In 2024, we were treated to a year without a single main game (or DLC) being released. Which hadn’t happened since 2015, the year before the release of the seventh generation with the games Pokémon Sun and Moon. But then, is there really anything to remember before the transition to 2025? This is what we will see together through this article.
The Evil Peach Berry from the epilogue of Pokémon Scarlet and Purple
Let’s start by looking back at the Scarlet and Violet versions which were entitled to a completely free epilogue in January. This concludes your trip to Septentria and the Myrtille Institute by allowing you to meet a fabulous new person named Pechaminus. To access it, you had to trigger an in-game event by having a special item to collect through the Mystery Gift, as was the case on old Nintendo DS, GBA or Game Boy Color games. Certainly, it wasn’t very long, however, wouldn’t Game Freak want to postpone events of this type on their games, sometimes to keep people waiting while waiting for the following opuses? This is a question that we can ask ourselves, even if we have seen since the eighth generation that we have moved to a game + expansion pass format.
Apart from that, there have still been Teracrystal raid events as well as massive appearances throughout the year, which, from time to time, are quite interesting (the one with Rayquaza shiny which takes place this moment for example) and which make it possible to maintain a certain activity around these games while waiting for Pokémon Legends ZA.
TCG Pokémon Pocket, the only new game of 2024
2024 was especially marked by the arrival of the only game released this year: TCG Pokémon Pocket. A mobile title that doesn’t look much at first glance, but which has been a great success since its launch on October 30 (more than 60 million downloads and more than $208 in revenue generated). It is a free to play on mobile, resulting from the collaboration between Creatures Inc et DeNA Co., Ltdfocusing above all on the collection with exclusive cards among which there are immersive ones allowing you to immerse yourself in the illustrations in order to discover a “story” while offering a variant of the TCG with simplified rules. Thus, it can also be seen as an alternative to JCC Pokémon Live (replacing Pokémon Trading Card Game Online) released last year, even if the format is different.
Pokémon Legends ZA, the next main opus finally revealed
In taking stock of 2024, it was not possible for us not to talk about the reveal of the next main game of the license which took place during the Pokémon Presents from February 27. If some were waiting for the remake of the fifth generation or even a second title stamped Let’s Go based on the region of Managementsomething completely different was revealed to us. Indeed, the next main opus will join the one centered on Arceus since it is about Pokémon Legends ZA. A title that we have not heard from since its announcement, so the only details that we can say about it are that it is about an urban redevelopment plan for the city ofTo them and that Mega Evolutions will be back. For the more curious, we have also compiled a list of all the creatures that we see in this trailer which you can find here.
Pokémon Worlds 2024 in Hawaii
Among the annual events that mark the spirits, we find the Pokémon World Championships which took place in Honolulu from August 11-13. During this event, the best trainers from around the world come together to fight fierce battles on Pokémon GO, Pokémon Unite the card game or even in VGC on Pokémon Scarlet and Purple. If you ever want more details on the results of the 2024 Pokémon Worlds, you can consult this article which is dedicated to this subject or the one below which concerns the announcements.
Pokémon GO draws the power of Dynamax
Like every year, Pokémon GO is entitled to its share of new features. In 2024, there are two that were important. The first is the addition of adventure effects with Pokémon like Dialga (forme origine), Palkia (forme origine), Necrozma (Mane of Dawn) et Necrosma (Ailes de l’Aurore) which allow you to have bonuses for a certain duration by activating them from the summary of your creatures. As for the second, it is the addition of the mechanics of Dynamax which arrived with a new fighting style dedicated to giant creatures.
The Pokémon results of 2024
The year 2024 for the Pokémon franchise may have been the year needed for the main games to be released in a better state technically, perhaps allowing more time between each release. In addition, the release of the Pokémon Pocket TCG showed once again that fans are responding to secondary games. Finally, aren’t service games on mobile or consoles the solution for The Pokémon Company to allow Game Freak to refine their games while still having content on the license to offer? It’s difficult to answer, given that it’s above all a machine that doesn’t just revolve around video games. There are also cards, goodies and the cartoon.
