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Pokémon Legends: Z-A releases simultaneously worldwide in 2025 on Nintendo Switch
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Thick Thighs Save Lives
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Punished Miku
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Only thing I will ever consider in the future is games based on Arceus. Pass on all the rest.
Carmen Winstead
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Pokemon Legends reverse alphabet?
GameFreak getting ridiculous with their naming scheme.
GameFreak getting ridiculous with their naming scheme.
analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Sounds like a Switch 2 launch title to me.
Ass of Can Whooping
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In for Legends
What a stupid fucking logo
What a stupid fucking logo
SCB3
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Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
So, people who played the latest few games what does this appear to be? Any hints from the city layout/visual style of the art shown before? Arceus-like? X & Y like? Did Arceus have one major city so the city here might be it for the new game? Too little to guess anything by?
2025 is far, Switch + Switch 2 release a la BOTW?
2025 is far, Switch + Switch 2 release a la BOTW?
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Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Switch, OLED, Lite, etc.
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tkscz
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It's a continuation of X and Y. Funny enough this was after they pulled the Pokemon Black and White 2 instead of Pokemon Grey. So we didn't know if X and Y were getting X and Y 2 or Pokemon Z.
It got neither until apparently 12 years later.
hinch7
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Launch title would make sense.
SCB3
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So Arceus was a reimaging of the world in Diamond and Pearl called Sinnoh, it did feature a lot of the landmarks and general areas but they were completely different as they were 100's of years in the past
This looks to be a Virtual City, and based on Paris which is a giant circle of a city anyway, I've not played X/Y so I'm not sure how much of France it was supposed to be (for example Black and White were based on the USA but only really was New York and New Jersey)
Hugare
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I know, it was only for laughs
But it will definitely also launch on the Switch 2. I mean, 2025.
SCB3
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They did it 4 times,BW->Grey X and Y -> Z, Sun and Moon -> Stars and Sword/shield -> Gun
justiceiro
Marlboro: Other M
Hope you all ain't tired of your switch just yet.
tkscz
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AetherZX
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wrong dev to worry about this tbh, assume it looks like ass.
MirageMew2
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Interesting that they emphasize it being set in Lumuiose City as opposed to the whole of the region. This doesn’t even seem like it’ll be set as far back as Legends Arceus, with Lumiose under construction it’s probably still called Kalos.
Curious if we’re back to Monster Hunter esque maps or if it’s even the same kind of game.
Curious if we’re back to Monster Hunter esque maps or if it’s even the same kind of game.
CuteFaceJay
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Hope this is going to be a new device release if anything. So we don't get another Pokemon game that looks or runs like trash.
Guerilla Munch
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will launch on Nintendo Switch systems in 2025!
Nintendo cross-gen confirmed
Nintendo cross-gen confirmed
Dazraell
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Fucking GameFreak. People thinking they will announce a new game set in Johto or Unova, and they do one in Kalos instead
Honestly, it's a very interesting choice. I really enjoyed Arceus and hopefully the next game will be a similar surprise which will bring some new things to the table
Honestly, it's a very interesting choice. I really enjoyed Arceus and hopefully the next game will be a similar surprise which will bring some new things to the table
Codes 208
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In the history of whatever, i dont recall a single developer referring to the switch line in plural
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Weird, I just looked at one of the most recent videos on the NOA channel:
Maybe Switch 2 releases before March 22
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Codes 208
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Weird, I just looked at one of the most recent videos on the NOA channel:
That's plural, no?
Fair, but also 98% of the time it generally “the switch” in announcements. But if we dive deeper, Going into the semantics, “family of systems” would imply same gen but different hardware like the switch line or xbox series
But a vague “switch systems” with a release window that just happens to correlate with the leaks/rumored release window of the switch 2 just screams cross-gen to me.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Never said it's not gonna be cross-gen, if you actually look I said it before/simultaneously, but obviously they didn't go oooopsie leaking it like this, you're reaching over semantics.
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TheInfamousKira
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This is one of those game titles I wish Blockbuster was still around for so I could laugh at the inbred high school employees trying to pronounce it over angry voice mail because it's six days late back to the store.
Other fun examples include "Final Fantasy Ecks,"
Other fun examples include "Final Fantasy Ecks,"
willothedog
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Will they have guns?
tkscz
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A lot of this sounds about right for Game Freak which has me worried about the game engine they're using.
The Switch is out and nearly a year into it's life when we got Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon on the 3DS, same with B&W2 on the DS a year after the 3DS released, so releasing in 2025 on the Switch sounds about right for them.
Same goes for releasing a Legends game of a generation different from the remake. So I can still see them having another team do a B&W remake while they focus on Legends Z-A.
That said, with them repeating things they normally do, I worry they will still use the engine they've been using. I still believe the engine used for S&S/V&S is the same engine they used on 3DS, terribly moved over to the switch with glitches, and a complete misunderstanding of how a open world game should be programmed. So while I'm partially excited, unless I see a new engine, I have my doubts.
The Switch is out and nearly a year into it's life when we got Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon on the 3DS, same with B&W2 on the DS a year after the 3DS released, so releasing in 2025 on the Switch sounds about right for them.
Same goes for releasing a Legends game of a generation different from the remake. So I can still see them having another team do a B&W remake while they focus on Legends Z-A.
That said, with them repeating things they normally do, I worry they will still use the engine they've been using. I still believe the engine used for S&S/V&S is the same engine they used on 3DS, terribly moved over to the switch with glitches, and a complete misunderstanding of how a open world game should be programmed. So while I'm partially excited, unless I see a new engine, I have my doubts.