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List of Pokémon Journeys: The Series episodes

This is a list of episodes of Pokémon Journeys: The Series , which first aired between November 17, 2019 and March 24, 2023 in Japan and between June 12, 2020 and September 8, 2023 in the United States. These episodes follow Ash Ketchum and Goh in all of the eight regions from Kanto to Galar .

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New Episodes of ‘Pokémon Journeys: The Series’ Now Available

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March 5, 2021 —  Today, the final 12 episodes of Pokémon Journeys: The Series released exclusively on Netflix in the U.S. Launched in June 2020, the 23rd season of the animated series from The Pokémon Company International brought an all-new narrative following Ash and his partner Pikachu.   In the next 12 episodes of Pokémon Journeys: The Series , Pokémon fans can continue to watch Ash, Pikachu, Goh, and friends in their adventures across multiple regions in the Pokémon world. Trainers can watch a new trailer for these final episodes of Pokémon Journeys: The Series on the official Pokémon YouTube channel. “ Pokémon Journeys: The Series ” Synopsis: Pokémon Trainer Ash Ketchum has a new plan: see the world! But first, he and his partner Pikachu are headed to the opening of the Cerise Laboratory, a research facility dedicated to uncovering the mysteries of Pokémon in every region. Ash meets Goh, another boy with boundless curiosity about Pokémon, and both are overjoyed when Professor Cerise asks them to become official research fellows. With Ash as determined as ever to become a Pokémon Master, and Goh aiming to catch one of every Pokémon (including the Mythical Mew), our heroes are in for adventure and excitement as they explore the wide world of Pokémon!

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Soapbox: Pokémon Journeys Is Like The Original Series, But 151 Times Better

Ash made a friend his own age!

• by Kate Gray Thu 16th Dec 2021

Life's been difficult lately. As much as I want to catch up on all the heart-racing tension of all the TV shows that everyone else is watching — Squid Game , Succession , the new season of The Witcher — I just don't have the energy for it. If I only have an hour or two after work, I don't want to spend it on edge, and it doesn't help that shows like Squid Game really put me off my dinner.

So, my partner and I started watching the original Pokémon Indigo League series, kind of as a nostalgic joke, kind of as filler, in the same way you eat popcorn just to keep your hands and face busy during a movie. Then, we decided to switch to the more modern Pokémon series (partly to see how it had evolved, and partly in hopes of seeing a Snom), and we settled on Pokémon Journeys , which is the most recent Sword and Shield tie-in season... and, spoiler alert: It kinda rules .

I'm sorry to people who've been banging the Pokémon anime drum for years. I was shocked to find out that Pokémon Journeys is the twenty-third season, and although I've played almost all the games (so it wasn't too hard to catch up), I'll admit that my diligence has slipped on the TV show.

Luckily for me, Pokémon Journeys doesn't expect me to know much about the intervening years. Ash is still ten, Pikachu is still his best pal, and although there's a little bit of confusion as to how much Ash has done already — he seems to reference, or at least imply, that he's already beaten multiple gym leaders and had many adventures, so this isn't just a straight reboot — it's mostly extremely easy to jump into the new story.

With series newcomer Goh, a charmingly excitable boy who genuinely wants (and tries) to catch 'em all, Journeys is the first time that two protagonists have had equal billing in a Pokémon anime season. Goh and Ash are both very well-written as pre-teen best friends: They have stupid fights, lofty goals, and teach each other important things about life and growing up. Ash is, as we know, a courageous and knowledgeable young scamp, and Goh's catch-first-ask-questions-later attitude, mixed with an overabundance of cautiousness in battle, is a great balance to Ash's enthusiastic ambition.

The Pokémon that star in Journeys are full of personality, too, with Pikachu seeming more mature and supportive than before, and Goh's partner Pokémon Scorbunny having an entire story revolving around wanting to help the disadvantaged, and later becoming a sulky teen Raboot. Pikachu even gets a backstory about being adopted by Kangaskhan, and it's genuinely quite weepy.

The original Pokémon was plenty well-animated by Japanese studio OLM, who would later go on to do several Pokémon movies, the Inazuma Eleven and Yo-Kai Watch anime, and cult favourite Komi Can't Communicate — but Journeys is something else. The animators have leaned even further into exaggerated emotions, extremely cute and goofy moments, and a million things that I've loved so much that I've had to pause the video to take a photo and send it to friends.

Put that all together, and what you get is a series that's built on the same Pocket-Monster-of-the-week tropes as the original, including Team Rocket's Jessie and James as foes, but updated for the modern era. Messages about consent, burnout, and trust are woven in to a structure that we all know and love, making it a surprisingly deep show for both adults and kids (at least, I assume that it's good for kids... I have no kids myself, so it's just me and my partner, two adults in our 30s, watching Pokémon as we eat our lunch).

I'm so invested in this show that's supposed to be about little animals that fight, aimed at children, that exists entirely to sell games... and I'm not ashamed. It's painfully cute, and I've laughed out loud at multiple points.

Sure, some of it is predictable — Team Rocket will always blast off again, Ash will almost always win any battle, and there's never any true conflict — but who cares? It's full of heart, it's gorgeous, and it's honestly remarkable for how many of its stories consist of Pokémon just saying their names in various tones for 15 minutes, and still make you feel emotions .

I know that your backlog of TV shows to watch is probably just as long as mine, but if you're ever looking for something that's both light-hearted and surprisingly meaty, then you might enjoy Pokémon Journeys, too.

I will warn you, though: I'm 27 episodes in, and there hasn't been a single Snom.

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• Anti-Matter
• Thu 16th Dec 2021

So i was wondering what happened to gloomy Drizzle ? Did he get evolved into Inteleon in anime ?

• patbacknitro18

It's good, but the original series will always be the best. That's not by influence of nostalgia, it just hits so many points harder. I mean, when's the last time Ash had to save a pokemon who nearly died because of their abusive trainer?

• MsMaestroon

I'll check it out! Hope life gets a little less tough for you, bud!

• mariopartyfan68

That is your opinion, the writing and humor is nowhere as good as the original, you can have it, it is OK. But cannot even touch the original in writing. I will stick with the original thanks.

• darkswabber

@patbacknitro18 literally last year with gengar was the last time.

Meh... this anime really is boring for me. Goh is way too perfectly written, there is no interesting female companion character this time around, Ash feels like a side character, and all the fan service feels more like ratings traps.

@darkswabber but isn't Gengar kind of... already dead...?

J/k, I understand what you meant

• OldManHermit

I haven't watched a Pokemon cartoon since the late 90s. When is Ash going to grow up and become a Pokeman already?

I haven’t watched the series since Master Quest and even that was the occasional episode. Johto League Championships was the last I watched the lot.

I was tempted to go back and watch XY & XYZ as people were telling me the series matured a bit with higher stakes and Ash acting a bit more maturely like he’d hit 13 and learnt from his years of “journeying”. But I didn’t get, strangely it was how everyone spoke to their pokeballs to “have a good rest” after EVERY return that had my eyes rolling so many times they risked falling out.

I simply can't stand Ash Ketchum.

I didn’t have Kate Gray praising the Pokémon anime on my 2021 bingo card.

The last season of the anime I saw was Best Wishes…it wasn’t as bad as people made it out to be, it was way better than the one episode of XY I saw lol.

Well, now I’m watching the new Pokémon series as well as downloading Fata Morgana (went on sale in EU today)

James still the best Team Rocket member ever since he refused to take his Growlithe with him and told it to stay and watch after his family cause he didn't want it to be evil like Team Rocket

Original series will likely always be my favorite. Show was fresh at that point. Great chemistry between the leads. Some genuinely emotionally devastating storylines. And the comedy still had a sharp edge to it. It felt much weirder (and, on occasion, darker) and willing to take risks because it was less of an established cultural institution at that point.

I rewatched it a few months ago for the first time in... fifteen years?... and was still impressed with how well it held up.

IMO the anime needs a complete reboot with new characters. If the show isn't going to age with its original audience, then it can at least provide a new protagonist for this generation of children to grow attached to. Satoshi is a relic.

I might give this a go actually. I do think cartoons that run for decades should allow the characters to age and then pass the lead role onto new generations of characters, but it's good to hear Pokemon is still staying relatively fresh despite that. I suppose the fact that Ash's companions (human and Pokemon) change every few years probably helps, it's only really Ash and Pikachu themselves that stay the same. Very sad to hear Snom isn't more prominent (Snominent?) though.

Pokemon journeys on Netflix. Soon X-Men 97 on Disney+!

I actually love how they didn't set ash to level 0, and made all the other shows cannon.

So ya I agree with you.

But, I still need to agree with everyone else that the OG had the best writing in it, Tho in my opinion XY&Z is the best pokemon show, being a runner up for first place, Its the best show that isn't the Original.

In my opinion

• AnnoyingFrenzy

Honestly for me, I watched when I was a kid for Team Rocket, and they are butchered in this one (mainly they don't get to develop bonds with pokemon they scare into submission/seduce, they get a random pokemon each episode) compared to the other seasons. At least as far as I remember. Haven't seen Indigo League through Hoenn in years and I've never seen Sinnoh through Alola.

I love this review. Got my kids into Pokemon, so occasionally I’ll sit down with them when they’re watching the anime. It’s never a bad time.

• SmaggTheSmug

Yeah, it's pretty good, it's nice that Ash and Goh show different approaches and the format which basically makes it about all the Pokemon generations rather than being focused on a single region like before. Team Rocket having random pokemon also allows the writers to shove as many of the little buggers into the show as they want. My only complaint is no Hop, but I guess Goh kind of takes over his role.

I've been watching every Journeys episode, up to the most recent 90th episode. Unfortunately, Snom has not appeared at all in Journeys so far. Interesting that Team Rocket is mentioned in this article as well, because they have barely appeared throughout Journeys. Hopefully Team Rocket gets more screentime soon.

@Handy_Man What do you mean? They seem to appear at least every third episode and Meowth even got to gigantamax.

@SmaggTheSmug In the last six months alone in Japan, the only episodes Team Rocket appeared in are episodes 70, 72, 74, 75, 81, 89, and 90. That's pretty poor. Also, while it's true Meowth got to Gigantamax in two episodes, it hasn't happened again since then. All I'm saying is that this is the least Team Rocket has ever appeared in the anime, and I hope it gets improved on in the future.

• eaglebob345

They really just need to oust Ash and make faitful animations of the games, like they did with Pokemon Origins, Pokemon Generations, and Pokemon Evolution. Journeys, as well as the rest of the main series anime, does not hold a candle to those series.

The weird thing is they are keeping all of Ash's adventures canon, but he is still 10. You have to watch Pokemon Origins, Pokemon Generations, Pokemon Twilight Wings, and Pokemon Evolutions. They are much more mature shows and more like the Pokemon Adventures manga.

@Kevember He is the worst. He's nothing more than a poor representation of the greatest trainer of all time.

@eaglebob345 Absolutely right.

@Trikeboy Yes! And they are so much better for it. The main series anime has been bad since the very beginning. Nostalgic, sure. But still bad. Like the first season of Yugioh and most of the original Dragon Ball.

Kate only has an hour to herself after work?! What kind of Foxconn factory is NL running

It was also aired on Live TV in Canada, via Teletoon. It wasn't on Netflix Canada until a while later, which was why I got a VPN. To watch the series. I haven't, yet.

• VoidofLight

@Kevember I can't stand any of the characters in the anime, or any of the voice acting. The entire show feels like pointless filler, and the writing is horrid. The smaller pokemon anime projects like Evolutions, Generations, Origins, and Twilight Wings are so much better, and it pains me that we will never get a full series akin to it.

@eaglebob345 What they should do is make an entirely new anime for the older audience of the games, and give them something of actual quality to watch, akin to those three series, rather than pointless filler where the characters have the IQ of a sack of bricks.

151 times better than the original? are you kidding. You're trolling

tbh I binged the entire series that's available on Nextflix in Australia and my golly gosh it was so much more fun than I was expecting ~ 10/10 highly recommend

• OnlyItsMeReid

@VoidofLight who buys the games? Who watches the anime? It’s the kids, we’re in the minority

@VoidofLight I think a lot of the fan base have been asking for that but they keep denying to provide that. That's one of the reason why XY was really popular. Ash was confident, he was battle smart and acted more mature, it was a grow up Ash without having him grown up. But then S&M came out

@OnlyItsMeReid I know it's mostly a kid's franchise, but that doesn't mean that older fans of the series don't exist. Most of the vocal people in the fanbase are teens and adults.

Edit: Hell, most of the people I've seen who watch the anime are fully grown adults as well. I get it's popular with children though, and that's why I know they'll never cancel or end the original anime. It's also why the original anime takes more priority than the games at this point.

Yes, the new series is great. Despite what these bearded wailords are typing with their greasy fingernails ready to post another dumb reply this very second.

Sun and Moon is the best Pokémon series without question.

Mymikui is the best Pokémon ever, and if you don't giggle like a school kid when you see a Pokémon mimic Ash as he goes thought his insane z-move build up you are legit dead inside.

But the new one is still pretty great.

@VoidofLight @OnlyItsMeReid

I tried to find it for you but it's old ... but around 8 years ago Microsoft responded to fans calling out the Nintendo as a "kid's" system by doing some analytics that showed the average age of Halo players was 16 and the average age of Pokémon players was 32.

Sure it's a kid's game marketed to children, but every year for the last 25 years the current fans get older, and every year they get new adult friends both from word of mouth and from parents who keep playing the game after their kids lose interested. The 10-16 year old base is never going to grow fast enough to overtake the 25-35 base that's had so much longer to grow.

I played my first Pokémon game at ... 30, 32ish because my wife's girlfriend was super into it. I've bought every game sense then.

• IceEarthGuard
• Fri 17th Dec 2021

Sadly I dropped watching Pokemon shows when X and Y shows started. Something about the X and Y shows just turned me off from watching them.

I did enjoyed Pokemon shows from the original all the way up to the Black and White series though.

“so this isn't just a straight reboot”

It’s not a reboot full-stop. Journey’s has the most continuity and callbacks out of any series of the anime period.

The only series that attempted to be a reboot in the beginning was the BW series due to directorial changes and they ended up abandoning that later into the series. (Still the worst one by far though.)

@OnlyItsMeReid Nah I don't believe the older audience is a Minority.

• ArceusSupremacy

lol absolutely not IT'S TERRIBLE. It doesn't come anything near the emotional storylines of season 1, the whole logic of the series is completely lost with the presence of Goh.

They go through silly trips instead of going through an actual adventure in Galar, which became a completely rushed saga which should've been the climax (I gave up after that, but seen things that made me hate the series even more that come after it, like Goh catching Suicune).

Journeys definitely killed a series that for me has already been a huge waste of time with the exception of a handful of episodes ever since season one. I wished Goh was burned to his bones by Entei, on-screen. Best anime death ever.

@mariopartyfan68 That's not fair. Take it back!!

• LudicrousBeeswax

I remember waking up early on Saturday mornings to catch the latest Pokemon episode. I fell away just after the first Johto season started, but a few years back I stumbled onto the Sinnoh seasons and was surprised at how well done it was. I rewatched the Kanto and Orange Island seasons after that, and my nostalgia got me through it (until partway through Johto again)

I'll definitely keep an eye out for Journeys, as it sounds a lot like what I enjoyed about the Sinnoh seasons

I would prefer a pokemon show where everyone was older or actually grew up.

@HeadPirate I was a kid when I first discovered pokemon, but I've been a fan since. Most of the fanbase seems to be people who either grew up with the series, or adults who got into it from friends or other family members, so the older playerbase is pretty much the main playerbase at this point.

• CheekyZelda

@eaglebob345 Why do they need to oust ash if they already have all the other series you just listed?

Team Rocket would win every time if they had guns

@patbacknitro18 The Best Wishes series, with Tepig.

Original series was very well made. Kids were watching it and then wanted to buy a gameboy color to play it. Gym fights were really interesting. New series still try to be a big ad for main series and make us care for new pokemon but its not the same

Ash feels like a different character from the Kanto/Johto days

@Anti-Matter Yeah he does

@RareFan It may have taken a while but Koharu/Chloe has become a lot more interesting in the past year or so and is much more of a regular than she used to be

@CheekyZelda Because he is one of the biggest problems with the main series. He sucks as a character and as a trainer. The sprinkling of other series are table scraps in comparison but they are just so much better. They are literally just bits and pieces showing off what the anime should have been and should be now.

Couldn't and wouldn't say The Witcher was "Heartstopping" on account of me not only not seeing much of it but not exactly liking what I saw.

As for the Pokemon Anime the whole thing always seemed like an anomaly, an overstreched marketing gimmic that didn't always add much to the main games. That, and as far accusations of stagnation within the franchise go the anime was often singled out as the worst offender for it which may have ultimatley necessitated the change in direction that the Sun and Moon half took and now again with 'journeys' though having not seen either, I can't really measure how much of of difference they had if any.

I know it's pure nostalgia, but I can't stand watching the dub post voice actor change. Especially Team Rocket. It feels so long. I've watched XY dubbed though. Maybe I'll try watching this, but probably subbed

• Wed 22nd Dec 2021

“Sure, some of it is predictable — Team Rocket will always blast off again , Ash will almost always win any battle, and there's never any true conflict — but who cares?”

Ah! Easily the worst part of the late 90’s series! Good to know my time is (still) best spent doing...almost anything else! Thank you for the update.

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Then you pick highlights from each game such as your starter Pokemon, memorable battles, and memorable story scenes. Once that's done, a shareable video will be created which you can post to your social media platform of choice. You can also generate a standard URL for your video to link people directly to it. At the end of the video is a brief teaser for Pokemon Sword and Shield , which is dropping later this week.

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Pokemon Journeys Synopsis Highlights Ash’s First Master Class Battle!

Ash vs. Steven, let's go!

Pokemon Journeys is heading to one of the key conclusions of its journey! Mainly in that of Ash facing off against the best trainers in the world via the Master Class tournament! As we’ve outlined before , the 8 trainers who made it this far are either the champions of a region (which includes Ash as he’s the Alolan Champion currently) or are incredibly strong trainers overall (See: Alain). In Japan, the Master Class battles are in full swing, and the upcoming episode will finally be Ash’s turn to battle!

And who is his opponent? None other than Steven Stone, champion of the Hoenn League, and a fan-favorite character from both the games and the anime!

A synopsis for Pokemon Journey’s upcoming episode highlights the battle between Ash and Steven, and teases the real challenge that Ash is in for!

“The fourth match of the first round of the Masters Tournament finally sees the start of [Ash’s] battles. His opponent is [Hoenn] champion [Steven], whose powerful Pokemon drive [Ash] against the wall…[Ash] doesn’t just want to win for himself, but also for the sake of the friends and Pokemon that support him! Can he defeat the roadblock that is [Steven] and pass his first match?”

While the obvious answer would be “yes”, it’s honestly a bit hard to predict just how this tournament will go for Ash. Especially since the belief is that it will indeed be Ash versus Leon for the crown, and Leon might finally lose via Ash. But…Pokemon fans have been wrong in the past in terms of Ash winning key battles and tournaments.

Plus, we know that Steven has a Mega Stone that he can use on his Metagross. Ash has a Mega Stone for his Lucario, as well as a Z-Ring and a Dynamax band…but he can only use one per match.

So who wins? You’ll have to watch and find out!

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Some characters and events also come from the famous anime franchise, including Team Rocket’s Jessie and James, and the armored Mewtwo. In terms of gameplay, the Red Chapter boasts four playable characters with portraits corresponding to their dialogue, quality-of-life changes from games released after FireRed, multiple regions to explore, a boosted level cap, a stat analyzer, and Pokemon fusions.

Fans of the franchise should treat reading the manga as a rite of passage - and the amount of developers’ passion that went into this project proves its importance.

Once again, please note that Gamers Decide does not endorse piracy and condones homebrew ROM dumping for those who own the original copies of the games.

6. Pokemon 3D - https://pokemon3d.net/

A snowbound Azalea Town - one of my favorite fictional towns.

Just as the recent release of Legends Arceus has proven, many fans of the Pokemon franchise can agree that they’d enjoy a more immersive take on the franchise - and Pokemon 3D sets out to do exactly that. Currently, the game only adapts the world of Pokemon Gold and Silver to a first-person perspective, but the goal is to cover all future generations of the franchise.

Like Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, the game itself is a largely faithful recreation of its inspiration, for the sake of nostalgia. However, the game’s official forums boast hundreds of free mods to enhance the player experience. Players may replace their Pokemon’s battle cries with their voices from the anime series, choose different starter Pokemon, or replace the nostalgic art and music.

Not that I’d want to myself - the franchise’s aesthetic is just plain timeless. I wish I could go into detail about how Littleroot Town’s theme makes me feel nostalgic even though I didn’t play Ruby and Sapphire as a kid but I don’t get paid to digress!

5. Pokemon Reborn - https://www.rebornevo.com/pr/index.html/

Note: this fangame’s official wiki ( https://pokemon-reborn.fandom.com/wiki/Home ) states that some content may be more triggering for sensitive players.

The Pokemon franchise is often misconstrued as being only for children - which is unfair, considering how some Pokédex entries could put Stephen King to shame. That’s why the developers of Pokemon Reborn set out to write a darker and edgier original story for more mature fans to play, all in the RPGMaker XP engine.

Reborn is set in a region plagued with decay. Black smog and acid rain hint at severe climate change. The general population lives in fear of unregulated crime and nostalgia for past prosperity. 

Reborn combines the third-Generation aesthetic with the gameplay content of the rest of the series up to Generation VII, including the more recent Field Effects. Players can obtain every available Pokemon, battle at 18 gyms, and find even more fresh content over 55 hours.

4. Pokemon Team Turbo - https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Team_Turbo

Y’know, you’d think they’d just be rolling in the balls instead of spinning like tops.

Pokemon Team Turbo is a racing game with six courses and five minigames. Players may participate in these races using one of 20 playable Pokemon or participate in minigames to earn power-ups for use in the races. Unlike the other games on this list, this one is an official racing spinoff rather than a fan-made RPG.

The six courses include little quirks not typically seen in other racing games. One involves collecting dominoes with letters from the player’s name for speed boosts, one involves hitting pictures of opponents, and one allows players to grind into them.

3. Pokemon Unbound

Imagine showing this Moltres to your kid self.

Pokemon Unbound is another ROM hack of FireRed set in the Borrius region. Here, the echoes of a war that ended with devastation many centuries ago have come back to haunt humanity in the form of an organization known as “The Shadows”, who wish to bring it back for unknown reasons.

This hack utilizes the Complete FireRed Upgrade, a set of hacker tools to update the FireRed ruleset to more modern standards. Unbound includes Pokemon from the first seven generations and all their moves and abilities. It also includes over 75 missions, a feature not common to the main Pokemon series but occasionally seen in spinoffs, allowing players enough content to procrastinate completing the storyline.

Additionally, Unbound boasts hundreds of character customization options, plenty of time-restricted events, a few minigames and puzzles, and finally, for those who feel as though they’ve run out of things to do, a postgame arguably richer than that of the Sinnoh games.

2. Pokemon Uranium - https://pokemonuranium.co/

Looks like one of those hoax videos from the mid-2000s.

Pokemon Uranium, like Clover, features mostly fan-made Pokemon species across the Tandor region, in which the player character participates in the traditional eight-gym adventure repeated in almost every generation of the series. The story revolves around his mother’s disappearance after an explosion at a local power plant causes widespread irradiation across Tandor.

Initially, the game would have included multiplayer features like the beloved Global Trade Station. However, the game was unfortunately scrapped, as Nintendo would issue its creators a DMCA takedown notice. While the official game is gone, fans on the Internet have uploaded backup versions of the game to share.

1. Pokemon Trading Card Game Online - https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/play-online/

“You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone.”

Pokemon Trading Card Game Online is a simulation of the real-world Pokemon trading card game with added RPG elements, much like the ’90s Game Boy Color game. Players may battle computers, or each other, with the same 60-card deck structure.

Each game mode offers a different twist on the classic game. Trainer Challenge limits players to using themed decks, rewarded with booster packs. Versus Mode allows for more customization unless the Theme Mode is enabled, allowing for a more personalized experience with greater rewards.

What better way to top this list than with an official game made by the Pokemon Company? This one’s one of few adaptations of the famous trading card game, soon to be replaced with Pokemon Trading Card Game Live - so check it out while you still can.

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A couple of weeks ago, I played an indie game called Heading Out. Before you begin, the game asks you to clarify rumours about yourself; First love; Relationship status; Your life’s greatest regret. The first hurdle is exposing your vulnerabilities and from then on it takes you down a winding road of vignettes that speak to your unique story. As I was experiencing this, it reminded me of the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. In particular, Explorers of Sky, of which I finished a tear-jerking playthrough at the start of the year.

Each of Chunsoft’s Pokémon games begins with a personality test. This interactive experience is unlike anything you will experience in a mainline Game Freak game. Your ‘aura’ will be read by the Nintendo DS’ capacitive touch screen. You will explain what you would do if you saw a friend crying. Your memory will be percolated by images of you eating sticky ice-cream as a child. You will smell the freshly cut grass from when you last laid down in a park, and many more memories will come to mind. Most of the games in this series begin with a similarly ephemeral and psychedelic experience, and though its primary purpose is to decide what Pokémon you are, it does a whole lot more than just that.

Mystery Dungeon games are some of the many spin-offs that allow you to play as a Pokémon, though unlike the others, you will play through an epic narrative that bounces between stopping street-level burglars and fighting against cosmic deities. In Explorers of Sky in particular, you will play through the entire game as a first-stage starter. Imagine a Chimchar or Chikorita squaring up to the God of Time.

If there was ever a Pokémon game that tugged on the threads of your childhood, it would be Explorers of Sky. Your adventure in its world will evoke the most absurd power fantasy possible as you grow from barely being able to hold your own against a Rattata to being able to take on a ‘Monster House’ packed with Dragonites , Salamences, and Tyranitars.

Combat mechanics and gameplay in Mystery Dungeon games are far from spectacular. Elements of turn-based battle are fused with tile-based tactics, and the final result is somewhat like a procedurally generated autobattler. But combat is not the reason I hold it in such high regard. You can thank a tender yet brutal story for that.

Explorers of Sky begins as all the other Isekai’s do, on a beach. You are a Pokémon – whichever the personality test at the beginning has picked for you – and you will soon be introduced to your partner in crime. As your nervous friend babbles about whatever, you will be nagged by a sinking feeling that you are not in fact a pocket monster, but a human. Again, like the combat, the plot beats are nothing spectacular. You will journey through the ranks of the austere Wigglytuff’s Guild, fight crime, and ultimately hunt down the missing Time Gears. As is the case in most games, the plot is a vehicle that serves a purpose bigger than itself. It will carry you through a journey of self-discovery, existentialism and moral purpose, all the while disguising itself as a game meant for seven-year-olds.

This happens almost entirely through your relationship with your Guild partner – a timid little Pokémon with as much self-confidence as a sheet of paper flapping in the wind. You compliment your partner perfectly though. Unlike in mainline games in which you are a blank slate protagonist going about their Pokémon League conquest in relative silence, Mystery Dungeon allows you to express yourself with consequential dialogue choices that have a real impact on the story. Even though it’s hard not to find the dynamic corny at times, it’s just as easy to forgive it thanks to the gallivanting-buddy-cop-drama fun you will enjoy throughout. Change comes through the courage and trust you find in each other’s company, and it’s hard not to see your partner as your best friend before long.

Much of the narrative tension comes through the early introduction of Grovyle. This mysterious outlaw is the early-game antagonist, but quickly adopts a much more significant role in the overarching plot. Both you and your partner will form unique relationships with the character, and it ultimately leads to one of the most heartbreaking situations I have ever experienced while gaming.

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Remember how you woke up on a beach all those weeks ago? It’s true that you were once a human, though there’s another bit you missed. You are a human from the future, and Grovyle is your time-travelling partner from all those years ago (away?). You both travelled into the past to prevent a world-ending temporal event from destroying your future, though were both separated in-transit, and you have since been transformed into a Pokémon somehow.

As you edge towards the end of the game, the grave nature of meddling with time becomes apparent. Grovyle must sacrifice itself so that you and your current partner can save the present time. This is only a temporary solution, for you must also return to the future eventually too. When that time eventually comes, your partner must be abandoned and left alone as they had started.

It becomes clear that this is no longer a choice, but a written event that is now inescapable. However you finish the game, it will always be alone. Your final goodbye to your partner will impart onto them your courage, and that’s that. Images of your journey together will flash across the screen, much like the memories evoked in the initial personality test, and they will fade just as fast as they appear.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky is a game as much about friendship as it is about memory. Despite angling itself through chibi pixel art and slapstick comedy, your in-game friendships teach you that life is perpetually fleeting. You will lose love – it will hurt. You will one day hear a cherished voice for the last time, and you will go through your life pining to hear it once more. It doesn’t matter how often you return to the sandy cove you first met. You will never see them again. No more dungeons to be crawled. No more candle-lit conversations. All that remains is fading memory.

I finished my most recent playthrough of Explorers of Sky earlier this year. As a pretty emotionally-illiterate teen, I’d never quite grasped the complexity of what the game shows you. But replaying it again now and having lost family, friends, relationships and more, this was a difficult game to see through to the end. Even still, I’m glad I did. As many tough memories that it resurfaced, there were ten times as many treasured ones.

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First official details, dates and locations revealed for the 2025 Pokémon Championship Series including the 2025 Latin America International Championships, Europe International Championships and North America International Championships

The Pokémon Company has revealed new details regarding the 2025 Pokémon Championship Series. Read on below to learn more:

2025 Pokémon Championship Series Update

Learn about the changes coming to the 2025 pokémon championship series and prepare for your competitive journey this season..

A fter another exciting season of battles across the Pokémon TCG, Pokémon video games, and Pokémon GO, we’re ready to announce a suite of changes coming to the 2025 circuit that include adjustments to the World Championships qualifications system, Championship Points (CP) updates, and more. The 2025 Pokémon Championship Series will run from July 2024 to May 2025, with the exceptions of the 2025 North America International Championships and the 2025 Pokémon World Championships.

More information regarding the 2025 Pokémon UNITE Championship Series and its place in the broader 2025 Pokémon Championship Series will be shared after the 2024 World Championships in August.

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The qualification system for the Pokémon World Championships is changing for the 2025 season. In 2025, a set number of players from each rating zone, age division, and game will earn an invitation to the World Championships based on their Championship Points leaderboard standings. This update applies to Pokémon TCG, Pokémon video game, and Pokémon GO players. Most recently, invitations were based on a fixed CP threshold that players needed to accumulate to receive an invitation.

In addition to the players who qualify via Championship Points, individual top performers at major events will earn automatic invitations to the Pokémon World Championships. Regional and Special Champions will receive an invitation, and the top  four  finishers of each International Championships will earn an invitation. Invites earned through this method will not count against the total invitation slots for that player’s rating zone.

As the Pokémon Championship Series continues to grow, this adjustment will provide a variety of long-term benefits. This includes balancing player qualification across all rating zones to foster diverse competition, ensuring that we’re prepared to provide the best competitor experience possible at the Pokémon World Championships, and better supporting the growth of the Pokémon Championship Series as a whole.

We also look forward to sharing more about a Championship Points Season Reward program for Trainers who show great dedication to the Play! Pokémon program, which will operate similar to the fixed CP threshold from recent years.

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In conjunction with the new Worlds qualification system, CP tables have been realigned for greater parity across games.  Best Finish Limits ,  Kickers , and prizing have all been updated for clarity. See below for a full CP Table that encompasses Pokémon TCG, Pokémon VGC, and Pokémon GO competitors:

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Pokémon VGC players, take note: two store-level competitions are getting a name change. The Midseason Showdown is now called the Video Game League Cup, and the Premier Challenge is now known as the Video Game League Challenge. This aligns the names more closely to equivalent Pokémon TCG and Pokémon GO events.

Players will receive Pokémon TCG booster packs for competing in Pokémon TCG, Pokémon video game, and Pokémon GO Championship Events. The number of booster packs earned is based on individual placement, as well as the number of participants in an event. Prizing that is dependent on the attendance of the event is referred to as a Kicker.

We’re expanding the booster pack prize Kicker in the 2025 season for the majority of Championship Events. Here is the breakdown of booster pack prizes:

Cash prizes are also on the line at Regional, International, and World Championships. Last year saw a substantial increase, and we’re maintaining these prize values for the 2025 Championship Series season.

The format of each prize is dependent on the age of the recipient.

18 years of age and older:

• Awards of $5,000 or more: Choice of scholarship or cash
• Awards under $5,000: Cash

Under 18 years of age:

• Awards of $5,000 or more: Choice of scholarship or Pokémon Visa® Prepaid Card
• Awards under $5,000: Pokémon Visa® Prepaid Card

Prizes and prize distribution may be subject to change. Unless otherwise specified, all prizes are paid in US dollars and are subject to applicable tax withholding. Prize winners should consult a qualified tax professional regarding their tax obligations.

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Prizes and products are subject to change, and substitutions may be made due to unforeseen inventory shortages.

International Championships Travel Prize Updates

We’re also making updates to Travel Prizes for qualifying players in the 2025 season. We are expanding the Travel Rewards program to Pokémon GO competitors, and have also added new prize tiers for Pokémon TCG, Pokémon video game, and Pokémon GO players that provide Priority Registration for top participants. Priority Registration was already a part of the Travel Award and Travel Stipend benefit and will be maintained for those tiers as well.

Players can qualify for Travel Prizes to the International Championships based on their performance and their standing in Championship Points in their home rating zone during stand-alone qualification periods. Players in the Russia, Middle East, and South Africa rating zone are not eligible for Travel Awards, Travel Stipends, or Priority Registration.

To ensure there are no delays in receiving Travel Awards, players should check to make sure the information on their Play! Pokémon accounts is accurate and up to date. Players are fully responsible for booking their own hotel and travel.

Similar to the 2024 World Championships, shifts to the Swiss tournament format and method for determining which players advance to the top cut will continue throughout the rest of the 2025 Championship Series season.

For Special Championships, Regional Championships, International Championships, and the World Championships, Pokémon TCG and video game tournaments will be played in a more conventional Swiss round count plus an additional round, rather than the modified version of the Swiss format used in recent seasons.

Swiss round breakdown details for tournaments with fewer than 33 participants will be clarified at a later date.

After all Swiss rounds are completed, the Top 8 competitors, plus all competitors with the same number of match points as 8th place (to a maximum of 32), will advance into an asymmetrical top cut single-elimination bracket to determine the winner of the event.

Overall, this change to Swiss will promote more streamlined tournament days to improve both the flow of the event and potential daily fatigue. For top cut, this update allows competitors a way to better advance in a tournament based on their skills while reducing factors that are partially out of their control, such as the opponent’s match win percentage.

More online tournaments are coming in the 2025 season, giving players more opportunities to make progress toward earning an invitation to the Pokémon World Championships.  Pokémon Scarlet  and  Pokémon Violet  players can look forward to more Global Challenge events throughout the season.

Pokémon UNITE will also continue to be supported by online tournaments as a part of its path to Worlds, with additional details to be announced alongside the rest of the UNITE Championship Series information.

Regional Championships and Special Championships

All Regional Championships and Special Championships are planned to feature the Pokémon TCG, Pokémon video games, and Pokémon GO.

Regional Championships main events will take place on Saturday and Sunday. Event listings that include a Friday date feature side events and smaller competitions on that day.

Special Championships award the same number of Championship Points as a Regional Championships, but all other rewards are at the discretion of the event organizer. Special Championships are noted in  green  on the schedule below.

The event schedule will be updated as more events are announced.

Dates, locations, and formats subject to change. Check back for additional Regional Championships and Special Championships as they are announced.

The International Championships return to their host cities from the 2024 season. Once again, the Latin America International Championships will take place in São Paulo, Brazil, in November 2024. Then London will play host to the Europe International Championships in February 2025, a couple months earlier in the year than it has been recently. Meanwhile, the North America International Championships will return to New Orleans in June 2025.

Fans planning to head to New Orleans for the 2025 North America International Championships can also take advantage of a special benefit—you can get discounted rates at hotels close to the event location and get a head start on planning for next year’s competition! We will be sharing more details on this later to support those booking travel.

International Championships Dates and Locations

The Play! Pokémon program is committed to creating the best possible experience for Pokémon competitors and fans. We look forward to the 2025 Championship Series season and working with our global community as the program continues to evolve for years to come.

Many more exciting updates are in store for the Championship Series, including information about the 2025 Pokémon UNITE Championship Series, community-focused side event experiences, as well as the remaining 2025 season Regional and Special Championships. Please expect to hear more after the 2024 World Championships!

The 2025 Pokémon Championship Series season is just around the corner! Learn more about the upcoming changes and check out the first wave of event locations to best prepare for your competitive journey ⬇ 📝 https://t.co/jm3K6NSI02 pic.twitter.com/xeFIhRFYRo — Play Pokémon (@playpokemon) June 27, 2024

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An all-new 3D Pokémon adventure packed with never-before-seen Pokémon has launched! Pokémon X and Pokémon Y presents a new generation of Pokémon and introduces players to an exciting new adventure in a breathtaking 3D world.

You'll be able to go on your journey as a boy or a girl, and you can choose how your hero looks overall! Find a look that suits you, and then set off on your travels!

Your adventure takes place in the expansive Kalos region, where you'll explore cities, meet people, and encounter many Pokémon. Don't miss Lumiose City, the central hub of the region, where you'll return many times on your journey.

Look for all-new Fairy-type Pokémon, the first new Pokémon type since Dark-type and Steel-type Pokémon were introduced almost a decade ago. Fairy-type moves are super effective against Dragon-type Pokémon. One such Fairy-type Pokémon to meet is Sylveon, the new evolved form of Eevee!

All-new battle formats are fun for new players and Pokémon pros. Sky Battles feature duels between Pokémon that can fly, and Horde encounters are massive competitions where one of your Pokémon faces many wild Pokémon at once! These new modes will challenge every Pokémon Trainer.

In addition to new battle types, you can also care for your Pokémon with the Pokémon-Amie feature. Feed, pet, and play with your Pokémon to increase your bond. The more you play with your Pokémon, the friendlier they'll become—and perhaps perform better for you in battle.

Around the Kalos region, you'll meet a lot of people. First there's the brilliant Professor Sycamore. He's researching Pokémon, and he's looking to you and your friends for help. He may even challenge you to a battle from time to time. But you're also likely to encounter members of the mysterious organization Team Flare. What they're up to is anyone's guess.

In Pokémon X and Pokémon Y , some Pokémon will tap into powers long dormant. This special kind of Evolution is called Mega Evolution. In addition to far greater strength, Mega-Evolved Pokémon may also see their Ability change, or even their type!

There's a new method of Pokémon training: Super Training! With Super Training, it’s not your Pokémon’s level that goes up but its base stats, the underlying values that define your Pokémon's skills in battle. These base stats could be increased using items and other methods in previous Pokémon titles, but in Pokémon X and Pokémon Y , you'll be able to raise them far more easily than ever before, thanks to Super Training.

The all-new Player Search System (PSS) gives you all kinds of new ways to interact with other players. With the PSS, you can battle and trade with players around the world, as well as share O-Powers, special abilities that will temporarily enhance certain gameplay aspects. And the Holo Caster feature of the PSS lets you trade messages with faraway Trainers and receive Pokémon X and Pokémon Y news bulletins.

The Pokémon Global Link has been completely redesigned to be easier and more fun to use! Now, directly from the PGL homepage, see your game progress, enter Online Competitions, and more. You can even share a timeline of your adventures with your friends and the whole world!

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The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom indicates that the series’ traditional design is gone for good

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The biggest shock of Tuesday’s The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom reveal was, of course, that Princess Zelda will be the playable protagonist . The second-biggest shock was that the game exists at all, and that it’s coming out in three months .

The third-biggest shock took a little longer to register for me, but it’s possibly an even bigger deal: Echoes of Wisdom is a clear indication that Nintendo has turned its back on what you might call traditional Zelda game design for good.

Tradition is deeply important to the Legend of Zelda series. This sequence of games has, over the course of 38 Earth years (and millennia on Hyrule ), essentially told and retold the same story over and over again. Similarly, its game design has morphed and shifted within strict limits as it observed the time-worn rituals of Zelda.

For decades, each game would open up in a gradual, nonlinear, but carefully prescribed way, as the player unlocks new tools that fit like keys into the map’s many locks and uses them to find the solutions to intricate puzzles. In the first review of a Zelda game that I wrote — I think it was for The Minish Cap , in 2004 — I described the games as “clockwork fairy tales,” meaning they worked like beautiful, precision pieces of machinery that the player could slot themselves into. And they stayed that way — until 2017.

Breath of the Wild tore up the Zelda rulebook. It gave players all the most important tools at the start of the game and let them explore the map in any direction, tackling its challenges in any order. Through systems like weapon durability, weather, stamina, and cooking, it also added a lot of variables that would keep players on their toes and encourage improvisation.

Then 2023’s Tears of the Kingdom turbocharged this approach with a handful of abilities that seemed conceived less to disrupt the game design than to break it completely. Ultrahand lets players build their own furniture, buildings, vehicles, and powered contraptions. Fuse splices almost every single object in the game into the weapons system. Rewind lets players send individual objects backward in time. And Ascend — which started life as a debug tool for developers — is almost a literal cheat, a traversal get-out-of-jail-free card.

With these two open-world games, Tears of the Kingdom especially, series producer Eiji Aonuma and his team shifted the paradigm of Zelda design toward open-endedness and player creativity ( up to a point ). These games were enormously popular, but — perhaps because of the accumulated cultural weight of the first three decades of Zelda games — I assumed traditional Zelda would live on beside this new strain, probably in smaller-scale titles harking back to the series’ 2D roots.

It seems not. Introducing Echoes of Wisdom in a video, Aonuma laid it on the line: “Here, we wanted to create a new gameplay style that breaks conventions seen in past Legend of Zelda games with a top-down perspective,” he said. Nintendo is not done messing with its beloved franchise — or rather, letting players mess with it, and challenging its designers to keep up with them.

In the game, Princess Zelda can use a magic staff called the Tri Rod to create copies of objects, and even monsters, called Echoes. She can build stairs out of bed frames, summon Moblins to fight for her, or create freestanding columns of water. In the video, Aonuma pointed out the way battles or puzzle solutions play out will vary greatly from player to player depending on the Echoes they use. The Echo ability is Princess Zelda’s Ultrahand; just as in Tears of the Kingdom , the ability to brute-force the game’s challenges , or step outside the usual Zelda ruleset to bypass them, is baked into the game design, and part of the fun.

Echoes of Wisdom will be the first brand-new Zelda game to come out since Link’s open-world adventures shook the series up. Visually, it looks just like the 2019 remake of the 1993 classic Link’s Awakening , but in design terms it feels like it belongs to this different, newer breed of Zelda games. Embracing creativity and player freedom now appears to be a core tenet of the series. Aonuma’s quiet revolution continues; Zelda will never be the same again.

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