Just a few quick updates, apparently in Japan's Pokemon Center there is a demo for Pokemon Ranger: Tracks of Light and the following has been reported:

1. The demo first features the player catching Mew.
2. You can use Ranger Signs repeatedly and they need a little time to recharge.
3. The Deoxys mission can only be completed in Multiplayer with two or more people who also have the game.

Now remember that this is a demo so things might change, and I'm pretty sure... okay, hoping... that the Deoxys thing was just to feature the multiplayer mode and the mission that'll reward you with Deoxys has to be completed alone. And if not... so is anyone else here also getting this game and want a Deoxys too?

Okay everyone, new information has appeared and it goes as followed:

1.Two Special Attacks for the Deoxys mission has been confirmed! First if you managed to catch Deoxys with 5 minutes left you'll get it in its Attack Forme and the Special Move it'll know is Comet Punch while Defense Forme (no time was given in order to get this Forme) gets Detect.
2.Three other missions have been confirmed: Manaphy Egg Mission, Shaymin Sky Forme Mission, and Heatran Mission. The Heatran Mission will allow you to transfer over a Heatran who is siad to know Eruption if transferred to HeartGold & SoulSilver.
3.The Japanese Deoxys & Manphy Egg Missions run from March 6th to May 17th while the Japanese Shaymin Sky Forme & Heatran Mission will run from March 18th to May 17th.
4. There is a character named Banema. From what it sounds like she's a mechanic who customises your Capture StyIer and gives you new Ranger Signs.
5. There will be many flying parts where you are controlling the Pokemon you're flying on trying to avoid obstacles.

COMMENTS:
1. Comet Punch... Comet Punch... COMET PUNCH! ARE YOU KIDDING! For those who don't know, Comet Punch is a Physical, Normal-type, multiple hitting move (hits 2 to 5 times) with a Power of 18 (Oh, and Accuracy of 85. The chances it'll hit 2 or 3 times is 37.5% while hitting 4 to 5 times is 12.5%. So 75% of the time it'll have a Power of 36 to 54 and only 25% of the time it'll have a Power of 72 to 90. Oh, and just to make this attack more lame, only the first strike will get a the addition 6.25% increase if this attack lands a Critical Hit, and 6.25% increase to 18 barely gets it up to 19.
WHY GIVE DEOXYS SUCH A HORRIBLE ATTACK! You know, if this was Normal Forme, I might not be complaining, but being Attack Forme has highly insane Attack and Special Attack it deserves a better move like Psycho Cut (which thanks to STAB will give it a Power of 105), Extrasensory (STAB makes its Power 120), or maybe a Fighting-type move to hurt those Dark-types. If they chose Comet Punch because it's space related when why not instead give it Draco Meteor.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I might actually prefer Defense Forme as Detect atleast can protect you mostly 100% of the time on first use. And we still have Speed Forme and Normal Forme Special moves yet be confirmed!

(Then again, as long as I get my Deoxys I don't really care what Special Move I get)

2. *Sigh* It doesn't sound like Shaymin is transferable. Though one thing I noticed is that is specifically said that Heatran had to be transferred over to HeartGold & SoulSilver to get Eruption. Does that mean if you transfer it to Diamond, Pearl, & Platinum it won't get Eruption?

(Once again Shaymin escapes being a transfer Pokemon...
oh well, you can never have too many Manaphys. Plus an Eruption Heatran = Awesome!)

3. A bit odd the Shaymin Sky Forme & Heatran missions are starting later yet all of the events are ending at the same time. Of course the English events would probably be one-at-a-time and months apart. *sigh*
4. Nothing much to say, but at least they are getting the mechanics more involved with helping the player instead of being background characters.
5. I already mentioned plenty about the flying parts.

And that's it. Also, I'm not too sure if this is an alternate title or a mistake, but for some reason Bulbapedia has begun calling the game "Locus of Light". Serebii is still calling it "Tracks of Light" but then again both Bulbapedia and Serebii have different opinions what the title of the 13th movie is so, who knows!

* After you complete a mission, you'll get Ranger Points (RP) to spend and customize your Capture StyIer. This is probably where the mechanic Banema comes in.

* Speaking of Banema, she and an elder whcih we have seen in a few Screenshots have just been added to the Character page of the official website. But due to me not being able to read Japanese, I don't know what the elder's names is.

(Not really much to say here... Moving on!)

* It has been confirmed that if you chose the boy you'll only be able to ride on Latios and if you chose the girl you'll only be able to ride of Latias. This also means the Poke Sign you been to draw to summon them is the same.

(How sterotypical that the boy gets the male Lati@s and the girl gets the female Lati@s...
then again if given a choice the boy and girl would have probably chosen their gender Lati@s anyway)

* As I've said the Legendary Birds are also in this game and seem to be plot relevant as when you encounter them Team Pokemon Nappers are also there and the Legendary Bird is surrounded by their element (Zapdos is un a thundercloud if you were wondering).

(Did Team Pokemon Nappers capture them? Did they surround themselves for protection until the player arrived?
Or were they minding their own business in their nests when these came out of nowhere and STARTED BOTHING IT FOR NO REASON!)

* SHAYMIN IS TRANSFERABLE! But you'll have to complete the mission and save it from Team Pokemon Nappers first! And just because they added new Screenshots, here is also more from the Manaphy Egg Mission where (surprise, surprise) Team Pokemon Nappers is also after it!

(Geez Team Pokemon Nappers, give it a break, haven't the past history of other syndicates taught you nothing?
No matter what evil scheme you do, a 10 year old boy or girl will stop it, no matter what)

* Speaking of Transferables, we just got some disturbing news about the Deoxys Mission. Apparently in Multiplayer Mode you need to assign a leader for that mission. Why do I mention this? Becuase for the Deoxys, if the leader doesn't already have it, ONLY THE LEADER WILL GET DEOXYS! In addition players without the Deoxys Mission can still help in the mission but only the leader (the one with the mission) can capture it. Oh, and like with Shaymin & the Manaphy Egg above here is a few new pics for the Heatran Mission, apparently the Oblivia Region's Volcano is erupting but is Heatran to blame for this?

(I wonder what the color swaps would look like if you had 4 boys/4 girls?)


(The Mission picture shows you're with the other gender character, yet the in-game picture shows you're with Murph...
MAKE UP YOUR MIND!)

* Celebi is in the game and might take you to the past in order to clear Missions that will open up things and clear obstacles in the future.

(Taking the Gold & Lyra back to the past in HeartGold/SoulSilver to battle Giovanni...
Took the Spiky-Eared Pichu through time so much it can't evolve...
Now taking the Pokemon Rangers back in time to clear Missions which will effect the future...
And just in general taking Pokemon Eggs away from their mothers and dropping them off in the past/future...
Celebi, messing with the time stream wherever it goes)

* You may find Lithographs while exploring around and when you do it somehow increases the amount of partners you may have and the ability to raise them. I don't know what they mean by "raise them" but the more Pokemon you have the less you'll need to travel back to get a Pokemon you need... hopefully.

(Over the snow and through the volcano, off to the mission we go!)

* Two animated specials are coming for Pokemon Ranger: Tracks of Light. The first one is for the main anime series, where Ash & co. helps out the boy ranger capture Heatran. The second one is Special also starring the boy ranger trying to stop the plans of Team Pokemon Nappers and their leader Red Eye. The Japanese main series one is to air on March 18th while the Japanese Special one is to air on Pokemon Sunday on February 28th and on March 7th.

(Incase you can't tell the top one is for the main anime series,
it would have kind of helped if they have had Ash & co. in one of the shots)

Okay, Serebii had updated their "Pokemon Ranger: Tracks of Light - Wifi Events" page with further details on the 4 of the 6 known Extra Missions. While Manaphy isn't anything new, the other 3 have some revealing information:

DEOXYS

Here are the movesets for each Forme:

Forme: Normal
Attacks:
Psycho Boost
Leer
Wrap
Nightshade

Forme: Attack
Attacks:
Psycho Boost
Meteor Mash
Superpower
Hyper Beam

Forme: Defence
Attacks:
Psycho Boost
Detect
Counter
Mirror Coat

Forme: Speed
Attacks:
Psycho Boost
Swift
Double Team
ExtremeSpeed

Hey, everyone, remember what was said that was going to be special about this Deoxys? You know, that each forme will come with a Special Attack? Well, guess what, they were:

ONLY ATTACK & DEFENCE HAVE A SPECIAL MOVE! Normal & Speed Forme's attacks can all be learned by leveling up! However there was one thing that was fixed, Attacck Forme's Special Move. Instead of Comet Punch, it is actually Meteor Mash! Actually it was always Meteor Mash. What do I mean? Well funny little fact, the Japanese name for Meteor Mash is literally translated to be Comet Punch! And incase you're wondering, the Japanese name for "Comet Punch" is a more accurate description of the attack: "Consecutive Punch".

So with all the facts we have now, obviously Attack Forme is what everyone is going to be aiming for if only for Meteor Mash, meaning that you'll have to be the leader of the group you're currently working with and have to complete the mission within 4 minutes.

HEATRAN

Nothing much on Heatran, the Mission for it is about the Volcano in Oblvia having eruptions and disturbing the tourists (yay, why worry about local people or Pokemon ) and you're being sent to find out what's going on (apparently Murph also comes with you). Once you get there you'll find Heatran and when you transfer him over to ANY game (not just HeartGold or SoulSilver) it'll have the following moves:

Eruption
Magma Storm
Earth Power
Ancient Power

I'm glad to hear it doesn't have to be HeartGold or SoulSilver specifically to get the Special Move. Though it isn't as annoying as the Deoxys Mission, is going to be, it woudl have been slightly annoying.

SHAYMIN

You know what this mission is about, here are Shaymin's moves:

Defense Curl
Magical Leaf
Leech Seed
Synthesis

No Special Moves here, but we weren't promised one for Shaymin so no surprise. Eitherway it's a Shaymin and it's "free", so if you have the game there is no reason for you not to get it.

Oh, BTW, both Deoxys and Heatran will be Level 50 while Shaymin will be Level 30. Obviously Manaphy would be at Level 1 after hatching from the Egg.