New details about the highly anticipated Pokémon Platinum have emerged from the latest issue of Japanese magazine CoroCoro as well as a new official trailer.

As with any upcoming Pokémon game Japanese magazine CoroCoro is one of the best sources for newest information and in keeping with this the newest issue has some new details about the upcoming Pokémon Platinum title. The details are as follows;

• The game's storyline is slightly different from Pearl and Diamond's in places. One particular example is the start of the game will be quicker in ways such as meeting your rival sooner.
• There shall be a police officer of questionable integrity. While he appears to be investigating Team Galactic things may not be as simple as they seem when it comes to Officer "Handsome".
• The Battle Tower shall be back, and will be pretty much the same as the one in Pearl and Diamond.
• The Battle Factory from Emerald returns in Sinnoh.
• It appears that you can now mail various people in the Global Terminal. While no exact details are known it is possible you can mail friends and even random people.
• The new WiFi room will feature several games which you can play with your friends online. CoroCoro confirmed a game called 'Merry Mime Jr.' in which you have to balance Mime Jr. on a ball. As well as this there is a game called 'Rapid Wobbuffet' and the previously announced Swalot game.
• The silhouettes, released earlier this week of an unknown Pokémon in various forms, were acknowledged by CoroCoro and said they would be shown before the game's release in Japan next month.

As well as this a new official promotional video for the game has cropped up on YouTube which showcases some of these new features:

All of this information is thanks to the translation work of our affiliate Serebii.net.

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