The Pokémon Company aired its official 2024 Pokémon Presents presentation today, and it closed it out with some good news. Another Pokémon Legends is on the way, dubbed Pokémon Legends Z-A, and it’s currently scheduled for 2025.
Today’s teaser trailer shows Pikachu running through a blueprinted city, where many different Pokémon are hanging out. Eventually, the text reveals the “Urban Redevelopment Plan” for Lumiose City – a central location in the Kalos region, the home of Pokémon X and Y.
Pokemon Legends Z-A, as it , is a new entry in the Legends 🐻series and could be an interesting look at the origins of🌄 another beloved locale.
Legends among us
Legends started off with Pokémon Legends Arceus in 2022, as an interesting side-branch of the mainline series. Transporting its protagonist back in time to the early days of the Diamond and Pearl region, it w꧂as much more focus🦂ed on catching, collecting, and exploring.
And to its credit, Pokémon Legends Arceus was pretty well-received. Now, especially after the troubles that Scarlet and Violet went through, a Legends game might be a good stop-gap for franchise woes.
Importantly, Z-A is not launching until 2025. While it could be an early launch for that year—Arceus was a January game—that still means we’re now looking at a year without a new Pokémon entry, as S/V has wrapped its DLC. Hopefully the gap is a good thing. But it does make me curious about what the Switch’s holiday lineup will look like for 2024.
Published: Feb 27, 2024 08:34 am