Pokémon Legends: Arceus
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Pokémon Legends: Arceus is an action RPG developed by GameFreak for the Nintendo Switch in 2022. It was a major milestone in the series, shaking up the formula in favor of a more open world and free flowing design.
The game starts with a disembodied voice, that says she is Arceus, directly adressing the player, welcoming him to his realm, and asking him for his appearance and name, that you can select. He sents him away to the Pokémon world. He says that if the player finds all Pokémon, he shall find Arceus once again.
The protagonist then wake up from a beach, after apparently falling down from a giant rift in the sky on the region of Hisui, being found by a man called Laventon, that says he is a kind of Pokémon Professor. After capturing Laventon's Pokémon, that impresses him since he never saw someone capture so many Pokémon at once, Laventon brings him to the Galaxy Team, an organization that seems to rule the region around the village near of the beach where the protagonist fell. Laventon wants the protagonist to be part of the Survey Corps, one of the sub-divisions of the Galaxy Team.
Cylenne, captain of the Survey Corps, seem to not be impressed, and requests the protagonist captures three specific Pokémons, otherwise he will be left to fend by himself on Hisui, something she hints to be a deadly fate.
Directed by Kazumasa Iwao. Published by The Pokémon Company on Japan, and by Nintendo on the rest of the world.
- Adventurer Archaeologist: Volo is obsessed with ruins. While less adventurous then most examples of this trope, by setting standards, he’s far more willing to leave the safety of a settlement and explore then most, and he willingly interacts with Pokémon before it’s normalized.
- Anyone Can Die: The player is told they may die if they try to survive alone in the wild. Gameplay and Story Segregation stops this from ever happening, though unlike in previous games the player can be targeted by Pokémon attacks when out of battle.
- Fish Out of Temporal Water: They player character. Ingo is another one, albeit with little memory of their former life
- Gotta Catch Them All: Emphasized more than in traditional Pokémon games, as completing the Pokédex is a plot relevant goal, with significant rewards at major milestones.
- Monumental Damage: Happens to the temple at the mountaintop.
- Multiple Life Bars: The final battle against Volo
- Ninja: Exists as a player outfit. An actual Ninja exists in the game, playing both the historical ninja by pretending to be an ordinary commoner with a lowly post, and the pop culture ninja tropes once revealed.
- Olympus Mons: Arceus plays a big role in the story.
- The Professor: Laventon
- Single-Precept Religion: The Diamond Clan and the Pearl Clan both follow the Allmighty Sinnoh, but have very different ideas about its values. The Diamond Clan focuses exclusively on Time, where the Pearl Clan focuses exclusively on space.
- Smoke Out: Used by some characters, including the player if they’re inclined.
- Trapped in Another World: The player character is transported to the past.
- Traveling Salesman: Volo and other members of the Gingko Guild.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Galaxy Team isn’t above taking cruel actions if they consider something a threat to their village, even if the threat is based on conjecture.