Pokemon Legends Z-A launches in 2025 with the return of Mega Evolutions

Feb. 27, 2024



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You can see the complete trailer for Pokemon Legends Z-A just below, which admittedly doesn’t give away a whole lot about the new game. We do know that it’s based in a city called Lumiose City, a place where it appears that urban redevelopments are taking place with the goal of humans and Pokemon existing alongside one another.

Again though, this isn’t a huge revelation for the Pokemon franchise at large. Humans co-existing alongside Pokemon is a theme that the franchise has been running with for what feels like forever now, but here’s hoping Pokemon Legends Z-A can put a new spin on the theme.

We do know from the new trailer that Mega Evolutions will be returning to the Pokemon franchise with Legends Z-A. The feature first debuted in the Generation 7 Pokemon games but was thrown out with the release of Pokemon Sword and Shield due to the lack of Key Stones and Mega Stones in the two games.

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