The marketing for the upcoming open-world Pokemon Legends: Arceus took a dark turn the other day, with the release of a grainy, distorted found footage-style video showing a researcher having a dangerous encounter with an unknown “adorable” Pokemon. Now, the fully restored video has been released, showing that the Pokemon in question was a new Hisui form Zorua, who was being protected by its evolution, Hisuian Zoroark.
Hisuian Zorua and its evolution join two other Hisui variants that had already been announced, a softer, fluffier version of Growlithe, and a Psychic-type variant of Braviary, as well as two Hisui-exclusive evolutions of existing Pokemon. The Hisuan variants of Zorua and Zoroark are dual Normal and Ghost-type Pokemon, perhaps explaining the spooky horror stylings of their introduction video.