Like any other Switch game, Pokémon Legends: Arceus has been subject to a series of updates since launch, updates which are intended to fix bugs and solve issues. However, ver. 1.0.2 has introduced a glitch that can 'softlock' your game if you're not careful.
Please note: the following information could be considered a spoiler, so proceed at your own risk.
The glitch impacts Mission No. 23. If the player catches Cresselia before speaking with Melli, Melli will not acknowledge the capture and Cresselia won’t respawn – and this means that the mission cannot be marked as complete.
Because it's very easy to trigger this softlock without knowing, it has been catching out quite a few players. It's quite easy to enter the Moonview Arena and capture Cresselia without first speaking to Melli; because Cogita provides the quest, many will assume there's no reason to interact with Melli.
As you can see from these posts, this has caught more than a few people out. Hopefully, a fix will be forthcoming.
Thanks to SuperVirtualBoy for bringing this to our attention.
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THE CROISSANT STRIKES AGAIN. DAMN YOU CRESSELIA.
This game has worse bugs than BDSP
I almost ended up doing this, because I reached the arena from above.
I created an account just to state this: I got softlocked myself but there is still hope if you find yourself in this situation!
Went crying to Reddit and gladly found a solution: you can press UP + X + B on the title screen to access a backup save (the save before the "actual" one). In my case I had saved just before flying to the arena so everything is fine
Oh dang, I did this quest this morning. Thankfully I did talk to Melli first.
Oh, no... I'm soft locked...
@PepinoVoador You can access the previous to last save!? How does the game not explain this!!!! 8O
This bug was mentioned moments after 1.0.2 update by TPCI and they said they will fix it next update.
Too late lol, I done it a few days ago.........
@inenai The game doesn't tell you a LOT of things
@inenai cough cough The Sea's Legend
I guess Melli really is great...
such a jerk tho
Thank you so much for posting this! Hopefully, the glitch will be patched out soon, but in the meantime, having this information up on Nintendo Life is sure to save many people from having a bad time.
@Screen I think we both know that's exaggerating just a tad.
@Fizza The game was a resounding success, but the trolls have to go somewhere. 🤷🏽♂️
@Screen Yeah stop exaggerating please.
I probably wouldn't have bothered to catch her as Legendaries generally never did anything for me but thanks for sharing this nevertheless.
The only major bug in BDSP was the snowpoint softlock, wich was hard to do by accident. everything else required extreme dedication to pull off.
@PepinoVoador Thank you very much.
@Screen this is the first time I hear of a PLA bug, as opposed to the sheer amount of BDSP bugs, especially pre launch update. PLA runs just fine from the cartridge, BDSP is literally unplayable, misses content, has a bad translation, misses the intro and opening and has a placeholder soundtrack when played straight from the cartridge pre updates.
@Medic_Alert - Honestly, that’s the main reason I like Pokémon games. If I want to just have a mellow gaming experience, that’s what it’s for.
@darkswabber
The glitches in PLA affect gameplay, that’s the difference, also it runs like crap.
I experienced crashes everytime Giratina tried to do shadow force, was everytime! Thats the only glitch I have witnessed but stillloving the game
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