I was just about to ask "hey, where's the update on Elemental news?"

I get the feeling there may be a lot of vertical lasers in this game

provided you're talking about laser's per screen, rather than laser's per map (since a large map would have MANY MANY nodes... err, crystals on them)  then I suspect there will be less than there were in Black and White.   That game could get so many town center shrines in one screen.

I kinda like the verticle laser look.   At least for epicenter's of magical power.

They're just not panning the camera high enough to show the UFOs.