New Pokémon Legends: Arceus trailer shows off noble Pokémon Kleavor

New Pokémon Legends: Arceus trailer shows off noble Pokémon Kleavor

By  Sam Jones - 28th Sep 2021

New details on the open-world RPG from Nintendo

New Pokémon Legends: Arceus trailer shows off noble Pokémon Kleavor

The latest Pokémon Legends: Arceus trailer has given gamers a glimpse at Kleavor, the new noble Pokémon starring in the upcoming open-world RPG. Nicknamed the 'Lord of the Woods', Kleavor is a Bug/Rock type with huge cleaver-like arms and a shiny gold complexion, which turns to its usual off-gold, cream look soon after.

From the trailer, you can see how players will enter the battle - either facing it as a Trainer without your trusted Pokémon (which is a new thing for the franchise) or sending out your Pocket Monsters to fight in traditional battles. We also got to see more of the Hisui region, where Trainers will be able to explore beautiful backdrops on the hunt for Pokémon, as well as interact with various Wardens who are tasked with protecting special Pokémon.

The traditional Japanese style backdrop of Jubilife Village was also shown briefly, a place where you can customize your character's appearance, shop for items and even have a photo shoot with your Pokémon.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus teases new battle system trailer - (August 18th, 2021)

It's certainly one of the most highly-anticipated Pokemon games in recent years, and this week Nintendo treated to another batch of fresh footage and gameplay features that we can expect in the upcoming Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Players will be tasked with surveying, researching and, of course, catching wild Pokémon in the long-gone, traditional Japanese style era of Sinnoh. In the brand-new trailer released today (August 18th) as part of Pokémon Presents, we got a glimpse of the Hisui region, which features a forest-like areas as well as sandy beach locale. There will also be some snowy mountains higher up on the hills for players to explore.

More importantly, the trailer also showed off the new open-world RPG style approach to encountering Pokémon. The days of having to bump into a wild Pokémon to engage in a battle with the hopes of defeating or capturing it are a thing of the past (technically future for this time frame in the lore) as players can throw Poké Balls at wild Pokémon at any point, as well as being attacked by wild Pokémon too.

Gamers can use the tall grass to enter a sneak mode to move in closer on unsuspecting Pocket Monsters, giving you the opportunity to throw a direct Poké Ball at them, or throw it near them to get their attention and prompt a battle. Successful catches will see a small firecracker shoot up into the air above the ball to indicate the capture.

Better still, your character will be able to ride Pokémon to reach far away destinations, either by air, sea or land. Some of the newly found Pokémon can be ridden in the game, including Wyrdeer - a Normal/Psychic Big Horn Pokémon - and Basculegion, a Water/Ghost type Big Fish Pokémon. Adventurers can use the Hisuian Braviary (a new regional form of the Gen V Braviary) as a paraglide-like mode of transport.

We also got a look at Hisuian Growlithe, the cute regional form of the Fire-type Pokémon from Gen I.

The trailer also gave us a peek at some the boss-type battles with wild Pokémon that have been altered due to a mysterious thunder storm - now with beaming red eyes.

As previously seen and known, the three adorable starter Pokémon featuring in the game got some more air time - for those who didn't know already, you'll be able to choose from either Cyndaquil (Fire - Gen II), Oshawott (Water - Gen V), and Rowlet (Grass - Gen VII).

The latest Pokémon Legends: Arceus trailer also confirmed the official release date, with the game coming to Nintendo Switch on January 28th, 2022.



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