Pokemon Legends: Arceus’ Story Will Be All About Time Travel (Theory)

Pokémon Legends: Arceus will take players to the past like never before in the franchise, and it may utilize time travel to accomplish this.

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Pokémon Legends: Arceus is the franchise’s first deep foray into the world’s past, and its story could be all about time travel. It’s currently known that this game is set in the Hisui region, the former Sinnoh region before it was industrialized and settled like in the present day. In fact, fans just revisited Sinnoh in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl upon their November 2021 release. Now, they can look forward to seeing the region in its former low-technology setting upon Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ January 2022 release.

The Pokémon franchise has toyed with time travel since its second generation. Johto’s mythical Pokémon is Celebi, the green onion creature who can travel freely through time at its own leisure. Then, the fourth generation introduced Dialga, the god who governs the very flow of time. Its powers are seemingly stronger than Celebi’s, as the latter only travels through time and can’t distort it or otherwise control it. Dialga is also coincidentally one of the legendary Pokémon of the Hisui region, because it’s later a god in modern Sinnoh.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ could be all about time travel because of the events of Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl’s climax, because of new key items in Legends, and because Hisui/Sinnoh’s legendary Pokémon make this reality more possible than any other region’s legendaries. Worth noting is that Legends is consistently compared to Breath of the Wild in the Zelda franchise, and both games play with time in interesting ways. Where BOTW is set a century after the outcome of its preceding war, Legends is set in the distant past.

Pokémon BDSP’s Climax Could Have Set Up Legends: Arceus

In Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, players fight the final battle against Team Galactic at Spear Pillar, and BDSP could directly hint at Legends: Arceus here. Atop Mt. Coronet, Cyrus has summoned either Dialga or Palkia, respectively, and here, they begin to warp time and space. Naturally, the player appears to stop the distortion once they’ve defeated Cyrus in battle and captured Dialga or Palkia, but Legends might prove that the distortion never truly stopped.

Modern technology shouldn’t exist in Hisui, yet trailers show that players receive an Arc Phone in the story. In fact, Legends’ Arc Phone is similar to BOTW’s Sheikah Slate in that it will aid players’ journeys in remarkable ways; but in a time when Poké Balls must be hand-crafted because the region isn’t industrialized, an Arc Phone shouldn’t exist. Its name suggest that it could be a gift from Arceus itself, and its design is based on Arceus, too. The Arc Phone could be a gift because the player character is from modern day Sinnoh and Arceus wants to help their journey home.

This is made even more believable by the similar designs of many characters from BDSP and Legends: Arceus. The player characters in Legends, Rei and Akari, are clear relatives of Sinnoh’s Lucas and Dawn, respectively, but they’re not alone. Volo is an ancestor of Sinnoh’s champion, Cynthia, and Cyllene of the Galaxy Expedition Team is an ancestor of Team Galactic’s leader, Cyrus. The difference with Cyllene and Volo is not only that they’re a different gender from their descendants in BDSP but also that their designs are similar but not nearly identical to their counterparts’. Meanwhile, Rei and Akari appear nearly identical to Lucas and Dawn, indicating that they could actually be them.

The Arc Phone Proves That Legendary Pokémon Intervene With History

Among everything known about Pokémon Legends: Arceus is the inclusion of the Arc Phone. The Arc Phone is undoubtedly heaven sent, and if so, it’s proof that legendary and mythical Pokémon have no issue interfering in human history. More and more mythical and legendary monsters have recently been confirmed to appear in Legends, too. Both Shaymin and Darkrai are confirmed to have post-game research quests, though it’s currently unknown at present what their contributions to the lore of the Hisui region will be. Still, it’s safe to assume that they’d have no issue interfering with humans if they could.

Interestingly, Arceus’ flute, known as the Azure Flute in the original Diamond and Pearl games, appears to return in Legends. Like the Arc Phone, this flute, which can be used modern day in Sinnoh to summon the god, could be gifted to players by Arceus itself. It’s a relic that never appears to change form, and perhaps this is because it’s brought to Hisui by the player character when they travel back from Sinnoh if not gifted by Arceus. Or it could simply be a reference to the cut item from Diamond and Pearl, as the Azure Flute event was never actually released outside of the game’s home country of Japan.

Worth noting is that Spear Pillar in BDSP has a clear depiction of the flute on the ground near its entrance. While the flute was never fully utilized or realized in the original Sinnoh games, this inclusion of it in Legends and its clearer mural in BDSP can’t be a simple coincidence. This appears to be the same location where Dialga and Palkia are summoned, and they (more so than other legendaries) have the potential to send someone back in time to aid past conflicts. After all, Dialga and Palkia would’ve already lived through Legends. Then there’s the coincidence that the present day villainous group is Team Galactic and the Legends’ players work for the Galaxy Expedition Team. Their similar names could indicate a connection that’s more than coincidental.

Ultimately, time travel is seemingly more plausible than ever for Pokémon Legends: Arceus with every new trailer. This game’s transcendence of time is the series’ first attempt at not only diversifying the franchise’s gameplay in the main series but also at tackling a new time period in its overall lore. The somewhat more structured gameplay is smart for a time travel case, too, because it would allow players/characters the chance to explore Hisui in a more controlled manner. Of course, this would only be the meta reason, as fans know the semi-open world structure of Pokémon Legends: Arceus was bound to happen eventually. Now, fans can only wait until January 28, 2022, to see if time travel really is behind Legends’ premise.

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