>>51092593>"j-jokes"Anon, if every game they add a "joke" like that to and the joke gets lost on the target audience (who will literally imagine a human having a pokémon girlfriend), it's not so much a joke as it is them naturalising and normalising poképhilia, because I guarantee you there's some 12 year old, not exactly discovered shitholes like this online yet, who thinks yon bloke was fucking his Poliwhirl.
But that's the issue, you forgot it's aimed at children and children don't ten to think too critically about things until they turn older than 7-9, especially in games that help raise them (Pikachu is trustworthy to children, due to its portrayal as a hero archetype).
But if you need to cope with the fact the devs were raised by a furry and then went on to implment thier furry fantasies into a property that ended up being the biggest brand on the planet, go right ahead. that they keep adding hints, allegations, references and even side missions surrounding the topic proves it's more than humour they're going for here.
