Even if you’ve never played a Pokémon game before, you can probably figure out how the type chart works. That still didn’t stop me from making a rookie error in Pokémon Legends: Z-A. But the battle system in Legends: Z-A is very, very different from what I’m used to, at least with Pokémon. It’s the second entry in the Legends spinoff series, which began with 2022’s Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and while the Legends games are still RPGs like the main Pokémon games, they mechanically and structurally diverge a bit from the typical Pokémon formula. Pokémon Legends: Z-A will be released for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 on October 16th.