The Pokémon Firm aired its official 2024 Pokémon Presents presentation as we speak, and it closed it out with some excellent news. One other Pokémon Legends is on the best way, dubbed Pokémon Legends Z-A, and it’s at present scheduled for 2025.

Immediately’s teaser trailer reveals Pikachu operating via a blueprinted metropolis, the place many various Pokémon are hanging out. Finally, the textual content reveals the “City Redevelopment Plan” for Lumiose Metropolis – a central location within the Kalos area, the house of Pokémon X and Y.

Pokemon Legends Z-A, because it seems to be referred to as, is a brand new entry within the Legends collection and may very well be an attention-grabbing have a look at the origins of one other beloved locale.

Legends amongst us

Legends began off with Pokémon Legends Arceus in 2022, as an attention-grabbing side-branch of the mainline collection. Transporting its protagonist again in time to the early days of the Diamond and Pearl area, it was far more targeted on catching, amassing, and exploring.

And to its credit score, Pokémon Legends Arceus was fairly well-received. Now, particularly after the troubles that Scarlet and Violet went via, a Legends recreation is likely to be a superb stop-gap for franchise woes.

Importantly, Z-A shouldn’t be launching till 2025. Whereas it may very well be an early launch for that yr—Arceus was a January recreation—that also means we’re now a yr and not using a new Pokémon entry, as S/V has wrapped its DLC. Hopefully the hole is an effective factor. But it surely does make me interested in what the Change’s vacation lineup will appear to be for 2024.