>>44512988It's real; there are files like Lillie (33) and so on, each Lillie in a scene isn't just Lillie popping in as a prop by a command line, it's a Lillie that was there the entire time. Why is it like that? No one knows; realistically - bad game design.
Fan theories have spooky answers; but realistically it's just bad game design. Pokémon wasn't MEANT to be on a 3D engine.