My boyfriend, who has never played Pokémon, has just watched me eviscerate a grunt trainer with my level 41 Mudsdale. “It’s so … slow.”I consider, for the first time, what the Pokémon games look like to a person who has never played them. If you’ve ever played Pokémon, you know exactly what I’m talking about. We know Pokémon “faint” if they lose a battle, but healthcare being free and medication cheap, death is not something we’ve had to confront yet. But now we know: Pokémon die and they are mourned.

Source: The Guardian January 27, 2020 06:56 UTC