Let’s solve this easily, first: Pokémon Legend: Arceus Classically, is a mainline Pokémon game. Serebii’s master, Joe Merrick, confirmed late last year:
When he put it in another tweet“it’s not a spin-off…it’s not a spin-off more than Super Mario Galaxy in order to Super Mario World. “
He’s right, technically. But it begs the question: Exactly To be Legend in relation to the usual Pokémon series games? A sequel? An evolution? A re-invention? One thing that really doesn’t matter, can’t we just enjoy things without putting them in a box? Is the label necessary? Is it steep to use genre as a prescriptive treatment for video games just to keep us bound to the limits of verbally expressible concepts? slippery?
Woof, there’s a bit of a digression there. Look, my point is that Pokémon Legends: Arceus is new and it’s a big change from what we’re used to, so the feeling freak Call it a Pokémon game when it’s so different. But that’s part of the What makes it so good.
And despite its stated place in the main Pokémon storyline, its English title is said to suggest (at least as interpreted by many members of Team NL) that it is part of a new ‘Pokémon Legends’ branch of the series, this is the ‘Arceus’ version. Of course, a name is just a name, and there is no doubt that the Pokémon Company has hedged its bets on the title in case Arceus turns out to be a blunder in the mainline. .
Merrick’s comparison of Legends to Super Mario Galaxy is a great example: By literally taking the Super Mario platform into a whole new space, Galaxy has changed what was possible in a Mario game. Similarly, Breath of the Wild reinvented a series of games that have arguably gotten a bit old and stagnant, with new mechanics and new world types to challenge our ideas of what a Zelda game could be like.
These massive game dynasties have a lot of tropes, characters, and lore that can be limited somewhat – like Bowser/Peach, Ganon/Zelda, and in the case of Pokémon, the entire plot, going from the gym. exercise to the gym, catch new Pokémon, train them, and ultimately defeat the Pokémon League – but all it takes sometimes is to go back to the drawing board. Pokémon Legends: Arceus is still a bit of an oddity, because even Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Galaxy keep a lot of the formulas of their series, but it’s good to know that not always new and different are spontaneous. bad move.
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