Pokémon Go’s big annual Go Fest event is this weekend – and it includes a surprise Mythical creature tease as part of its storyline, according to a new leak.
Details were spilled online last night by the ever-reliable datamining group PokéMiners – which then prompted a hurried response from developer Niantic, seemingly aiming to quickly set expectations.
Go Fest 2021 is themed around the Mythical creature Meloetta, which will become available in-game for the first time. But the leak suggests Niantic also plans to tease the game’s next Mythical creature as a surprise.
THERE MAY BE SPOILERS AHEAD.
Last night, an initial datamining report from PokéMiners revealed the Mythical Pokémon Hoopa would be referenced in-game on Sunday, the second day of Go Fest.
Sunday will feature all of the game’s existing Legendary creatures returned to raids via some unknown force. The game’s hunky Professor Willow will suspect Hoopa’s mischievous dimensional powers are the cause.
Shortly after the report was published, YouTube partners and community sites with which Niantic works quickly passed on a message designed to manage expectations and clarify that, despite the datamine, Hoopa would not be catchable during the event. (Niantic declined to share more when contacted by Eurogamer today.)