This is (Probably) How Pokemon Legends Z-A Will Play

Thanks for watching friends!!! It's only been what...oh... 3 months since my last video... Genuinely super sorry for the long break but a mix of not knowing what to do with this video (almost scrapped it twice) and just being very busy irl made it just very hard to stay consistent with my uploads (Although funnily enough in between that time I did create a tiktok that I upload to)
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[@RoizeRasen]

Thanks for watching guys!!! Cant wait to see how this game unfolds (14:20 also aparently i dont know east from west😭😭)

[@yalebass]

16:57 too 😭

[@RoizeRasen]

No way... 💀 ☠️

[@Lidlman-K1ng]

@@yalebass Bruh

[@SuperFlashDriver]

This is why I love physical compasses, makes it easy to determine where north, south, east, and west are. Also, in terms of the title, I would say that it's usually "Pokemon Z To A, or Z dash A".

[@matcha_eats_drywall]

you forgot to never eat sour waffles o a o e r s u s t t t t h h

[@gustavoburciaga6200]

First 30 seconds in and all I could think is “ain’t no way he just called it that…”

[@Katelizaj]

Pokemon zaza

[@officialPandeh]

bro I replayed it twice I thought I was bugging 😭

[@Halfbloodteenager]

i call it that as a joke, this guy does it unironically lol

[@firezerogtofficial3317]

Same here and naaaa that was terrible to hear Zaaaahhh

[@slapttastic]

If you look at the background on the thumbnail its a pot leaf 😂

[@marsh1270]

Ok so here's the thing : being french, the premice of the game immediatly made me think of the urban plan of 1864 called the "Haussmann plan" which changed the layout and stucture of Paris significantly, so I think this game will take place in the recent past

[@Sauhij]

Acier carré galvanisé

[@the-hero-of-twilight]

@@Sauhij LOL

[@Wailerman]

when he said 'collect souls', i knew he was on that Legends ZaZa

[@Starriaaa]

3:35 to be fair Team Plasma literally enacted a full on terrorist attack and started ice bombing cities in BW2 as “NEO team Plasma” and we know for a fact that there are universes where the evil team leaders win because of the Rainbow Rocket event

[@takendruid]

I think MandJTV said it best in regards to the “future” claims on Legends Z-A. The “futuristic” look we see are very clearly blueprints and not actually a representation of any futuristic plan for Legends Z-A

[@Gafafsg]

Blueprints don’t look like that though, and the modern music and presence on baseball caps and cellphones in the trailer are weird additions if it is the past

[@Koolasookis]

Hail yeah

[@Walnut64]

@@KoolasookisHAIL YEAH

[@Walnut64]

@@Gafafsgit’s a hologram of the current city most likely along with it’s people. Plus considering how that paper looked in the trailer it’s definitely going to be in the past. If it was the future it would probably be on some sort of metal.

[@eeeeggnog._.]

​@Walnut64 what, we don't use paper in modern times? In Legends arceus they used inkbrushes, here it's pencil sketches. Nothing in this trailer really suggests it's the past

[@felipepestana]

The pronunciation is already established in Japanese, it's Legends Z A, the hyphen is silent

[@DragonTheOneDZA]

WOAH THE HYPHEN IS SILENT?!?! I THOUGHT IT WAS POKEMON Z DASH A

[@janfaid8576]

no way its "za" or "z dash a". just call it legends Z A​@@DragonTheOneDZA

[@BrokenSoulConfession]

Yep. Legends Zee Ae. I must admit I lost interest to see the rest of the video after hearing it pronounced wrong at the opening. So, I cannot tell if he got it right eventually. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@coolchihuahua__5108]

pokemon zaza edition

[@onetruebrick]

I think it'll be pronounced Zeta, but I suppose we'll find out at the next Pokemon Direct.

[@DyxoXinoro]

That whole bit about Az at the end made me realize something. We might finally get to see Eternal Flowette's Light of Ruin in game.

[@Flamelance_Accendo]

Just like Arceus does, Zygarde can speak (as it was shown in the anime). Which is nice to expect to happen when we see it again.

[@exposed975]

The anime also made lucario and volcanion talk 😂anime is not a reliable source

[@MMoutoo]

@@exposed975Lucario can communicate through aura, dex entries in nearly every gen confirm that it can understand speech

[@exposed975]

@@MMoutoo okay then what about volcanion or Keldeo lol 😂 pokemon makes every legendary or mythical talk these day it doesn’t mean much

[@Starriaaa]

Most legendary Pokémon talk in the anime due to “telepathy”

[@exposed975]

@@Starriaaa if a Pokémon isn’t a psychic type why is it using telepathy?

[@MugenAeternum]

3:30 we literally JUST had professors murdered by Pokémon. If they want it dark, they'll make it dark

[@justsomerandomdudeontheint9859]

And (almost) dead dog in SV. And ACTUAL dead dog in LA

[@questionmarkquestionmarkques]

@@justsomerandomdudeontheint9859 sun and moon anime episode 21

[@reyj2532]

But it still wouldn't be wise/make sense 1. If it were because Lysandre had won it wouldn't be a urban redevelopment, it'd be a reconstruction or restoration 2. The more logical side, if they were to do a game where the backstory was that the entire city was obliterated because of an attack, people would start comparing it to current events.

[@shatteredsentient5321]

They didn't even show it though. This is nothing new to Pokemon.

[@DJCheese77]

​@@justsomerandomdudeontheint9859and the USUM anime

[@chrizzel28]

I think there's a decent chance the A in the title might come from a squirrel legendary to complete the theming of Xerneas, Yveltal and Zygarde, which would be based on Ratatoskr from Norse myth. I suspect that if this is a legendary we might end up seeing time travel through it in order to still make us go from the present into the past like in PLA.

[@lucasnanami]

fun fact: according to the files of x and y, there’s actually a missing mythical/legendary before diancie, hoopa, and volcanion, but after xernas, yveltal, and zygarde. you might be onto something

[@dataexpunged4784]

​@@lucasnanamiWhere did you find this info?

[@It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promise]

@@lucasnanami Wasn’t that gonna be Magearna? Since it was originally planned for gen 6 along with battle bond greninja.

[@solgaleo3533]

@@It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promisethat’s exactly what I was thinking too. I hope it gets something in this game because it really seems like it was cut from Z

[@solgaleo3533]

While not it’s own pokemon, I had some theories about Galar being more of Norse mythology and to me the secret Dynamax Greedent at the Dyna Tree seems like it could be a reference, especially since most of the other Galar legends line up with something, including the birds.

[@PrincessDella]

Genuinely kinda surprised you didn’t mention Hoopa as a possible catalyst for a Time Travel protagonist. I know it’s never been shown to teleport things across time, but don’t tell me it wouldn’t make sense if it could.

[@Starriaaa]

I see Hoopa being more of a post game Pokémon to catch kinda like the legendaries in LA

[@hippospoop1871]

​@@StarriaaaI see hoopa being more used in the core story due to his potential lore of being a troublemaker .

[@Starriaaa]

@@hippospoop1871 sure but none of the legendaries with “potential” were used in the story of LA. Not to mention Hoopa lore wise has literally nothing to do with Zygarde

[@weirdoiguess4354]

​@@Starriaaa Hoopa can bring non-native Pokémon to places where they don't belong, potentially disturbing the natural environment, so Zygarde gets involved. Or it just interferes with the construction of the city, I don't know.

[@TheAwesomeSoul]

I still choose to pronounce it as PLZA, "Plaza".

[@jakepearce7776]

Considering Lumiose actually has 5 Plazas, this is actually genius...

[@m.m.2897]

Thank you for sticking with the bit and calling it “Za”

[@mr.punisher5100]

Zygarde on that zaza

[@connerSphotography]

So hype for the next legends game! Hopefully Pokemon has learned from there previous games and heard the criticism and they’ll make this one the best next gen Pokemon game

[@herowither12354]

It's not a reconstruction, it's redevelopment. Paris is starting redevelopment right now. Yet, there's no recent disasters. So, it could easily be in the future, with manmade micro biomes throughout the city to catch in.

[@ManateeTunes]

I feel like they could make the game focused on Lumiose entirely by making a true city, with tons of buildings, alleys, rooftops, and more that you could fully explore. Sure, Lumiose in X/Y was big, but you couldn't enter many buildings, and compared to a real city, it wasn't actually big at all. If they double down on the city-focused part, it could be really cool.

[@Team-Eclipse6024]

Really good video. Edit: paris has got a large river running through it so an adapted version of it could be the main water area.

[@takenname8053]

I hope the game opens with the ultimate weapon being used, and that would be the reason for the redevelopment.

[@markanthony7191]

I dont understand why people think this would be in the future. These are LEGENDS about the history of the reigons. Who ever wants to put money on it let me know.

[@mysteryx267]

This video literally depicts a perfect Legends game for the Kalos region. The idea of the Prism Tower secretly being the recreation of the ultimate weapon is genius. Honestly this concept is so good that it just makes me even more disappointed that the game will most likely just be in the city. I honestly would way prefer to explore ancient Kalos than just ancient Lumiose. Great video though, it helps the hype for this game when the hype season has been so dry so far.

[@solgaleo3533]

Okay, crack theory, the one in X and Y was the fake one and we see the REAL one in Z-A

[@Mr.AM67]

I completely agree with the more of exploring kalos than just lumios city and that the way he says it might happen would be awsome but I would really like mega evolution to have a large factor in the story line as well

[@Praintrixx]

i feel like the professor would have yu get coal and stone from the mines, but a light draws you deeper into the cave, and at the end you find your Starter's Megastone. you report it to the Professor and he tasks you to go to various Caves / Mountains to collect these Megstones. I feel like to get them there would be waves of pokemon you must defeat to gain the Megastone at the end.

[@pitabread546]

On one hand, I'm really nervous about their statement regarding the game only taking place in Lumiose City, as I think that would really hinder the gameplay and make it less interesting to play. On the other hand, I'm just so excited to see what they've cooked up with this game, especially coming off of the success of Legends Arceus! I hope they took notes as to what Pokemon fans really want in a game, and I really hope that they put the proper time and effort into the game so it doesn't feel unfinished or that it belongs on a previous gen console. As a side note, I think it would be soooo cool if they added the Paris catacombs into the game. There's a ton of potential for lots of fun ghost types to appear, and maybe even some cool new regional forms based on the catacombs. I loved the video, and I can clearly see the work you put into it to capture what the Kalos region could look like in a Legends game!

[@Sing_LoveWRS]

This is what we get for complaining about ScarVi not having enough buildings

[@nathanielus5296]

​@@Sing_LoveWRS fatherless pfp

[@Sing_LoveWRS]

@@nathanielus5296 When was the last time you hugged your own father

[@nathanielus5296]

​@@Sing_LoveWRS Time enough for me to not get mental illnesses

[@Sing_LoveWRS]

@@nathanielus5296 Oh well, not like either way is a bad thing.

[@Geekwithapencil2048]

Honestly-considering the time periods being close together and we don't know where he went-I'm curious as to whether we'll catch a glimpse of a certain merchant wandering about Kalos...

[@bobjob2514]

I want to say that the devs came close to using abilities in PLA. The pokes with swift swim, unburden, etc. seemed so much like they had some kind of...? secret action economy boost apart from the speed stat proper.

[@lackofcheese344]

the big Regi still had Slow Start

[@alexandrosthanos1069]

get this guy as a producer for pokemon man

[@hitsuxhitsu5009]

I feel like ppl forget that the legends arceus was THE experimental game, where game freak could do something different and just test things out for the next game and now they're incorrectly assuming that legends z-a will be arceus but in kalos, when i feel like z-a will continue the experimental particle of it's predecessor and go in a completly different direction than arceus, like for example if arceus was all about exploring the semi open areas and focusing on catching as much pokemon as possible and making the first pokedex, maybe z-a will completly lock you in the lumiose city and minimize the catching aspect to bare minimum?

[@jakariashafin8685]

Theyl pick to the option that makes the most money in the shortest tine so theyl limit the pokemon because then wed have to buy the ither games for the rest theyll also add in a dlc or 2

[@kalejuice5701]

Sounds like a game to avoid like the plague, tbh. What's the point if the focus isn't the namesake?

[@AnotherW3irdThing]

@@kalejuice5701Yea

[@MrBells-un5ly]

This was an awesome video!! I absolutely love X and Y! My two favorite Pokémon and Braixen and Sylveon, and this game is just so exciting for me. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks we’ll be venturing outside of the city too

[@Loid-sd3vd]

I can't stress enough how similar Kalos is to France when it comes to how everything goes back to Illumis(that's how it's called in french and i played Y in french so imma call it that) Another point that does correspond to the hypothetical period this game will be in, is that France, up until Automobiles generalization, had a heavy railroad network, in a star shape where everything ends and starts in Paris, so if they do use that in their favr(Illumis has a train station after all) we can bypass the distance by harvesting whatever is needed for Illumis by going all around Kalos, AND that would help include places too far from Illumis but still iconic in Kalos, as well as events that are linked to specific places such as mythicals being about south kalos, caves etc(forgot their names but you know what im talking about) All and all, i imagine this game to have a bigger scope than ever, after all they did try to make an openworld without having the capabilities, experience or ressources, it turned out funny and glitchy, but that's a bit more experience for them, tho i prefer a zone system like LPA, a single zone of that game has just as much care and details in it than all of paldea unfortunately, so i hope they don't make another empty open world just for the sake on being an open world

[@Bloodbreakfast]

I love how pokémon fans spend months theorising the next games while gamefreak in the meantime is like: "yeah so, we made this puddle so we think we're gonna fit a gyarados inside."

[@marseillejoh]

When I first saw the thumbnail I thought that zygrade's silhouette was a weed leaf and that z-a was a pun for the word Zaza. And I was like "haha funny pokemon weed game"

[@Clossis]

I think that legends ZA is refering to AZ and after he created the weapon and ended the war, legends ZA takes place to rebuild luminous city after the war

[@AnotherW3irdThing]

bro idk how more ppl didn’t pick up on that it’s so obvious 😭

[@ajames3062]

People need to play the Spider-Man games on PlayStation to understand how this game will fit in one city. It's going to be multi leveled city, with canals, roof top terraces, i imagine at first you'll only have access to street level and slowly open up more of the city. It's obviously going to be a much more fleshed out and full lumioise city than that of x and y

[@themonkes-zk6sz]

I really love this game idea, however, I NEED LEGENDS: NECROZMA, preferably in the next two years.

[@MegaMathew200]

The reason you go into different areas is because people are trying to build up the city, but strong pokemon similar to alphas and frenzied pokemon on PLA are stopping people from accessing resources. These Pokémon are sent by zygarde to stop the building of the city and destruction of the environment around it

[@Wryler8]

Zygarde blessed mega evolutions

[@AutumnOwlex]

Also based on how in Arceus the player was working with Galexy Team I'm betting the Player in ZA will be framed through reporter working with Alexa's ancestor. Sent on reports and scopes will be the way the game goes about main quests and side quests.

[@benjaminmargulies1853]

And lumiose even in legends Z-A is 64x smaller than actual Paris (even smaller than that becaues the Prism tower is not even half the size of the eiffel tower) meaning Kalos is 64x smaller than france's northern half or only the size of Delaware at 2000 square miles (every direction of france scaled down by 8x to make Kalos)

[@guak9921]

they should make snoop dogg a cameo in ZA

[@ptl1545]

Pokemon Legends ZAZA

[@mbfv6773]

Amazing video. I loved how u took into acocunt the already existing map and the possible plot lines based on the content that's already available. Excelent analysis.

[@vgcbeta]

I know we just got Terapagos focused games (and currently the anime as well) but honestly if they do decide to go for a time travel/time-space distortions theme I would love to see the time machine being important again. After the crystal pool encounter we get the professor's scarlet/violet book back, which means we could reactivate the time machine, yet the game doesn't even let you inside the machine room after you reach the underdepths. They could also scrap that completely and just use Hoopa as an excuse though. But if they add time travel stuff again I would like to travel between past and future lumiose. That way they could have a much bigger diversity when it comes to wild Pokémon! Some of PLA's mechanics were teased in SWSH, for example the game's battling styles were teased with urshifu's rapid/single strike forms. I wouldn't be surprised if the mechanic they teased this time was the synchro machine, but I feel like they won't give up on paradox pokémon just yet, especially when paradox mons like roaring moon and iron valiant hinted at megas returning. And following the past-future time travel concept , another baseless idea I like is Team Quasar (or whatever it ends up being called) being made up of Fallers/time travelers. Imagine if we had Sada in the past and Turo in the future (not the AI's or the dead ones, but rather the missing parents from their respective timelines) or maybe characters like Emmet or Colress. Nothing points to that direction for now but I would love to see it!

[@CreativelyJake]

banger video. i think you might be right on the nail in the resource gathering... loved all that you had to say! combining lore and level design in your theories is a great way to do it and . i think you did it quite well and logically but what i need more than anything is mega dudunsparce. make it an ouroboros

[@drbenben]

Great video! Love the idea of collecting different kinds of resources from different areas in order to aid in the development process of lumios

[@ReyNandes]

I would wanna see the ninja town from pokemon XYZ, where you get a special frokie and train with it until it evolves into a greninja, and you and that greninja save the town, and that becomes the battle bond greninja from the legend in the series.

[@Max-oi4it]

Argument for past: The word Legend usually is used for a story or myth from... you guessed it: The Past

[@Politzk]

But there will be things that happen in the future and eventually become legends themselves. The legends don't have to have already happened, it could be the forming of new legends for future residents of kalos, not just the ones who exist in modern kalos. As an example, the player vs team flare stuff ib XY are technically legends from the perspective of those born hundreds of years after XY. This could be the exact same situation where we see the formation of legends for those born far after both XY and ZA. Not that I have anything against having it in the past, just the idea of it being a legend doesn't guarantee it being in the past. PLA is a legend to the people of DP but before PLA happened it wasn't a legend since it never happened yet, but that doesn't mean it won't become a legend in the future.

[@ArtsyJet]

​@@PolitzkWay less interesting to play through a game about a "legend" we ALREADY would have experienced nearly 12 years ago by the time of ZA's release. It's like hearing a story you already know the ending to. Legends was exciting because we didn't know the game's exact ending. Whereas a game set hundreds of years in the future telling the legend of XY...would be less entertaining as if the characters get it right...we are just being given cliffnotes of what we already know or if they get it wrong...we are just watching characters spew Tauros-Shinx for 20+ hours.

[@Politzk]

@@ArtsyJet you completely misunderstood. The legend would not be XY. The legend would take place AFTER XY. XY already happened before the legend would take place otherwise it would be a remake.

[@lamb6549]

I wonder why i didn't ever hear anybody explore the possibility that lumiose city is the original name of kalos, much like Rome was both the name of the empire and the settlement it started in and how Lussemburg is both the name of the city and the Country

[@absolutezero9507]

I'd hate for the game to take place in the past. They've confirmed the game will take place in lumiose only. The future has so much potential for little synthetic micro biomes wherewe could catch pokemon, with diverse huge districts

[@AnotherW3irdThing]

Ik but it makes way more sense for it to be in the past cuz of az and his unexplained past

[@absolutezero9507]

@@AnotherW3irdThing we haven't seen anything that could connect it to AZ

[@zionox688]

@@absolutezero9507the name of the game is Legends A-Z… also the A is shaped like the ultimate weapon.

[@absolutezero9507]

@@zionox688 just because the ultimate weapon is more than likely coming into play doesn't mean it takes place in the past or has anything to do with AZ

[@absolutezero9507]

@@zionox688 and it's titled legends Z-A, not A-Z

[@Hannah-t5z]

Personally, I like to think this takes place during the Industrial Revolution and they are utilizing electric types to modernize the city. With the influx of people the city has to compensate by building lots more buildings.

[@Extentinator-dt8yt]

Amazing video, Very well thought out, you must have done a lot of research I can already picture the game playing out Great job! Can't wait to see the nest video

[@Fluminox-]

Great video, man. Can't wait for part 2. I really do thing this could be one of, if not the best Pokemon game to date, especially the expanded lore regarding Megas (the best gimmick) and Zygarde (one of my favourite pokemon)

[@LukePasqualeCalarco]

really cool ideas, my theory is pretty different, but i'd be just as happy with something like this! i reckon ZA will be set very shortly after x/y and act as a sequel. basically everyone agrees that lysandre's methods were wrong, but his intentions were good (stopping humanity from wiping out pokemon's natural habitats). so the solution? terraform lumiose city into a solar-punk nature city where pokemon can live comfortably alongside humans. basically the re-development will involve using the power of zygarde (or something) to terraform each fifth of the city into a different biome (forest, desert, arctic ect) that will kind of overlay each part of the city instead of replacing the buildings and stuff. this will all culminate in replacing prism tower with a clean energy device built by AZ based on his ultimate weapon (seen in the game logo), but repurposed to create rather than destroy.

[@asplatoon2person881]

The game is probably set after the war in the game that az was in and such as it says the redevelopment of it which means it getting rebuilt which it must’ve gotten torn down due to the war or it was the center of the wars fighting which actually connects the whole az using floette’s weapon and it went straight to the past lumiose destroying it and now we have to rebuild it

[@luckybunny8322]

I believe that Z-A will take place after the first launching of the weapon that ended the Pokemon War, and they're rebuilding it afterwards, maybe

[@ilexontrooper9688]

This is a very cool idea for the plot! Though I would still be extremely interested in a game that takes place entirely within a city. The creativity of getting it to work would be amazing to see!

[@jannbuchwald24]

I think the game will play in the past. It’s a legend game. Ever heard of a legend taking place in the future?

[@GreatHammerEnjoyer]

Well formulated and genuinely great watch... Though there's no way you're right with this one lmao

[@jackking3315]

Nah my guy did NOT open this video with “Pokemon legends ZAAR” 💀

[@NeonLightning03]

Most likely starter candidates: Chikorita, Totodile, Turtwig, Chimchar, Piplup, Snivy, Tepig, Litten or Popplio. I would bet on Snivy, Piplup and Litten based on popularity, but a regional form or mega Meganium would be really cool if Game Freak has decided take a gamble on it (which they should). Snivy and Piplup's evolution lines are both based on royal figures which is obviously huge for Kalos, so I'll be surprised if they don't have at least one of them (most likely Piplup because Empoleon=Napoleon) My money is on it taking place in the future, for two major reasons. The theme of Kalos was centred around environmental issues, and given what Area Zero and the Blueberry Academy showed in SV, Game Freak just started exploring the concept of artificial areas with entirely different environments and pokemon being sustained in close proximity through technological achievements. That leads straight into Team Flare being very technology-centred too, which you mentioned in the video and (like you) I believe it will be a key part of the story. So that's how I'm guessing they plan to solve the problem of having many different kinds of pokemon in an ecosystem which would otherwise be incredibly restricting and not really make any sense for a whole game. This could play into why the city is being remade, to become more environmentally friendly, perhaps with Zygarde even playing a key role in why the city may have been destroyed and is now changing to become more nature-friendly/sustainable. The other reason it would make sense to me is that thematically, this generation is heavily focused on past vs future. The last Legends game took place in the past, so it makes a lot of sense from that perspective for them to now make one either in the future, or building a highly technologically advanced/futuristic city in the modern day. This makes sense to me because it would fully explain why Pokemon has decided to make the entire game take place in ONLY one city; the game is a highly futuristic setting, but is in the modern day. To do so with a whole region wouldn't make sense from a reasonable lore perspective, but to do so with a single massive city isn't just feasible, it's highly interesting and invites fantastic plot points especially when Zygarde is considered. In summary: I'm fairly certain the game will take place either in the near future or the futuristic present, as it's the only explanation I've found as to why the entire game will be set in one city

[@thecaveofcreatures1728]

I think they might just use the original Kalos starters rather than switching things up. You could argue Legend Arceus' unique starters were to avoid repetition with the recent BDSP. By contrast, there's no other Kalos game coming out before Z-A. I also think they'll stick with Kalos starters to emphasize potential Mega evolutions for them

[@Adrian-ze9ud]

2:32 "A whole story" yeah, like 20 minutes, with the focus being on Kieran all the time.

[@boyboilNEO9055]

What are you talking about that was like three hours

[@Adrian-ze9ud]

@@boyboilNEO9055 Yeah, but like 20 minutes of it where about Terapagos

[@boyboilNEO9055]

@@Adrian-ze9ud I should’ve watched the video

[@Adrian-ze9ud]

@@boyboilNEO9055 Lmao

[@teewhyeee]

i honestly didnt even think about actually catching pokemon and how that would work if they're think of having the entire game in one city lmao bruh

[@WorldofGaming-be]

What about time travel? Imagine staying within Lumiose City but exploring it in different eras-like the prehistoric times, even before humans existed, or during an ice age. You might even travel to the future! This idea could add so much variety to the Pokémon and landscapes, all within the city itself.

[@RowanTS]

The tower as the ultimate weapon thing gave me chills. Us literally helping to create it in our ‘beautifying’ Lumiose fits so well with the themes of X and Y.

[@mousetoons22]

I can imagine Zygarde becoming incredible angry over the construction of Lumious city and possibly have points in the game where people spot a green snake like pokemon destroy buildings

[@alice.mathieu.thiers1368]

It would be super cool if they included famous french writers and also the emperor that existed at the time ( like seing pokemon versions of Victor Hugo or Charles Baudelaire would be neat ) Also for those who don't know : France during Paris reconstruction was governed by Napoleon III, wich was Napoleon the first's nephew and an emperor. He ordered the baron Haussman to reshape Paris in what it actually is : wide streets with lots of parallels and perpendiculars. He is also the one that created the typical paris buildings that are sketched in the trailer. Victor Hugo wrote The hunchback of Notre Dame and The Miserables while Baudelaire wrote The Flowers of Evil.

[@alexpfeifle879]

I never considered there was other ways to pronounce this game since we say words like X-ray and A-Team with the name of the letter I was also just in Paris and it’s absolutely huge. My understanding of this world was changed when someone suggested that games like Spider-Man take place entirely in one city and having been there in person I can definitely see it working.

[@icecreamorc]

I personally think the player will time hop between time periods making changes to the city in a early era and then jumping to a modern or near future state that has alternative spawn tables for wild encounters depending on what choices the players make during the past era.

[@AnotherW3irdThing]

I like this concept a lot it actually fits perfectly I hope they do sum similar

[@ernestlam5632]

I hope Zygarde does get more forms. There's a 99.9% chance that would never do this but I think you should be able to have more than one Zygarde so long as they are less than the total number of cells you have. Like if you had 60 cells you could have one 50% and one 10% or or six 10% forms. Crazy I know but logical.

[@Friendly_Neigborhood_Astolfo]

If it takes place in past, I would love to see this professor Westwood make a cameo as he invented the modern pokeball.

[@KDubOriginal]

I'm going with it being an alternative modern day setting where pokemon are vr digital creatures that can be interacted with similar to how we irl can interact with them via pokemon go. The reason I think this simple, pokemon go IS the main game the pokemon company is pushing us all towards and that's why every single game since its release has been incorporating it more and more over the years. The goal is to make pokemon go THE game to play and have all the features that previous games had, eventually being blocked by a pay wall. But don't worry the next legends game will be in the future.

[@Fennecs017]

In my opinion, probably the intro of Z-A will be lysandre winning and shooting the ultimate weapon but before it hits the city we are in, our character will prob pass out and wake up in the past or something like that.

[@bradpennartz]

I really liked the plan you laid out here, and I hope that they do something similar. My original idea when they announced that it would play similar to the fan game, This Gym of Mine, You are a recent transfer to the area, acting as a city planner. You explore with your pokemon and help gather money and resources to build the city by placing shops and factories etc. I guess it would actually be closer to Animal Crossing, but I could see that attracting a lot of new players who probably didn't get that into Pokemon as a franchise.

[@Swonestone]

I think that another way for the story to play out is that the “revolution “ won’t be clean or healthy for the environment.This will trigger a conflict with zygard.And zygard is the perfect enemy since it has many forms for different battles.

[@Ammiteur9]

I actually think making the world of the game slightly smaller could really benifit the games performance quality. But something that would hint towards just expanding lumious into the other routes is, that the routes all have names, just like they do in actual paris, I think

[@SacredBlazeXxX]

Bro just headcanon "Sah" as the pronuntiation even tho literaly everyone else calls it "Si-Ei" and went the whole way with it 💀

[@Laqqy]

huge gamble but it’d be cool if the game took place during the past AND the future, and you see how the past changes outcomes in the future 😮

[@rodolfoleon4538]

I feel like concerning a future aspect of pokemon z-a I'd feel like the main villain would be malamar due to the fact that in the anime there were about 3 malamars that went into the future saying that they'd return in the near future. I'd feel like two of them would hynotize two trainers,1 possibly controlling hoopa while the other would controling mewtwo, while the third uses a nurse joy to gain a mega evolution.

[@PluckyInc]

i mean the trailer itself shows an Absol running away from luminose city, and it's near the canal; either implying something is going to happen there. or the area its running to is where some disaster is going to occur. maybe either the Coumarine City/sea spirit's den or the Pokemon League/Victory Road, Snowbell City or possibly the cave of emptiness. at least looking at Kalos' official art showing waterways going north-west and south-east. there's also Zygarde's lore about being inside the caverns under Kalos which probably implies that water goes round. As for Zygarde itself, i think they'll probably make use of the unused models they might have designed. in the coding for Sun/Moon, Zygarde's 10% and Complete forms has the IDs of 12 and 15. since there's Red Cores...yet blue cores doesn't appear itself, it could be inferred that they cut half of Zygarde's elements from SM when adapting Z content. otherwise form 11 would be the Red Core, 12 Dog. then forms 13 and 14 would be the blue core and its 50% form. Pokemon that has gendered diferences (model/textures) usually takes model texture IDs 0/1. Unown starts from 0 and goes to 27. if a Pokemon debuted before the shift to 3D, then gamefreak would readjust them to Pokedex order, unless a new generation starts. the only egregious things would be 2 spots between Calyrex and SV's Regis texture IDs., and Bergmite's Line skipping an ID. (Pokemon were listed with codenames. the 3D pokemon X/Y site lists their codenames as Ice1 and Ice3, meaning it lost an evolution). though that could just be giving space for concurrent development. like how Legends Arceus started from something like 1000 instead of 900-something. again, new generations tend to start new model texture ID systems.

[@gerryspringer5422]

It was confirmed to take place only in lumious city tho 8:03

[@kevandre]

I'm definitely assuming that the undercity will be a massive part of it, and the sewers being a lot of where the surfing takes place

[@highhtideVEVO]

Hypothetical videos like this exist

[@blastchaos4286]

We already know this game will take place entirely inside Lumiose City, so any of those treks outside of the city you mentioned won't be happening.

[@CrazyFaceChico]

I had hoped the Kalos legends game would put us in the middle of the war. Or immediately or not long after the end of the war.

[@cathal_account9815]

Ye me too, but I realised the way the kalos war ends is way too dark to happen in game

[@SourCookiePlays]

@@cathal_account9815 beleive

[@Shin3y]

I know everyone is saying the game will be strictly future or past, but why not both? And the argument that the futuristic reveal trailer isn’t actual showing the future, but is rather meant to emulate a 3d version of a blueprint. However, if you look closely during the trailer, you can see trainers using what seem to be phones. I think completely shutting down the idea of legends games being allowed to be in the past. Pokémon fans seem to have an obsession with trying to follow patterns that don’t yet exist or never really did. It could be in the past, but why completely rule out the idea of it being set in the future? I think it’s totally reasonable for the game to take place in the future. It is reasonable to assume there could be a timeline where more damage happened across Kalos during team Flare’s attack. Anyway, I just thought I could maybe add some perspective. No matter what direction it goes, I’m excited for this title and for one of my favorite regions to finally get the attention it deserves.

[@lawznwdsc]

Great video, I can't wait for us to learn more about this game, I'm really excited to get new lore and story for Kalos and new mega evolutions. I hope like in Legends Arceus the gen 6 mythicals get their own quest.

[@lawznwdsc]

I hope the Kalos starters and Flygon get their own mega's along with Pikachu and Eevee.

[@grugspro]

The PC will be the same one from LA on a vacation since Arceus won't take them back to the future. They decide to go to Kalos but uh-oh! the player gets trapped in Lumiose after a bunch of life & death distortions surround the city, causing rapid plant growth, decay, and Pokemon pushed to their extremes. Your only hope? Expand Lumiose City with the new Z-cell technology that reverts the distortions effects.

[@stealthnightgaming3349]

I think that we could be redeloping lumios city after the ultimate weapon was fired and repairing the city from that point

[@mimikyuliker946]

I think that since it’s focused on battling, this will be a game largely based around conflicts between different trainers and possibly their goals for the city. The further emphasis on megas could exemplify this, as trainers with certain megas or mega stones would be put at an advantage to push their goals

[@invertedname3099]

Legends Arceus was the best Pokémon game I’ve ever played and I hope they continue that with the 2nd installment of the Legends line

[@CloneTrooper-yz2ov]

May guess, is that you will be working for the predecessor to macrocosmo. To help remove wild Pokemon, during the redevelopment of the city. During which you will discover some like hide underground. Probably with regional variants or legendary. Also this will probably explain, why mega evolution is hide to the world. Probably because of the main bad guys

[@night15000]

This is a stretch but if we are building the ultimate weapon in za wouldn't that make us a villain

[@giragod9373]

We did join Team Galactic in Legends Arceus so........

[@bessieburnet9816]

​@@giragod9373 But they weren't the villains

[@Trelle012]

Or the region itself suffered so much due to the consequences from the Kalos War that it took thousands of years to recover the scars

[@guwuega8010]

i think a pokedex overhaul for more urban and urban-adjacent pokemon to fill in for the out of place Kalosian mons, they could make a game entirely in the city. and the urban development plan may just be the timeline setting of the game, we’re not necessarily in charge of it. idk where you got that impression.

[@foulwoll]

Gamefreak needs to hire this guy!

[@incinaflaregameing8644]

Im excited to see a younger vertion of az

[@arnielvrz]

Lmao Pokémon legends “Zah” is wild

[@frogfarmer3551]

Pokemon: the French revolution is gonna pop off 😂 they better have my boy pinser

[@jakariashafin8685]

Or bisharp or something with guitine

[@camoveteran2219]

Kalos has so much history that making a game that takes place in the past confined to just Lumiose City feels like a waste of a lot of potential.

[@davidhenry7536]

I feel like legends will only ever give us settings in the past. The Eiffel Tower was finished in 1889 so I would think it might be set in a similar time period

[@SunniestAutumn]

I think you may be a bit hung up on the resource angle of it all. I doubt we as the players need to fill in for the manual workforce behind lumber production, because that sounds kinda shit. I think our purpose is to travel through the different parts of the city, solve the problems locals are having with pokemon by incorporating the pokemon into the Lumiose City ecosystem and catching/defeating any troublemakers. We"ll essentially be the city police and animal control rolled into one.

[@zorubark]

HOOPA IS THE CORRECT ANSWER, IT CAN SEND LEGENDARIES FROM OTHER TIMELINES, IM SURE IT CAN TIME TRAVEL

[@orcatamer2524]

I can't believe that he says legends za that's crazy 💀💀💀