Pokemon Legends Z-A | NSW | 2025

I enjoyed Arceus more than Scarlet, so if this is following that gameplay I'm in

Woah Milner already on it with the thread for this haha well done Milner! Looking forward to seeing how this new game expands on the first Legends game, and to discussing all about it in this thread!

ITSMILNER wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:Honestly SG you can have this thread if it’s that much of an issue I can request for it to be assigned to you instead.

I’m just venting I’ll calm down eventually

If you do want to take it over though just give me a shout and I’ll request it be handed over.

On the game, I wonder why they have bypassed Black and White?

my guess is they'll be in gen 10. we got the gen 4 remakes in gen 8 and the gen 3 remakes in 6

shy guy 64 wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:Honestly SG you can have this thread if it’s that much of an issue I can request for it to be assigned to you instead.

I’m just venting I’ll calm down eventually

If you do want to take it over though just give me a shout and I’ll request it be handed over.

On the game, I wonder why they have bypassed Black and White?

my guess is they'll be in gen 10. we got the gen 4 remakes in gen 8 and the gen 3 remakes in 6

There's nothing to say they are skipping them, just maybe they realised having Unova twice like we did with Sinnoh isn't great so they might be splitting Legends into something else.

Also to do Legends in Unova you have to hit the problem of colonial america being built on genocide.

Qikz wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:Honestly SG you can have this thread if it’s that much of an issue I can request for it to be assigned to you instead.

I’m just venting I’ll calm down eventually

If you do want to take it over though just give me a shout and I’ll request it be handed over.

On the game, I wonder why they have bypassed Black and White?

my guess is they'll be in gen 10. we got the gen 4 remakes in gen 8 and the gen 3 remakes in 6

There's nothing to say they are skipping them, just maybe they realised having Unova twice like we did with Sinnoh isn't great so they might be splitting Legends into something else.

Also to do Legends in Unova you have to hit the problem of colonial america being built on genocide.

Legends is set in kalos from XY

shy guy 64 wrote:

Qikz wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:Honestly SG you can have this thread if it’s that much of an issue I can request for it to be assigned to you instead.

I’m just venting I’ll calm down eventually

If you do want to take it over though just give me a shout and I’ll request it be handed over.

On the game, I wonder why they have bypassed Black and White?

my guess is they'll be in gen 10. we got the gen 4 remakes in gen 8 and the gen 3 remakes in 6

There's nothing to say they are skipping them, just maybe they realised having Unova twice like we did with Sinnoh isn't great so they might be splitting Legends into something else.

Also to do Legends in Unova you have to hit the problem of colonial america being built on genocide.

Legends is set in kalos from XY

I know, what I meant was something else other than Unova this time.

I really liked Kalos and the XY games, but I killed them for myself initially by stupidly trying to egg hatch a shiny eevee and Mr Mime. I got the eevee, but never got my Mime

Do we actually need gen 5 remakes? I know BDSP were outsourced, but it feels like the Legends series is almost taking over what was the traditional remake used to be, much like the current DLC trend of gens 8+9 has removed the need for a sequel/3rd version. I still think we'll get gen 5 remakes, but I do think the Legends series is a lot more interesting way to revisit/reimagine a region rather than the too faithful remake we got with BDSP.

So any hopes for the starters?

Standard Kalos ones with Mega evolutions I'd guess? The various regional starters fit quite well into Legends Arceus, but with the Kalos starters never having a Mega Evo, it'd not surprise me if you get your starter plus respective Mega Stone.

With this being completely set in the city, I do wonder if this is meant to be taking place after the war mentioned in XY and you're helping rebuild the city?

Robbo-92 wrote:Standard Kalos ones with Mega evolutions I'd guess? The various regional starters fit quite well into Legends Arceus, but with the Kalos starters never having a Mega Evo, it'd not surprise me if you get your starter plus respective Mega Stone.

With this being completely set in the city, I do wonder if this is meant to be taking place after the war mentioned in XY and you're helping rebuild the city?

That’s assuming it’s set in the past. The website does say the city is going through a major urban redevelopment so you could be right but it’s unclear at the moment

I suspect we’ll be catching Pokemon in the city though

shy guy 64 wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:Standard Kalos ones with Mega evolutions I'd guess? The various regional starters fit quite well into Legends Arceus, but with the Kalos starters never having a Mega Evo, it'd not surprise me if you get your starter plus respective Mega Stone.

With this being completely set in the city, I do wonder if this is meant to be taking place after the war mentioned in XY and you're helping rebuild the city?

That’s assuming it’s set in the past. The website does say the city is going through a major urban redevelopment so you could be right but it’s unclear at the moment

I suspect we’ll be catching Pokemon in the city though

It'd make for a very big departure if we didn't catch any Pokemon in a mainline game!

Robbo-92 wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:Standard Kalos ones with Mega evolutions I'd guess? The various regional starters fit quite well into Legends Arceus, but with the Kalos starters never having a Mega Evo, it'd not surprise me if you get your starter plus respective Mega Stone.

With this being completely set in the city, I do wonder if this is meant to be taking place after the war mentioned in XY and you're helping rebuild the city?

That’s assuming it’s set in the past. The website does say the city is going through a major urban redevelopment so you could be right but it’s unclear at the moment

I suspect we’ll be catching Pokemon in the city though

It'd make for a very big departure if we didn't catch any Pokemon in a mainline game!

Was it confirmed it was set entirely within lumiose?

Robbo-92 wrote:Do we actually need gen 5 remakes? I know BDSP were outsourced, but it feels like the Legends series is almost taking over what was the traditional remake used to be, much like the current DLC trend of gens 8+9 has removed the need for a sequel/3rd version. I still think we'll get gen 5 remakes, but I do think the Legends series is a lot more interesting way to revisit/reimagine a region rather than the too faithful remake we got with BDSP.

Gen 5 the issue is once Bank dies there's STILL pokemon that you cannot get in Home in any legal way.

shy guy 64 wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:Standard Kalos ones with Mega evolutions I'd guess? The various regional starters fit quite well into Legends Arceus, but with the Kalos starters never having a Mega Evo, it'd not surprise me if you get your starter plus respective Mega Stone.

With this being completely set in the city, I do wonder if this is meant to be taking place after the war mentioned in XY and you're helping rebuild the city?

That’s assuming it’s set in the past. The website does say the city is going through a major urban redevelopment so you could be right but it’s unclear at the moment

I suspect we’ll be catching Pokemon in the city though

It'd make for a very big departure if we didn't catch any Pokemon in a mainline game!

Was it confirmed it was set entirely within lumiose?

Not within the trailer itself, but this tweet by Nintendo of America states that "a new adventure set entirely within Lumiose City" is coming in 2025.

DarkRula wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:

shy guy 64 wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:Standard Kalos ones with Mega evolutions I'd guess? The various regional starters fit quite well into Legends Arceus, but with the Kalos starters never having a Mega Evo, it'd not surprise me if you get your starter plus respective Mega Stone.

With this being completely set in the city, I do wonder if this is meant to be taking place after the war mentioned in XY and you're helping rebuild the city?

That’s assuming it’s set in the past. The website does say the city is going through a major urban redevelopment so you could be right but it’s unclear at the moment

I suspect we’ll be catching Pokemon in the city though

It'd make for a very big departure if we didn't catch any Pokemon in a mainline game!

Was it confirmed it was set entirely within lumiose?

Not within the trailer itself, but this tweet by Nintendo of America states that "a new adventure set entirely within Lumiose City" is coming in 2025.

Good to know ahead of announcing it on my radio show next week

Qikz wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:Do we actually need gen 5 remakes? I know BDSP were outsourced, but it feels like the Legends series is almost taking over what was the traditional remake used to be, much like the current DLC trend of gens 8+9 has removed the need for a sequel/3rd version. I still think we'll get gen 5 remakes, but I do think the Legends series is a lot more interesting way to revisit/reimagine a region rather than the too faithful remake we got with BDSP.

Gen 5 the issue is once Bank dies there's STILL pokemon that you cannot get in Home in any legal way.

They could just release the original games on the eshop, with the event Pokemon coded back in and with Home support though? Of course they don't seem to want to release any of the olde games on the eshop, never mind something so 'new' as the 4 Unova games

I just hope the only modern day Unova content we get, isn't the Blueberry Academy from SV DLC!

I'd actually play this if it has voice acting and all the Pokémon have all their voices.

C'mon... This should have been doable generations ago. And just use the Pokémon "dialogue" from the cartoons, it's already recorded!

right then let's ask it: what new mega evolutions is everyone after?

know it's hard to look at precedent when you've only got one game in the spin-off series, but I thought Legends was going to be revisiting regions in the past. The urban redevelopment stuff, plus the name riffing on Pokémon Z, suggests it's going to be set after X/Y. There is scope for them to go back into 1920s Art Deco-style Paris, I guess. Or maybe, because Arceus' visuals were reminiscent of Japanese ukiyo-e prints, they could go for an 1880s Impressionist vibe with Z-A's graphics.

The region definitely needs fleshing out, but wondering how much it will differ from Arceus. The focus seems to be on the Parisian cityscape rather than the undeveloped wilds and I wonder how that will work with the Legends gameplay loop.

It's also interesting to see how they are picking the Legends regions - Johto, with it's ties to historical Kansai in Japan - would have been an obvious pick (perhaps too similar to Arceus, mind). Again, they are going to be picking a region that will be getting a remake relatively close by time-wise (presuming that Gen VI remakes follow the cycle and will be around 2027).

Interested to see he first gameplay trailer, to see how much it differs from it's predecessor.

In terms of starters, I definitely think Snivy matches the vibe of Paris. None of the Arceus starters were from the Gen IV games, so if we are playing Starter Bingo, maybe Snivy as a snooty fashionista, Torchic has a high-kicking Moulin Rogue can-can dancer and the Sobble as a tortured, emotional artist.

Mega Charizard Z
Mega Mewtwo Z

Realistically, the 3 Kalos starters need Mega evolutions (I know we have Ash-Greninja battle bond, but we wouldn't be able to use that in these), Zygarde will probably get a Mega. With it being a single player game (if it follows the same path as Legends Arceus), they can go really over the top with new Mega evos as they don't need to be remotely balanced for online battles.