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Before we get to the evaluation, can we unpack something first? Apparently, Pokemon aren't turned into pure energy and stored in Pokeballs as data. No, they're actually literally shrunk down and captured inside. Despite their ability to be stored in the PC and traded via network connection, apparently the canon truth is that there's literal tiny Pokemon sitting in each ball. And the ball itself... teleports?
To make matters worse, this shrinking is actually an inherent ability of the Pokemon, not something done via technology to reduce the space between their atoms or whatever. At least, according to Pokemon Legends: Arceus. That's right, every Pokemon just possesses the ability to shrink itself when in danger, and we exploit that reflex to put them in Pokeballs.
now I don't know about you, but I find that information wildly upsetting and changes basically everything about how I look at these games. What a nightmare.
Speaking of nightmares, it was generally understood that Voltorb is based on the Pokeball, right? It's like a mimic, and that's its camouflage. But then Hisuian Voltorb predates the Pokeball, they're a recent invention and Voltorbs/Electrodes have lived in Hisui for ages already. Which suggests that the Pokeball is actually based on the Voltorb, not the other way around.
This is too much for me, I can't even do a rating right now
Overall: mind blown/10
Pokémon lore is just consistently the dumbest thing ever. They'll have something that either kinda makes sense or that we just don't question, and then some throwaway line or Pokédex entry will just throw everything on its head.
ReplyDeleteHonestly I aassume there's just no internal direction whatsoever. Everyone making Pokémon media of any kind at any level of hierarchy is probably just allowed to make up whatever.
On the contrary, Pokemon having an inherent shrinking ability is actually consistent with lore they created all the way back in 1996 in one of their first pokedex books. The setting and method of discovery is retconned by now (it was a European scientist and the real world hasn't been canon to Pokemon since 1999) but the scientist did discover a way to induce the shrinking and put them in Pokeballs. Pokemon lore has been pretty consistent actually, I think people's complaints are simply that they don't like that it's different from expected which I understand ahah
DeleteWell I like to think that the shrinking Pokémon thing is just "people in old times had stupid theories lol". Makes sense with Legends Arceus being set in the past.
ReplyDeleteHaha I love that actually.
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