Game Freak has said that Pokemon Legends: Arceus "represents a new approach for the series", and it's clear from the very first trailers that this is quite the, ahem, evolution.
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Whilst you'll still be catching and battling Pokemon, Arceus is moving to an open-world structure that basically turns the Wild Area of Pokemon Sword and Shield into a full gamer. To complement your task of building the very first Sinnoh Pokedex, the Pokemon Legends: Arceus gameplay has been seemingly completely overhauled too.
Pokemon Legends: Arceus introduces the new Galaxy team Game Freak promises that "this is a Sinnoh unlike anything Trainers have experienced before as they embark to create the region’s first Pokédex". The initial reveal trailer also mentions mountains and seas - the mountain of course being Mount Coronet, which has always been the center of the Sinnoh region. We get to see some glimpses of the old ecosystems of the region, with Jubilife village being your main base, and different Pokemon inhabitants in the various areas. Set in the Hisui region, which will one day come to be known as the Sinnoh region, the latest look at the game's setting of the Hisui region, we get to see some of the diverse natural environments we'll get explore, and also check out some of the different terrain types and weather conditions, including snowy climbs, rainfall over lush green vistas, and desert lands.Īs this is a game set long before the events of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, with the Sinnoh region itself based on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, there's plenty of history both within the game lore and its source material to explore. We look forward to sharing more information about exploring the Hisui region soon." After they finish the survey work, players will need to return once more to prepare for their next task. "After receiving an assignment or a request and preparing for their next excursion, players will set out from the village to study one of the various open areas of the Hisui region. "In Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Jubilife Village will serve as the base for surveying missions," reads a statement provided to Kotaku.
Whilst it seemed that Nintendo officially confirmed that Pokemon Legends: Arceus is an open-world game, it has now clarified that it won't be fully open-world. Pokemon Legends: Arceus looks to be the open world evolution we've always dreamt of One thing's for sure: Beware of Ursaring. Interestingly in the latest Pokemon Presents stream, you can see the sky start to split open, and Pokemon seem to be overcome by some kind of shadow that makes them appear to become more aggressive. This will mean discovering and observing every single Pokemon in the Sinnoh region to build out that Pokemon Legends: Arceus Pokedex as part of the new Galaxy team's Survey Corps. Your goal is to create and complete the very first ever Sinnoh Pokedex. The most recent trailer (seen above) also reiterates this idea by stating that the upcoming adventure tells "a tale of a time long ago when the lives of Pokemon and humans were still separate". In fact, it goes as far as to say that the Pokemon Legends: Arceus story is set "before ideas such as being a Pokemon Trainer or having a Pokemon League even existed". The first trailer for the game states that this is "a tale from a long, long time ago," when the Sinnoh region was still only a vast wilderness. We'll be exploring the Sinnoh region - the locale for the Pokemon Diamond and Pearl / Gen 4 games - but at a period in Pokemon history that developer Game Freak describes as a "long-gone era".
The Pokemon Legends: Arceus story is taking us way back to before any Pokemon games to date.