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Pokémon Go World of Wonders reveal has fans dread yet more Kanto content

Dread it, run from it, Kanto arrives all the same

Marco Wutz

Pokémon Go World of Wonders reveal has fans dread yet more Kanto content
Pokémon Go World of Wonders reveal has fans dread yet more Kanto content /

The Timeless Travels Season in Pokémon Go has almost run its course and Niantic has put out a teaser for what’s to come in the next three months – the World of Wonders Season. It revealed the title in a very short teaser video on social media, which showed several Gen 1 Pokémon and one of those space-time anomalies preceding the arrival of an Ultra Beast.

While fans are looking forward to catching more of these alien Pokémon and completing their Ultra Beast collection, the hint at another Kanto-focused period has players already dreading the new season. Gen 1’s home may be a sacred, hallowed area for older pocket monster fans, but it’s been in Pokémon Go’s spotlight repeatedly in the past few months – people are simply burned out. There is a real sense of fatigue when it comes to Kanto and its native Pokémon in the mobile game.

“Please god no Kanto again,” the first comment under the teaser video said. “They Kanto getting away with this,” another user joked on a different site, echoing the anti-Kanto mood.

Stakataka, Blacephalon, and Necrozma have been teased by the developers previously and are still missing from the Ultra Beast roster available in the game, so they are high up on players’ wishlists. Pidgey and Rattata? Not so much. Many players would much rather get some of the missing creatures from Kalos or Galar.

Now, it’s still unclear if the teaser showing lots of Kanto Pokémon is actually indicating a season focused on the region or if Niantic is simply trying to appeal to a broader audience with monsters that are more easily recognizable, but the fans have made their feelings clear.

We’ll likely get more details on the World of Wonders Season in the coming days or during the Pokémon Presents broadcast today.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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