Pokémon Dream World

[Mikéy]

Figured the topic would come up sooner or later, so I decided to take the liberty.

All of this is a simple overview from me. I haven't looked a whole lot up on the matter.
(and you don't have to look at every cheesy picture link if you don't wanna. They're pretty big. :23: )

Generation V of pokémon introduces an online toy for all of us (or at least the ones that have wifi) to play with: The Pokémon Dream World.

Random Abra Used the first time.

General

Every user gets their own little space for their pokémon to go to each time they tuck in their pokémon. After tucking in the pokémon, (through the usage of Game Sync on the C-gear) the player then goes to the Pokémon Global Link and clicks on the blue Pokémon Dream World icon to begin the dream session. Each session lasts for up to one hour, and you can only have one session every 24 hours. The method to unlock more items/areas/etc. are Dream Points, which can be considered the same as Watts from the Pokéwalker.

Your Home

After accumulating several berries (of varying types, depending on the furniture) you can purchase items to brighten up your house. The catalog is around 12-13 pages long and it seems that they're planning on adding much more later on. Better start saving up on berries as soon as you can...

Speaking of berries, you also get your own garden. (That garden isn't mine.) You start off with just two garden rows, but the more Dream Points you accumulate, the more rows you'll unlock. Just like in previous generations, you can plant the berries you find throughout the Dream World here so you can totally pimp out your house save them, or send them to your main game.

What's a Dream World without neighbors? You can visit random users' houses by using the Dream Map. Besides snooping on their house, (and their last tucked in pokémon) you can also swap items they offer at their Sharing Shelf in exchange for any item of your own. In addition, you can also water their garden for additional Dream Points, because it's a nice thing to do.

The Island of Dreams

As we all know, the majority of pokémon can appear in the dream world in the Island of Dreams, a place your own pokémon can explore after crossing the Rainbow Bridge. All of the pokémon found in this forest are equipped with their Dream World Ability, which is what makes them desirable to befriend. In order to befriend one, an activity has to be performed such as Air Racing, Hide and Seek, Ice Cream Stacking, and Playing With Wailord. (some pics not available yet. :17: )
In addition to befriending the pokémon, each successful game played earns Dream Points.

After traveling 10 "paces", you'll come always come across the Tree of Dreams. From here, you can step up to the tree to place a berry and make a "wish". The wish allows you to bring a pokémon you befriended earlier into the real world.

After waking the tucked in pokémon up, it reappears in its box, and the 24 hour wait can then begin until your next visit.

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And- that's all I got. I'm still pretty new to the matter, but it's something completely different that I'm beginning to get attached to. I'm still unsure how Friend Mechanics would work in the Dream World, in fact, I'm unsure about several things, but discussion on the matter is open. :22:

So far I've sent over a male Ponyta with Flame Body (not that special) and a female Lickitung with Cloud Nine (could be pretty darn useful). Hidden abilities can apparently be passed on through breeding, but only via female. I guess that's better than no passing at all.

Anyway, I'm so sending Butterfree in next.

Okay Butterfree doesn't look as awesome as I'd hoped, but I won't let it bother me. :21:

[Pitch]

Probably could've just as well discussed Dream World stuff in the Black and White boards. This is effectively Black and White's minigames. But this is cool I guess.

I played around in this yesterday, but it didn't really hold my interest much. I managed to befriend an Exeggcute with Harvest. I guess that's kind of nice. I was only logging in because I wanted to pick up my Jolteon, but apparently those don't actually become available ’til sometime in May. Bugger. It's hardly worth it too, because the Nature's probably gonna suck — and the only way to be able to breed special abilities is to get a female Pokémon which is pretty rare for Eevee/etc already. :37: I wonder if I can soft-reset for the gender on that one.

[karkatvantas]

I know genders are set for pokemon you find in the forest (and later other areas), but I'm not entirely sure about the eeveelutions. I will say that I stuck out that dumb breakout game for an espeon, though. Took me 6-8 tries, but I got what I wanted.

[Mikéy]

I had to fight Brick Break pretty hard for Umbreon as well. Now that I think about it, it may not have been the best of ideas due to stones being needed for Vapor, Jolt, and Flare, but I still like Umbreon the best out of the ones so far and I wanted that to be event marked.

Beat Brick Break the first time with 40/42 orbs collected, and was offered a Jolteon, but declined.

[karkatvantas]

I eventually ended up avoiding all orbs except for Espeon ones.
As far as hidden abilities were concerned, that was the marker for me.
I have all but the fourth gen eevee evolutions already, bred my eevee in SS, then transferred them over. So the pokedex aspect didn't really bother me.

[Buster Cannon]

Apr 23, 2011 16:55:26 GMT -5 Mikéy said:

Beat Brick Break the first time with 40/42 orbs collected, and was offered a Jolteon, but declined.

I struggled through the game for a while until I realized how it actually works. The game chooses the Eeveelution based on the orbs collected. It then chooses one at random out of those. That said, the best way to get the one you want is to collect only the orb of the evolution you're going for. I only had like 16 orbs, but the majority of them were ice and I got an easy Glaceon.

[Mikéy]

I could have probably gotten Glaceon or Leafon easily... perhaps. I didn't necessarily try to go for either of them in the Brick Break session, but the fact that their bricks don't start appearing until level 3 could have made it tricky. Then again, if you ditto-breed Eevee, evolving them is a simple matter. I've deduced that the icy stone within Twist Mountain aides in Glaceon evolution, while that mossy stone in Pinwheel Forest aides in Leafeon evolution. Still, it's best to have the Eeveelution you like best marked from the event eh?

After collecting 40 orbs and being offered a Jolteon, despite not knowing the formula, seeing all 40 of those orbs in that container after the first game pretty much told me "play again and pick your favorite."

Although that did make things a tiny bit more complicated, I was able to snag Umbreon in six or seven tries. I already had Umbreon when I made that post up there.

[Pitch]

Was the system for that game not obvious right off the bat? I could tell what was going on with the orbs the first time I played. Glaceon and Leafeon were really hard to avoid as soon as they became available, but I guess that's because they don't show up 'til the last stage. >_< I wouldn't have minded Leafeon, really, but since he'd be easy enough to obtain in-game I went for Jolteon. Umbreon and Espeon did seem pretty difficult to obtain. You'd pretty much have to dodge all the other orbs in the game completely. @__@

But UGH. I wish that game controlled with the keyboard instead of the mouse. I went outside the boundary for the game a lot and it ended up costing me the game too many times.

I haven't been in the Dream World for a while. Maybe I should do that sometime.

[karkatvantas]

For the record, Umbreon is my favorite eevee evolution. Even if it isn't the best Dark type pokemon. But yes, the stones in Twist Mountain and Pinwheel forest do evolve Eevee into Glaceon and Leafeon, respectively.

The Breakout game is ridiculous, and I wager that a lot of children probably got stuck with whatever evolution was first offered to them.

@pitch: When I got my Espeon, I had collected a mere 7 orbs. 6 Espeon orbs and a Leafeon orb. Looking back, I might have thrown my laptop out a 5th floor window if the Leafeon orb was the one offered to me. It was pretty tough to avoid all the other orbs, to be honest. I finally managed it, though.

[Buster Cannon]

To me the system for the breakout game wasn't that obvious until I thought about it (after half a dozen Jolteon offers, lol). Initally I thought that it was all luck based, and that you were supposed to nab as many orbs as possible (given them telling you how many you caught at the end). Once I looked at the canister and realized that it was pulling a random orb from it, the objective became clear.

[TronBonne]

I've only done the whole dream world thing once, just to test it out. I tucked in a random Minccino, because it's so cute! I went into the forest because I also thought I would be able to get my eeveelution at the time. I think dream world is cool, although I'm not sure if I'm going to spend a lot of time with it.

Speaking of that game, it took me forever to win it even once! I always use my laptop, so when using the touchpad the cursor would go way off the gamescreen, and I would watch in horror as the stupid ball would fall and cause me to loose the game. I ended up getting Vaporeon, my brother got Leafeon. Umbreon's my favourite eeveelution but I knew I would never be able to win and get the right orbs for it haha.

Oh, and Mikey, that Butterfree is adorable, what were you expecting it to look like!? xD

[Mikéy]

I dunno... Maybe something a little more Gen IV or Vish concerning Butterfree's sprite? lol


I don't think it matters what pokemon you wind up sending to the Dream World, unfortunately... Unless anybody else has found any benefits from that. Otherwise, I could just keep sending Abra in as my Dream Pokemon. Trege's told me that 10,000 Dream Points are needed for a Drought Vulpix/Ninetales, and I find that to be pretty insane. All the more reason to keep the battling in Gen IV...

[karkatvantas]

There are no benefits to tucking in any specific pokemon. It's simply an avatar, if someone happens to come visiting.