#detective pikachu spoilers

[feralbillcipher]

The more I think about Charles Merloch, the stranger he gets. His first appearance involves him yanking fur off one of the protagonists. He has eye bags so pathetic and strong that they’re almost endearing. If Detective Pikachu Returns was popular, he’d probably be called a tumblr sexyman and babygirl. He doesn’t have a Bulbapedia page yet. At least one person who’s seen the game has mistaken his mind-control devices for development cubes. The first step of his plan involves a twink’s bird. It’s implied that he plagiarized his evil plan from the real-life Detective Pikachu movie. He leaves recordings of his evil ramblings and the passcode to his masterpiece machine where anyone could find them. He’s the main antagonist of a Pokémon game and yet the closest thing he has to a Pokémon is an alien sleeping in a rock who he fused with to become his fursona. We never find out what he plans to do after this. His fusion machine puts a Daft Punk-esque helmet on his lifeless body. He’s even transgender.

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[pokewatcher20]

Guess who just beat Detective Pikachu 2 🎉

#detective pikachu #detective pikachu returns #UAAAAA you guys don’t UNDERSTAND #i played the game when it first came out… BACK IN 2016!!! #SEVEN YEARS! SEVEN YEARS I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!! #we finally have closure… 😭🥺 #THE REVEAL OF WHAT THE MOVIE CONFIRMED??? #had me SOBBING #oughhh he wasn’t ready to become human again because he wanted to watch Tim grow up 🥺🥺🥺🥺 #*BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU* #hey what if i cried. what then #anyways 8/10 could’ve been angstier but i had a BLAST!! #would not recommend solely because you’d need to have played the first game to really *get* everything #there’s just so much you’d miss without it #i’m gonna be thinking about them forever now #detective pikachu spoilers

[ladala99]

Detective Pikachu Returns - Final Thoughts and Review

I just finished Detective Pikachu Returns. So here's a review! Non-spoiler things up top, then spoilery things under the cut! (assuming the site doesn't cut it early)

Gameplay

First up, don't buy this game if you're expecting to get a game. Unless you're just learning how to read and reason (in which case, get off Tumblr please), this game will give you zero challenge.

Much like the first game, you're poking around locations, finding clues until Pikachu tells you that you have enough information to solve something. Those solve prompts are multiple-choice and if you select the wrong one, you're just told to try again.

Of note, the game does give you somewhat plausible alternate answers in your multiple-choice prompts, so a child might find some challenge in trying to pick the right answer every time.

...Unless you turn on the "highlight correct answers" option in the Options menu. Just in case you wanted to eliminate any semblance of gameplay.

There are also very occasional quick-time events. They mostly involve mashing the A button. I actually failed one of the few that actually involve timing and nothing bad happened, there was just a slightly-altered cutscene.

New in this game, though, is that you can play as some additional Pokemon. They each have a gimmick that changes gameplay a slight amount.

There are also (pretty easy, but patience-testing) stealth sections. These feel unfinished due to the animations being really rough, but the actual gameplay of them is fine.

Worldbuilding

This is where the game excels. Pokemon are all around, doing their thing, and actually feeling like they live in the world unlike the main series games. New Snap does it better, but...

You can talk to the Pokemon here and learn what they're thinking about, building more of an idea of how they live.

There are quite a few minor but recurring characters that, as you interact with them, you feel like you get to know.

Story

Is pretty good. It's incredibly predictable, but it's fun uncovering the whys even after you've figured out the whos.

Can't really say more without getting into spoilers, so I'll come back to this.

Graphics/Animations

One of the appeals of this sub-series is the vastly improved animations over other titles in the series. As before, New Snap does it better, but this game is still fairly solid in the animation department.

However, it does feel like the developers cut some corners they didn't in the first game. There are a lot of reused animations here, sometimes in uncharacteristic ways. Characters use their default expressions entirely too often, hampering the emotional impact of some scenes.

Also in the first game, the lip flaps are synced to English in the English-language edition. Here, they certainly aren't. I'm assuming they're synced to the Japanese dialogue, but I played in English so I can't be sure.

But there are scenes they put a lot more effort into, and those really shine through. Unfortunately, it's not the whole game like the first time.

Graphics-wise, the humans (especially Tim) are far superior to the first game, but the textures on everything are very flat in comparison to other Pokemon games on the Switch. It's certainly not distractingly bad.

Conclusion

If you like the Pokemon world's worldbuilding and treat this game as a very long movie (it took me 15 hours to finish it), then it's worth it.

If you're looking for a video game to play, it's not.

You can also watch videos of other people playing the game, but honestly, seeing clips of other people's gameplay, it feels slower and more boring than when you're actually in control. (You can also speed up the walking speed in the Options menu amongst other things)

But yeah, it's hit or miss.

The Part with Spoilers

(This is back to disjointed thoughts like the others. Just felt like making this one post since I writing it in one day)

The last chapter. Ooh, the last chapter was so fun.

Using all of the Pokemon again was so great, bringing everything together.

I did wish the Pangoro puzzle was a little more difficult, but I'm definitely not the target audience.

I absolutely called... everything in the final sequence. The Mayor being manipulated, the real culprit being that greasy-haired scientist, Deoxys.

I didn't call that the scientist wanted to become a Pokemon, though. That does feel a little unoriginal, but honestly even without the movie, since Harry was Pikachu that could always have been the story.

The ending did feel a bit rushed, though. Like: guess and check literally being what you had to do?

Also this building is very much not OSHA compliant with how difficult it is to get to any of the stairs.

Deoxys vs. Mewtwo was really cool. As was Harrychu Volt Tackling.

And of course Harry was able to figure out how to make sure everyone survived offscreen.

So I guess, now that they're split, there's no more chance for a third game. Which is fine - there doesn't seem to be much else to explore as far as these characters go.

Divorce subplot really went nowhere, though. There was no explanation as to why he had decided to do that.

Post-credits scene - I guess Sophia could be in another sequel if they stretch it? They'd have to really stretch it, though. Because again: no talking Pikachu, no game.

But yeah, overall really enjoyed this sequence and very satisfied with the game. It was a nice break - but onto Octopath next!

#pokemon #detective pikachu #detective pikachu returns #detective pikachu spoilers

[exittotheartscape]

Got my hands on the new Detective Pikachu game! I’m enjoying it so far, took some pictures while playing.

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[professorlaytondestroyedmyfeels]

WELL OK THEN- WHAT THE FUCK?

an irl friend told to watch the detective Pikachu returns cutscenes and record my reaction to a specific scene and uh-

Now I know why

#coal speaks #detective pikachu #detective Pikachu spoilers

[dnallohleoj]

This One-Paragraph Review for Detective Pikachu Returns Contains Spoilers.

Detective Pikachu Returns just FEELS like a game that was originally meant to be one final bonus chapter that they tacked a whole extra game onto the front of. The ending is literally the same way the movie went, except they once again made a more cinematic and climactic finale than Hollywood did.

#Detective Pikachu Spoilers #Detective Pikachu Returns Spoilers #Detective Pikachu #Detective Pikachu Returns

[the-nintendo-dsi]

Dumping the thoughts I typed in an Exile Thread here bc I want to show everyone how normal I was over DPR.

(Spoilers below, but they’ll be separated into chapters)

Chapter 1:

Chapter 2:

Nada. I just changed my Discord PFP to this fucker.

Chapter 3:

Chapter 4:

Chapter 5:

I didn’t have anything to say, really. I was just. Goddamn, dude, that ending really got to me.

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[un-javi]

#shitty meme i made #detective pikachu #detective pikachu spoilers #its not like anyone cares at this point but still

[californianedgeworth]

sorry for the weirdly niche content but i'm watching the RTGames detective pikachu stream and I'm so distracted because why did they make mr. detective pikachu dad look so much like Ichiban Kasuga

they literally have the same English VA (typecasting?) and the same facial hair and kind of the same face shape so I can't pay attention. why did they make Detective Pikachu into Ichiban

#detective pikachu spoilers #if literally anyone cares. about detective pikachu spoilers #i put it the stream in on the background while drawing and i looked up and was like wtf. why is Ichiban Kasuga onscreen #sorry i'm Yakuza pilled #literally same english va and facial hair. and he's doing the expression in that screenshot #anyways. that's my trivial post for the day #my txtstuff

[wallyhastoomanynuzlockes]

I finished the new detective Pikachu. I'm sad there isn't another movie or anything out and there probably won't be another detective pikachu game.

#detective pikachu returns #detective Pikachu returns spoilers #detective Pikachu spoilers #pokemon #detective pikachu #detective pikachu 2 #detective pikachu switch #kinda wish there were more cases too and the game was even longer

[feralbillcipher]

I just watched the Pokémon character with the most T-boy swag turn himself into Deoxys… and I managed to be underwhelmed.

#soulbonds don’t look #spoilers #detective pikachu spoilers #text post #cipher.txt #my posts #pokemon

[chickennugget5226]

Detective Pikachu post again. Spoilers under the cut!

SOPHIA UNDERSTOOD THE WHOLE TIME???? AND PIKACHU AND HARRY ARE SHARING A BODY?? WHAT IS HAPPENING 😭

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[lukeferrous]

So I just found out Ed Sheeran wrote a song for the upcoming Pokemon games? And that’s a whole...thing...but I go to look up the lyrics and I find this:

[Image ID: annotation from genius.com lyrics site. The left half of the screen, showing the lyrics, reads: “(Verse 2)/I see the light shining through the rain/A thousand colours in a brighter shade/Needed to rise from the lowest place”. The last line is highlighted, indicating an annotation. On the right half, the cut-off annotation reads: “...suggesting that the two songs, form a pair, with Bad Habits being the night side and this the day side. this would mean that Mr. Pink (Ed in a pink blazer) is a Pokemon. This...” End ID]

And I hate that this theory has a shockingly coherent canonical precedent.

The “Mr. Pink” referenced is Ed Sheeran in a pink business suit, with weird eyes, and strange powers. In the Detective Pikachu film (spoilers for that ahead), we meet “Ms. Norman”, a businesswoman with an unusual amount of pink in her aesthetic, whose weird eyes and strange powers come from the fact that she’s actually a Ditto.

So...the Sheeran Cinematic Universe could be a thing. Evil Ed Sheeran Ditto could be Pokemon canon. What the fuck.

#watch me crack this case wide open #pokemon #detective pikachu spoilers #i'm sorry ed sheeran fans #the music video was like injecting nostalgia into my veins #but that's just pokemon #they're ridiculously good at making me cry #the song itself was meh as a pokemon theme #it's simply no gesamtkunstwerk

[ladala99]

Detective Pikachu Returns - Major Case 4 Thoughts

As before, this is unfiltered thoughts. Spoilers below and I do not want to know if my predictions are accurate or not!

We arrive at another new location, in search of main girl’s friend. Not sure what she has to do with anything, but we’ll find out!

Full flashback sequence? Awesome! Can’t say I love the muted colors, though.

Yep, Harry is definitely Pikachu. Same mannerisms, same voice, and Pikachu remembers this town well. There may be some deniability as Harry meets Pikachu here, but… Pikachu is very much acting like a Pikachu in the past. Four legs, threatening with electricity.

Hi Keith from the first game! No one who didn’t play that is going to remember you.

Back in the present, Pikachu is remembering things from both Harry’s and Pikachu’s perspective. So evidently the original Pikachu is in there, too.

Tim is figuring out that something’s up with Pikachu. Finally!

Rachel had info on how to project your mind into a Pokémon’s body.

As of writing this, I had to stop mid-cutscene. (Pikachu just offered to tell Tim about what he and Mewtwo spoke about at the end of the R case) But !!! at Pikachu finally remembering everything! It went down exactly how it did in the movie, which isn’t surprising as the first game does indicate Mewtwo is the reason Pikachu is like he is, it just wasn’t clear how much of it was Harry and how much Pikachu.

I thought it was 100% Harry, and Pikachu only taking back over in high-stress situations, such as the end of the first game when he used Thunderbolt.

But I’m probably about to be told: why didn’t Mewtwo return Harry at the end of the first game? (Other than the meta reason that the developers wanted to leave the doors open for a sequel.)

Unitas seems not to have been involved in the R thing and are independently interested in Harry/Pikachu due to the soul-mixing thing. They didn’t seem to be active until recently, either.

Coming back after finishing the chapter, yeah, I was just about to be told why Pikachu didn’t split. And I was correct that Pikachu had remembered everything by the end of the first game. He just re-got amnesia on purpose so Harry didn’t accidentally overpower and snuff out Pikachu.

The excuse used is okay. Makes as much sense as anything.

Sophia could understand Pikachu the whole time! I really don’t care, actually. I thought the mom and sister would actually do something in the story but they’re just there. That divorce subplot has gone nowhere, too.

It feels like we’re heading into the final chapter. Only five chapters when the first game had eight? Each chapter was bigger, though, and hours-wise it’s already longer than my playthrough of the first game earlier this year.

It’s also paced pretty well, not feeling rushed nor dragging on.

#pokemon #detective pikachu #detective pikachu returns #detective pikachu spoilers

[sevens-dumb-stuff]

the new detective pikachu game is wild

#i was laughing so hard when i saw this scene with my sisters #HE WAS JUST EATING MAC AND CHEESE THEN HE BLACK OUT AND REMEMBERS THIS LIKE WHAT #divorce #pokemon #pokémon #detective pikachu #detective pikachu returns #detective pikachu returns spoilers #cw language #strong language #shitpost

[pokemonpowergirl]

Captain Pikachu and Detective Pikachu both love drinking Coffee.

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