Pokémon Legends: Z-A

Pikachu and I enjoy some food
Video game box art

Pokemon Legends: Z-A released on October 16, 2025 and I’ve had it currently in my possession for four days so far. Here are several things about this game (including in-game footage, screenshots and spoilers) that whilst I go through and play this game to help you consider your interest in it.

Undisclosed Points

Things that haven’t been spoken about yet

#1 If you’re are a avid player of video games like Donkey Kong Bananaza you’ll notice when you pick up any “Colourful Screw” (or “Colorful Screw”) they use a soundbyte from the game, the colour also matches the games in-world disk you need to collect too!

Straight from Switch 2 capture tool

#2 If you’re are a avid player of video games like “Zelda Tears of the Kingdom or Breath of the Wild” when your character in-game suffers a slight-more-than-longer-fall that their phone can’t save them from, they’ll utter a sign of injury that is equivalent to Link does when he also suffers an injury.

Straight from Switch 2 capture tool

My thoughts

So to begin with, how can I delicately put this.

In no other Pokemon game have I had my hand held for more than 1 hour and 30 minutes, I couldn’t explore majority of the land I was seeing and was bottle neck from going any further because my rotom phone or Pokemon partner told me I had to stick to the mission. I’m sorry I wanted to collect that sparkly slightly out of the way, or destroy the gem that was slightly 3 cm away from me by calling my Pokemon too it! But, I just wasn’t allowed. Granted, you can send your Pokemon to far distances but in the beginning, these gems were a bit too far to collect from the distance you were allowed to travel.

*bzzt bzzt*

I published this page early because I’m still playing the game. I have ten hours in and I’m still exploring the game. Please bare with me as I get content.