Entralink

[The REAL Joey]

When I looked at Unova's map I was always curious as to what the centre of it was. It seemed almost inaccessable and I went a good way through the game not knowing what it was. It wasn't until I began messing with the C-Gear that I worked out it lead you to the Entralink.

It's bit of a weird place, you can go into other people's games and do little missions that help them receive an item or bonus power (Faster hatching etc). It's almost like the underground mining in Sinnoh. Just... Not as good as the missions have really short time limits and don't really let you do all that much.

Other than that, there's also a forest to the north which stores all your Dream World Pokemon ready to be catched. Mine's pretty full... Eheheh.

Lastly, in the centre there is a tree which you have to help grow by doing missions on other people's games. It's rather tedious but it can give you longer durations of powers for yourself such as EXP gain and not to mention adds another rank to your trainer card. Took me a while to acquire it. ¬_¬

[revolvingscott]

Although I haven't been able to access it (I NEED TO FIND SOMEONE WITH B/W!), after reading about it on Bulbapedia, it sounds really good!

I like the powers you can get but how long do they last?

Also, fun introduction:

"Oh, someone showed up... Welcome to the Entralink."
"Hm?"
"Judging by the look of you, you don't seem to know where you are."
"This is an island called the Entralink. It's located in the center of the Unova region."
"The Entralink is a mysterious place where you can connect with someone's world."
"If you go to someone's world by passing through this island, you will be able to meet an adventurer in the world."
"And you can help that adventurer."
"Yes! If you want to help, cross the bridge in this island and go to someone's world."
"There must be someone who is waiting for you there!"

[The REAL Joey]

Entering someone else's world is pretty cool. You go through this wavering wall of light and it becomes fairly greyscale on the other end.

As for the power duration they start off without much time at all but once you max out your tree level they last fairly long which is good. The egg hatching power is pretty handy in conjunction with a Flame Body Pokemon.

[revolvingscott]

What can you actually do in their world? (All I can think of is watching their character in the shower...)

I cannot wait to test out the egg one. With Flame Body, will it take 1/4 of the steps normally needed?

[The REAL Joey]

You can do... Well, not that much. A lot of them involve walking up to their character to heal or pass on a power. In some cases you can even battle. The one I like is hiding an item in their world. You get given a set location and have to plant it there there abouts. It's nothing amazing, just a Dusk Ball or whatever but it makes some use of the vastly underused dowsing machine.

As for hatching, I always thought Flame Body halves the amount of steps needed. In conjunction with the power up it shouldn't take anything at all.

[revolvingscott]

I actually used my Dowsing Machine quite a lot during Black/White. I'm not entirely sure why but I just did...

Well I was thinking 1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4... If the egg hatching thing only halves the amount of steps needed.