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Legends Z-A When will Legends Z-A take place?

When do you think Z-A is taking place?

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There's been a lot of debate on when Z-A will take place, so I figured it'd be worth a discussion of it's own. When do y'all think it's taking place?

For a while I assumed it was gonna specifically be during the Paris redevelopment in the 19th century like many were speculation. But looking at the trailer again, I'm thinking basically the present, at most like a couple years after the events of XY. The woman near the Furfrou can seemingly be seen with a phone, so I think that's the earliest it could be. And the general look of Lumiose still feels pretty modern to me. And yes I'm on of those who thinks the blue line aesthetic for the trailer was just meant to be a blueprint thing.

The ones listed on the poll is not an exhaustive or detailed list, cuz that'd basically be impossible. Feel free to reply with your specific timeframe if it's more detailed than that
 
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I think mid-to-late 1800s, probably shortly after PLA, and probably based on the Haussmann renovation of Paris. I don't think the one teaser trailer we have will represent the final game much, if at all. If it was meant to, they would have given us gameplay footage. The game is about building a future for Lumiose City, so the trailer shows us the future of Lumiose City - which is out modern-day Lumiose.
 
I'm betting it's in the 19th century, like Legends Arceus, or shortly after the events of the original game, XY. There doesn't seem to be anything very futuristic about the trailer, and the old Europe does not seem to me to be the most plausible place to approach such a topic.

I still think that both the past and the present/future will be important themes within the game and that, perhaps, it will be possible for the player to influence both.
 
Sheeer said:
The woman near the Furfrou can seemingly be seen with a phone,
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No matter how much I look, I've yet to see this phone the woman is supposedly holding. I find it hard to imagine that Gamefreak would use a generic instead of Rotom phone, and that one phone has a shape distinctive enough to make it obvious from afar.
 
Volphied said:
No matter how much I look, I've yet to see this phone the woman is supposedly holding. I find it hard to imagine that Gamefreak would use a generic instead of Rotom phone, and that one phone has a shape distinctive enough to make it obvious from afar.
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You meant that the game will be set in a parallel reality? With technologies closer to our universe than those used in the franchise?

Ok, I believe you mean to say that the images in the trailer that refer to the present/future are merely illustrative, a reflection of the consequences of urban redesign from decades/centuries before?
 
FelipePR said:
You meant that the game will be set in a parallel reality? With technologies closer to our universe than those used in the franchise?
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No, I'm betting on it being set in the 19th century. But I do expect that time travel will play an important part, maybe even more than in Arceus.

I'd be very disappointed if Z-A is set after XY, as that would essentially turn it into a sequel (the same way B2W2 was a sequel to BW) which I think would be very uninspiring.
 
Volphied said:
No matter how much I look, I've yet to see this phone the woman is supposedly holding. I find it hard to imagine that Gamefreak would use a generic instead of Rotom phone, and that one phone has a shape distinctive enough to make it obvious from afar.
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Generic smartphones without Rotoms are known to exist in the Pokemon universe, multiple can be seen in the Gen 7 games. Of course, it seems logical to think that they were made obsolete with the widespread adoption of Rotom Phones.
 
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I'm thinking it'll be in the past, either 1800s or 1900s but somewhere along those lines, I think taking place in the past is going to be Legends' games throughline as far as time setting is concerned.

The reveal trailer had no gameplay footage, but it started out being written and drawn on old school parchment paper and ended with a parchment paper drawing of a Lumiose City map. I think everything in between was an animated "visualization" of the Lumiose City we are aiming to create which is the Lumiose City of the modern world that the redevelopment aims to eventually realize: one where people and Pokemon coexist in it in harmony. It, like Arceus's first trailer, still used parchment paper drawings as part of it which suggests it happens in ancient times.

Notably the first parchment paper drawings we see in the trailer are not only old school paper but the things are literally being drawn out with pencils and pencil sound effects.

I think Legends games are what the "Legends" moniker implies: legends, stories of the past, and most specifically they are legends of stories in different regions of how people and Pokemon came to see one another as friends and partners. Especially since this game started out with the statement of not only an "urban redevelopment" of Lumiose City, but a "vision of beautiful coexistence between people and Pokemon". This puts it in a similar place to Arceus and likely in a similar time period, not just because of the Haussman redevelopment basis but also because this implies it's taking place in a time when Pokemon and people did not yet fully live in harmony like they do in the modern contemporary Pokemon world.

If anything the main thing differentiating this from Arceus aside from the region is not going to be the time period, but rather the setting and environment. While Arceus took place in the untouched wildlands of Sinnoh, this game takes place in an urbanized setting in Lumiose City in Kalos and is dominantly going to be an urbanized environment that we explore.
 
honestly "The wireframe is there in place of gameplay footage" is the one past-based interpretation of the wireframe segment i can get behind. further complicates matters of the phone girl, but it's an interesting approach
 
oh neat.
My awnser is future, because the point of redevelopment is making lumiose city a place where humans and wild pokemon coexist, nothing about XY Lumiose City in ANY media implies it is a place where humans and wild Pokemon coexist. Meaning past would mean they decide "Screw it actually, humans only" between PLZA and XY.
It's not even a case of they wanted to imply it but system limitations, they could of had an area that had grass in it like Castelia before it and hau'oli after it. Or have an NPC talk about it, or have the anime show it, but they didnt.
 
I feel like it'll probably take place in both the past and future. Seems like from the trailer, there could be a time travel mechanic. Which, I hope so, tbh. It would be very interesting if so.
 
Articfoxgamez said:
oh neat.
My awnser is future, because the point of redevelopment is making lumiose city a place where humans and wild pokemon coexist, nothing about XY Lumiose City in ANY media implies it is a place where humans and wild Pokemon coexist. Meaning past would mean they decide "Screw it actually, humans only" between PLZA and XY.
It's not even a case of they wanted to imply it but system limitations, they could of had an area that had grass in it like Castelia before it and hau'oli after it. Or have an NPC talk about it, or have the anime show it, but they didnt.
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Yeah and not only that... a redevelopment of Lumiose City plotline is redundant in a past setting as well, since we already know how Lumiose looks in the present.
 
Based on the way the trailer was laid out (it showed a blueprint of what was to become of the Kalos region in the future and we got to see action from within said blueprint, then the blueprint was revealed to have been from an old map all along) I'd say this likely takes place in the past.

The trailer so far reveals a plan to re-urbanize Lumiose City into a place where people and Pokémon can live in harmony. People understanding of French history stepped forward and brought up how Paris was re-urbanized in the mid 1800s to clean the city up and make it into a better environment. This further cements the idea of Legends Z-A taking place in the past.

I voted 19th century, which would reasonably be around the time of Pokémon Legends Arceus. I don't expect this to be shortly before XY because the game is still gonna let you catch legendary Pokémon who take a huge part in the story. I could be wrong however and will not be surprised if I am, as it could give out hints to how Lysandre managed to get his hands on Xerneas or Yveltal as well as show us information on how he tried to help humanity in the past.

I'm not sure Lysandre's backstory would get touched here though. Lysandre in XY said Kalos was fine. While Kalos was fine, the world as a whole was not, so what he's seen was largely outside the region.
 
Oh yeah forgot to mention, Xerneas and Yveltal in XY canonically were woken up early, 800 years into their usual 1000 year long naps they take.
So this game would have to be 800 years before XY if it was the past, otherwise Xerneas and Yveltal CANT show up in the game, they were asleep.
 
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BTW looking at the votes, how shortly after is "Shortly after XY"?
Because it needs to be at least a few years, enough time to at the very least make the kid characters now be adults imo.
Although I think it should be long enough for atleast the adult characters to have kids who then have enough time pass to be around the protagonist age so... 16 years? Unless a ton of characters had kids the whole time that just never got mentioned. I just can't imagine they wouldnt want decendent characters as a counterpart to PLA's ancestor characters.
 
It depends purely on if prism tower exists or not.
If it does? Then the game is probably set in the mid 20th century
If it doesn't and we end up building it? (The equivelant of the) 1880s/1890s
 
Articfoxgamez said:
BTW looking at the votes, how shortly after is "Shortly after XY"?
Because it needs to be at least a few years, enough time to at the very least make the kid characters now be adults imo.
Although I think it should be long enough for atleast the adult characters to have kids who then have enough time pass to be around the protagonist age so... 16 years? Unless a ton of characters had kids the whole time that just never got mentioned. I just can't imagine they wouldnt want decendent characters as a counterpart to PLA's ancestor characters.
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It can be up to the people voting, but I was basically imagining any time for the XY events, characters etc to still be present to the point it'd basically be a sequel. It can be any from say 1 year to even 20+

The future in comparison I'm envisioning far, 100+ years to the point the events and such are no longer relevant
 
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