Pokémon Legends: Z-A

Pure NintendoTrevor Gould

9/10

Lumiose City awaits new and returning trainers in Pokémon Legends: Z-A. As somebody who started playing Pokémon games relatively late, with 2013's Pokémon Y,

The OuterHavenTodd Black

Given what happened with Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet, it was clear that The Pokémon Company couldn’t afford to release another major title or spin-off that wasn’t polished to perfection and truly worth players’ time. When word spread that the team was developing a follow-up to Pokémon Legends: Arceus, one…

GamerBravesluqman

8.5/10

Pokémon Legends: Z-A marks the franchise’s next big leap, returning players to Lumiose City in the Kalos region. While it follows the format established by Pokémon Legends: Arceus, it doesn’t serve as a direct sequel. Instead, it takes place five years after the events of Pokémon X & Y, exploring the aftermath of Kalos’ technological boom and the lingering scars left by its past conflicts.

SectorSKKorec

8/10

What if Pokémon fought in real-time battles? The biggest change in the series overhauls the battle system.

The Nerd StashGiovanna De Ita

8/10

Pokémon Legends: Z-A brings together many of the best features of the Pokémon Legends spin-off, and with luck, this could be the first step toward them being added to the main series.

Nintendo WireRicky Berg

8/10

Rolling credits on Pokémon Legends: Z-A felt like the end of possibly the most varied era in series history. The Switch hosted six mainline Pokémon games and

GamingTrendDavid Flynn

75/100

Pokémon Legends Z-A gives us an amazing, fresh take on Pokémon battles, but that’s about all it does. Difficult fights are a highlight, but they can feel few and far between in a game that really overstays its welcome. When it works, it’s an absolute blast, but since there’s nothing else to do it’s a very one note game.

RPGamerAlex Fuller

Hoist the tricolore, red and blue and green, for the creatures at the start and ever more to gain! In this fair City of the Lights, from gardened heights to deepest gloam, in zones of green and red do trainers tread, and fearsome beasts do roam.

Nintendo World ReportDonald Theriault

7/10

This second generation of Pokemon games on the Switch - Scarlet, Violet, and Legends: Z-A - has repeatedly gone back and forth between “we are so cooked” and “we are so back”. Pokemon Legends: Z-A has basically distilled that down to one game, because it feels like everything that annoyed me about the game was countered almost immediately by the game doing something I enjoyed or impressed me. Of the two Legends, I still prefer Arceus though, and I do hope a third Legends game is more focused on catching than combat.

WayTooManyGamesOliver Shellding

6.5/10

Now that I have your attention, I’d like to speak with you about Pokémon.

The Games MachineFrancesco Alteri

6/10

Pokémon Legends: Z-A Review | A Pokémon game that, as usual, has good ideas, but is marred by an embarrassing performance.

Analog Stick GamingJeff Young

5.5/10

Pokémon Legends ZA is a sequel to Pokémon X and Y, and the follow-up in the Legends series to Arceus. While it features a fantastic combat system, it lacks in almost every other area. With a boring city to explore, and buildings that are nothing but a series of repeated Jpegs, Legends ZA is simply n