Pokémon Legends Z-A, the most recent entry within the long-running Nintendo RPG franchise, is formally out as we speak on Change and Change 2. And whereas many are excited to hop in and begin catching pocket monsters, many followers aren’t proud of Z-A‘s small and boring map, which lacks the environmental selection present in previous Pokémon video games.
Whereas Pokémon Legends Z-A technically didn’t launch till as we speak, October 16, followers have been enjoying leaked variations of the sport for a number of weeks now and have begun sharing their ideas on-line concerning the sport’s map, which is the whole thing of Lumiose Metropolis, positioned within the Kalos area. This location first appeared in 2013’s Pokémon X and Y. In these video games, Lumiose Metropolis was simply certainly one of many places included within the massive open world. Nevertheless, in Z-A, Lumiose Metropolis is actually your entire playspace, and that’s proving to be a disappointing truth for some gamers.
Over on the Pokémon subreddit, a well-liked submit with over 3,000 upvotes claims you can stroll across the total metropolis in lower than seven minutes. Eurogamer examined this out and confirmed that, sure, in case you dash round and keep away from battles, you possibly can run round the entire round metropolis in nearly six minutes and 20 seconds. Now, a smaller map isn’t completely a nasty factor. Some open worlds don’t want a lot area to be great. Grand Theft Auto 3 feels fairly dang small while you return to it in 2025, but it surely packs loads in its restricted sandbox. Nevertheless, Z-A’s map isn’t simply small, it additionally lacks visible selection. That is demonstrated completely on this brief video from YouTuber 101Leafy.
On Reddit and YouTube, yow will discover feedback from gamers lamenting the small map’s lack of visible selection. For a franchise that was about discovering new cities, cities, biomes, and environments, Z-A‘s give attention to one metropolis, crammed with reused buildings and props, is disappointing to many. And whereas a number of the complaints are clearly from followers who’ve lengthy been performed with the sequence however can’t cease torturing themselves, the extra you take a look at screenshots and movies of Z-A, the extra it turns into clear that, yeah, there ain’t a lot right here.
At the least in case you purchase the sport on Change, it largely appears to be like the identical because the Change 2 model. Don’t fear, everybody will get to take pleasure in the identical copy-pasted buildings no matter their platform of selection. That’s good.
