Players are now sinking their teeth into Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Game Freak’s fresh take on Pokemon’s often rigid formula. While there was a fair bit of trepidation leading up to launch due to the archaic look of the environments, fan and critic response seems to have been largely positive thus far. That owes everything to the enormous amount of deviation from a typical Pokemon game Pokemon Legends: Arceus represents. Players now spend their time scouring an open world for new Pokemon and build up their Pokedex by interacting with those Pokemon in different ways. Miniboss Pokemon are scattered across the map, and they won’t always be possible fights when the player finds them. Even the battle mechanics and menu infrastructure are different from the norm, which is a shocking development for Pokemon.