I think Z-A will take place in the late 1800s to early 1900s and its real life inspiration is Haussmann's renovation of Paris.

@tylerlaunius7396

4 ай бұрын

That seems likely, yeah. If it takes place during that big industrial boom, there might be a bit of a steampunk vibe to it. I'd be all for that, if it's the case.

@daryantsns3448

4 ай бұрын

Anyone else thinking we could see a version of Ledyba or Ledian based on Miraculous Ladybug?

@cpizzi95

4 ай бұрын

it’s pretty obvious but will be interesting to see how they make the whole game in lumiose

@daryantsns3448

4 ай бұрын

@@cpizzi95 Maybe there’ll be that castle near the Berry Fields!

I’m glad they decided to quickly go through the mobile stuff rather than sitting there and explaining it in great detail.

@gothamforest

4 ай бұрын

The whole video was mobile stuff except for 40 seconds what do you mean?

@drakeboutte1466

4 ай бұрын

@@gothamforesttrust me that’s the NORM now. But the problem back then was the directs would be 20+ minutes, 95% relating to nothing but mobile games. These lengthy directs talking about mobile games more than the MAINLINE stuff just pissed people off. While I still don’t agree with a direct being mostly everything but mainline, at least they are keeping it snappy

@Linkfin

4 ай бұрын

@@drakeboutte1466 that’s exactly what I mean. If I got another direct where they talked about Cafe for over a minute I was gonna lose it lol

@madnessarcade7447

4 ай бұрын

@@Linkfin the point of Pokémon is to appeal to the widest audience possible and that there’s something for everyone from mainline to the anime to the spin offs Well maybe if people got into the other avenues of the franchise rather than solely the games u wouldn’t be disappointed Since the series was designed to be symbiotic with itself and to experience every avenue together for a complete experience

@madnessarcade7447

4 ай бұрын

@@drakeboutte1466 the point of Pokémon is to appeal to the widest audience possible and that there’s something for everyone from mainline to the anime to the spin offs Well maybe if people got into the other avenues of the franchise rather than solely the games u wouldn’t be disappointed Since the series was designed to be symbiotic with itself and to experience every avenue together for a complete experience

AZ is 3000 years old and was the king of Kalos. I don't think we will see him as a kid if it is in the same period as Legends Arceus.

0:11 Zion and Felix got old 😮😮😮

@silvermoon2608

4 ай бұрын

And they fused together!

I was 13 when Pokemon X and Y came out I am now 24 I feel so old but Pokemon Z is happening folks!

@ChocoSheriff

4 ай бұрын

This is not really Pokemon Z though

@FTChomp9980

4 ай бұрын

@@ChocoSheriff It kinda is though Z-A is just a new retelling of Kalos.

@ChocoSheriff

4 ай бұрын

Pokemon Z would be a Platinum style version of XY, this is another Legends game based in Kalos, which is cool!

@sardineBro

4 ай бұрын

I had just started college when those games dropped

@FTChomp9980

4 ай бұрын

@@sardineBro Man your older then me but overall glad to be in Kalos again.

I keep seeing people ask, "Why are there Holograms? Is it the future?" No, there's holograms because in Kalos, Lysandre's company made a hologram device called the Holo-Caster, basically a smartphone but its display is a hologram.

I want to be excited for a new Legends game, but I won’t be convinced until we see gameplay.

@FTChomp9980

4 ай бұрын

Same I want to see it to hoping throughout the year GameFreak can show us some gameplay.

@vintageoriginallegit

4 ай бұрын

If it’s keeps the same gameplay and makes some improvements in other areas I’ll be happy. I was a little disappointed in scarlet and violet felt like a step back from legends

@User12347ejdj

4 ай бұрын

Millions will have fun playing the game.

@chrismendez7582

4 ай бұрын

@@vintageoriginallegit i do like SV but it did feel like they went backwards. It was their first open world game tho so I cut them some slack.

@kiwidahuman

4 ай бұрын

same

The A is shaped like AZ's ultimate weapon. Z-A is a reference to the great war in Kalos before AZ used the ultimate weapon (Z signifying the end of Kalos, and A signifying a new beginning) and decimated the whole region. The game takes place when they're in the midst of rebuilding it, just my theory

@PHiLLy2c

4 ай бұрын

Theory is bad

@servantbyday

4 ай бұрын

Theory is great

Legends Arceus is 19th century coded yeah, it’s a very thinly veiled pokemonified account of the 19th century colonisation of Ezo/Hokkaido by Japan (the real life location Hisui/Sinnoh is based on). With that in mind, I’d suggest it’s quite likely that this ZA also takes place in the mid 19th century, as everything about the trailer from the art style to the “urban development plan” points to this being analogous to the Haussmann Public Development plan of the mid 19th c, which was the wide scale refurbishment of Paris that did away with its medieval architecture and street plan to be replaced the grand boulevards it’s known for today. Ofc there’s no reason game freak necessarily have to play it that close to history, but they have clear precedent with legends arceus and everything we saw in the trailer thus far feels stylistically in sync

@why3994

4 ай бұрын

What about all the hologram stuff...

@LacsiraxAriscal

4 ай бұрын

@@why3994 yeah, not sure about that. For a moment I thought we were getting Pokémon beatsaber 😅 There could definitely be some parallel stories of say, actions in the past (the more hand drawn sepia style) having knock on effects the present/near future? That would be a cool concept, tho I’ve no idea how it would play out mechanically. Certainly rewatching, in some of the panning shots towards the end there are buildings that are decidedly 20th century, too.

@nintendo-relatedchannel5810

4 ай бұрын

“Coded”? That word doesn’t apply to everything.

@aquaarmour4924

4 ай бұрын

hate the "coded" word. it was mainly used by 14 year old girls on tumblr. for example when someone says something is "queer coded" it just means "it looks gay".

@LacsiraxAriscal

4 ай бұрын

@@aquaarmour4924 in this sense, I mean to say that Legends Arceus takes place in a pseudo-19th century setting. It obviously isn’t the literal 19th century, because as far as I’m aware the mainline Pokémon games have never tied themselves specifically to any given timeline or calendar (perhaps the oooooold Mewtwo diary entries that also make Guyana canon to the Pokémon world did? I don’t remember). And even notwithstanding that, the timeline of the Pokémon history is certainly not directly analogous to earths timeline (take the whole of XY’s ancient war stuff). But there are enough signifiers in the game’s presentation that suggest an early industrial period, where it’s clear that that’s the era being suggested while never explicitly stated. That’s all “-coded” means, and it’s an idea that predates tumblr and indeed even the concept of queercoding. It’s just a way for a creator to suggest certain ideas and preconceptions in their work without having to explicitly overstate everything, and allowing the work to still be loose and adaptable. You could argue that Paldea is Spanish-coded, for instance; it’s vaguely shaped like the Iberian peninsula, and contains a lot of Spanish architecture and cultural touchstones, so even though the exact geography is incredibly non specific the game still has a very implicitly Mediterranean feel. Compare that to Kanto, which is explicitly named after a region of IRL Japan and is virtually a scaled down version of that area with the city names changed.

Someone on Twitter made the comparison that the A in the logo looks like The Ultimate Weapon

@PHiLLy2c

4 ай бұрын

Strange when the weapon was shaped like a flower

The hopeful side of me likes to think that since we're clearly not getting a new Pokemon game in 2024, Game Freak might actually now be letting their games have more development time.* *Unless they pull a 2022 and stick out both Legends Z-A and Gen 10 in 2025...

@packers12to80

4 ай бұрын

Hilarious. U will get poop and like it. It's how gamefreak does business

The Lumiose City Music💙

My biggest takeaway from this presents is how crazy it is that literally no one knew the TCG already had a completely free to play mobile app for over a year now

best part of the pokemon presents was that it didn't waste too much of my time talking about mobile games I don't care about

I read the thumbnail and couldn’t tell if it was sarcasm or not so I had to watch the video. It was super short and the only “good” news was the tease at the end.

@Amplifymagic

4 ай бұрын

Casuals are gonna eat up the TCG Pocket game like Hearthstone

@packers12to80

4 ай бұрын

​@@Amplifymagic casuals will? I don't think u know the definition of "casuals" goofy.

The Unowns were scrambled in the beginning of today's Pokémon Presents, but all the letters to write it were there. In the end, they mixed up SEE YOU.

Now when you say good…

RGT-85 would disagree about the quality of Pokémon Presents haha

@CrowTRobot

4 ай бұрын

Most people would. This is the first channel I've seen call it good.

The Pokemon Legends announcement saved this Pokemon Presents.

I'm interested in TCG Pocket, but also concerned that it'll turn into a P2W ball of sludge like the current PC version of the TCG. Legends Z seems nice enough, I guess we'll have to see how it looks going forward. Disappointed that we STILL have no classic handheld titles on NSO, gutting both Stadium games in the process.

The Unown teaser at the beginning was also surprising. Might be hinting at something later.

17:40 The "A" pattern resembles Floette I think. Floette is the companion to the ancient trainer from the XY story named "AZ." Seems like an obvious connection if you ask me, but we'll see!

@King_Kiwi1998

4 ай бұрын

No, the A looks more like the ultimate weapon.

@cinchedlibra

4 ай бұрын

@@King_Kiwi1998The ultimate weapon is designed after AZ's Floette

I feel for you guys, 2024 is about to be so dry.

@packers12to80

4 ай бұрын

Yet....they loved this presentation 😂

@sparkypack

4 ай бұрын

@@packers12to80 ..miraculously and somehow.

I wonder if we'll have to collect all the Zygarde cells and cores to build up to Complete Zygarde to save the ecosystem which is being threatened by an evil group or company.

The “See You?” Scrambled was a callback to the beginning when the Unknown were scrambled trying to spell Pokemon Presents. I thought that was kind of an obvious joke. Unknown just exist as letter shapes, they don’t know how to spell.

Definitely excited for Legends Z-A. One of my thoughts was that Kalos, was the first major Pokemon to introduce a big emphasis on fashion. While I know the fashion customization kind of carried over to following Pokemon Gens, I always felt that they wanted to pinpoint that Kalos was sort of the fashion capital. So in a way, I'm kind of interested in seeing if they really want to keep that reputation and go all out on the fashion options for your character. It always feels like we see so many wild fashions for specific characters, which you don't get to dress like to the same level, maybe we'll be able to go crazy with outfits for that one.

How is this video longer than the actual presentation?

in the trailer there was someone sitting at a table looking at their phone

I hope we can finally get Eternal Flower Floette 🥀

I want Pokemon Tron now

All I know is the switch is not capable of running a modern city. It is a launch title for the switch 2, no doubt about it.

Kinda sad they didnt do black and white remakes yet but legends z-a is cool I guess

@PHiLLy2c

4 ай бұрын

Heavy on the i guess

@lukaskindt

4 ай бұрын

They didn't wanna mess with the Unova crowd

9:32 Pokémon Legends Arceus was like ~1900 time frame (so not *that* long ago), it's set after Japan opened their borders to European outsiders which didn't happen until like the mid-1800s. But I think the Legends Z-A is probably more modern setting. We can infer they at least have electric bulbs given the streetlights.

The fact that Pokémon Z-A is coming out next year instead of this year saved the presents from being a let down. I don't remember the last time there was a two year fap between Pokémon games. Beyond that there wasn't much else.

@rexman1231

4 ай бұрын

2 year what?

@IIDXZERKO

4 ай бұрын

2 year what?

@rexman1231

4 ай бұрын

In all seriousness, I agree, I just hope it's not like the last Legends where it was revealed in February and released next January. PLA was great, and if this gets more development time than PLA that would be better

@SupaDaBloopa

4 ай бұрын

2 year what?

@gustavoduarte3507

4 ай бұрын

2 year WHAT

I think Legends Z-A takes place in the modern day, or very recent future, but with time travel shenanigans. The trailer shows multiple trainers and people throwing poke balls, meaning it doesn’t take place in the same time period as Arceus. Also the fashion of certain characters (I.e., hairstyles, purses, etc.) looks more modern. I think the “A” in Z-A refers some sort of time travel loop where you go back in time and learn more about Zygarde, AZ, and the ultimate weapon

7:53 they did the misspelling at the beginning too, I think it's just to give personality to the Unown; just like lol they're the alphabet but they can't spell good.

Pokemon x was my first mainline game. I picked it and a brand new slab 2ds up in 2017 for $40 total. Fell in love with the series. It scratched my collecting itch and I loved it. I'm so excited to return to this region. Kalos and Hoenn are my fav regions

do we think that Legends Z to A will maybe be two time periods? Z (the end, the future) to A (the start, the past)?

I'm excited!!! It seems Pokemon Legends Z will take us to early 18 or 1900's. That'll be cool!

I've never really played Pokemon X and Y, so i guess i have a year or so to get to it. I went from disappointed when the mobile apps updates took more than half the runtime of the presentation, to pretty satisfied with the reveal of the upcoming TCG app, but i definitively didn't expect a new Pokemon Legends announcement and that makes it a really awesome Pokemon Presents. (Maybe a little remake of gen 5 by a third party studio would have been nice to pass the time but can't really complain there...). I'm mostly glad they are giving some time to their developers to try and create a good game.

The TCG thing seems cool, and Z-A might be great when it finally comes next year, but otherwise, it’s a bunch of apps which I largely don’t care about. This one was 3/10 for me.

If Z-A takes place in one city maybe they can do more than 20 FPS this time.

I'm interested, but only because of Legends Arceus being the most fun Pokemon experience on the switch I've had despite the flaws and rushed development. Can't wait to see gameplay

Pokemon Legends: Twin Peaks Edition

I imagine that the "Z-A" in Pokémon Z-A is just a continuation of XY (in Pokémon XY) shifted forward by 2 letters which gives ZA. I don't see any other possible explanation.

Ending with Legends was positive, it's the only decent Pokémon on the Switch. I hope they do something great like the last spin-off and not horrible like the mainlines. 😏

@leeeroyjenkins555

4 ай бұрын

Pokken tournament?

@packers12to80

4 ай бұрын

U mean ending with a title 😂

pla was set in the meiji restoration 1868. i think this game will be set in the haussmann's renovation of paris, which happened from 1853 to 1870

It isn't at all surprising to see so many people who rightly complain about Pokemon games having so little development time also complaining about there being no game release for 2024, though.

@Cobaltios

4 ай бұрын

You want a new game? "Yes." ...Do you want them to develop the game more? "Yes." Pick one. "...no."

@DRAG0NSPIRIT10

4 ай бұрын

It is ridiculous. I was delighted when I saw it said 2025 release as they only just finished off the S/V DLC what a month ago? We didn't need another big game rushed out for this year. Granted a 2025 release could mean right near the beginning of the year, but hopefully it releases further into next year to try and give it as much time as possible.

@ItsYuhBoyyyy

4 ай бұрын

The minority are complaining. Most people are definitely happy that the games are getting a longer development time.

It’s about time they took a break to actually develop their games instead of trying to shove rushed, buggy products down everyone’s throats. This could be a good change!

Legends Z is what saved the presents for me like it's a new Legends game, and it focused on what's like my favorite generation Pokémon X was the first main line Pokémon games I bought (not played tho, the first I played was one of the gen 1 titles) Fennekin is my favorite starter (not counting my boy Pikachu of course) but I think there's still a chance for another Pokémon release this year, besides from the mobile game (there's usually 2 every year) either it be the classic titles on NSO or a spin-off title like Stadium, Mystery Dungeon or what I'd like the most: PokéPark

Gold and Silver I am reasonably sure was a reference to Pokemon Masters EX. Where Lance and the rival was shown off. Mind you I was skimming past the mobile stuff.

They used Johto and Gen 2 quite a lot during the video. So it's very odd that they swerved here.

7/8 announcements were mobile game updates... this is not a good Presents

@CrowTRobot

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm confused by the thumbnail. This Presents was worse than many of them. Pacing doesn't matter if there's no real content to be found. I'm thrilled to know that a new Legends game is coming but that was nothing.

I hope Legends Z-A will be a cross-gen console release

Our hosts seemed to have missed that TCG Live exists. TCG Online was on only on PC and iPad. But within the last year or so, they replaced it with Live, which is available on phones, which is nice, but it's overall a worse app than Online was. So will Pocket now replace Live? Our are the two going to coexist? They didn't mention anything about the codes that come with physical TCG products being usable in Pocket, so I'm wondering if Pocket will be a game on the side that only features the streamlined battles, as mentioned in the Presents, and Live will remain as the full-featured digital TCG? But it seems a bit cumbersome to have two TCG apps out there...

I didn’t watch the Pokemon Presents, looks like i didn’t miss anything. Although i need to get that Legends game after I buy Legends Arceus.

I was 7 when x and y came out and it was my first Pokemon game. I am 18 now. We are so back

Lets see how the game is first.

Im kinda suspicious of the whole unknown slight misspelling of "see you?" And the pokemon exec saying info on our latest titles and we only got pokemon legends za. Maybe we get something johto related that was outsourced to someone else revealed around june to release this year.

The "A" in the logo of Pokemon Legends Z-A looks more like a lambda to me. Is it Zeta-Lambda? I'm not sure what implications this could have for the game though.

Twitter says the game will take place “ENTIRELY” in Lumiose city

i mean they could have already made these kind of pokemoncards in which u can venture in the card using augmented reality but they never did for some reason? 🤔

I’m pretty sure the Unown being out of order were just supposed to be a visual gag and not something for us to drive ourselves crazy over. Apparently Legends ZA being set in Lumiose is seemingly based on the 1850s redevelopment of Paris, which is intriguing given the trailer seems to hint at something so high tech (although it is just a representation of the concept tbf). EDIT: there was another redevelopment in of Paris in the 1960s, which could also work.

🥲 Soon Furfrou my beautiful Shiny ✨ poodle French Doggo is coming back home

So i think he joke with the unown is that they don’t know how to line themselves up properly to spell words.

@Themissingkangaroo

4 ай бұрын

Because at the beginning they also misspelled “Pokemon Presents”

Legends entirely in one city just sounds a bit boring. I hope I'm wrong and that gameplay will be revealed soon.

That was so lackluster.

I'm surprised they only announced 1 Switch game that's for 2025 especially since they didnt have any new games last year too. They had dlc and detective Pikachu but neither of those I would say full size games. This is the longest break between games I can remember.

@DRAG0NSPIRIT10

4 ай бұрын

Which is a very good thing, as they've really been pushing too hard in recent years to get games out and they've certainly suffered for it.

@R.B.90

4 ай бұрын

@@DRAG0NSPIRIT10 agreed, just wasn't expected. I hope it time well used. Also, I hope it at minimum on both consoles so we can get that switch 2 fps boost we already know we will need lol

Unown have been shown to be an important aspect of the Pokémon universe, not just Johto - particularly with Arceus lore. This legends game is also clearly leaning into letters so it makes sense to have unown despite not having any Johto content.

Not the biggest fan of Kalos but I do like the legends concept and Mega’s so I can’t complain

Another Legends game is great, but...they didn't really show us anything?? It's not even clear whether or not it's a properly historical setting. I hope they go with an open zone style again instead of overreaching with an open world like they did with Scarlet and Violet.

It left me thinking. WHAT TF WERE THEY THINKING

The A in the logo is just the dog form Zygrade - to me it's clearly the same green and almost supposed to represent the paws 🤷‍♀️

You forgot that TCG Online was shafted and replaced with TCG Live only just last year. Curious if TCG Pocket will replace that or be a separate game on its own.

I’m not that hyped about this Presents. Looking forward to see more about Pokemon Legends, but that the trailer doesn’t say anything about the game. Just a weird gen 6 teaser. The rest of the presentation was all about mobile games.

Seems like legends means "let's just tell whatever story we feel like telling" and not "let's go back to the legendary Pokémon's roots"

🥰👍🤩💯 The French region is back along with mega evolution!!

If they make the card game with a bit of story where you can battle the computer and not just pvp I think it would be unreal. Anything like the GB Pokemon card game and there onto a winner

I feel like noone ever pay attention to the word redevelopment, its possible that this is after the pokemon war and we need to rebuild/renovate the lumiose

12 minutes of minor mobile game updates and a teaser trailer that shows nothing beyond a logo? OMG!! BEST POKÉMON PRESENTS IN YEARS 🤯🤯🤯🤯

@ArtzyZero

4 ай бұрын

I'd argue Game Freak having a year to work on a game instead of like, six months does make it one of the better Pokémon presents, hehe. Yeah but it really wasn't that impressive. It barely announced anything, I think just dropping the Legends trailer without warning would've been way cooler.

What if the See You anagram is a hint at Johto remakes?

They just released a mobile version of pokemon tcg last year, Pokemon TCG Live

There will be a Pokemon Legends Z-B.

🤩 Digital Pokemon TCG Totally getting that app no battles however unlike tons of IRL cards they accidentally won't end up in the trash

I hope Legends Z actually has some replay value or at least some gameplay variation or a little depth (not asking for much, it's still Pokemon) Because there's literally 0 reason to ever play Arceus again after the first time though. I've played even mediocre titles like BD&SP twice.

@PHiLLy2c

4 ай бұрын

Z-A

I'm sorry but did we watch a different direct? I was really disappointed, why is there still no pokemon games for Nintendo online? Make a big fuss about it being pokemon day yet its all app based games (I know cafe is on switch, doesn't mean its not just a mobile game) and then no footage for the only real game they did announce...

@UltraBall23

4 ай бұрын

Nintendo announces NSO updates, not Pokémon.

I hope Legends ZA will have mechanics more competitive and modern instead of going too basic and baseline like Arceus.

I think AZ will be an adult in this game and the whole thing is taking place in the aftermath of the super weapon firing off

I cannot hide the fact I'm still worried for Nintendo in the months to come. It's true we're getting a new Pokemon Legends game, which is potentially releasing in January 2025, but that game alone won't NEARLY be enough to cover the huge gap between this Summer and the release of the new console in March 2025. After Paper Mario, there will be about 6 months of emptiness, and Nintendo is not allowed to have such a long gap with no games. Not like Sony...

I really hope it’s not a time travel thing that brings you there and you are just a trainer from that era

@samyb4566

4 ай бұрын

That is forced to live here forever even after saving Hisui.

That’s so crazy they are bringing Legends back I really am excited to play that!!

Dude everyone is saying it’s gonna be old but… why does Lumiose give me massive Midgar vibes?

I just hope isn't bad develop like their last game

What’s the point of Pokémon card game pocket when TCG Live exists

I think “Z” is for zucchini

Man you really have to a Pokémon fanatic (in the full context of the word) to look at this presentation and be actually exited for the franchise... This is sad...

@erianpeterson3431

4 ай бұрын

So your a washed out fan that still comments on pokemon videos and I'm sad for bring a fan pfft sure dude😂

Zion can't go an entire post or video without mentioning street pass 😂

OMG I love Kalos it's my favorite location.

Welcome back Kalos!

I think PLZA is appropriate.