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With just a couple of months away from the release of Pokemon Legends Z-A, Game Freak has unveiled a brand new teaser trailer for the upcoming game, one that certainly strays away from the conventional trailers that Pokemon has made previously.

On August 20th, the Pokemon Company teased a realistic-looking image of yellow gates with a purple goo in them, with an old abandoned building just behind it. Many people were surprised by the reveal, with some even thinking this could possibly be a realistic and horror-like new game in the franchise, focusing on Pokemon and its lore. However, that turned out not to be the case, as today, the Pokemon Company unveiled the teaser trailer as promotional material for Pokemon Legends Z-A:

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The teaser starts out with two persons visiting an abandoned building, driven in by the purple goo, which seems to have a sweet scent to it. The assets for the building are quite realistic, and certainly clash with the anime style of the characters being showcased. After a while, the two characters bump into an Espurr, which starts glowing its eyes, before the characters being startled by a dropping Spinarak and a flock of Noibats coming from downstairs, to which the couple makes a run upstairs to escape the ordeal.

Once reaching the 2nd floor hallways, the couple finds a room with a glowing light inside it, they approach it slowly, being interrupted by another person escaping said room, only to be surprised by a gigantic Pokemon breaking through the room's wall and into the hallway, unveiling the brand new Mega evolution for Pokemon Legends Z-A, Mega Victreebel, being the one that was dropping all the purple sweet-smelling goo around the place. After dropping to the entrance, the couple escapes the building, only for the person that escaped the room previously approaching Victreebel, being its trainer, calming it down.

Pokemon Legends Z-A is set for release on October 16th, 2025, for both the Nintendo Switch 1 and Nintendo Switch 2.

 

[yoyoyo69]

Ash's Mansion. I'm all seriousness though, I don't get promotional material which hypes or implies more realistic graphics, only to release with as a carton/vastly inferior graphical fidelity

 

[nmagod]

"found footage"

oh, so it's zoomer garbage

 

[Ondrashek06]

Hey at least we can finally have PS2 graphics in a Pokemon game. Took them long enough to get there.

I wonder why Nintendo couldn't just stick to the old 2D graphics, putting everything into 3D caused the buggy disaster that was SV.

 

[Tur7L3]

I watched a bit of the video, and I was just thinking about where the franchise went after my time.

I didn't play much of the original GB Pokemon. (It's on my playlist.) I was familiar enough with the anime ("Squirtle-Squirtle!"), so I understood the general plot and character dynamics. I understand Ash kind of vanished from the series after a certain point, though the character remained in the anime. From there, I guess Nintendo and the Pokemon Company have gone in strange, new directions.

Semi-scary is definitely the trend, popularized by SCP-096, Granny, Five Nights are Freddy's, etc. It's interesting Nintendo would allow this kind of thing, though it's done with enough sarcasm and goofiness to avoid real freights.

I mean this is probably just a snippet of the game, the general ambience in current Pokemon games is just as it used to be. Or atleast it tries to be.

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I wonder why Nintendo couldn't just stick to the old 2D graphics, putting everything into 3D caused the buggy disaster that was SV.

Because GameFreak and Pokemon Company do whatever tf they want apparently. It's terrible how every game's dev team spends 3+ years in their open world games for Nintendo and yet Pokemon comes in and thinks they can do anything similar in 1 crunched year with the budget of a lolipop.

 

[PatrickD85]

Well .. lets hope we see an improvement in Pokemon games visually.
Not holding my breath on that though ... we all know its easy money for both Game Freak and Nintendo.

 

[AlamosIT]