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NEWS: Pokémon Legends Z-A Game's Trailer Reveals Late 2025 Launch, Real-Time Battles




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Yune Amagiri



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 12:33 pm Reply with quote
Real-Time Battles can offer some serious PVP possibilities, i just hope that we won't be locked in long animation otherwise i can already see the meta being "wait for the opponent move, avoid and counter" rinse & repeat. I've always wanted a Real-Time Battles Pokemon game that play like PS2 Zatch Bell game.
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Flared



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 12:56 pm Reply with quote
The more active battles look cool, but is the whole game just in the city with these selected "open zones"?
I worry it wont feel as open and varied as Legends Arceus felt.
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FishLion



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 1:18 pm Reply with quote
Flared wrote:
The more active battles look cool, but is the whole game just in the city with these selected "open zones"?
I worry it wont feel as open and varied as Legends Arceus felt.


I am hoping that it works due to the size of the city, being based on Paris there is plenty of real estate for wild different zones.

I think it could be very neat actually because pokemon environments are always shrunk, all the way back to the original buildings have been shrunk to fit them in the overworld map with bigger on the inside interiors. It makes sense because a realistically scaled city could cover an entire pokemon game almost and you don't want to make it feel less like adventuring across the country side, but that is part of why this spin off seems so unique!

This is a really neat opportunity to experience the city scaled to the player and not the open world map, so I am really excited to see what they do with that method.
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Miu-9S



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 1:31 pm Reply with quote
It looks amazing!
But I don't understand the first partner choice : two from Johto and one from Teselia. I would have liked the third pokemon to be from another region, instead of two of the same one.
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Nionel



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PostPosted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 4:16 pm Reply with quote
I kinda wish they hadn't shown AZ and his Floette in the trailer. That would have been a nice surprise to see that they were still around.

Going back the previous games with mega evolution, I'm seeing we'll see megas for Meganium, Feraligatr, and Emboar. I'm guess that's the route they'll go rather than giving them variants line we got in Legends Arceus.
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