{"id":27868,"date":"2024-02-29T14:11:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T05:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=27868"},"modified":"2024-02-29T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T05:12:00","slug":"20240229-27868","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240229-27868\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Legends Z-A&#8217;s potential map complexity is causing anxiety\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the Pok\u00e9mon Presents held earlier this week, Nintendo announced a new entry to the Pok\u00e9mon video game series \u2013 <strong>Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A. <\/strong>The game is planned to release in 2025 on Nintendo Switch systems. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/legends.pokemon.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announcement<\/a>, the game is set in Lumiose City. This setting is giving Japanese Pok\u00e9mon fans a sense of dread, and the reason has something to do with their not-so-fond memories of playing Pok\u00e9mon X and Y.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A releases simultaneously worldwide in 2025!\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VXyVd6Ly_h0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The trailer for the upcoming Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A does not reveal much in terms of story or gameplay, however it does feature a large blueprint of Lumiose City \u2013 an existing location in the franchise and the largest city in the Pok\u00e9mon world. Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A is described as being set \u201centirely within\u201d Lumiose City, and this wording has caused <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TyreekMVP\/status\/1762487385391022497?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">concerns<\/a> among some that the game\u2019s map may be underwhelming in terms of scale, \u201crobbing\u201d players of the opportunity to explore various biomes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3053\u3053\u3067\u30df\u30a2\u30ec\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3\u306e\u30de\u30c3\u30d7\u3092\u898b\u3066\u307f\u3088\u3046<br>\u305d\u3057\u3066\u30ec\u30b8\u30a7\u30f3\u30ba\u306e\u30df\u30a2\u30ec\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3\u3092\u898b\u3066\u307f\u3088\u3046<br><br>\u306a\u3093\u3067\u8907\u96d1\u306b\u306a\u3063\u3066\u3093\u3060\u4f59\u8a08\u8ff7\u3046\u308f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e96C5YrKZ0\">pic.twitter.com\/e96C5YrKZ0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \ud83d\udc1f\u6d77\u98a8\u30de\u30b5\u30ca\ud83d\udc1f (@UmikazeMasana) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UmikazeMasana\/status\/1762486019104854378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Post translation:<\/strong> <em>Let\u2019s look at this (Pok\u00e9mon X and Y) Lumiose City map. Now let\u2019s look at the Legends Lumiose City map. Why did it become even more complex. I\u2019m just gonna get lost even more&#8230;\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But ironically, the Lumiose City map featured in Pok\u00e9mon X and Y (that released in 2013) was criticized (and simultaneously loved) for being too expansive and hard to navigate. The Legends: Z-A announcement has caused many Japanese Pok\u00e9mon lovers to recall memories of going around in circles and having no idea where they were most of the time while playing Pok\u00e9mon X and Y. One user even shared a graph of what they call the \u201cLumiose City vicious circle,\u201d that consists of getting lost, giving up and gradually spending more money on taxis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u50d5\u304c\u5927\u6614\u3064\u304f\u3063\u305f\u30df\u30a2\u30ec\u30b7\u30c6\u30a3\u306e\u60aa\u5faa\u74b0\u518d\u63b2\u3057\u3066\u304a\u304d\u307e\u3059 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ImeVkhGruQ\">pic.twitter.com\/ImeVkhGruQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u305f\u3063\u3061 (@tatti5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tatti5\/status\/1762481665929097220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Post translation:<\/strong> <em>Just reposting the Lumiose City Vicious Cycle graph I made ages ago\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The<strong> <\/strong>Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A will surely bring a much more impressive Lumiose City than its 2013 predecessors, and many are looking forward to a fresh, cyberpunk experience in a massive city, but it remains to be seen whether its layout will continue to cause confusion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A is planned to release in 2025 for Nintendo Switch systems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese users dread the potential complexity of the Lumiose City map in Pok\u00e9mon Legends Z-A as they recall frequently getting lost in Pokemon X and Y.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":27871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,70],"class_list":["post-27868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news","tag-pokemon-series"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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