>>33358773Not him, but the best example I can think of is the pokeball itself. That one little object and how it's designed sticks in your head, makes you wonder how it and the rest of the world works, etc. Pokeballs are now iconic
Imagine if Pokemon just joined you by some other means, it wouldn't have been nearly as interesting. The games are full of small design decisions like this that are not essential but make the world interesting.