Of all the games that could have been announced during the Pokémon Presents stream this week, I’m not sure if a Pokémon Legends game set in the Kalos region’s Paris-inspired Lumiose City was on anyone’s bingo card. But, lo and behold, that’s exactly what we got. Pokémon Legends: Z-A got its first teaser trailer and is set to release on the Nintendo Switch at some point in 2025. What’s more, the upcoming game has the potential to explore some of the Pokémon series’ most interesting - but seriously dark - lore, that’s gone unused for years.
Not much has been officially confirmed yet about the upcoming entry but we can start to have some speculative fun as to what we can expect. On Twitter / X, Nintendo published a post stating that the game will take place “entirely” within Lumiose City, and the teaser trailer itself referred to an “urban redevelopment plan” taking place within the city with a “vision of beautiful coexistence between people and Pokémon.”
