Pokémon Legends: Z-A announced for 2025
thesixthaxis.comThe Pokémon Company has announced the next spin-off game in the Pokémon series, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, set to release for Nintendo Switch in 2025.
The trailer features a very 90s Hollywood take on virtual reality, with wireframe buildings and Pokémon running around a cityscape, interacting with one another. That leaves us with… questions…
“A new adventure awaits within Lumiose City, where an urban redevelopment plan is underway to shape the city into a place that belongs to both people and Pokémon.”
That also leaves us with questions!
Mentioning an “urban redevelopment plan” makes this sound like a Pokémon themed city builder, doesn’t it? Even if the intention to have people and Pokémon coexisting freely in Lumiose City sounds like a riff on Ryme City from the Detective Pikachu movie.
It’s also possible that this is just background fluff for another regular Pokémon adventure. Pokémon Legends: Arceus was the first game to spin-off from the mainline Pokémon series with this sub-branding, and that game heralded the shift to much more open world adventuring that we then saw continue through to Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.
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