When Pokémon Legends: Arceus arrives on Switch on January 28, will bring a handful of new Pokémon. But my sick brain, poisoned by anxiety, isn’t content to be happy to learn more about the next game. No, I can’t help but wonder why these cool faces aren’t present in other games, and the conclusion I’ve come to is, predictably, a huge bewilderment.
Pokémon Legends: Arceus takes place in Hisui, a vast desert that eventually becomes the Pokémon Diamond i By Sinnoh region. It’s unclear how long it takes to separate these games, but a big part Legends it refers to your task both in making the first Pokédex and in settling the indomitable land as part of the Galaxy expedition team. Unfortunately, this probably has some terrible repercussions for the animals that already live there.
Durant this week’s Pokémon Presents show, the developers showed some of the new Pokémon players to be found Pokémon Legends: Arceus next year. Kotaku staff writer Ethan Gach wrote at length about his love for the creepy origins of Basculegion, but what I like most is definitely Hisuian Growlithe, with leather blankets covering his eyes and chest. I am a sucker for fluffy dogs, even those with the ability to simultaneously conjure up rock slides and burn me until I get sharp.
When serotonin rushes into the stream Pokémon Legends: Arceus however, I wondered why these new Pokémon are not present Pokémon Diamond i By. The boring answer is that the developers just wanted to introduce new Pokémon into the series without really considering how it affected the continuity of the 16-year-old games.
However, if you consider the Pokémon universe as a living, breathing world, the only real answer is that Basculegion, Hisuian Growlithe, and the others must have become extinct some time later. Pokémon Legends: Arceus. After all, Hisui is described as an untouched area by civilization, and we all know what tends to happen. when the natural world fulfills human ambition. It seems that not even the magical world of Pokémon is free of these terrible consequences.
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Pokémon as a franchise, it often covers the realities of nature for its young audience. There are clues here and there about the sinister foundations of the Pokémon world, sure, but overall it’s a pretty cozy place for both humans and wildlife. Pokémon are never shown eating other species, for example, although one can bet that a Charizard would absolutely go into town with a Wooloo if things worked like the real world.
In most Pokémon in the games, players have the opportunity to relive already dead species such as Omanyte, Cranidos and Tyrunt from carefully preserved fossils. But Pokémon Legends: Arceus it may be the first entry in the series to allow us to witness the opposite side of this process by initiating (if not actually taking part in) several Pokémon species extinction events. Perhaps a full Pokédex is not so important after all.