This Week In Pokemon - Legends: Arceus Sells Millions, Gen 4 Music Released, And More
Yep, it’s been another week full of Pokemon Legends: Arceus news. Having now been with us for a little over a week, fans are uncovering its secrets and basking in this latest Pokemon adventure. They’re also speedrunning it already, because of course.
But the story we open on this week is of its commercial success, as the spin-off is already breaking records set by the mainline games.
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Surprising no one, Pokemon Legends: Arceus is selling astronomically well. In just one week, it’s sold 6.5 million copies, beating previous games Sword & Shield and Let’s Go Eevee & Pikachu. This impressive figure includes 1.4 million copies sold in Japan alone - and that was just in three days. I think it’s safe to say this step away from the usual Pokemon formula is paying off, and we are likely to see more of it in the future.
Legends: Arceus is full to the brim with content to get through, but that won’t stop speedrunners from making it all look easy. The average playthrough takes around 30 hours, but speedrunners have already trimmed that down to five. Since we covered the run initially, the world record has already been beaten and sits at four hours and 48 minutes. If it’s anything like Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl, then we can expect this to go down quite rapidly in the coming days.
Being an open-world game set before Pokemon were our buddies, Legends: Arceus is naturally a lot more brutal than previous instalments. This is best seen in the new animation for Hyper Beam, which sees hellfire rain on you, even from the smallest ‘Mons who know the move. It doesn’t get more terrifying than seeing a furious Parasect let out a Hyper Beam that
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