澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Pokemon Legends: Z-A is finally gearing up for release later this year, and while we 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:only just found out who its director is in the last week, we've just figured out something else about him that I for one am hoping might have an impact on the upcoming RPG – he appears to be a Xeಞnoblade Chronicles fan.

Haruka Tochigi has been credited on multiple Pokemon games since Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, but Legends: Z-A will be his first time directing a game. Clearly though, he's got very good taste in games himself, as yesterday he took to Twitter to share that he'd bought the newly released Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition. As content creator Aero so succinctly puts itꦇ, "oh we fucking won."

Now, we've already seen the gameplay footage for Legends: Z-A, and we know that, visually, there's a bit of a difference between the Nintendo Switch Xenoblade games and their lush, detailed open-world environments, and the more simplistic look of Lumiose City in the upcoming Pokemon game. In fact, a number of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:criticisms of Legends: Z-A's visuals haꦉve actually compared directly to the likes of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, highlighting the latter as an example of a particularly impressive-looking Switch release. However, the visuals aren't really what I'm looking at here, but rather Legends: Z-A's gameplay.

Right when Legends: Z-A's real-time battle system was revealed, I noticed that your Pokemon's moves have a cooldown after being used, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:specifically pointed out that the way their icons refill as they gradually recover was very akin to the Xenoblade games. Hell, even ❀the layout of the diamond-shaped icons on the screen reminds me of Xenoblade Chronicles 2's battle UI. Now, knowing that Tochigi has probably played these games before, I'm feeling rather validated.

We can't know f🍷or absolute certain that inspiration was definitely taken from Monolith Soft's games here, but as a phenomenal real-time combat JRPG series, it'd make an awful lot of sense if Pokemon Legends: Z-A was influenced by the genre greats that came before it. I'm also now wondering if there are any other similarities between them that we've not seen yet – we'll just have to keep a close eye when any new gameplay is revealed.

A single frame in the new Pokemon Legends Z-A trailer gives hardcore shiny hunters and Nuzlocke runners hope for a huge quality-of-life change.