(Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

[Coronis]

I saw a post noting that the ZA protagonist does not show a reflection in a mirror. This suggests that the reason the player is unable to enter most buildings is that the player character is a vampire.

I believe every building (outside of shops/restaurants) we are invited to, so this would make a lot of sense.

iirc in an older game there was an NPC who complained about us barging in, maybe that was a programmer complaining about the meaningless interiors.

 

[DaddyBuzzwole]

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In addition to the above I want to point out that XY had an overworld Marill NPC already living free with people out in the open, and I was looking forward to seeing it again in prerelease all the way until the Z-A dex leaked, which managed to doubly disappoint when the scrubbed DLC dex leaked too. To say nothing of the fact that this is also following up Marill's cut from PLA despite being in DP's original Sinnoh dex roster.

damn. what did marill do to make game freak unperson it like this? was it, like, stealing the devs' lunches from the company fridge or something

 

[not a very W D:]

damn. what did marill do to make game freak unperson it like this? was it, like, stealing the devs' lunches from the company fridge or something

maybe that's how it becomes azumarill

 

[Hugin]

damn. what did marill do to make game freak unperson it like this? was it, like, stealing the devs' lunches from the company fridge or something

They hate him for being trans.

 

[Esserise]

For the longest time, the blue flavor profile in Pokémon games used to be called “Dry,” alongside Spicy, Sweet, Bitter, and Sour.

Scarlet & Violet changed it to “Salty,” which I thought was an improvement on the localization’s part.

But then Z-A turned right around and changed it to “Fresh,” which has a totally different meaning compared to both dry and salty.

Just… why? Is it some esoteric donuteering thing? What’s the deal here? Why can’t they just pick a lane for the fifth flavor type?

 

[AztecCroc]

For the longest time, the blue flavor profile in Pokémon games used to be called “Dry,” alongside Spicy, Sweet, Bitter, and Sour.

Scarlet & Violet changed it to “Salty,” which I thought was an improvement on the localization’s part.

But then Z-A turned right around and changed it to “Fresh,” which has a totally different meaning compared to both dry and salty.

Just… why? Is it some esoteric donuteering thing? What’s the deal here? Why can’t they just pick a lane for the fifth flavor type?

The change in SV and ZA weren't localization changes, the fifth flavor just has different names in Japanese too in these games.
The normal fifth flavor, Dry is called Astringent in Japanese (either 渋い or しぶい depending on which game specifically). The Salty flavor in SV is also called Salty in Japanese (しょっぱい). Same goes for ZA's Fresh, it is also called Fresh in Japanese (フレッシュ).

Not localization changes, basically the opposite in fact. Most people would have corrected Fresh back to the normal Dry in ZA given that it is literally the same stat.

 

[WinterArcanine]

I think they just changed it to Fresh because Salty doesn't really make sense as a Donut flavor. Although then again, neither does Spicy...

 

[DaddyBuzzwole]

I think they just changed it to Fresh because Salty doesn't really make sense as a Donut flavor. Although then again, neither does Spicy...

yeah the donut flavors being spicy, sour, and bitter is kind of ridiculous. the full extent of spicy you get in a regular donut is cinnamon, the full extent of sour is lemon, and the full extent of bitter is probably coffee, but all of those have very clear sweet overtones to the point where i wouldn't call them "spicy", "sour" or "bitter" if i were asked to put the flavor of the donuts into a single category. there's savory donuts that can be described that way but those are very clearly not the type of donut ansha is making and honestly i count those as a different ontological category than "donut"

 

[DrPumpkinz]

The game does actually provide more in-depth descriptions of the donuts that give more insight into why they taste the way they do. The sweet donuts are made with supersweet meringue, sour with tart jam, bitter with bittersweet chocolate, and fresh with fresh cream. The only one that doesn't make sense is spicy donuts being made with curry, but putting curry where it doesn't belong is a running theme in Z-A so it's "fine".