What are your feelings in the whole Pika close thing? Like that fact that they keep making them, and do any of them really stick out to you?
Urrrrrrrgh. Eh. I don’t know. Like, it used to really annoy me, because I’ve been sick of them essentially reusing the same concept since generation III, but I’ve kinda moved past that now, not because I’ve come to think it’s any less dumb, more because I can’t be bothered getting annoyed about it anymore. Clearly they’re going to keep doing it, so maybe it’s a more productive use of my time trying to figure out why on earth it’s so bloody important to them that every generation have a small cute rodent or lagomorph with electrical powers, and try to look at them in isolation with a view to what is neat about each of them. I liked that they tried to do something different with Emolga, I suppose, by going with a flying squirrel. That was somewhat redemptive. I think they must do it, more than anything else, because they want someone to “carry the torch,” as it were, to say “no matter how much things change, this is still Pokémon.” And this is hardly the only or best way they have of doing that, but clearly it matters to them a great deal.
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