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Does Pokemon Legends Z-A have Home support yet?
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The original virtual console Pokemon games didnt have online trading either but yeah we do need Emerald or at least Home support, but even then I doubt you will be able to transfer mons to FR/LG from other games mostly out most likely.
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hopefully if they add the other old games you can transfer between them
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I mean I'd contemplate getting LeafGreen but if you don't have anyone nearby locally to trade with that has the other version, you can't complete the Dex, much less get Umbreon and Espeon or two Eevee evolutions that SHOULD be an option for players in a playthrough. 1-way HOME doesn't help either since other than Legendaries(that you can get in Z-A/SV I would think), what's the point?
Other than the nostalgia jolt… it just doesn't feel like a game worth getting. I mean LGP/LGE have online trading so why can't this one? Why port a game without a core FUNCTION enabled from the start.
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Probably because there was no online trading in the original and they didn’t change much
They literally say your using a gba with a linking cord
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How is Home compatibility still not a mandatory launch feature with all new releases? It hasn't been new software for years now.
I keep hearing cope about encouraging players to use newer Pokémon or prevent them trivialising the game by importing high level Pokémon from other games.
First of all, if they want to ruin their own experience, let them. But secondly, if it really matters, just prevent transfers until after they have beaten the game, as it always used to be.
Home compatibility should be there day one. No excuses.
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Then they’d be better off doing it on Nintendo Online then w/o the link cord because the odds of finding someone in your neighborhood with a Switch and the opposite version of you is slim to none. I know I wouldn’t because I don’t know anyone with a Switch aside from my Brother/Nieces and they’re 3k miles away. That’s why if you’re going to re-release the game as it was back in the day, they’d have been better off doing it on NO or taking the time to do the game BDSP style(I don’t mind the chibi) where they permit online trading with people who have the other version. Call it Blaze Red and Chromatic Green and updating the game to the point where it’s Kanto but with updated rule-set(Snow instead of Hail… Physical/Special split, new abilities, Fairies, and a Day/Night cycle similar to Scarlet/Violet where a whole day occurs in an hour) and without the annoying Catching of Let’s GO or Mega Evolutions that cater to a slim chunk of the Dex. This would permit players to use all forms of Eevee(even Umbreon/Espeon that were not possible back in the day unless you brought them over from RSE) along with updated Evolutions of Kanto Pokémon that make them worthwhile(Lickitung being one, Tangela another). Plus… how are you going to get Machamp, Alakazam, Gengar and Golem without Online trading? It’s like they didn’t think this through and had the gall to charge $20 for it.
Speaking of Weather, any Pokémon with a weather ability is really good since Weather lasts indefinitely as opposed to five turns.
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Also the national dex, it was basically the best feature to date and really encouraged players to fill up their dexes locally. I really liked also using past teams in new games, when Ultra sun was popular I was basically using my team from Y to do everything with the Ultra Wormholes.
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Im glad it’s not on switch online more people could play it, and its just a one time payment instead of a membership, also if it was on switch online there’d still be people complaining its only on switch online
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My point regarding it being on Nintendo Online is because the ability to Trade is severely limited. Local Trading can be great IF you have friends/family to trade with or a complete black hole/abyss because you literally have NO ONE to trade with. I would fall into the latter camp because the only person I know with a Switch that would even remotely consider doing Pokémon would be my nieces that live 3k miles away from me(meaning I'd only be able to trade when they come out here or I go out there to visit).
That means, for the average player, they cannot complete the Dex or obtain version exclusives from the version they didn't obtain. Even if a player got both versions, how would they xfer them if HOME is 1-way? I'm not hating on the game, but rather on how limited the player is with respect to a core function of the franchise in trading. If you cannot trade, you cannot complete the Dex or use Pokemon that evolve via Trading(Gen 1 has 4 of them in the original 151 that evolve that way… how is anyone going to evolve them?). Trading is a core feature of the Franchise and why Pokémon has lasted as long as it has. If all FRLG happens to be is just a Pokemon game for you to play and beat, then that could have been relegated to their Nintendo Online library that already sports Pokémon Stadium 1 + 2, PMD Red Team and other Pokémon titles. In fact, they could put ALL of their old titles on there if you explicitly tell the user ahead of time that you cannot Trade. Porting the game to the Switch comes with the EXPECTATION that you can Trade with other people, but when you limit it to local as opposed to upgrading it to online like every Switch title before it is why anyone who paid for this should be extremely upset.
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