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Tasks like the brand new stop-motion Netflix collection Pokémon Concierge resonate with folks as a result of lots of us simply need to vibe with the bizarre little guys we retailer in Poké Balls—we don’t simply need to turn into a Pokémon Champion. Scarlet and Violet have some cute concepts, like letting you have got picnics together with your Pokémon, give them baths, and, considerably bizarrely, management them with a headset, however I’m at all times open for extra little issues that allow us simply hang around with our get together.
It’s simple to really feel just like the Pokemon are sanded down till they’re simply numbers, stats, and movesets, so each likelihood we get to hang around with our mates in a special context provides to the connection they sing about within the anime’s theme songs. Yeah, positive we’ll defeat the Elite 4, however I additionally simply need to hang around with my Raichu with out him knocking out some punk ass Zubat.