Pokémon Legends - Arceus: Lots of info and new gameplay

in Pokémon legends: Arceus are a researcher, no coach, and the game awakens memories of Monster Hunter.

When Nintendo, The Pokémon Company and Game Freak in February Pokémon legends: Arceus announced, many open questions remained. Although the first trailer gameplay has shown, but many additional information did not exist. That the game made technically a pretty bad impression and the game world looked very empty, was added. Thanks to yesterday's edition of Pokémon Presents, we have received a deeper insight into the first proper open World Game of the Franchise. Granted, graphically it is still anything but a beauty. But at the content level, we are much more interested.

researchers instead of trainers

Pokémon legends: Arceus plays in the Sinnoh region that knows you from Pokémon Diamant and Perl, but in a much earlier age, in which she was still Hisui region. You also do not play a coach who travels through the world to clamp an arena after the other and the very best to become. Instead, you are a member of the Galactic Expedition, which explores the monsters.

Your task is to create the first pokédex of the region. In addition, in the course of research missions from the small settlement Jubeldorf, she moves into the various biomes of the world. Of course, catching, collecting and exercising Pokémon nevertheless is the core component of the game. In this regard, there are in Pokémon legends: Arceus also some exciting innovations. Not only that you can see the animals everywhere, instead of randomly advised in the high grass, you can also strike you to you and capture it by direct Pokéball throw. But that does not work for every Pokémon. They all have different behaviors. Some monsters flee if they see you, others attack you.

Fresh wind for the combat system

Fights are not discharged in a separate screen, but always directly in the open game world. Although they are still classically round-based, but not as rigid as you are used to. This means how many times a monster comes to the train, determine its values. So it may happen that a being performs several actions in a row. This allows you, for example, to attack with him first and then heal it or start a series of attacks. In addition, the attacks can be carried out in two ways: with tempo or force technology. With the former, the damage falls slightly, but your monsters come back to the train faster, while force technology causes the exact opposite.

Dangerous missions require good preparation

Pokémon legends: Arceus has even more differences to the typical Pokémon role games. Thus, with his structure, it remembers Monster Hunter: Jubeldorf serves as a hub in which she returns after each research mission. Here you take new orders and prepare you on you by making items for example. Pokémon legends: Arceus has a crafting system. In the world, you will find all sorts of materials from which your useful objects make. For example, an apricoco and a shiny stone give an ordinary pokéball.

In each of the regions of the game world, there is one base camp, which serves as a starting point as well as a refuge. Here you can do breaks while your Pokémon team is recovering from the strapaces, and of course also produce items. If you suffer too much damage to your missions (either by wild Pokémon or depth falls), you can not continue your exploration.

Whether it will be possible to explore the game world together with other players and whether it's fighting against other people, be it NPCs or real people, is not known. It is clear only that there is a swap exchange on the one hand in Jubeldorf, over which your online players with other players swaps Pokémon, and on the other hand ranking fights continue to take place in Pokémon Sword and Shield.

New Pokémon

Last but not least, forget that the makers have also introduced some of the Pokémon to which they meet in the Hisui region. These are special variants of well-known monsters or new further developments. For example, Damhirplex can develop to Damythir, which has psychoists. From the Fish Pokémon Cash Scenting can become Salmagnis if it is obsessed by the souls of deceased consumer consps. Furthermore, a Hisui-Washakwil and Fukano can be seen in the gameplay scenes.

Pokémon legends: Arceus should still appear on January 28, 2022 for the Nintendo Switch. Since yesterday you can pre-order it in the eShop and secure you such a special outfit that is based on the Hisui-Fukano.

Now Pokémon legends: pre-order Arceus!