos map showed, it makes me wonder what Alola's towns will be all about too. There's really no telling!
>Solagaleo
Sun
>Lunala
Moon
>Rowlet
???
>Litten
Sulfur
>Popplio
???
WE ALCHEMY NOW
>>26579864
I think I remember seeing someone linking Polippo to mercury but I don't think they explained their reasoning. But then that would leave Rowlet with salt.
A Z O T H
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>>26574572
>literally crashes upon trying to load
>>26579910
Obviously the salt of both roothoot posters and deniers.
>>26579956
How could I miss something so obvious?
>>26579956
"salt" from people upset about the owl obviously wasn't the intended design of it, like say sulfur for a fire-based Pokemon, so I doubt it could count.
>>26574275
>tfw no Moondial.
>>26578241
That thing on the right.. Hunger Games ?
>>26579956
You mean just owlfags.
>>26574709
>yfw there is a carcassonne-like minigame in this city that has online multiplayer
>>26579461
spoiler that shit
Holy FUCK this looks cozy as hell
>>26580408
And whats with this colosseum looking thing next to ice mountain all about?
8 monoliths = 8 gym leaders/badges? Weird
>>26574275
i see a golf course. i want a golf mini game where you golf with poke balls and if you happen to hit a pokemon (like a bird) you have a chance of capturing it
>>26579864
>>26579910
Any idea why Polippo would be linked to mercury? I can't come up with anything.
>>26580432
Insert eight badges into monolith to summon elete four.
>>26575723
There is 15 total centers visible in this photo. Wich we will henceforth refer to as. Exibit B
>>26578959
It will actually be more Kanto pandering. do you see that yellow square there? An man with a Machop will be standing there, and when you talk to him he will tell you about the place he wants to build there with his Pokemon.
>>26580676
because he's a cuck
>>26574572
Shiet, they made him cute
>>26580408
its the japanese internment camps
>>26576914
Cool shit
I'm curious
Either this is just clouds or another landmass.
What if Cruise ship with a gym and everything.
>>26581178
could be neat
>>26580992
True Facts: there were no internment camps in Hawaii. This is because there were too many fucking Japanese people to realistically do so on the islands. Of course, the islands were under Martial Law during the war anyway, so it hardly mattered. At worst, I think a few suspected people were rounded up, but eventually returned because, again, there were too many Japanese people to push them around like that in Hawaii.
Not that they didn't already have something like that in the leper colony secluded on the peninsula of one of the islands. But it was pretty lax and unpopulated by WWII, and was officially shut down (though residences were allowed to stay and offered care) in 1969 anyway.
I'm getting tired of all of these 'based on' regions.
We're never going to get something fresh.
>>26581178
That would be a dream come true, aquascapes is my shit.
>>26581389
I feel precisely the opposite. Basing the regions on real-world locations is one of my favorite things about the series.
>>26581368
>True Facts: there were no internment camps in Hawaii.
So I was going to post the same thing, but I looked into it first, and apparently there actually were several internment camps in Hawaii. Only a small percentage of the Japanese-American population in Hawaii was interned, for the reasons that you said, but a few were, and there were some camps on the islands.
>>26575780
Not to mention the codename for the game was Niji (Rainbow)
>>26581550
Huh, well, there we are then.
>>26580120
May the odds be ever in your favor...
>>26574709
Team Eclipse concentration camp confirmed
>>26575715
the league use pokemon to make the ocean stormy and crazy to get through. this won't happen but i actually don't think the island is the pokemon league.
>>26581679
>i actually don't think the island is the pokemon league.
Agreed. To repost from another thread, I think maybe the league is on the right-most island, in the blue building on top of the snowy mountain.
>Left of the mountain: circular platform with eight stones around it. Badge check gates?
>Lone Pokemon Center on top of the mountain, with no other settlement around it. Start of Victory Road?
>Lone Pokemon Center with no other settlement, past the mountain, in front of the blue building. E4/Champion building?
It's kind of an understated building for the E4, and the theoretical badge check gates would be pretty far from the start of theoretical Victory Road, so probably not, but it's a thought.
I love the west island that's largely undeveloped. I bet we'll meet the legendary there. I love the map, I don't mind that it's not that big a region because just walking around looks beautiful. I love that there will be sunsets. I like the misty path on the big island leading to the fortress village
>>26574601
You realize that means more cities right. Proof this map ain't tiny.
Pacificlog town is that you?
>>26574601
>walking to and fro a pokemon center is difficulty
>>26574709
It seems like a very drab location.
Maybe we're finally getting that Dark type Gym?
Or, more likely, it'll be a ghost type gym within that mansion.
>>26578231
Battle Maison, and some random 2deep4u area.
>>26575270
>Verlisify shilling
GTFO. You cannot be this autistic
The reason you're seeing callbacks to other pokemon in clouds is because it's the 20th aniversery.
>>26575676
man for whatever reason I thought the whole thing had a bubble over it. fuckin 'ell i should go to bed
This looks like a hand clasping something.
Also where were you when The World Martial Arts Tournament was comfirmed.
>>26574978Hoenn
I wonder where the daycare will be.
More importantly, where is the endless bike loop so that we can hatch eggs without paying full attention? XY and ORAS both had places for that.
>>26582798
Maybe?
These stairs at the end of thr road are going underwater
>>26582661
Piccolo, the paternal Pokemon. Piccolo take in abandoned baby pokemon and raise them as their own, training them into skilled warriors.
>>26582881
Are you retarded?
>>26583028
Are you?
>>26579864
>Solgaleo
Sun
>Lunala
Moon
>Popplio
Mercury
>Litten
Venus
>Rowlet
Earth
>Marshadow
Mars
>>26581171
It's clouds. You should have learned from ORAS by now.
>>26581178
>it's glass-bottomed
>>26583160
No everyone knows that the moon is clouds
from all the footage and the map, i havent seen a sign of grass patches
>>26583227
nevermind im retarded, i saw a glimpse of some just now on the edge of the screen
water
>>26583178
It's not a cloud it's moon that dragons.
>>26574275
Too much water 7/10
>>26574876
That's not a geyser; it's probably a blowhole. They're semi-common on lavarock coasts in Hawaii. Went to one in Maui.
Where's the biggest city?
>>26583415
looks like the one on the first island that's been shown in trailers. doesn't appear to be anything the size of castelia or lumiose but honestly i'm okay with that
>>26576450
The fuck...that was an easy as taking a shit how the fuck is it hard?
>>26576326
Kauai has a fuckload of canyons in it.
>>26582661
its a foot
I think that lighthouse might be a gym.
It just speaks to me.
>>26582881
I'm pretty sure that's a dock
>>26575270
>>26578959
Falkner's dad comfirmed
I feel that the structure with the stairs will be where Solgaleo and Lunala will be summoned/captured
>>26584106
Too obvious. I have a sneaking suspicion that island is abandoned by everyone except the evil team.
>>26575817
I dont think youre looking at the right picture.
>>26577532
Ill take shit that never happened for 500$ alex
>>26577854
Oh shit, man! Alola has its own oriental side, cool. Plus with that Tin/Burnt Tower relative at the other island, this will be fun!
>>26582289
Citation needed
>>26575715
The victory road is theicy mountain road
>>26574275
That snow bit is clearly Victory road for me. Pokemon centre before it then another by the big blue building after the snow.
>>26579461
Return the slab
>>26582877
Is this supposed to be a town? A pokemon center, a gym, and two other buildings? What the fuck?
>>26581967
>it's a lobster
