Thanks for watching guys!!! Cant wait to see how this game unfolds (14:20 also aparently i dont know east from west😭😭)

First 30 seconds in and all I could think is “ain’t no way he just called it that…”

Ok so here's the thing : being french, the premice of the game immediatly made me think of the urban plan of 1864 called the "Haussmann plan" which changed the layout and stucture of Paris significantly, so I think this game will take place in the recent past

when he said 'collect souls', i knew he was on that Legends ZaZa

The pronunciation is already established in Japanese, it's Legends Z A, the hyphen is silent

3:30 we literally JUST had professors murdered by Pokémon. If they want it dark, they'll make it dark

Just like Arceus does, Zygarde can speak (as it was shown in the anime). Which is nice to expect to happen when we see it again.

I think MandJTV said it best in regards to the “future” claims on Legends Z-A. The “futuristic” look we see are very clearly blueprints and not actually a representation of any futuristic plan for Legends Z-A

I'd hate for the game to take place in the past. They've confirmed the game will take place in lumiose only. The future has so much potential for little synthetic micro biomes wherewe could catch pokemon, with diverse huge districts

3:35 to be fair Team Plasma literally enacted a full on terrorist attack and started ice bombing cities in BW2 as “NEO team Plasma” and we know for a fact that there are universes where the evil team leaders win because of the Rainbow Rocket event

Genuinely kinda surprised you didn’t mention Hoopa as a possible catalyst for a Time Travel protagonist. I know it’s never been shown to teleport things across time, but don’t tell me it wouldn’t make sense if it could.

When I first saw the thumbnail I thought that zygrade's silhouette was a weed leaf and that z-a was a pun for the word Zaza. And I was like "haha funny pokemon weed game"

I think there's a decent chance the A in the title might come from a squirrel legendary to complete the theming of Xerneas, Yveltal and Zygarde, which would be based on Ratatoskr from Norse myth. I suspect that if this is a legendary we might end up seeing time travel through it in order to still make us go from the present into the past like in PLA.

This video literally depicts a perfect Legends game for the Kalos region. The idea of the Prism Tower secretly being the recreation of the ultimate weapon is genius. Honestly this concept is so good that it just makes me even more disappointed that the game will most likely just be in the city. I honestly would way prefer to explore ancient Kalos than just ancient Lumiose. Great video though, it helps the hype for this game when the hype season has been so dry so far.

Argument for past: The word Legend usually is used for a story or myth from... you guessed it: The Past

I feel like ppl forget that the legends arceus was THE experimental game, where game freak could do something different and just test things out for the next game and now they're incorrectly assuming that legends z-a will be arceus but in kalos, when i feel like z-a will continue the experimental particle of it's predecessor and go in a completly different direction than arceus, like for example if arceus was all about exploring the semi open areas and focusing on catching as much pokemon as possible and making the first pokedex, maybe z-a will completly lock you in the lumiose city and minimize the catching aspect to bare minimum?

I hope the game opens with the ultimate weapon being used, and that would be the reason for the redevelopment.

I want to say that the devs came close to using abilities in PLA. The pokes with swift swim, unburden, etc. seemed so much like they had some kind of...? secret action economy boost apart from the speed stat proper.

On one hand, I'm really nervous about their statement regarding the game only taking place in Lumiose City, as I think that would really hinder the gameplay and make it less interesting to play. On the other hand, I'm just so excited to see what they've cooked up with this game, especially coming off of the success of Legends Arceus! I hope they took notes as to what Pokemon fans really want in a game, and I really hope that they put the proper time and effort into the game so it doesn't feel unfinished or that it belongs on a previous gen console. As a side note, I think it would be soooo cool if they added the Paris catacombs into the game. There's a ton of potential for lots of fun ghost types to appear, and maybe even some cool new regional forms based on the catacombs. I loved the video, and I can clearly see the work you put into it to capture what the Kalos region could look like in a Legends game!

Thank you for sticking with the bit and calling it “Za”

i feel like the professor would have yu get coal and stone from the mines, but a light draws you deeper into the cave, and at the end you find your Starter's Megastone. you report it to the Professor and he tasks you to go to various Caves / Mountains to collect these Megstones. I feel like to get them there would be waves of pokemon you must defeat to gain the Megastone at the end.

Really good video. Edit: paris has got a large river running through it so an adapted version of it could be the main water area.

they should make snoop dogg a cameo in ZA

I still choose to pronounce it as PLZA, "Plaza".

I know we just got Terapagos focused games (and currently the anime as well) but honestly if they do decide to go for a time travel/time-space distortions theme I would love to see the time machine being important again. After the crystal pool encounter we get the professor's scarlet/violet book back, which means we could reactivate the time machine, yet the game doesn't even let you inside the machine room after you reach the underdepths. They could also scrap that completely and just use Hoopa as an excuse though. But if they add time travel stuff again I would like to travel between past and future lumiose. That way they could have a much bigger diversity when it comes to wild Pokémon! Some of PLA's mechanics were teased in SWSH, for example the game's battling styles were teased with urshifu's rapid/single strike forms. I wouldn't be surprised if the mechanic they teased this time was the synchro machine, but I feel like they won't give up on paradox pokémon just yet, especially when paradox mons like roaring moon and iron valiant hinted at megas returning. And following the past-future time travel concept , another baseless idea I like is Team Quasar (or whatever it ends up being called) being made up of Fallers/time travelers. Imagine if we had Sada in the past and Turo in the future (not the AI's or the dead ones, but rather the missing parents from their respective timelines) or maybe characters like Emmet or Colress. Nothing points to that direction for now but I would love to see it!

This was an awesome video!! I absolutely love X and Y! My two favorite Pokémon and Braixen and Sylveon, and this game is just so exciting for me. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks we’ll be venturing outside of the city too

The reason you go into different areas is because people are trying to build up the city, but strong pokemon similar to alphas and frenzied pokemon on PLA are stopping people from accessing resources. These Pokémon are sent by zygarde to stop the building of the city and destruction of the environment around it

banger video. i think you might be right on the nail in the resource gathering... loved all that you had to say! combining lore and level design in your theories is a great way to do it and . i think you did it quite well and logically but what i need more than anything is mega dudunsparce. make it an ouroboros

I feel like legends will only ever give us settings in the past. The Eiffel Tower was finished in 1889 so I would think it might be set in a similar time period

Great video, man. Can't wait for part 2. I really do thing this could be one of, if not the best Pokemon game to date, especially the expanded lore regarding Megas (the best gimmick) and Zygarde (one of my favourite pokemon)

Amazing video, Very well thought out, you must have done a lot of research I can already picture the game playing out Great job! Can't wait to see the nest video

I think that legends ZA is refering to AZ and after he created the weapon and ended the war, legends ZA takes place to rebuild luminous city after the war

I love how pokémon fans spend months theorising the next games while gamefreak in the meantime is like: "yeah so, we made this puddle so we think we're gonna fit a gyarados inside."

Having a game "set entirely within lumiose city" makes me think they're going to have a game where battling and interacting with NPCs are going to be the main focuses of the game, and exploration and wild Pokemon are limited. Not entirely sure how that would play out, especially with catching or obtaining Pokemon, maybe we'll see the return of shadow Pokemon. Either that or lumiose city is much bigger than the map implies.

Great video man keep going!

That whole bit about Az at the end made me realize something. We might finally get to see Eternal Flowette's Light of Ruin in game.

Also based on how in Arceus the player was working with Galexy Team I'm betting the Player in ZA will be framed through reporter working with Alexa's ancestor. Sent on reports and scopes will be the way the game goes about main quests and side quests.

I had hoped the Kalos legends game would put us in the middle of the war. Or immediately or not long after the end of the war.

Great video, I can't wait for us to learn more about this game, I'm really excited to get new lore and story for Kalos and new mega evolutions. I hope like in Legends Arceus the gen 6 mythicals get their own quest.

Legends: Z-A, Z is ZYGARDE, is A for ARCEUS? Coincidence? I THINK NOT!!!

I believe that Z-A will take place after the first launching of the weapon that ended the Pokemon War, and they're rebuilding it afterwards, maybe

i mean the trailer itself shows an Absol running away from luminose city, and it's near the canal; either implying something is going to happen there. or the area its running to is where some disaster is going to occur. maybe either the Coumarine City/sea spirit's den or the Pokemon League/Victory Road, Snowbell City or possibly the cave of emptiness. at least looking at Kalos' official art showing waterways going north-west and south-east. there's also Zygarde's lore about being inside the caverns under Kalos which probably implies that water goes round. As for Zygarde itself, i think they'll probably make use of the unused models they might have designed. in the coding for Sun/Moon, Zygarde's 10% and Complete forms has the IDs of 12 and 15. since there's Red Cores...yet blue cores doesn't appear itself, it could be inferred that they cut half of Zygarde's elements from SM when adapting Z content. otherwise form 11 would be the Red Core, 12 Dog. then forms 13 and 14 would be the blue core and its 50% form. Pokemon that has gendered diferences (model/textures) usually takes model texture IDs 0/1. Unown starts from 0 and goes to 27. if a Pokemon debuted before the shift to 3D, then gamefreak would readjust them to Pokedex order, unless a new generation starts. the only egregious things would be 2 spots between Calyrex and SV's Regis texture IDs., and Bergmite's Line skipping an ID. (Pokemon were listed with codenames. the 3D pokemon X/Y site lists their codenames as Ice1 and Ice3, meaning it lost an evolution). though that could just be giving space for concurrent development. like how Legends Arceus started from something like 1000 instead of 900-something. again, new generations tend to start new model texture ID systems.

Most likely starter candidates: Chikorita, Totodile, Turtwig, Chimchar, Piplup, Snivy, Tepig, Litten or Popplio. I would bet on Snivy, Piplup and Litten based on popularity, but a regional form or mega Meganium would be really cool if Game Freak has decided take a gamble on it (which they should). Snivy and Piplup's evolution lines are both based on royal figures which is obviously huge for Kalos, so I'll be surprised if they don't have at least one of them (most likely Piplup because Empoleon=Napoleon) My money is on it taking place in the future, for two major reasons. The theme of Kalos was centred around environmental issues, and given what Area Zero and the Blueberry Academy showed in SV, Game Freak just started exploring the concept of artificial areas with entirely different environments and pokemon being sustained in close proximity through technological achievements. That leads straight into Team Flare being very technology-centred too, which you mentioned in the video and (like you) I believe it will be a key part of the story. So that's how I'm guessing they plan to solve the problem of having many different kinds of pokemon in an ecosystem which would otherwise be incredibly restricting and not really make any sense for a whole game. This could play into why the city is being remade, to become more environmentally friendly, perhaps with Zygarde even playing a key role in why the city may have been destroyed and is now changing to become more nature-friendly/sustainable. The other reason it would make sense to me is that thematically, this generation is heavily focused on past vs future. The last Legends game took place in the past, so it makes a lot of sense from that perspective for them to now make one either in the future, or building a highly technologically advanced/futuristic city in the modern day. This makes sense to me because it would fully explain why Pokemon has decided to make the entire game take place in ONLY one city; the game is a highly futuristic setting, but is in the modern day. To do so with a whole region wouldn't make sense from a reasonable lore perspective, but to do so with a single massive city isn't just feasible, it's highly interesting and invites fantastic plot points especially when Zygarde is considered. In summary: I'm fairly certain the game will take place either in the near future or the futuristic present, as it's the only explanation I've found as to why the entire game will be set in one city

I personally think the player will time hop between time periods making changes to the city in a early era and then jumping to a modern or near future state that has alternative spawn tables for wild encounters depending on what choices the players make during the past era.

I hope Zygarde does get more forms. There's a 99.9% chance that would never do this but I think you should be able to have more than one Zygarde so long as they are less than the total number of cells you have. Like if you had 60 cells you could have one 50% and one 10% or or six 10% forms. Crazy I know but logical.

This is a very cool idea for the plot! Though I would still be extremely interested in a game that takes place entirely within a city. The creativity of getting it to work would be amazing to see!

And lumiose even in legends Z-A is 64x smaller than actual Paris (even smaller than that becaues the Prism tower is not even half the size of the eiffel tower) meaning Kalos is 64x smaller than france's northern half or only the size of Delaware at 2000 square miles (every direction of france scaled down by 8x to make Kalos)

This is a stretch but if we are building the ultimate weapon in za wouldn't that make us a villain

Hypothetical videos like this exist

Legends Arceus was the best Pokémon game I’ve ever played and I hope they continue that with the 2nd installment of the Legends line

Lmao Pokémon legends “Zah” is wild

huge gamble but it’d be cool if the game took place during the past AND the future, and you see how the past changes outcomes in the future 😮

What if this game lets you time travel from LA to LZA while still being able to mega evolve in either timeline? 😮

I really love this game idea, however, I NEED LEGENDS: NECROZMA, preferably in the next two years.

Im hyped, x and y with the megaevolutions were my favorite

I think that we could be redeloping lumios city after the ultimate weapon was fired and repairing the city from that point

Nah my guy did NOT open this video with “Pokemon legends ZAAR” 💀

I think that since it’s focused on battling, this will be a game largely based around conflicts between different trainers and possibly their goals for the city. The further emphasis on megas could exemplify this, as trainers with certain megas or mega stones would be put at an advantage to push their goals

The game is probably set after the war in the game that az was in and such as it says the redevelopment of it which means it getting rebuilt which it must’ve gotten torn down due to the war or it was the center of the wars fighting which actually connects the whole az using floette’s weapon and it went straight to the past lumiose destroying it and now we have to rebuild it

I can't believe that he says legends za that's crazy 💀💀💀

I think the game will play in the past. It’s a legend game. Ever heard of a legend taking place in the future?

Personally, I like to think this takes place during the Industrial Revolution and they are utilizing electric types to modernize the city. With the influx of people the city has to compensate by building lots more buildings.

another certified rasen banger

I mean the great crater in Paldea is heavily suggesting that it was created by the ultimate weapon. I dont think their will be terrastylization, but I wouldn't be surprised if the stories connect somehow

good video!

Gamefreak needs to hire this guy!

Im excited to see a younger vertion of az

really cool ideas, my theory is pretty different, but i'd be just as happy with something like this! i reckon ZA will be set very shortly after x/y and act as a sequel. basically everyone agrees that lysandre's methods were wrong, but his intentions were good (stopping humanity from wiping out pokemon's natural habitats). so the solution? terraform lumiose city into a solar-punk nature city where pokemon can live comfortably alongside humans. basically the re-development will involve using the power of zygarde (or something) to terraform each fifth of the city into a different biome (forest, desert, arctic ect) that will kind of overlay each part of the city instead of replacing the buildings and stuff. this will all culminate in replacing prism tower with a clean energy device built by AZ based on his ultimate weapon (seen in the game logo), but repurposed to create rather than destroy.

Sick vid

have you posted that stitched-together map anywhere? it's be really awesome to zoom in and examine it. i kind of want to get it commissioned, too.

Ok, so at 8:00, you’re forgetting that early info confirmed the game would take place entirely in Lumiose city

Mega Charizard Z.... Lmao

from what it looks like, this is edited in capcut, which you did a really good job editing this.

Honestly-considering the time periods being close together and we don't know where he went-I'm curious as to whether we'll catch a glimpse of a certain merchant wandering about Kalos...

I think the people who think legends za will take place in the future are stupid. The game having the word “Legend” in the title should’ve already told you that this game is taking place in the past. A legend is literally a story that is typically originally something that actually happened in the past, or at least people believed it happened.

We can wait until September for new information

The game might as well be called The legend of Gaga yasss slay Gaga 😂

Pokemon: the French revolution is gonna pop off 😂 they better have my boy pinser

Hope if they do have the legendaries a super important part of the game that they'll be in different places, like Xernease in the pokemon forest and then yveltal being in the victory road like you said

I think you may be a bit hung up on the resource angle of it all. I doubt we as the players need to fill in for the manual workforce behind lumber production, because that sounds kinda shit. I think our purpose is to travel through the different parts of the city, solve the problems locals are having with pokemon by incorporating the pokemon into the Lumiose City ecosystem and catching/defeating any troublemakers. We"ll essentially be the city police and animal control rolled into one.

mmm i cant wait to get that ZAZA,,,

Id rather a small game that is actually finished instead of a huge open world that is completely empty and bug infested

The ultimate weapon could be like the Hidden Grotto in that it's a small little area to the side of the map that is still accessible.

I think the title is a hint to how the game is going to play out. Z meaning current time and meaning the beginning of Lumios, I think it’s going to involve a reoccurring time travel mechanic that allows you to change the future from missions you do in the past.

Paldea is smaller than Manhattan

Its clearly legends Zacian and Zamazenta set in the past connecting dynamax and crystals.

I forgot this game was announced lol

i'm gonna call this game Pokemon Legends Zaza from here on

So far, so most surprising thing about Pokemon Legends: Z-A is the sheer amount of people who don't know that the '-' symbol means 'to'.

I’d love to see some sort of multiplayer battle mechanic in the game

there's a possibility it's in the future, repairing the damage from the anime Pomemon XY&Z, cos the city was completely destroyed by Lysander

It would be so cool to see a wild tyrunt in the wild since it’s gen 6 like in legends arceus you can find wild ramprados

cant wait to see what you think the gameplay will be… ive got some ideas myself

The expansion could be possible whilst maintaining the habitats of the wild Pokemon. Almost nature reserve style but with housing/buildings etc. dotted about

It’s a Pokémon game, everything we think we will get, good mechanics from other games..we will not get

They better not make the protagonist look like a toddler like they did in Scarlet and Violet. I liked how mature the protagonists from X and Y looked.

I hope it'll releases as late as possible🙏 I need some quality fr

I am so ready for a Pokemon game to commit to a mechanic thats not battles, and stick with it for the majority of it's run - Legends games seem ripe for that approach so a Legends Arceus meets a Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King is the direction i'm hoping for (albeit adjusted more for what Arcues does as a game since yeah it is still an Action RPG). I'm super interested in the idea of it existing within an open plan city that will just have pokemon running around it, Sca/Vio Mesagoza on a large scale is the touchstone i think, especailly since it wont have to focus on handling a full open world but can invest resources in things like NPC schedules, which has long eluded Pokemon (despite the night and day mechanic BEGGING for it) Thank you for wonderful ZA video thats not full of clickbait non news or wild baseless speculation - well thought out and grand to chew on

I also want to point out something that @Bigpuffer said involving Legends Z-A, that Nintendo Of America is NOT Game Freak. They just send the games out and make it so everything is worldwide, they are not pulling the strings behind the game's production. Very much unclear but we'll see i guess.

I need this to be the official game now