Pokemon Legends: Arceus is set in Hisui, but it's really set in Sinnoh. It's Sinnoh centuries before the modern games, when the land was known by a different name - Hisui. There are a few Hisuian variants of 'mons which don't exist in the modern day, which suggests they either transformed over time to match their new environment (as Growlithe and Voltorb do) or became extinct entirely (as Sneasler and Kleavor do). For the most part though, over 200 of the 242-strong Pokedex are Pokemon we've met before, in exactly the way they looked before. The game feels so fresh not because of the creatures we’re catching, but because of the new, more active way of doing so, and because we’re visiting an old region reimagined.
So which region should be next? It’s dangerous to assume anything when it comes to Pokemon’s plans, but Legends: Arceus has been a huge success and that makes talk of a sequel inevitable. It’s not guaranteed to happen - cough cough Let’s Go cough - but Pokemon fans around the world have already started discussing it. So which region deserves it most?
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Our own Ben Sledge has already put forward an argument for Johto, and that does seem a likely candidate. Along with Kanto (which it directly connects to anyway) Johto is the most popular region in Pokemon, and in many ways, a prime candidate for Pokemon Legends: Celebi, or whatever it might be called. But is it really the most deserving? We all love Johto, and visiting it from a new perspective doesn’t seem that interesting. Sinnoh is probably mid-tier by popularity, behind at least Kanto and Johto, as well as arguably Hoenn and Alola; it arrives too late to soak up the nostalgia, but it’s too old to have
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