Immediately, The Pokémon Firm dropped one other Legends: Z-A trailer that highlights a brand new(ish) pokémon and suggests some issues in regards to the sport’s story. Titled “The Case of the Candy Scent Incident,” the trailer follows as two younger trainers wander into an deserted constructing someplace in Lumiose Metropolis in the midst of the night time. One thing is clearly off in regards to the constructing between its unusual scent, the bizarre noises coming from it, and the puddles of corrosive liquid that the trainers preserve seeing as they try the place. None of that is sufficient to persuade the children to show again. However when the trainers enterprise upstairs, they’re shocked to see a person being attacked by what seems to be a big pitcher plant that bounces round and spews the purple ooze that’s been splattered everywhere in the partitions.
That creature, in fact, is a Victreebel that’s undergone Mega Evolution, a sport mechanic that first appeared in Pokémon X and Y. In line with a press release, Mega Victreebel’s new kind will increase the quantity of sweet-smelling acid it accommodates a lot that the liquid is liable to spilling out. That element form of explains why Mega Victreebel resembles a bag that has been cinched on the prime — it’s actually overflowing with harmful ooze that’s meant to lure in unsuspecting prey earlier than it gobbles up and dissolves them. However the trailer additionally exhibits that this Mega Victreebel is only a pokémon that belongs to a building employee who was solely attempting to coach his accomplice with out bothering different folks.
Setting apart its first-person, Resident Evil-inspired tone, what’s fascinating in regards to the trailer is the way in which it means that Pokémon Legends: Z-A would possibly contain missions just like “The Case of the Candy Scent Incident” the place gamers are tasked with investigating unusual goings-on round Lumiose. We already knew that the sport would as soon as once more characteristic wild monsters able to attacking gamers in addition to their pokémon. However this new trailer actually hammers dwelling how a lot Z-A goes to be a sport about folks determining easy methods to dwell in a metropolis that’s meant to be hospitable to people and pokémon alike. It is smart that that course of would possibly contain some hazard given how most pokémon have harmful powers. And that hazard might be going to make Legends: Z-A really feel like one other wild trip when it drops in October.