Despite Taking Place In Pre-industrial Times, 'Pokémon Legends: Arceus' Will Give Players A Cell Phone
A pair of Pokémon trailers dropped today, one for Pokémon Legends Arceus and another for Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, the oft-clamored-for Sinnoh remakes.
Much of the buzz centered on the Legends Arceus trailer, which showed off several new aspects of the game, such as a Scyther evolution named Kleavor, a cast of wardens which appear to be something akin to the Gym leaders of traditional Pokémon games, and, weirdly, an Arceus-shaped cell phone that will act as this game's Pokédex-equivalent.
For a game that takes place in Pokémon's pre-industrial era, the anachronistic inclusion of a cell phone struck many fans as very odd.
Meanwhile, the Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl trailer didn't quite generate the excitement of the Legends Arceus trailer, as it mostly showed off features that were in the original games released in the mid-2000s. While the trailer revealed little new information other than a Poffin-creating minigame, it did reveal that HM moves—the bane of every trainer's existence for the first six generations—are now accessed through the "Pokétech" app, which means no longer will players have to trudge through Sinnoh with a so-called "HM slave."
We're closing in on the release dates of the new Pokémon games, which will most assuredly please everyone and not whip the fanbase into a frenzy.
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Victreebong
Everyone’s grieving the Bidoof workforce loss while the Tropius slave trade has faced far harsher cuts.
jacob BLackburn
Its just not the same Sinnoh without mass Bidoof enslavement. I hereby declare that TRUE pokemon fans should unify under articles of confederation. It is a long standing tradition and apart of Pokemon culture to enslave Bidoofs and Bibarels.
Its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the Bidoof is not equal to other Pokemon; that slavery--subordination to the superior race--is its natural condition. This, our new movement, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. Our confederacy is to be founded upon principles in strict conformity with these laws. This stone which was rejected by the Gamefreak "is become the chief of the corner"--the real "corner-stone"--in our new edifice.
supergoron
Yay for the removal of necessary HM's in the remake.
Boo for the cellphone in the Edo period game.