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Engadget
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Engadget
Pokémon Legends: Z-A arrives October 16
Pokémon Legends: Z-A , the follow-up to 2022's Pokémon Legends: Arceus , now has a release date of October 16. Along with the release date announcement, The Pokémon Company also confirmed that a new Pokémon Presents presentation will broadcast on July 22. Presumably we'll see more of the monsters we're going to be catching and battling with in Lumiose City, including the Mega-Evolved Pokémon featured on the newly revealed box art. The last Pokémon Presents took place back in February and showcased the three starter pokémon in Z-A , as well as the new real-time combat system. Pokémon Legends: Z-A will launch on both the outgoing Nintendo Switch and its successor, with Pokémon Legends: Z-A – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition featuring "improved graphics and frame rates". You'll be able to upgrade to the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition by purchasing a $10 upgrade pack on the Nintendo eShop or My Nintendo Store. An October release date for Pokémon Legends: Z-A means it's unlikely that we'll see Metroid Prime 4 in the same month, as Nintendo traditionally likes to spread out its first-party releases. Donkey Kong Bananza arrives on July 17, but beyond that we don't know a whole lot about what else Nintendo has planned for the remainder of the year. As reported by VGC , a new Nintendo Direct presentation could happen in June, where the company would likely fill in the blanks regarding its plans for what's left of 2025.
Time of India
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
10 best turn based RPGs to play if you liked Clair Obscur Expedition 33
Image via: Kepler Interactive If You're captivated by the turn-based depth of Clair Obscur Expedition 33 with its heaviness of storytelling and full-bodied drama character-driven, you are not alone. Within the rich lore of RPGs, Clair is reminiscent of an "age-old tradition" in terms of the early days when the genre combined fantasy storytelling with strategic combat inspired by Dungeons and Dragons. Today's turn-based RPGs offer an array of themes and styles and run across numerous platforms-from sword and sorcery to wild sci-fi adventures. Here are ten of the most amazing turn-based RPGs capturing the essence of Clair: games where strategy and story walk hand in hand. 1. Persona 5 Royal If you enjoy the aspect of inner conflict brought about by external danger in Clair, then Persona 5 Royal promises to give a twisted maze of turn-based diving and teenage life management. High school friendships during the day are disrupted by surreal places that compel the player to wrestle for hearts at night. The whole social simulation directly imports combat power; therefore, each relationship is tactical as well as a psychological journey. Persona 5 Royal Review 2. Pokémon Legends: Arceus by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Google Brain Co-Founder Andrew Ng, Recommends: Read These 5 Books And Turn Your Life Around Blinkist: Andrew Ng's Reading List Undo Unlike the standard gym badge quest format, Pokémon Legends: Arceus breaks the mold by embedding a historical construct in the Pokémon world. The combat is turned-based and yet streamlined and satisfying, with dynamic encounters and open-world exploration. It's a game about the discovery of creatures, but also about discovering oneself in the same way as Clair unravels his identity through action. 3. Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age This one's for you to experience classic turn-based RPG design at its best. Dragon Quest XI S will give you comfort peppered with surprises. It has everything a player could hope for out of a well-told tale in a fantasy world: richly drawn landscapes, and an engaging story line with nostalgic gameplay that appears to be time-tested. 4. Metaphor: ReFantazio The brainchild of Persona 5, where the stakes are thrice higher. It transports you into an arcane fantasy realm where the choices you press shape the kingdom and conscience. It features a multipronged turn-based mechanic around some "Archetypes," and it encourages you to slug it out with inner demons as well as outer foes. It's a spiritual cousin to Clair, though, one that trades modern angst for medieval uncertainty. Metaphor: ReFantazio - Official Launch Trailer 5. AFK Journey AFK Journey is an idle RPG with powerful visuals and tactical depth of party customization, nothing short of a joyous experience for the casual player. It is more relaxed than Clair, yet maintains a smart balance between Strategic Depth and narrative-time, making you develop connections with characters across rivaling factions in a world on the verge of collapse. 6. Sea of Stars From the makers of The Messenger, this RPG is a love letter to old-school RPGs such as Chrono Trigger and takes the retro gameplay and gives it a shiny coat of modern graphics. This combat system rewards you for timing and synergy, and the story speaks of friendship and sacrifice. Like Clair, it understands that nostalgia is not enough-the story and timing matter equally. 7. Golden Sun If you have enjoyed the dichotomy of magic and technology present in Clair, then Golden Sun lets you enter a tightly knitted fantasy world filled with puzzles, elemental powers, and psychic mysteries. It was ahead of its time in melding exploration with tactical spellcasting, and it somehow still manages to feel fresh many decades later. 8. Baldur's Gate 3 Baldur's Gate 3 is a tactical RPG that allows unprecedented freedom to shape a story. Every choice reverberates against your party's relationships, the political tensions of its world, and the outcome of turn-based skirmishes. Like Clair, it is a game of consequences-moral, personal, and strategic. 9. Honkai: Star Rail MiHoYo's free sci-fi RPG will leave you into a masterclass in sleek presentation and addictive, turn-based combat. Actually, it doesn't cost cents but gives itself to cinematic storytelling, character arcs, and punchy and smart battles. Perfect for Clair fans who want a futuristic interpretation on well-known subjects. Honkai: Star Rail Two-Year Anniversary Special Animation: On the Journey 10. Expeditions: Rome If political tensions and personal duties made Clair attractive, then Expeditions: Rome would sound like a natural progression. As a Roman legatus, you balance the weight of empire with loyalty to your comrades in a game that combines battlefield tactics with branching narrative decisions. Clair Obscur Expedition 33 proved that turn-based RPGs can still tell important tales while also putting people to the test. These ten games-from indie darlings to AAA masterpieces-each carry a part of what made them special: character-driven drama, thoughtful battle system dissection, and world-building baited with emotional assets. Whether you are new to the genre or returning once more, you shall find rich turn-based worlds lying in wait for your exploration.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
11 Details You Might've Missed In The First Pokémon Legends: Z-A Trailers
After a year of waiting, we finally got our first look at Pokémon Legends: Z-A during the annual Pokémon Presents showcase. The Switch game seems like a significant departure from the untamed open zones of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, which is exciting because we don't know what to expect. The stream gave us a trailer as well as a general breakdown, and we skimmed through both to see what details we could find. Here's everything we noticed. One of the best innovations Pokémon Legends: Arceus implemented was real-time capture mechanics. This included over-the-shoulder aiming which let you toss a Poké Ball at a wild critter and capture them without entering a battle. Scarlet and Violet didn't quite match this. You could throw a ball at a Pokémon as a way of initiating battles, but you would still have to fight the monster before you could capture them. In Legends: Z-A, it looks kind of like a mix of the two. You can still capture Pokémon without battling them, but it looks like it has a lock-on system similar to that in Scarlet and Violet rather than the option to freehand it. Kind of a bummer, but hopefully it feels better when you're playing it. One of the great challenges of a Pokémon game is trying to capture a new addition without knocking them out. This is why abilities like False Swipe exist, which will leave a Pokémon with 1 HP rather than knocking it out. In the first Legends: Z-A trailer, we see a Flaaffy seemingly beaten in battle, but the player still captures it in a Poké Ball. If this is the case, it takes some of the risk out of battles, but will make it a lot easier to capture a rare Shiny or Legendary Pokémon. Chikorita, Tepig, and Totodile are the starters in Legends: Z-A, which has fans convinced their final forms will each get Mega Evolutions. For Chikorita, its final stage is Meganium, and fans are theorizing its Mega Evolution might be a grass/fairy-type because of one small detail in the trailer. The Chikorita shown fighting the aforementioned Flaaffy knows the attack Disarming Voice, a fairy-type move Chikorita has historically never been able to learn. Could this be a hint that Chikorita's move pool has been tweaked to prepare it for a fairy typing in the late game? Pokémon Legends: Arceus' battles were more cinematic than those in previous games, and part of what added to the chaotic nature of its fights were that you could move your character around as your Pokémon took part in the scrap. In Legends: Z-A, Game Freak is taking this a step further by integrating it into the battle mechanics. Positioning and timing are integrated into combat in ways they weren't before, and as you run around your active Pokémon follows, setting up and avoiding attacks as they play out. So now you don't just run around aimlessly during fights; you're a more active participant in battles. Part of that new active system is that Pokémon attacks seem to have cooldowns. We can see when Chikorita is fighting Flaaffy that its moves have a timer before it can use them again. This makes sense given that timing seems to be a core part of battles this time around. Now you'll have to make sure you're well-positioned and can use the attack you need at the right time. Since Legends: Z-A takes place entirely in one city, it's not too surprising that it's doing away with some of the open-world traversal of Scarlet and Violet and Legends: Arceus. In those games, you would ride on Pokémon to get to high places, glide through the air, or swim across bodies of water. Based on what we can see in Legends: Z-A, the only Pokémon you'll be using to traverse will be your Rotom—which is in your phone—to float between rooftops. That's a little disappointing considering riding the Hisui Pokémon in Legends: Arceus was one of the best parts about it, but it makes sense given the environment you'll be inhabiting in Legends: Z-A. It's become pretty common in Pokémon games to determine members of the supporting cast by which version of the protagonist you pick at the beginning of the game. In Legends: Arceus, if you pick the female character Akari, you'd meet the male protagonist Rei in the main story, and vice versa. In Legends: Z-A, it looks like you'll meet one of two supporting characters called Urbain and Taunie depending on your character's gender. We see what looks like a male protagonist meeting up with Taunie and Urbain chatting with a girl hero. The question is: will both characters essentially be model swaps of the same role, or will they have their own goals and quirks for us to learn? While this isn't a hidden detail, it's crazy to me that we're just gonna gloss over AZ. The ancient giant is running a hotel in Legends: Z-A, but let's not forget that this man is a reformed war criminal who created a weapon of mass destruction in X and Y. He is also an innocent babygirl who loves his Floette. We must protect him in the coming game, trainers. As the name suggests, Zygarde, the dragon/ground-type legendary who never got its own game as was tradition back in the day, will play a major role in Legends: Z-A. We see the Pokémon throughout the trailer in its dog-like form and there's even a shot of one of its Zygarde Cells scooching throughout the city. But we don't know what it's actually doing as Lumiose City undergoes its renovations just yet. Lumiose City is undergoing a major revitalization effort during Legends: Z-A, and it looks like some areas might not be accessible until you reach certain goals in the game. We can see some of the Wild Zones that Pokémon inhabit blocked off by numbered hologram gates. These might just be labels signifying where more powerful monsters roam, or they might require some kind of in-game signifier like a gym badge to let you through. Whatever the case, it looks like it won't be easy to stumble into an area you can't handle. The final scene in the Legends: Z-A trailer shows a first-person view looking at a Rotom phone with a message that reads: 'This is a promotion match announcement.' We only really know that Legends: Z-A will revolve around the Lumiose City renovations, but this implies that some kind of competitive tournament will take place during the course of the game. Legends: Arceus didn't lean into the competitive sport that typically takes place in Pokémon games, but it was a historical game set before much of that was established in the universe. So it's probable there will be more battles this time around, and perhaps a tournament in the midst of Lumiose City's redevelopment. We'll learn all about that and more when Pokémon Legends: Z-A comes to the Switch in late 2025. For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
6 huge details (including Totodile, Chikorita and Tepig as starters!) about Pokémon Legends: Z-A
It's been over three years since Nintendo and Pokémon combined to create the incredible game that was Pokémon Legends: Arceus. What a game it was, man. Sure, it wasn't a mainline Pokémon game. But the sense of wonder that it left you with was just as fantastic. Legends: Arceus was arguably the most unique Pokémon game we'd ever seen before. The plot line was a bit cliché — you were a mysterious visitor who was pulled back into the past who had no recollection of how you got there. But the story had a lot of heart to it and it brought some gameplay mechanics to the table that few other Pokémon games had been able to pull off before. POKEMON, RANKED: Every Pokémon game ranked from best to worst With that being three years ago, I can't help but be excited about what's coming with Pokémon Legends: Z-A. Pokémon released a new trailer showing off its new game and it looks like an absolute banger. This looks like so much fun. There were so many details here that make this game look like a special one. Let's dive into a few of them here. Like Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Z-A won't be introducing us to a new region. Instead, it'll be showing us a different perspective on a region — or, rather — a city in the game that we've been to before. The game will be set in Lumiose City — one of the more popular stops in the Kalos region from the Pokémon X and Y mainline games. This new Legends game expands the city in a way we haven't seen before. The idea is that you're a new visitor stopping by the city as it undergoes an urban renewal plan that makes it a suitable place to live for both people and Pokémon. Here's a big map of the city, via Reddit. Official artwork of Lumiose City in Pokémon Legends Z-A, which is undergoing a large scale redevelopment project to add more greenery to the city and make it more hospitable to Pokémon. — PLDH (@PLDHnet) February 27, 2025 It's massive. The city's design is based on Paris, France, which is pretty cool. There are three starter pokémon you'll get to choose from to start the game: Totodile, Chikorita and Tepig. Is that a weird combination? Absolutely. You're pairing two Gen 2 pokémon in Totodile and Chikorita with a Gen 5 pokémon in Tepig. It's strange. Do I care? No. They're adorable together. Serebii Update: The starter Pokémon for Pokémon Legends Z-A are Chikorita, Tepig & Totodile — (@SerebiiNet) February 27, 2025 Definitely going with Totodile here. You've never seen Pokémon battles like this before. They're actually live. You can move around during the battle and dodge attacks along with your Pokémon. I really love the real-time battles this time around. The pokemon really feel like your partner following you to dodge attacks. — VCreateArt (COMMS ARE CLOSED): (@VCreateArt) February 27, 2025 And when you want to catch a Pokémon, you can still weaken it with an attack from your partner. This is pretty much what battling looked like on the Pokémon show. It's pretty neat to see that finally included in a game after all these years. Will it work? I'm skeptical. But I'm keeping an open mind with it. You're probably asking, "Wait, if the game is based in a city then where do I catch wild pokémon?" Don't worry! There's an answer for that. The city is being revamped to make it habitable for pokémon, so there are "wild zones" included in the game where pokémon can roam free. In Legends Z-A, wild Pokémon are encountered in 'Wild Zones': — Bulbagarden - The original Pokémon community (@Bulbagarden) February 27, 2025 Folks. This is not a drill. We're seeing mega evolutions make a comeback in this game. For those of you who don't know, pokémon mega evolutions were first introduced in Pokémon through the X and Y games. It's simply a new, temporary form a pokémon takes for a temporary power boost during battle. Think of it as a quick power-up. We hadn't seen these in-game since 2020. It seems they're officially back now. These Mega Evolution renders look so sick sheee — Orenji (@MunchingOrange) February 27, 2025 While all of this news is pretty exciting, it looks like we'll be waiting for this game to come out for a while. It isn't slated to release until "late 2025," according to the game's trailer. That could mean a holiday release date. With this being one of Pokémon's most anticipated games in a while, that'd make plenty of sense. We'll have to wait and see. Until then, more details will undoubtedly arise in the meantime. Stay on the lookout for more here. This article originally appeared on For The Win: 6 huge details (including Totodile, Chikorita and Tepig as starters!) about Pokémon Legends: Z-A
