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Previous Pokémon games typically required aspiring trainers to go out and explore the world, but the recently announced Pokémon Legends: ZA for “Nintendo Switch systems” might be a little different.
In case you missed the initial announcement, this upcoming release will supposedly be “set entirely within Lumiose City“. While we don’t know the exact scale, it will be quite “big.” The same city we originally noticed first appeared in the 2013 releases Pokémon X and Y.
Although the city in the 3DS entries was already quite large, ZA’s teaser video mentioned how Lumiose would undergo “urban redevelopment”. All of this combined has already generated quite a bit of speculation on social media and elsewhere online about the size of the game and what kind of gameplay mechanics might be included.
If it’s like other open-world, free-roaming urban games today, it could end up being absolutely mega-scale. It also wouldn’t be impossible for the development team to implement different biomes. It could even include completely different areas within the city (or in the immediate surroundings of the Kalos region) for players to access. And imagine all the buildings we could get into!
In contrast to the city focus in this new entry, the existing Nintendo Switch release, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, saw players travel back to the Hisui region before it became the land of Sinnoh and explore multiple different outdoor environments, from open plains to more rugged terrain.