Pokémon Legends Z release date speculation & Mega Evolution news
27.02.2024 - 16:41
/ radiotimes.com
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To mark today's Pokémon Day celebrations, during an online Pokémon Presents showcase, a brand new game was announced.
It's officially called Pokémon Legends Z-A, although it looks like the internet has collectively decided to just call it Pokémon Legends Z.
This new Switch game — seemingly spit across two titles, Pokémon Legends Z and Pokémon Legends A — will bring players back to the France-inspired Kalos region from Pokémon X and Y.
There's even talk of an «an urban redevelopment plan» in the Paris-inspired Lumiose City, the centrepiece location of those 2013 3DS titles. Read on to learn more!
In terms of the Pokémon Legends Z release date, the official trailer confirms that 2025 will be the year that we all return to Kalos.
A precise date was not mentioned in the announcement, so it's time to put our speculation hat on.
If the developers at Game Freak wanted to aim for the original X and Y release date, the anniversary for that would be 12th October 2025.
Twelve years on from the original X and Y launch, that October window is as good a guess as any for the arrival of Z and A.
At the time of writing, it is not yet possible to pre-order Pokémon Legends Z.
We would expect product pages to pop up soon on the Nintendo website, Amazon, GAME and all the other usual suspects.
We'll update this page as soon as we're able to add the specific pre-order links! For now, we've linked off to the some generic landing pages in the paragraph above.
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We know for sure that Pokémon Legends Z will beavailable on Nintendo Switch, with the console's familiar red and white logo being present in the official announcement trailer.
No mention was made in the presentation of the heavily rumoured Nintendo Switch 2, or whatever the next console from the iconic Japanese company ends up being called.
In time, we wouldn't be surprised to find out that Z and A are also available on Nintendo's next console, as well as the Switch. But for now, there's no official word on that next generation hardware.
The trailer for Pokémon Legends Z only really confirmed one thing in terms of gameplay — by including the familiar icon above, the developers made it clear that Mega Evolution will feature in Pokémon Legends Z.
People that played the original X and Y games will know that Mega Evolution originated in those titles, before being included in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire as well.
Through the use of special stones, Mega Evolution allows select Pokémon to transform into 'Mega' versions of themselves (with new