Highlights

  • Pokemon Legends: Z-A takes players back to Kalos region's Lumiose City, hinting at potential future games in Galar.
  • Fans theorize that the setting of Pokemon Legends: Z-A was teased in Pokemon Legends: Arceus through clothing details.
  • The urban redevelopment plot in Pokemon Legends: Z-A could set up connections to Galar for future games in the franchise.

The announcement of Pokemon Legends: Z-A was somewhat of a surprise for many fans who were expecting a new game set in Unova, but a new game set in Pokemon X and Y's Kalos Region is a welcome change after Gen 6 left the region's potential unfulfilled. There are still a lot of unknowns about Pokemon Legends: Z-A outside of its setting within Lumiose City, but the game has the potential to shape the future of the entire franchise. If a third Pokemon Legends game is planned for the future, its setting may have already been teased in Pokemon Legends: Arceus, like how many fans believed Pokemon Legends: Z-A was teased in the same way.

Eagle-eyed fans may have spotted a reference to the Kalos Region hidden in Pokemon Legends: Arceus before Pokemon Legends: Z-A's Lumiose City setting was ever confirmed. The default shirt worn by the male player character in Pokemon Legends: Arceus appears to be the same as one from Kalos in Pokemon X and Y, potentially hinting at the setting of Pokemon Legends: Z-A from the start. While this shirt may have been a clue to Pokemon Legends: Z-A's setting, the default shirt worn by the female player character also comes from another region and could hint at the setting of the third Pokemon Legends game.

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Pokemon Legends: Arceus’ Female Player Character’s Default Shirt is from Galar

Pokemon Legends: Arceus follows the story of the player character who is sent back in time by Arceus to the Hisui Region, where they must help Professor Laventon and the Galaxy Expedition Team survey the surrounding region's landscape and Pokemon. Since players time travel at the start of the game, it's assumed that the player in Pokemon Legends: Arceus is from modern times, and this is supported by the shirts the characters are wearing when they first awaken in the Hisui Region. While the male player character wears a shirt from the Kalos Region, the female player character's shirt appears to be from the Galar Region.

The shirt the female player character wears in Pokemon Legends: Arceus appears almost identical to the Loose Top Luxury Holiday shirt from Pokemon Sword and Shield. As a top exclusively found in the Galar Region's Motostoke Boutique shop, it would appear that the female player character in Pokemon Legends: Arceus is originally from the Galar Region. If the Kalos shirt the male player character wears was intended to foreshadow Pokemon Legends: Z-A, then perhaps the female player character's shirt suggests that the third Pokemon Legends game will take place in Galar.

Pokemon Legends: Z-A Players Should Be On the Lookout for Galar References in the Game

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If the third Pokemon Legends game is planned to take place in Galar, it's likely that Pokemon Legends: Z-A will contain some sort of reference to the region, much like Pokemon Legends: Arceus did. Given that Kalos and Galar are geographically close to each other, it's possible that there could be more overt references to Galar in Pokemon Legends: Z-A. These references would be the perfect way to build a strong connection between the Pokemon Legends games and set up a future third game set in Galar.

With the plot of Pokemon Legends: Z-A theorized to mirror the real-world renovation of Paris that occurred in the mid-19th century, it would make sense that Galar could factor into the game's urban redevelopment plan for Lumiose City. The 19th Century was also the height of the British Industrial Revolution, so it would make sense that Galar would have architects and city planners who could aid in the redevelopment of Lumiose City. This type of storyline could then lay the groundwork for a follow-up title set in Galar that sees the results of the changes during this period of industrialization.