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The Protagonists
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https://68.media.tumblr.com/b65532d8e1948186525689ac4d2b84bc/tumblr_inline_or4r4oorIp1ri9im2_540.png As is typical for every new main series Pokemon game, new player character designs are revealed, whether they be redone versions of old characters or new characters entirely. What are your thoughts on the new protagonist designs? Which one do you intend to play as? |
They aren't drastically different from the originals, especially the boy. I do like them however!
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There's not much to say from what we've seen so far tbh, though I do like the guy's design. Skins + shorts is a cool combo lol. Glad to see they haven't lost their vacant smiles
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I'll play the boy.
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The guy dresses like me when I'm just chilling in my house :D
Hope they actually get facial animations during cut scenes tho cause if not they need to give us more shades and tinted Glasses XD |
I think they look very boring tbh haha. The SuMo designs were a lot more interesting.
These don't even look like standardized initial trainer outfits tbqh. They look more like something somebody customized in the game after a while playing. |
They don't look drastically different (which is fine by me), but I think I spot two new hairstyles there though.
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Not much of a fan tbh, they look very similar to the protagonists in Sun & Moon. At least the female character looks better. Customization will most likely be back anyhow so it's not much of an issue.
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Now that I look at it, it is possible that they are Older Versions of the SM ones.
I don't see how they are more childish though, they seem older to me. To answer, I like this designs way better. |
I like these characters! They look perfect for alola!
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As for my opinion on these new character designs, they are definitely a step-up from S/M. I will be playing as the female once again as per tradition, but I think she's fast becoming a new favourite protagonist design for me. Not just because of wearing cute short shorts once again, but that new hairstyle reminding me of one of my all-time fave female game protagonists which was Hilda from B/W. |
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Notice those pigtail-like things on the sides of her face. They are very similar to the new female protagonist's hair. |
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I'll play as the male as usual. But these designs sort of remind me of BW2 where they kept a lot of facial features from the old protagonist.
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Well, their outfit fits really well within the Alola region. I don't see any difference between the protagonists of Sun/Moon.
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Still the smol emotionless little cupcakes I see.
Girl is better. Boy got worse. Like...how?! Actually it's the boy's hat, remove that and he becomes better than original Sun. |
For me 6 things are easy in new games
1. Protoganists come from Johto 2. In sorta ways like in Black2/White2 Alola will be expanded 3. Team Skull or Aether Foundation will come back with another bad idea. 4. Necrozma formes are going to be that same way like Kyurem Formes <Good work Corless for testing DNA LINKER PIN> 5. Lillie come back to the Alola after train in Kanto to save region once more. 6. Ultra Beasts become more evil. Especialy Nihilegos. |
The new protags look waaaaaaaaayyyyyyy better than the regular ones. I like that the boy doesn't look as bland anymore. The shirt is way better and I like the shorts batter overall. I also like the hat he's wearing as I have the same one and I love it.
The girl looks nice too, I like the hair she has and I like the fact that she has a hat that doesn't look like it came from Glove World....smh. They looker newer and way better to be honest. Hopefully they have facial expressions this time. |
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Are we sure these are new protagonists and not just the old ones with different hairstyle and clothes? They also showed the same beginning from Sun and Moon (where the camera spins around and the player character gets dressed)
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Doesn't look much different really.
what if USUM is our story after SM??? like we've done all the trials and became the league champion and is roaming the region to establish the gym leaders? woaaah just kidding of course this ain't going to happen |
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THANK GOD THAT HAT IS GONE.
*coughs* Aaaaaanywho...I'm disappointed that there seems to have been absolutely zero effort put into the mle protagonist AGAIN. But then, since Gen IV they've all been identical clones, so it isn't surprising. I like how he looks like a sailor, though. I'll be playing as the girl again, but I'll be changing her out of that ghastly top as quickly as humanly possible. |
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To be really honest? I think these new protags are a big big big improvement from the previous SM ones. and no it's totally not because i didn't have high expectations for these ones
Hopefully, we will get to see the official art soon as well. |
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They do sorta look like Elio(Sun) and Selene(Moon), just with a reimagined style. |
The default looks of the player characters aren't really a big deal to me when you can customize them. Gonna look completely different eventually.
Am I gonna have to start with the watermelon bag again though? That bothered me slightly when I started Moon tbh, idk why lol. |
I just want more variety in clothing
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Honestly, I didn't pay much attention to the "Pokémon female player characters have better designs than the male ones" idea, but it seems to be getting true with every passing core series Pokémon game.. The last male player character original design that I really liked was Brendan of Hoenn (the original outfits from Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire and Pokémon Emerald, and interpreting the white stuff on his head as hair rather than a knit cap/hat), and the last redesign I really liked was Ethan of Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver.. Damion/Lucas (Pokémon Diamond/Pearl), Blake/Hilbert (Pokémon Black/White), and Nate (Pokémon Black 2/White 2) had decent designs, but Calem (Pokémon X and Y) and Elio (Pokémon Sun/Moon) are getting to be a bit too generic.. I just hope that all of the clothing options (including the original Pokémon Sun/Moon default outfits) are available in Pokémon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon.. And we need more Hawaiian shirts for Alola! {:3} |
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I mean, it's no easy feat to beat Brendan's (Pokemon Emerald protag) design.
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The male character looks like a hybrid of Hilbert, Nate and Elio (Sun). And he dresses similar to Nate too, the shorts and leggings, however, Ultra SuMo's player character is wearing shorts similar to Hau.
And I don't think it's the same player character from SuMo, the eyebrows are different. |
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For me the male designs would go Hilbert > RSE Brendan > Ethan > Red > Nate > Calem > ORAS Brendan > Lucas >>>>>>>> Sun >>>> Ultra Sun. |
Not sure what to make of our characters. Need to know more.
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i think the male character looks like a hobo. I know its a tropical region, but really? coudn't they have left us with the other dude, from the previous game? but its fine, cause imma customize the heck out of this guy. oh yahhh... is trainer customization returning?
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The only way i consider customizing my character is if they had type specialists clothes like Dragon. But for now, the feature is useless to me.
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They just seem to be the Sun and Moon Protagonist with better customization and hairs. Probably changed the female design because of people laughing at the chicken hat.
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I only play as the male character. I am going to continue doing that.
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Here's a question we've not asked yet: what are their default names going to be? I'd laugh forever if they were called "Ultra" and just left at that, or if that was even an option. They can't be "Sun" and "Moon" again, can they?
I'd favour Diana for the girl, personally. Apollo seems a little too obvious and cliche for the guy, though...that said, they don't even have to have names that fit the theme. They could be literally anything. What do they look like to people? |
I think that if these protagonists are entirely new and appear in the Pokemon Adventures manga, I could see their names being U-Sun and U-Moon, kinda like "Lack-Two" and "Whi-Two" for Nate and Rosa's Pokemon Adventures counterparts.
I do hope the opposite-gendered protagonist does appear as an NPC this time around, since that literally seems to be what it comes down to if the player characters get canon names or not. S/M's player characters never had a canon name due to the other one not appearing, similar to FR/LG. |
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That said...if these games are set in an alternate world, then "Ult-Sun" and "Ult-Moon" isn't too farfetched...at least for the manga. It's a clever little play on words. Like the whole twist in the title for Metroid: Other M, only hopefully not as disastrous and cringeworthy as that. But I'd pray for some better default names in the games, at least. Sun and Moon themselves had unusued names IIRC - Kai and Lana, I think? - so maybe those could be the names of their counterparts? |
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Although I still like Diana. I might even call her that. |
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I find it really weird how Sun and Moon never got "official" names. Even Hilda and Hilbert got them! We did get Elio and Selene as names that Gamefreak used to advertise battle royal, but then we never saw those names again. Anyways I'm pretty sure these protags are the same ones as before, and we'll get a RS/DP situation in the manga where the protagonists just get new clothes eventually.
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I really like the female protag's hairstyle! |
I find these designs as a big improvement from the rather plainish and vanilla designs that the original alola portags had. They look a lot more vibrant, colorful, and eye catching.
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Can we really be sure those are their default outfits for US/UM and not a way to show off the new customizable clothes available to wear?
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I have to say the new protagonist designs are definitely an improvement. The female looks super cute and I admit she's definitely going to be liked more than Moon since she actually has a better hat and more fitting clothes for Alola.
Don't like the male though. He reminds me way too much of Nate from B2/W2, with that wearing shorts over tights thing. |
The female is nice.
The male is also nice, but I think he's about on par with SM's male. |
If the new protagonists look this good, just imagine how well the clothing and hair options will be. I just better hope they don't do version exclusive status with the clothes and colours again.
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Girl looks fine and better than SM.
Boy looks...odd. Clothing is fine, it's the pose that doesn't do it for me. He's clearly showing motion, as shown with his feet movement, but what a weird way to walk - and if he's not walking, then he's jumping at which point why is the hat motionless. At least the girl is holding onto her hat. |
Selene's pose is great - she's showing motion and actually looks much more "alive" than artworks of the previous protags. I'm surprised they've stuck with static poses for this long. Her new hat's an improvement from her flower hat imo.
Elio's weird pose aside, his shorts and undershorts remind me a lot of Nate's design. Can't help but wonder if that's a reference to BW2. Quote:
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The girl protagonist's design looks so cute, aaaaaaaaaaaa~
The boy's on the other hand... Ugh. I really hate the shorts over tights look (does anyone even dress like that IRL?), and that bucket hat... Bleh. Thank goodness there's customization. |
I love the girl character's design! The hat is much cuter than the original one, not that it matters too much with all the customization options available. Can't really comment on the boy's since I never play as a boy. Like everyone else, I hope they have more expressions this time... it would make them seem more human.
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I thought these two were just SM characters redesigned. Where did it say that they are new?
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I also noticed the Moon page seems to be considering changing her name to "Selene" which has been her most common referred fan name. |
The new trainer art looks terrible, but Moon at least improves on her original design (which felt too much like a mashup of the Hoenn protagonists, IMO). Both her new hat and her new hairstyle look way better.
Sun, on the other hand, continues to be lame. :rolleyes2: It's bad enough that he was already yet another generic Red/Ash clone dressed in blue, but now they've flat out made him a partial Nate ripoff (and Nate himself was a partial ripoff of Emerald Brendan, though still retaining Hilbert's boring red/blue/black color scheme). Were they really that out of ideas for his design? And, would it really kill them to design a male PC that wasn't wearing blue? It annoys me how generic and samey the male PCs have been since Gen 4, and I say this as someone who usually plays as the girl. |
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Alexander's point would make sense. Remember that US/UM have been promoted as a so-called "alternate story".
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What you mean is that they are the USUM's universe version of Sun and Moon protagonists.
I don't have too much to talk about. I like the girl's re-design, looks cute. The boy... is lacking something. Let's just pray for them to have facial expressions! |
I figured I'd now rank the protagonist designs from every game now that the US/UM designs are out.
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The females in particular were hard to rank, so it mainly came down to their outfit colour schemes and aesthetic with their region. The males were mainly boring design-wise but some still worked better than others. |
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I am a bit suprised by some of the choices, especially Hilbert being at the top, I haven't seen many people who like him. |
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Oh I'm so, so glad that they redesigned the female protag. I hated her outfit in SM and changed it as soon as I hit Hau'oli City.
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Well, the female got better while the male got worse, lol. There better be a lot more customization options this time around.
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I'm shocked that the girl's new outfit looks better than her original one. I mean, doesn't Game Freak realize that she's supposed to be 11? The boy, on the other hand, looks less generic with his new outfit, and yet you guys still find it terrible.
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I do agree about the boy's outfit being less generic. Maybe I'm just blind but the only ones that look similar to me are hilbert/nate. |
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When they start putting the kids in booty shorts and deep V-necks, then maybe you'll have a point. |
Nah's right. The clothes were designed to fit the region.
I mean, just look at how Platinum added coats for Lucas and Dawn. The Sinnoh region did become colder in those games. Heck, even Brendan/May, Hilbert/Hilda, Calem/Serena and the S/M protagonists all had outfits that matched the region aesthetic. |
lol this area gets cold and I see kids wearing those kinds of clothes all the time xD
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I mean, there's someone who's into literally everything. It's really hard to stop people from liking that kinda stuff. |
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Or dominant yellow for that matter... |
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