February 27th was Pokémon Day! Pokémon Red and PokémonGreen were originally released on the 27th February 29 years ago. To celebrate, as usual the Game Freak and the Pokémon Company announce their plan for the year ahead and any other Poké News.
Here is what you missed in the Pokémon Presents from 27/02/2025.
Pokemon Concierge
The stop motion animation series Pokémon Conciege that was released onto Netflix in 2024 is getting a second series. It coming to Netflix in September 2025, BUT they are available on Pokemon’s YouTube until March 9th.
The Pokemon Apps
The Pokémon Go Tour event Unova – Global will take place over the 1st and 2nd of March.
A new menu item has appeared in Pokémon Cafe ReMix. It starts today, 28th of Feb – complete the event to get Flapple or Appletun.
Cresselia and Darkrai are coming soon to Pokémon Sleep. They are the dream and nightmare Pokemon. Makes sense.
Joining Pokémon Unite in 2025 is Suicune on March 1st, Alolan Raichu on April 1st and Alcremie later in the year! Celebrate 29 Years of Pokémon in Unite with the Platinum Suicine Boost Emblem thanks to the gift code: POKEDAY25 , you’ve got until the end of March to claim the emblem.
Pokémon TGC Pocket
A new themed booster pack was released today! You can open packs of Triumphant Light from February 28th. To celebrate Pokémon Day you will get a booster pack from each Genetic Apex pack with a card that is rated 4 silver diamonds or higher. You can get the missing EX cards if you’re lucky. They also announced that ranked matches are coming at the end of March. Mega Evolutions are also coming later in 2025 – a new series “beyond limits”.
Scarlet and Violet
Coming to Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet is a special case for your Rotom Phone! Use the passwords SBOOKCOVER and VBOOKCOVER in their respective games for new colors of phone cases. They also announced the Mass Out-Breaks that will be going on in Scarlet and Violet games through March, keep an eye out for red, blue, and green Pokémon – that’s all I will say.
A New Announcement: Pokémon Champions
It’s a new game coming to the “Nintendo Switch family of systems” which I’m taking as Switch and Switch 2 and to mobile. I’m happy to see the crossover between console and mobile for Pokemon, it’s actually a smart move from them considering Pokémon’s success on mobile. Champions looks like a Pokemon Stadium game, they seem to be prioritising online play. Hence the cross platform). Graphically, from the trailer it actually looks really good. It’s a battle-focused game to go along side the core games, with the same battle style from the core games. It’s focus appears to be playing online between friends and the public, whether or not there is a single player campaign is yet to be seen. It links to Pokémon Home so of course you can bring in your favourites from across the franchise.
Pokémon Z-A
Pokémon Legends Z-A was announced this time last year on Pokémon Day. As a huge fan of Legends Arceus, I am happy to see the Legends series becoming what they intended. For years now Pokémon fans and poke-casuals like myself have been asking Game Freak to slow down and spend more time on a game, new games have longer development cycles. That’s okay. It makes great games. Thankfully, they seem to be listening. Slated for later this year, Legends Z-A is lining up to set the Poké standard.
Quick reminder: Legends Z-A is set in Lumiose City, from the 3DS games Pokémon X and Pokémon Y. The Kalos region is based on France and is the sixth generation of Pokémon and their games. Lumiose City is on the verge of a techno-revolution, you arrive to see the new sites, but after choosing your starter Pokemon from Tepig, Totodile and Chikorita, you can explore the city and how it is growing to become a City where people and Pokemon can live happily together. Mega Evolutions are also back, on top of some fun new battling mechanics that allow you to move, dodge and help your Pokémon in the battles. The graphics look good, many of us have come out of the last couple of generations being upset about the appearance. I am not bothered about realistic art styles or anything like that – BUT, when it is the graphics that are making the game borderline unplayable, it’s not it. The bits of gameplay in the trailer looks pretty and smooth despite YouTube’s compression
I am also happy to see that Pokémon is getting translated into South American languages. I didn’t know they weren’t up until this point – I just assumed they were (like the silly native English speaker that I am). Legends Z-A is going to be the first game released with South American languages included. I am always happy to see increased accessibility in games, especially from big companies like the Pokémon Company who have the capacity to make their games accessible to more people.
Legends Z-A – Katie’s Random Predictions
My usual disclaimer: This is just speculation and some unrealistic dreams.
The game is really promoting that Lumiose City is becoming a place where people and Pokémon live together and accommodate each other like with the ‘wild spaces’ around the City. They seem to be big nature parks in the city where wild Pokémon can live. Looking at the wider story which we still know nothing about, I wonder if the story will have us helping to integrate Pokémon and humans together. Arceus had a couple of quests where you found a Pokémon to help with certain jobs in the village, I’m imagining that on a larger scale.
What do you want to see from Legends Z-A?
Are there any other announcements you were excited to see?
I’m off to open new packs in Pokémon TBC Pocket.
