Pokken Tournament

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A couple of days ago, Nintendo UK announced its Countdown Clash series of videos leading up to the launch of Pokken Tournament. Fans were presented with two matchups – Pikachu Libre vs Chandelure and Lucario vs Gengar – and were asked to vote who they thought would win. You can now check out the results in the video posted below. The next matchups are also announced in this video: Garchomp vs Charizard and Machamp vs Blaziken. Voting opens next Monday.

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A pair of new Japanese Pokken Tournament commercials have gone live. Both are attached below.

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Nintendo UK have just released a new video for Pokken Tournament which shows off the various combos you can do with different characters by stringing moves together. Check it out below:

Pokken Tournament will be released on March 18th in Europe and North America.

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Nintendo just uploaded the North American Pokken Tournament commercial. You can give it a watch below.

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GameStop is continuing its Nintendo-related pre-order bonuses, this time for Pokken Tournament. If you reserve the game, you’ll receive a double-sided poster pictured above. That’s in addition to the Mewtwo amiibo card which comes with first-print copies at all retailers.

This offer should be valid both in-store and online. Quantities will be extremely limited, however.

You can pre-order Pokken Tournament at GameStop here.

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Nintendo UK is hosting a “Countdown Clash” for Pokken Tournament. Two of the game’s fighters will be pitted against each other, and fans will be asked which Pokemon they believe will win the battle. After votes are collected on both YouTube and Twitter, the winners of both bouts with then be announced.

You can see the first Countdown Clash video below. The two matches are Pikachu Libre vs. Chandelure and Lucario vs. Gengar.

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Banpresto is planning on releasing a few Pokken Tournament figures in Japan just in time for the game’s launch. Each one will be priced at 620 yen. For a look at the different figures, check out the gallery below.

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Much like with Hyrule Warriors, Pokken Tournament implements a limit on amiibo usage. Players can use amiibo five times per day to unlock special bonuses.

Here’s another look at the functionality:

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Pokken Tournament’s connection to Tekken is known. The game does take some elements from that series, but the two are very much different.

Speaking with IGN, Bandai Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada said that the project began as “a Tekken engine [game] with some Pokemon characters.” Yet with the introduction of the Field Phase, a new rendering engine, and an “entire new battle system,” Pokken Tournament became its own unique title.

Harada’s full words:

“(Pokken Tournament started life as a Tekken engine [game] with some Pokemon characters. As we worked on it. We knew we wanted to show off the Pokemon, and that led to implementing the [free movement] Field Phase, and we just really realized quickly in that prototype phase that we needed to just kind of create this whole thing from scratch. We even built an entire new rendering engine, and kind of came up with and entire new battle system for it. But it really is just built from the ground up for this entirely new type of fighting game.”

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Pokken Tournament works with all amiibo to unlock in-game items. You can get a brief look at that in the video below.

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