

After they finish the survey work, players will need to return once more to prepare for their next task. "After receiving an assignment or a request and preparing for their next excursion, players will set out from the village to study one of the various open areas of the Hisui region. "In Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Jubilife Village will serve as the base for surveying missions," reads a statement provided to Kotaku. Whilst it seemed that Nintendo officially confirmed that Pokemon Legends: Arceus is an open-world game, it has now clarified that it won't be fully open-world. Pokemon Legends: Arceus looks to be the open world evolution we've always dreamt of One thing's for sure: Beware of Ursaring. Interestingly in the latest Pokemon Presents stream, you can see the sky start to split open, and Pokemon seem to be overcome by some kind of shadow that makes them appear to become more aggressive.


This will mean discovering and observing every single Pokemon in the Sinnoh region to build out that Pokemon Legends: Arceus Pokedex as part of the new Galaxy team's Survey Corps. Your goal is to create and complete the very first ever Sinnoh Pokedex. The most recent trailer (seen above) also reiterates this idea by stating that the upcoming adventure tells "a tale of a time long ago when the lives of Pokemon and humans were still separate". In fact, it goes as far as to say that the Pokemon Legends: Arceus story is set "before ideas such as being a Pokemon Trainer or having a Pokemon League even existed". The first trailer for the game states that this is "a tale from a long, long time ago," when the Sinnoh region was still only a vast wilderness. We'll be exploring the Sinnoh region - the locale for the Pokemon Diamond and Pearl / Gen 4 games - but at a period in Pokemon history that developer Game Freak describes as a "long-gone era". The Pokemon Legends: Arceus story is taking us way back to before any Pokemon games to date.
