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Pokémon Pokemon Legends Z-A General Discussion

Pokemon Zaza with the weed cat as a regional starter sounds good to me
 
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I loved X/Y and Kalos, and I loved Legends:Arceus! So, I'm excited for this! Although I'm not sure what it is. I really would have liked a historical Kalos game, but this does not appear to be that. Nevertheless, a Kalos/Lumiose City game will have something for me, I'm sure!
 
I’m extremely curious to see where this game goes. It’s certainly “ambitious” to create a successor to Arceus where the entire game takes place in a single town instead of a massive open world. For that reason I feel like they MUST have something intriguing up their collective sleeve, you know?

I really enjoyed X and Y; it’s the game that got me back into Pokemon as an adult after taking a break during my teen years. So I’m interested in a remake. Also, surely they can’t continue to practically ignore clothing variety in Kalos of all places, right?…..

This also seems to be an extremely rare opinion, but I didn’t enjoy Arceus much (though I see why others did and I’m glad they tried something new), so for me this purchase is probably going to depend on whether it departs from Arceus in a way that lends it more appeal for me. I didn’t enjoy the massive reduction in battle frequency (replaced by just throwing pokeballs in real time) or the vast empty landscapes that all looked very similar. I’m playing Violet now and having a MUCH better time. I appreciate innovative new features, but I think the traditional core structure of Pokemon is a lot of what I like about it, so I think I tend to prefer the mainline games to the ones that branch out and do their own thing.
 
Megas I’m hoping for are ones for the remaining pseudo legendaries that were introduced at the time of XY, Slowking, Kleavor, and Froslass to act as rivals to their respective counterpart evolutions, the rest of the starters, Kingdra, Octillery, Machamp, Golem, Mismagius, Honchkrow, Yanmega, and Rapidash.
 
sometimes I feel like GF wants their games to fail commercially when they market them like this. At least the other chronic failures of gaming (i.e. Sonic 06) had marketing teams that were actually competent most of the time.
 
Nothing at Worlds. Pokemon is truly the anti-hype company. They really don't care. Why announce Z-A at all then? You either don't care or have an incomplete game. If its for Switch 2 you announce the game after the Switch 2 reveal not before it. Otherwise we'll think Z-A is for Switch 1.

Anyway, I will repost the same thing I complained about months ago.
I know it's coming out next year but, as you said, why announce it at all if it's for the switch 2. Nearly 6 months without ANYTHING about the game is crazy
 
It could be that it's a The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sort of situation where it's on both the Switch and the Switch's successor, like how The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was on the Wii U but also came to the Switch as a launch title. Considering how the announcement trailer for Pokémon Legends: Z-A doesn't show anything substantive, they might want to save showing more about this game for when more of the Switch successor itself is shown, announced for release, etc. so they can advertise it with the Switch 2's graphics.

Though, even if that is the case, announcing it so far in advance and then leaving everyone with radio silence isn't the best, and they probably could've pushed the announcement of Pokémon Legends: Z-A later in 2024 instead of all the way back in February.
 
I'm glad to forget it even exists because then I don't have to obsessively think about it and therefore make the days feel all the more longer rip I say just let it come when it comes. But that's just me, of course. It reminds me of when Pikmin 4 was first revealed that one time and then never mentioned again after X amount of years. Same thing with Tears of the Kingdom back when it was known as just BotW 2
 
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