Pokemon Legends Arceus Infuses Core Gameplay with Action RPG Elements, Announced for Switch - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2021 / 3,961 Views
The Pokemon Company during the Pokemon Presents video today announced Pokemon Legends Arceus for the Nintendo Switch. It will launch in early 2022.
View the announcement trailer below:
Here is an overview of the game:
Bold New Direction
The Pokémon Legends: Arceus game honors past Pokémon games’ core gameplay while infusing new action and RPG elements.
You’ll need to catch, survey, and research wild Pokémon in a long-gone era of the Sinnoh region to create and complete the region’s first Pokédex.
Catch Pokémon
To catch Pokémon in the Pokémon Legends: Arceus game, you can observe them to learn their behavior, then carefully sneak up, aim your Poké Ball, and let fly!
You can also have your ally Pokémon battle wild Pokémon that you hope to catch. Just throw the Poké Ball holding your ally Pokémon near a wild Pokémon, and you’ll seamlessly enter battle and command your Pokémon by choosing from moves it knows.
An Adventure in the Sinnoh of Days Gone By
You’ll be brought to the Sinnoh region, the setting for the Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl games. But this story unfolds in a long-gone era, before ideas such as being a Pokémon Trainer or having a Pokémon League even existed.
All around, you’ll find Pokémon living wild in harsh environments that make for a Sinnoh unlike the region you may remember from the days of the Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl games.
The Poké Balls of old were apparently built a little differently from the ones we know so well. They were made mostly of wood, and steam puffed from their tops when Pokémon were caught.
Meet Your First Partner Pokémon
As you start off on your adventure to create the region’s first Pokédex, you’ll be able to choose Rowlet, Cyndaquil, or Oshawott as a partner.
These three Pokémon arrived with a Pokémon Professor, who encountered them on research excursions to various regions.
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Graphics leave much to be desired, Breath of the Wild is still a step up and that is 4~ years old at this point and was a port from a weaker platform.
In saying that, it is a big improvement from Sword and Shield, so that is definitely a bonus.
Will probably be a day 1 purchase anyway.
From a tech POV it looks horrid. I mean I'm sorry but there are just so many amazing-looking games on the Switch by this point that this is simply unacceptable. The idea is decent IMO, and could breathe some freshness into the franchise.
Pokemon breath of the wild this is why gamefreak moved to Nintendo epd building 🔥 can't wait
They need to learn a lot considering they're a bunch of uncompetent twats.
They need some kicks in the ass whenever it's needed because the Pokémon series doesn't deserve to be treated the way they're treating it. Hoping that things will change with Nintendo roaming around them.Also, Games need to be postponed if meeting the deadlines will lead to crap-like episodes such as Sw/Sh.
Between this being on the horizon for early 2022 and the remakes holiday 2021, clearly the cliff is nowhere to be seen. What I can see however...is a new peak.
They give us a open world pokemon game and we look at it and its ... Boring looking, outdated , lazy ... Ffs , someone rescue this franshise from these horrible devs, pokemon always make a shit ton of money and they are not capable of giving people a decent game...
irony, this game can outsell all ps5 1st party games combined...
Sword and shield sold more than 20 million looking like a turd and running like shit, of course the devs instead instead of aiming for better and spend money on improvments do nothing of that and just trow us another stuck in the past, looking like a n64 game
Please don't let it have Go gameplay, this can be the best pokemon in a very long time if done right. Might make me get a Switch.
Wish they went with Sun/Moon art style. Other than that, still need to see more gameplay. What was shown looks kinda meh.
I wish the battles where a bit more dynamic. Something like digimon world where your digimon did its own thing and you command him on top. Like real pokemon show.
Quite an intriguing concept but not much said on what your in-game goal is, so feels a bit hollow at the moment. Also the video suggests the game still needs a lot of polish performance wise.
Rowlet, Cyndaquil, or Oshawott as a partner... not the best starters, they are all meh at best... i mean, Cyndaquil + Eruption + "choice" is a ok thing, but kinda boring and the other 2 are helpless.
I think they were just trying to be contrary to the norms and picked starters from a mix of generations. Anyway Decidueye, Typhlosion and Samurott aren’t that bad.
2 are bad and 1 is kinda meh. Imho, the 3 are at lower tier on the "starter rank" ( just above Meganium. )
i'm not asking for "all the best starter", i'm just asking for 1 "top starter"! Switch Samurott and put Greninja, or makes space for Blaizeken or even Chesnaught! well, at least they are not putting Gen. 1 mons, no need to use gen.1 again...
In terms of competitive play I would agree with you that they aren't great, but we don't even know if this game will have competitive play. All 3 of those starters are more than adequate for a normal campaign playthrough against AI, they are actually the 3 starters I picked for my first playthrough on each of their respective generations, because they had my favorite designs. Decidueye in particular is one of my favorite 3rd form starters design wise, even if his typing and poor speed stat make him Never Used tier on competitive play.
you have a point.
I reeeealy like the idea, but don't like the execution as it looks right now. Empty world, meh graphics, chingling at 2fps, gameplay looks kind of static... I would say, give it time to develop, but I'm afraid it's gamefreak, probably won't be any big improvements
I always wondered if arceus has those plates for new pokemon types like fairy. He was introduced when ash was in sinnoh right?
The Pixie Plate was added in Gen 6 to cover the fairy type.
What's with the word positioning? lol
I have no idea. I'm trying to fix it, but nothing seems to well fix it.
It should be fixed now. I have no idea what caused that.
Yes! THIS is what I was expecting from a next-gen Pokémon game!
I'm not a Pokemon guy but this still piqued my interest, looks like an impressive step up over Sw/Sh
I'm no fan of pokemon, but it going action RPG? wtf? this looks like a bad idea imo.
Graphically, it also feels abit lazy, the switch has the horse power to do better than this graphically if the devs wanted.
