Pokémon Legends: Which Region Should the Game Explore Next?

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 154)

• I want the Scarlet & Violet Legends to be split into a future arc and a past arc.

  SVのレジェンズは未来編と過去編で分けてやってもらいたい

  — @zk-226254 likes

• What — that sounds incredibly fun.

  なにそれめっちゃ面白そう

  — @通りすがりの仮面ライダービルド20 likes

• I'd take it even if it were a game where you travel between past and future — heck, the present too — and your past actions change the future. The kind of thing even the Nintendo Switch 2 might struggle to run. Though honestly, by the time an SV Legends actually drops, we'll be way past Switch 2 hardware anyway.

  過去と未来を生き来してなんなら現代も行ける、過去の行動は未来へ影響を与える…　みたいなSwitch2でもキツそうなゲームでもいい まぁsvレジェンズが出る頃にはSwitch2どころの性能じゃ無いと思うが

  — @shimesaba-n6z21 likes

• My bet is either Unova with Complete Forme Kyurem, or Alola digging deep into Ultra Necrozma. And I'd love a system where you fuse with a Pokémon and control the Pokémon itself directly.

  イッシュでキュレム完全体出すか、アローラでウルネク深掘るかじゃないかと思ってます。 ポケモンと融合してポケモン本体を操作できるみたいなシステムが欲しいなと。

  — @user-gllerss121 likes

• Yeah, I really want to see Complete Forme Kyurem. In a way, movie-Kyurem was already "complete" since it could use both the black and white powers lol

  完全体キュレムの姿は見てみたいよねぇ。ある意味、映画のキュレムは能力的には白黒両方使えてて完全体だったけどw

  — @レスティアアッシュドール-u9p5 likes

• So this means "…it turned into Zekrom!" finally becomes real?!

  なったのね…ゼクロムに！ が実現するってことか！？

  — @エーナ-w8l1 likes

• I want a Legends Kyurem so badly — I want to see the hero of the legend.

  レジェンズキュレム来てほしい、英雄を見てみたい

  — @ざわざわ-d6l5 likes

• I want to see old-era Johto, and I'm curious about the true nature of the legendary beasts (Raikou, Entei, Suicune) before they were revived — so I'd love something set 150 years before Gold & Silver.

  ジョウトの昔の情景見たいし蘇る前の三犬の正体も気になるから金銀の150年前はやりたい

  — @飛魚-j6b74 likes

• Give me a Legends Celebi where I can see Entei, Raikou and Suicune before their reincarnation, and the Burned Tower before it burned down…

  レジェンズセレビィで転生前のエンライスイ、焼ける前の焼けた塔を見たいんじゃ…

  — @ラッコ子ラッコ孫ラッコ9 likes

• I'd really like to see a Johto arc.

  ジョウト編見てみたいなあ

  — @mahoukikai1 likes

• For Alola it's gotta be a trip to the past with Ultra Necrozma, right?

  アローラは過去行って完全体ネクロズマやろなぁ

  — @きちすけ-b1i34 likes

• There's no way we don't get an Alola dynasty arc… lol

  絶対アローラ王朝編来るやろ…w

  — @レインマジック16 likes

• I'd love to see an Alola from a timeline where the Ultra Beasts took over.

  ウルトラビーストに支配された世界線のアローラとか見てみたい

  — @タマ-s5g1 likes

• Please make an Alola Legends — I love Lillie so much!

  アローラレジェンズを出してください、リーリエのことがすきなんだよぉ！

  — @ナンリー-i7t7 likes

• For Alola I'd lean future, actually… setting aside whether they go Ultra Sun & Moon or Sun & Moon, I want to see Lillie and Gladion grown up, the family healed, and their dad coming home. And I want them to dig deep into the Ultra Hole world — heck, make the whole plot a quest to find their dad. The anime gave them a happy ending, but the games (especially Sun & Moon) ended way too bitter. I just want to see Lillie smiling.

  アローラは未来かなあ…ウルトラサンムーンかサンムーンのどっちで行くかは置いといてリーリエとかグラジオが成長して家族中が修復されてお父さんも戻ってきたみたいなのが見たい。んで持ってウルトラホールの世界を深掘りしてほしい。なんならお父さん探しに行く話でもいい。アニポケは救われたけどゲーム版特にサンムーンはビターエンドすぎる笑ってるリーリエ見たい

  — @紅葉-c7j2 likes

• Man, I hope the Ultra Beasts show up.

  UBこねぇかなぁ

  — @white_kawaii1 likes

• I really hope a Legends Galar gives us something like Professor Hop.

  Legendsガラルでホップ博士とか出てくれんかな

  — @マルマイン-q2h64 likes

• I'll keep waiting forever for the day a Legends Galar lets me get my starter from Professor Hop.

  レジェンズガラルでホップ博士から御三家を貰える日までずっと待ってる

  — @凪-k2d4 likes

• Controlling Dynamax Pokémon in real time sounds awesome, so — Galar.

  ダイマックスポケモンをリアルタイムで動かすの面白そうだからガラル

  — @木-e6b8 likes

• I'd be thrilled if a Galar game revealed the true forms of Zacian and Zamazenta.

  ガラルでザシザマの真の姿とか出たら嬉しい

  — @Masahiro-h6c1 likes

• If they do a "Legends: Unova," I want it to land on Ghetsis being Ghetsis whether it's the past or the future lol (and if it's the past, I'd love N's parents to show up).

  『レジェンズ:イッシュ』やるなら、過去でも未来でもゲーチスはゲーチスだったっていう話になってほしいw(過去なら、Nの両親とか出てほしいな)

  — @Youtuber-ym5ni20 likes

• BW had that whole thing about a legendary Pokémon helping found the nation, so I'd love a setting in the legendary, ancient era of Unova. I want a journey in pursuit of ideals and truth!

  BWは伝説のポケモンが建国を手伝ったみたいな話だった気がするし、言い伝えの時代のイッシュ地方が舞台だといいな。理想と真実を求める旅をしたい！

  — @爆走狂牛ウリスティーナ0 likes

• I'd guess BW. Between the first game and its sequel there's still a lot of unfinished business and unexplained lore, and I think SV being tied to Unova was a setup — the Indigo Disk crew weren't just random new faces, they were planted in SV to set up a future Legends.

  BWかなあ 1本編、2続編でまだ色々過去の精算とか解明が済んでなさそうな案件があるし、SVがイッシュ舞台だったのも碧の円盤の面々が大量のぽっと出新キャラじゃなくて、レジェンズの補完になるようにSVで先出しされたんじゃないかと

  — @Hydreigon_Tyranitar2 likes

• Legends has a more mature feel and the story is genuinely good — every Pokémon fan should give it a shot.

  レジェンズは内容が大人向け ストーリーがおもしろいから、ポケモンファンは是非プレイしてみてほしい

  — @加藤あき弥71 likes

• That said, I want the next Legends to really deliver. Compared to Legends: Arceus, Z-A lacked that sense of wonder — I want to go on a real adventure.

  それはそれとして次のレジェンズはしっかりしてほしい。 レジェアルにくらべてZAはワクワクが足らん冒険したい。

  — @アランスミシー-j5i1 likes

• If you think about it, they've been working through older regions in order — the Diamond & Pearl remakes plus Legends: Arceus, the Unova-related Indigo Disk, then Z-A. By that logic either the next mainline game gets an Alola-related DLC, or Alola becomes the next Legends.

  一応ここまで過去作に関連する系の何かは順番にやってきてるんよね ダイパリメイクとレジェアル、イッシュに関連する蒼の円盤、そしてZ-A だとすれば風波でアローラに関連するDLCが出るか、もしくはアローラがレジェンズになるか

  — @turndog6632 likes

• Z-A dropped little hints about both Galar and Alola, so it's probably Generation 7 or 8 next. I want to adventure back and forth between towns and the wilds — system-wise, a hybrid of Legends: Arceus and Legends: Z-A would be ideal. The city wouldn't need to be as detailed as Z-A's Lumiose (which was mostly hollow facade buildings anyway).

  レジェンズZAでガラルの事とアローラの事がチラっと出てきたから7世代か8世代かのどちらかだろうな。 街と街の外を行き来して冒険したい、システム的にはレジェンズアルセウスとレジェンズZAのハイブリットが良い、街はレジェンズZAのミアレ程作りこまなくていい「ほぼハリボテの建物ばっかだったけど」。

  — @OシンマルJP1 likes

• From a meta angle: in Champions, the season after Mega Evolution will probably be a Z-Move season, so I bet Alola is next. Also Gen 10 felt kind of Alola-ish (total reach, I know).

  メタ的な視点で言うと チャンピオンズでメガシンカシーズンの後にやるのは多分Z技シーズンだろうから、次はアローラが来るんじゃないかな？ あと10世代もなんかアローラっぽかったし(こじつけ)

  — @ABCd-ed4ir9 likes

• I want them to tackle Ho-Oh, Kyurem and Necrozma, around those.

  ホウオウ、キュレム、ネクロズマあたりをやって欲しい

  — @リン-g9l1 likes

• Honestly I think the next one is a Legends Necrozma, with an outside shot at Kyurem or Mewtwo, maybe Celebi or Ho-Oh. Though some part of me feels they could just go with Mew.

  ぶっちゃけ次はレジェンズネクロズマなんじゃないかと思ってるけど、ワンチャンキュレムかミュウツー、あとはセレビィとかホウオウとか でもそこはかとなくミュウやってもいい気がしてる

  — @なにモノ0 likes

• My dream lineup: • Professor Oak's origin story • the legend of Ho-Oh and Lugia • Unova's hero and its dragons • the fall of Necrozma.

  ・オーキド博士の立志 ・ホウオウとルギアにまつわる伝説 ・イッシュ地方の英雄と竜 ・かがやきさまの堕天

  — @カネだよカネ1 likes

• Honestly I'd love to see the young ancestors of the "seesaw duo." No idea whether they'd be the protagonists or just NPCs, though.

  シーソーコンビの先祖の若者２人は正直見てみたい。 それが主人公になるのかNPCになるのかは分かんないけど。

  — @おにし-u3n2 likes

• Arceus had a quiet, understated charm so I get that, but Z-A is for kids, no?

  アルセウスは地味なおもろさだったからわかるけどzaは子供向けだろ

  — @aa-cp5up14 likes

• Not sure it'd come via Legends, but I want to do Contests with high-quality graphics like Sword & Shield's — I want to dress my Pokémon up way more!

  レジェンズで来るかはわからないけど、剣盾からの高クオリティグラでコンテストしてみたい！ポケモンにもっとオシャレさせてみたい！

  — @こまぎれ-r3v0 likes

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