A spooky new Pokemon Legends Z-A video has been teased, and it looks like a Blair Witch Project-inspired nightmare

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Heads up Pokemon fans, the official Twitter account is teasing a Pokemon Legends Z-A video that looks like absolute nightmare fuel. There's a YouTube premiere of something happening this Thursday at 6am PDT/9am EDT/2pm BST, August 21.

The Pokemon Twitter account warns that "viewer discretion [is] advised," and shares a camcorder emoji and a first-person POV shot of someone at night gripping a chain-link fence with one hand. It also adds a hashtag for Pokemon Legends Z-A.

These clues suggest we'll be getting some sort of found-footage horror short film or trailer for the upcoming Pokemon game. That's a very strange direction for Pokemon of all things to go in, but I'm here for it. A lot of fans have wanted more adult and mature themes from the series for a while, and teaser shows we could finally be getting that.

People in the replies are sharing memes about Ghost-type Pokemon shorts being creepy, and GIFs or pictures of people looking scared and confused at the vague, threatening hints we've been given.

We got to go to a hands-on Pokemon Legends Z-A preview recently. The real-time combat makes the game feel fresh, and the four-player battles are deeply chaotic affairs. Since the game is changing combat up so much, it makes sense that its marketing team is also trying some new things.

We've only seen one new Pokemon design, though – Mega Dragonite. Its odd, Y-shaped design starts to make sense when you consider a fan theory that all Mega Evolutions are based off of the letters X or Y – the Pokemon games that introduced the form change.

While we wait for Thursday, check out the best Pokemon games you can play today.

Issy van der Velde
Issy van der Velde
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I'm Issy, a freelancer who you'll now occasionally see over here covering news on GamesRadar. I've always had a passion for playing games, but I learned how to write about them while doing my Film and TV degrees at the University of Warwick and contributing to the student paper, The Boar. After university I worked at TheGamer before heading up the news section at Dot Esports. Now you'll find me freelancing for Rolling Stone, NME, Inverse, and many more places. I love all things horror, narrative-driven, and indie, and I mainly play on my PS5. I'm currently clearing my backlog and loving Dishonored 2.

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