Pokémon Legends: Arceus is going to make trainers fight Pokémon themselves if they want to win.
During this week’s Pokémon Presents announcements, t he Pokémon Company revealed a number of new details about Pokémon Legends: Arceus, the upcoming Nintendo Switch game set in the distant past at a time when humans and Pokémon did not yet live in “harmony” with one another. While Arceus is set to introduce multiple new kinds of Pokémon and a fresh story about how modern day Pokémon society came to be, today’s presentation also included a very inspirational and unexpected detail. In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, you play as a young trainer from Hisui, the region known as Sinnoh in more modern games like Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl. Because Pokémon Arceus is set in an era where human knowledge about Pokémon was somewhat limited, players are tasked with venturing out into the wilderness, where they’re meant to study wild Pokémon in their natural environments before catching them in antique Pokéballs. All of this maps rather directly onto the other core Pokémon titles in the franchise, but this week’s presentation established how, in this game, some wild Pokémon will not simply stand around and wait to be enslaved by children.
