Pokémon Legends Z-A, the most recent entry within the long-running Nintendo RPG franchise, is formally out right this moment 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 variety found in past Pokémon games.
While Pokémon Legends Z-A technically didn’t launch till right this moment, October 16, followers have been taking part in leaked variations of the sport for a few weeks now and have begun sharing their ideas on-line in regards to the sport’s map, which is the whole thing of Lumiose Metropolis, situated within the Kalos area. This location first appeared in 2013’s Pokémon X and Y. In these video games, Lumiose Metropolis was simply one among many places included within the giant open world. Nonetheless, in Z-A, Lumiose Metropolis is basically the whole playspace, and that’s proving to be a disappointing truth for some gamers.
Over on the Pokémon subreddit, a popular post with over 3,000 upvotes claims that you would be able to stroll across the whole metropolis in lower than seven minutes. Eurogamer examined this out and confirmed that, sure, if you happen to dash round and keep away from battles, you’ll be able to run round the entire round metropolis in nearly six minutes and 20 seconds. Now, a smaller map isn’t totally a nasty factor. Some open worlds don’t want a lot area to be great. Grand Theft Auto 3 feels fairly dang small once you return to it in 2025, nevertheless it packs so much in its restricted sandbox. Nonetheless, Z-A’s map isn’t simply small, it additionally lacks visible selection. That is demonstrated completely in this short 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 once about discovering new cities, cities, biomes, and environments, Z-A‘s focus on one city, filled with reused buildings and props, is disappointing to many. And while some of the complaints are clearly from fans who have long been done with the series but 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.
No less than if you happen to purchase the sport on Change, it mostly looks the same as the Switch 2 version. Don’t fear, everybody will get to get pleasure from the identical copy-pasted buildings no matter their platform of alternative. That’s good.
