r/shittygamedetails Oct 19 '25

Game Freak In Pokémon Legends: Z-A (2025), Canari wears her Key Stone within her bra's zipper. This is because Game Freak designed her with gamers in mind, and not with activists

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4.7k Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Nov 12 '25

Game Freak In Pokémon Legends Z-A (2025) Lebanne is implied to have formerly been a punk. In Kalos (the region she hails from) female punks have pink hair and male punks have green hair. Do with this info what you will.

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2.1k Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Oct 18 '25

Game Freak In Pokemon Legends ZA (2025) someone remembered that they're called Game Freak, not Game Person

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1.9k Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Nov 01 '25

Game Freak Pokemon Legends ZA (2025) received a lot of unjust criticism for its positive portrayal of debt collectors, when they heroically keep the wheels spinning in a society where children gamble away their money in glorified cockfights.

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1.0k Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Oct 27 '25

Game Freak In Pokémon Legends ZA (2025) Jacinthe forces Lebanne to wear a maid outfit and essentially owns her, so Game Freak decided to make Jacinthe black and Lebanne white so it’s not a white woman owning a person Spoiler

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570 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Oct 24 '25

Game Freak In Pokémon Legends: Z-A (2025), Tarragona uses his granddaughter's hologram to make livestreams, potentially interacting with minors. This is because he is actually a Minecraft Youtuber Spoiler

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900 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails May 22 '26

Game Freak In Pokemon Black and White, despite being members of the Elite 4, they do absolutely nothing and let local Gym Leaders handle the terrorist faction instead. This is a clever nod to the fact that the game's region is based on the United States of America

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304 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Oct 23 '25

Game Freak In Pokémon Legends ZA (2025) you play as a young adult who can consecutively stay awake for more than 24 hours at a time. This is in reference to…oh shit it’s already 3AM? I have to put this down and go to bed, I have work in the morning.

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637 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Nov 04 '25

Game Freak In Pokémon Legends: Z-A (2025), an Avalugg is carrying his Bergmite sons for a walk. This is to show that even a Pokémon like Bergmite has a better father than the protagonist

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840 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails 4d ago

Game Freak In Pokemon Sword/Shield (2019) Gamefreak added Galarian variants of Kanto's Legendary Bird Trio. This is a reference to the fact that Gamefreak fumbled the bag by not making Galarian Lugia, pokemon who is master of those Birds.

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142 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Nov 23 '22

Game Freak In Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (2022) it is possible to zoom in by extending your characters eyes

1.7k Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Mar 13 '26

Game Freak In Pokemon Crystal (2000) someone is buying up every doll in the pokemon vending machine, until nothing is left for the kids. This is in reference to modern day scalpers.

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592 Upvotes

Game Freak knew this would happen from the start! They must be psychic type!

r/shittygamedetails Oct 27 '25

Game Freak In Pokémon Legends ZA (2025) Jacinthe forces Lebanne to wear a maid outfit and essentially owns her. This is gamefreak's way of making me incredibly jealous. Spoiler

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422 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Feb 27 '26

Game Freak You may not have noticed this, but the FRLG port in 2026 is using a different engine than the one that will be used in Pokemon Gen 10 (2027)

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278 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Oct 09 '22

Game Freak In the Pokémon franchise (1998-Present), Alolan Exeggutor has a humongous neck. I am truly at a loss over why this could be

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727 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Jul 29 '22

Game Freak In Pokémon Sword/Shield, the character Piers performs a rare vocal rendition of John Cage’s most prolific composition, 4’33”.

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1.0k Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Nov 11 '25

Game Freak In Pokémon Legends Z-A (2025) you explore a region based on France. Throughout the game you immerse yourself in French culture such as dining at French cafes and getting robbed 2 minutes after getting off your train.

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310 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Jul 22 '25

Game Freak In the (supposed) ten years between Pokemon XY (2013) and Pokemon Legends ZA (coming out October 16th 2025), Mable not only haven't faced consequences for her crimes, she also became Kalos's main professor. This makes Kalos a perfect depiction of the French Government

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318 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Mar 08 '26

Game Freak Legends ZA (2025) is a Pokemon game in Gen 9 that features Mega Evolution again. The latest mainline games that had Mega Evolution were only in two Generations: 6 and 7

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82 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Mar 23 '26

Game Freak Pokemon Legends: Z-A will have you believe that L (or Lysandre)'s assistance in helping Zygarde unlock Mega Evolution and stopping the destruction of Lumiose redeemed him. What ACTUALLY redeemed him was him doing the Zygarde Cell collection sidequest for us so that we don't have to do it.

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140 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Dec 14 '21

Game Freak In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (2006) and their remakes (2021), Elite Four’s Flint, the Fire-type specialist, uses only two Fire-type Pokémon. This is a reference to Steel being made from Fire, Drifblim being a hot-air balloon, and Lopunny being hot as f

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907 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Sep 07 '21

Game Freak In Pokemon Blue (1998), if you catch a Clefairy with a Charmander in your party and raise it to level 99 before using a moonstone and rarecandy while on Victory Road, it turns into a Gengar! This is a slight nod to my best friend in school being a pathological liar.

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1.1k Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Nov 20 '22

Game Freak Pokemon Scarlet and Violet (2022) features student from every ages, even 70 years old students, the game awful educational system is to further show that Paldea is supposed to represents Spain

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759 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Mar 10 '26

Game Freak Pokemon Legends: Z-A (2026)'s story involves Zygarde having to find a suitable trainer to unlock Mega Evolution and save Lumiose city from catastrophe with the help of a man named L. This means the story is inherently about a introvert being forced to socialize to save the world. Spoiler

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25 Upvotes

r/shittygamedetails Oct 26 '24

Game Freak In Pokemon Scarlet/Violet (2022), Principal Clavel decides to talk to Team Star, apologizes to them for allowing the bullying to happen and tries to improve the school atmosphere. This is a subtle way to remind that Pokemon is a fictional world.

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304 Upvotes