Pokemon Arceus: 10 Secrets & Easter Eggs You MISSED

Pokemon Legends Arceus (Nintendo Switch) has tons of fun secrets and references to discover. Here are our favorites.

[cal]

In Coronet Highlands there is a group of Magikarp at the bottom of the waterfall in the Fabled Spring area and two Gyarados at the top. The two Gyarados were the only two Magikarp strong enough to make it up the waterfall from the spring below and evolve.

[petalcat]

Also, when you encounter a non-alpha blissey when you have lost health, it will not run or attack and will follow you around to make sure you are ok ^_^

[wheatleylabs]

Fun fact: Ingo was never actually 'just some guy', after Pokemon black and white released in Japan, Ingo took second place in the official human character popularity poll, with 1st place taken by N (of course) and third place taken by Ingo's twin brother, Emmet.

So... I bet a lot of people in Japan were glad to see the frowning subway man again! I wonder if Emmet will end up in the legends arceus sequel or dlc?

[Nanashi]

the reason why the chimney is also a reference to galarian wheezing is because Commander Kammado is from Galar. He even mentions it when you battle him through Ingo's battle options, mentioning he is wearing traditional Galarian armor.

[Malyfous]

Mr. Mime has an idle animation where he sits on an imaginary chair and drinks from an imaginary cup, similar to his appearance in Detective Pikachu.

[candyrocksXD]

With the 1.1.0 update, one of the things that happens after investing the massive mass outbreaks, Cyllene says "I will pass down the name of our team, and tales of its accomplishments, to all my descendants."
Which shows that Cyllene being Cryus's ancestor, she literally passed on the name, and the information on how to get the red chain down through the stories that she's shared from her experience as the survey corps leader. Which at some point Cryus took that information and changed the plans of the galaxy team to what we know in BDSP.

[thehappyaipom]

So fun side fact about Kamodo, you learn post game that his armor, and I guess by relation, Wikstroms armor, are actually Galarian armor. Another nice connection with Komado and the mystery of his regional origins, especially when there are small mentions by villagers through the game that Kamodo and Beni's village were destroyed by raging Pokemon, where people died in result. This game is packed full of lore and I'm here for it.

[quintessences]

I really love how Driflooms creepy Pokédex origins are actually a request in this game. I love that attention to detail

[SirFoxbutt]

There's some dialogue right after you get the Shiny Charm where Kamado (Rowan) says he might start looking into doing research instead and Cyllene (Cyrus) can take over the Galaxy Expedition Team. I thought that was a really sweet nod to Cyrus becoming the leader of Team Galactic and Rowan a pokémon professor.

[fizzyizzy]

When first entering your "home" in Arceus your shoes disappear once you're over the threshold. It's really small and maybe goofy but just that small detail made me fall in love with the game.

[Tazer_Silverscar]

The fact that the Pokémon translators are aware of memes is largely known thanks to Nob Ogasawara (who was lead translator for all the games up until 2008). He's hugely into Internet humour. If you ever see the name 'Douglas Dinsdale' online, that's usually him. The reason why there's usually a trainer named Nob in the games he worked on is apparently down to Nintendo of America staff, who appreciated his extensive work.

[spiritedawaytutu]

The Heartwood plays the Eterna Forest theme from Diamond and Pearl, Volo has Cynthia’s champion team with the exception of Volo having an Arcanine instead of a Milotic, which isn’t in PLA. In addition, him having Giratina is a callback to Cynthia entering the distortion world in Pokémon Platinum.

There are also tons of characters that are intentionally obvious ancestors of others. Some include Cyllene and Cyrus, Volkner and Ginter, Arezu and Mars, Clay and Lian, Colza and Gardenia, Coin and Saturn, Bertha Agatha and Charm, Candice and Clover, Wulfric and Gaeric, Mai and Marley, Peselle and Mira, Rye and Riley, Sabi and Cheryl, Beni and Wally, Sanqua and Karen, and the Clothier and Darach. The fascinating thing about these ancestors is that a ton of their descendants end up living outside of Sinnoh.

In addition, both Kamado and Laventon are from Galar, and there are also pictures in the Pearl settlement that depict Alder and Archie, the boss of team Aqua, implying Archie is from the Pearl clan and Maxie the Diamond clan. It’s a cool callback that implies their families have been on opposite sides for a long time.

The Pokeshi dolls are designed after the Pokedolls from other Pokémon games, and the music in the Arceus fight is a remix of the music that was meant to play in the unused azure flute event in the original gen 4 sinnoh games.

There are tons of Easter eggs in the Pokédex too. My favorite is Raichu’s, which is identical to it’s entry from the Gen 1 dex, except Laventon changed “Indian elephant” to Copperajah.

So much love went into these games, and finding these Easter eggs was almost as fun as playing the main game.

[Demonheadge]

Adding onto spear pillar / temple of shinoh, some npcs mention that after the temple is blown up the pillars point up to the sky like spears.

[MrAlfredkwok]

Also, your outfit will be affected by weather, it will appear to be wet when it is rainy and you will also be covered in snow when you are in the snowy environment. I tried to go near the campfire to see if it will dry my clothes or melt some snow, but sadly it doesn't. There are so many small details in the game that make it attractive.

[Kate-hvgl]

From all the gen 5 stuff in the game I get the feeling they have a Pokemon Legends Kyurem (or something of the like) in the pipeline. Would be exciting to see reshiram and zekrom's true combined form.

[qlqseqp]

You forgot the names of the diamond and pearl leaders
Adaman = adamant orb
Irida = iridescent orb
Adamant orb is for dialga and iridescent orb is for palkia

[retrospect]

I have been enjoying it a bunch. Hope to see the series stay this style for a bit.

[lordchicken]

Kamado tells you in a battle when summoned by Ingo that the armor is Galarian. So the reference to the Elite 4 member is solely that they are both Galarians.

[PenguGunter]

The fact that almost everything lines up one the map is my favorite easter egg! The whole time I played Legends Arceus while spoiler free, the first things I noticed were the names and locations of a lot of land marks. So I think the devs did amazing with this game connecting it to the old games even though it's a prequal.

[kari]

Team Miss Fortune is my favorite. The hairstyles are "evergreen" in the game in many ways. Works with other characters too; you get to see who had a "baddie" ancestor and what modern baddie had a kind hearted ancestor. Finding out who are distant relatives, like gym leader candice and saturn. They are basically saying, that family doesn't define you, but you get to make the decisions in who or what you want to become, which is a good message for all countries stuck in caste system societies. And also to every human being when growing up.