Happy Pokémon Day, everyone!
Today, Nintendo released a Pokémon Presents, which is basically a Pokémon Direct. They had a smattering of updates to announce for currently released games (I really need to start Brilliant Diamond and pick up Legends: Arceus…), but they also announced the next full games: Pokémon Scarlet and Violet!
They look like they took a lot of ideas from developing Legends: Arceus with the big open world and the dream of pocket monsters just strolling the land. I love the way it looks! I haven’t read much reaction to this nor do I know if Nintendo/Game Freak have released more information since announcing the game today, but if I was a guessing Pando, I’d say this is a Spanish inspired area? Lot’s of warm colours and castles and coastal areas… that’s Spain, right?
Anyway, I really wasn’t expecting the games to be announced for release this year (late 2022). There is…a lot of games. I still am catching up on 2021 games (and in some games, 2020 games – Ghosts of Tsushima). I’ll just be over here, drowning in video games, folks! What a way to gooooo.