Pokmon Legends Arceus release date, trailer, starters and news

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Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:35:09 +0000

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Pokmon Legends Arceus is coming heres everything we know and what wed like
to see.

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Pokmon Legends: Arceus is the highly-anticipated open-world Pokmon RPG, revealed during February 2021's Pokmon Presents live stream, which celebrated 25 years of the Pokmon franchise. Further details were shared about the game during another Pokmon Presents showcase that took place on August 18.

Announced alongside Pokmon Brilliant Diamond and Pokmon Shining Pearl
(remakes of the revered Nintendo DS titles), it looks like Pokmon Legends: Arceus is going to be the game that breaks new ground for the series, with a historical setting and an explorable open world.

Confirmed for Nintendo Switch , Pokmon Legends: Arceus will act as a prequel to the main series, taking players toa much older version of Pokmon Diamond and Pearls Sinnoh region (known here as the Hisui region), where Pokmon
roamed freely, and they'll be charged with completing one of the region's first Pokdexes.

Pokmon Legends: Arceus is scheduled to launch worldwide on January 28, 2022 but in the meantime, we've gathered together everything we know about the
game right here for your perusal. Pokmon Legends Arceus: cut to the chase
What is it? A new Pokmon game separate from the mainline series When can I
buy it? January 28, 2022 What can I play it on? Nintendo Switch Pokemon Legends Arceus release date The landscapes are a definite step-up from Pokmon Sword and Shield. (Image credit: Nintendo)

Pokmon Legends Arceus will release on January 28, 2022, for Nintendo Switch. The Pokmon Company revealed the new Pokmon game's release date with a tweet back in May, 2021. Pre-orders are live now. Pokmon Legends Arceus trailer

Gameplay trailer
Debuting at the August 18, 2021 Pokmon Presents livestream, this trailer
gave us a more in-depth glimpse at what we can expect from Pokmon Legends Arceus. We got a better look at exploration, and how wild Pokmon can interact with the playable trainer.

Reveal trailer
Pokmon Legends Arceus was arguably the biggest news from the Pokmon Presents showcase, where it debuted alongside a trailer showing off some early in-engine gameplay. Pokmon Legends Arceus gameplay and setting Bidoof confirmed. We love to see it! (Image credit: Game Freak / The Pokmon Company)

Pokmon Legends Arceus returns players to the Sinnoh region, albeit in a time long before the events of any mainline Pokmon game. So old, in fact, that the region is being referred to as Hisui. The game evokes a historical Japanese setting, evident in its artwork, landscapes and character designs.

Pokmon Legends Arceus looks quite unlike any other effort weve seen so far in the series, and looks to expand on open-world elements found in Pokmon Sword and Shield . Those games featured a pretty scaled back open-world element,
the Wild Area, which felt a little tacked on, like a separate entity to the rest of the game world.

In Pokmon Legends Arceus, it appears that the scope of the open world is far greater. Trailers so far have introduced us to the hub town of Jubilife Village, as well as the Galaxy Expedition team, from where you'll prepare for your expeditions.

Stealth elements are likely to play a role in Pokmon Legends Arceus. In the trailers, we see the player character not only throw Pokballs from great distances, but also perform a dodge roll and hide in tall grass. The recent showcase confirmed that not all Pokmon will react to your presence in the
same way, and many will be hostile towards you.

Curiously, players wont have to enter a battle in order to catch Pokmon. This is now done more fluidly via the open world, where players can attempt to sneak up on Pokmon, then aim and throw Pokballs at them for a catch. Whether or not we can still catch Pokmon via battles remains to be seen, though. Battles appear to be more seamless than ever before (Image credit: Game Freak / The Pokmon Company)

Speaking of battling, that element of the series is retained in Pokmon
Legends Arceus, featuring the familiar turn-based gameplay. Animations seem
to be more theatrical and improved across the board, perhaps in response to a criticism often leveled at Pokmon Sword and Shield where battle animations were somewhat tepid.

By throwing Pokballs containing your partner Pokmon near a wild one, you're able to seamlessly transition into battle, according to the game's website . This might make the game take an approach similar to that seen in the Pokmon anime series, and definitely has our interest piqued.

Pokmon games usually get you going with one starter Pokmon at the outset of your journey, and thats no different in Pokmon Legends Arceus. What is different, though, is that the three Pokmon on offer this time are all from separate generations. They are Cyndaquil (Gen 2), Oshawott (Gen 5) and Rowlet (Gen 7), representing the usual Fire, Water and Grass types respectively. Pokmon Legends Arceus: Pokmon confirmed so far (Image credit: Nintendo)

Pokmon Legends: Arceus will task players with filling one of the region's first Pokdexes so it's natural to wonder which Pokmon we're going to be chasing down in the game. There's no comprehensive official list just yet but thanks to our friends at GamesRadar , we do have a list of the twenty Pokmon that appeared in the game's announcement trailer. Pikachu Rhyhorn Cyndaquil Spheal Turtwig Chimchar Piplup Starly Bidoof Shinx Budew Chingling Bronzor Garchomp Riolu Lucario Gallade Arceus Oshawott Rowlet Wyrdeer Basculegion Hisuian Braviary Hisuian Growlithe

That's quite a few so far. Given the game is set in the Sinnoh region, it's not entirely surprising that there are a lot of Generation 4 Pokmon in that list and it seems reasonable to assume that their evolutionary forms will
also probably be present in the game.

We expect that in the run-up to the game's release, Nintendo and Game Freak will confirm more of the Pokmon that we can expect to see in Pokmon Legends: Arceus so we'll keep updating this list as and when they're revealed. Pokmon Legends Arceus: news and rumors (Image credit: Nintendo)

Boss fights
Revealed during the August 18 Pokmon Presents livestream, some Pokmon in the Hisui region will be more hostile than others. Especially strong Pokmon bore
a red aura around their eyes, and would even attack the trainer directly. It seems like these encounters will be treated as boss fights, or harder fights at the very least. We expect to come across a lot of them in an effort to complete our Pokdex.

Base camp and regions
You'll start any expedition by choosing a general area on the overworld map. From there, you'll begin your journey at a base camp, where you can stock up on items from your inventory, or even buy and craft more of them.

You'll also return to the base camp should you black out while exploring.
This can happen if wild Pokmon hurt you too much, which means trainers will have to tread a lot more carefully than usual.

New Pokmon and variants confirmed
Just because Hisui will eventually become the Sinnoh region doesn't mean we won't be seeing any new Pokmon. In fact, the August 18 Pokmon Presents livestream confirmed just that. New Pokmon Wyrdeer and Basculegion will be joining the roster, and we imagine more new critters will follow.

Region-specific variants are also confirmed to be returning with the announcement of Hisuian Braviary and Growlithe. Previous games in the series have done this to great success, such as with Alolan Vulpix and Galarian Ponyta, so we're glad to see the feature returning.

E3 2021
Unfortunately, we didn't hear more about Pokmon Legends Arceus at Nintendo's E3 2021 showcase but we're hoping to hear more about Arceus in the coming months. Pokmon Legends Arceus: what wed like to see (Image credit: Nintendo)

Pokmon Legends Arceus is already being compared to The Legend of Zelda:
Breath of the Wild , and not without good reason. The surrounding landscapes and horizons look like theyll offer the time-old adage of if you see it, you can go there.

It would be awesome to have an open world in Pokmon Legends Arceus as ambitious as that. Were not asking for a 1:1 recreation of Hyrule , but extra traversal options like being able to climb mountains, fly through the air
atop certain Pokmon or fully explore hidden nooks and crannies sounds very appealing indeed. We definitely want to find out what's all the way back
there (Image credit: Game Freak / The Pokmon Company)

If Pokmon Sword and Shield got one thing right, it was its eclectic bunch of superbly written characters. Wed love to see this trend continue in Pokmon Legends Arceus, especially when the historical setting could provide all
sorts of fun characters and archetypes.

Earlier we mentioned that recent Pokmon games animation quality has been lacking, particularly when it comes to Pokmon battles. Thats because the same animations have been consistently reused since the first true 3D entry in the mainline series, Pokmon X and Y.

While we know its important to many fans that the National Dex (the complete roster of Pokmon across all generations) be represented again in some way, we think it could be equally beneficial to feature a scaled-back roster of
Pokmon with a greater variety of revamped animations.

Touching a bit more on that, its possible that given the time period in which Pokmon Legends Arceus takes place, its possible that certain Pokmon might not even exist yet. This makes Pokmon Legends Arceus a prime testing ground for Game Freak to really wow us with improvements to animation quality across the board, particularly if there are fewer Pokmon overall to work with. Pokmon Go : everything you need to know



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