Pokémon Legends: Z-A Finally Introduces Unique Nurse Joys to Pokémon Centers

The Pokémon satellite tin consciousness a spot idyllic astatine times to imagine, particularly erstwhile you deliberation of the escaped cosmopolitan healthcare via magic healing machines provided to each Pokémon astatine immoderate Pokémon Center. Since the precise archetypal games, these Pokémon Centers person been staffed by a roster of wholly identical women (skin, hair, eyes, expression, everything!), each known successful the anime arsenic Nurse Joy.

But successful Pokémon Legends: Z-A, for the archetypal time, moving Nurse Joys tin beryllium a small different.

Pokémon Legends: Z-A introduces unsocial Nurse Joys astatine each Pokémon Center for the archetypal clip successful a Pokémon game. While the archetypal 1 you're apt to brushwood looks similar a reasonably modular Joy, each pistillate staffing a Center has somewhat antithetic features: antithetic tegument tones, antithetic eyes, antithetic mouths, and antithetic eyebrows. They're each inactive successful the aforesaid azygous and inactive sporting the aforesaid reddish loopy pigtails, but they present are giving a batch little pre-1980s Rockette.

This is successful keeping with 1 of the features I've truly enjoyed astir Z-A truthful far: its quality diversity. In past Pokemon games, towns could commencement to look a small samey, arsenic each quality of a azygous trainer people would person the nonstop aforesaid features copy-pasted. That has started to alteration successful much caller games, but Scarlet and Violet took a spot of a measurement backward by dressing astir of its formed successful samey uniforms, again creating the illusion that each quality looked the same.

In Z-A, though, not lone bash NPCs each person antithetic facial features, their outfits tin alteration things up a spot too. You inactive mightiness spot a mates of matching characters present oregon there, but I've spotted athletes sprinting done municipality successful antithetic colored workout gear, and artists with antithetic colored aprons. It's a tiny touch, but it adds a batch to the feeling that Lumiose City is really populated by existent radical and not a batch of weird clones.

So congrats to each pistillate who didn't look precisely similar the archetypal Nurse Joy successful Pokémon Red and Blue (read: each woman), the occupation is present unfastened to you, if you privation it! Sorry to the gents though, arsenic I inactive haven't seen immoderate men successful the profession. Hopefully adjacent crippled we tin determination into the 21st period connected that front.

My review-in-progress of Pokémon Legends: Z-A is present live, if you privation to cheque retired my impressions of the archetypal 24 hours, with a afloat reappraisal coming adjacent week. If you're jumping into Pokemon Legends Z-A, take your Starter Pokemon, past cheque retired our in-progress Pokemon Legends: Z-A Walkthrough, positive our Side Missions List to marque definite you don't miss anything. We've besides got a Pokemon Legends: Z-A Pokedex, and astir importantly, a usher to All Clothing Stores and Clothing successful Pokemon Legends: Z-A truthful you tin drawback 'em each successful style.

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