Summary
- A Pokemon fan created a concept for a Pokemon Legends: Mew game, taking inspiration from Pokemon Legends: Arceus, and shared it on social media.
- The fan's idea centers around Mew and involves a feudal-era version of the Kanto region, with new regional forms for Chesnaught, Blaziken, and Blastoise.
- The game's main arc would feature a faction-based conflict led by characters resembling Giovanni and Lance, with a witch resembling Sabrina as the surprise villain. A ghastly version of Mewtwo would serve as the final boss.
A Pokemon fan took inspiration from Pokemon Legends: Arceus and created their concept of a Pokemon Legends: Mew game. The Pokemon fan then took their idea to social media and posted a video that went into more detail about some potential plot points and shared their thoughts for some new Pokemon forms.
The focus of the Pokemon fan's idea revolves around Mew, the only Mythical Pokemon from the first generation. Known as the New Species Pokemon, Mew can learn nearly every Pokemon move and has a base stat total of 600, making it quite versatile in battle. But, players that want to add Mew to Pokemon Scarlet and Violet will have to use Pokemon Home and transfer over a Mew obtained from Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. Despite being a Mythical Pokemon, Mew has never been the front cover focus of mainline Pokemon games, but one fan sought to change that.
A TikTok user named pen_paladin shared their Pokemon Legends: Mew game idea in a video. Just as Hisui was the setting of Pokemon Legends: Arceus, pen_paladin's game would send players back in time to a feudal-era version of the Kanto region. The player would be accompanied by either Chespin, Torchic, or Squirtle, with the Tiny Turtle Pokemon being the only starter Pokemon native to the Kanto region. Feudal Kanto would see new regional forms for Chesnaught, Blaziken, and Blastoise as well, each based on the traditional Japanese martial arts of judo, karate, and sumo wrestling respectively. The main arc of Pokemon Legends: Mew and Feudal Kanto would be a faction-based conflict led by characters resembling Giovanni and Lance, both of which would respectively have regional variants of Persian and Dragonite as their main Pokemon.
Just as Volo was the surprise villain of Pokemon Legends: Arceus, pen_paladin chose a witch resembling the Gym Leader Sabrina to fulfill that role. This witch would use dark magic to split Mew's spirit in half, with a ghastly version of Mewtwo serving as the final boss of Pokemon Legends: Mew. Were this to happen in any official game, it would go down as one of the darkest Pokemon games in recent memory. In the comments, Pokemon fans remained divided on the idea of returning to Kanto, but some remained intrigued by pen_paladin's idea for a Mew-focused game.
The idea of Pokemon regions set in different time periods remains a strong point of fan speculation, with some fans hoping for a Pokemon Legends game based in regions like Unova. It remains to be seen what The Pokemon Company will do in the future.
Pokemon Legends: Arceus is available now for Nintendo Switch.