As Pokémon Legends: Z-A launches, we return to Pokémon Legends: Arceus' rose-tinted take on the past, and the hard questions it raises about Japanese history

Pokémon has ever been a jet-setting series, with its caput successful the clouds and its feet planted firmly successful the existent world. The archetypal 4 generations of Pokémon games took america connected a whirlwind circuit of Japan. Red and Blue were acceptable successful a fictionalised mentation of Greater Tokyo, with dense cities and municipality sprawl. Gold and Silver whisked america down to Kansai, with gorgeous temples and leafy towns. Ruby and Sapphire looked southbound to subtropical Kyūshū, each seaside cities and swathes of bluish ocean. Diamond and Pearl donned their wintertime coats and flew to the chilly bluish land of Hokkaidō, with its craggy peaks and snowfields.

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