Even before the release of Pokemon Sword and Shield, players found many references to the culture of Great Britain in the project. One of them has appeared recently, and it is especially interesting. The reference has to do with ugly Pokémon and real UK history.
Most Pokemon games have the ability to resurrect Pokemon from fossils you find somewhere in the region. Even in Pokemon Red and Blue, you can resurrect an Omanite or an Aerodactyl. But in Pokemon Sword and Shield, a bit of British history was added to the revival process - a "paleontologist" named Kara Liss.
As you travel through the Galar region, you may come across four fossils. These skeletons are vaguely labeled "Drake", "Bird", "Fish", and "Dino". When Kara Liss glues them together with her science machine, you end up with one of four prehistoric monsters with something obviously wrong with their structure. Even the Pokedex entries suggest that every moment they are alive is a virtual torment. One cannot eat because his mouth is on the top of his head, another cannot breathe unless he is underwater, and the third can barely breathe at all.
It's clear that Kara Liss simply mixed the fossils together. The ancient Pokémon Drakovish has a fish head and a lizard-like body with thick legs that should theoretically allow it to run at 40 kilometers per hour - except that it can't really breathe air. All Pokedex entries for these chimeras imply, “Wow, what an inefficient body. No wonder these Pokémon are extinct, right?
Kara Liss and her crazy science are a reference to the XNUMXth century paleontological fever that swept across the UK, Europe, and America. Then great strides were made in the discovery of dinosaurs, but fierce competition and a general misunderstanding of the anatomy of creatures led to false conclusions. For example, skulls and bodies turned out to be of different types: a brontosaurus, probably .
In 1822, a physician named Gideon Mantell discovered one of the earliest fossils while visiting a patient in Sussex (some sources claim that Mantell's wife, Mary Ann, found the fossil). It was a dinosaur tooth that would later be named .
After that, other Iguanodon fossils were found, but the body of the beast was erroneously compiled. Early depictions of the dinosaur, whose statues can still be found in London's Crystal Palace Park, show the reptile walking clumsily on four equally sized legs. In reality, the Iguanodon was bipedal with short forelimbs, as it turned out later. The statue depicts the famous spiked finger of the iguanodon - on its muzzle; Mantell and other early paleontologists first thought the claw looked like a rhinoceros horn. Such confusion has occurred in the past. And the developers of Pokemon Sword and Shield, Studio Game Freak, have handed it over to the new Galar region.
Pokemon Sword and Shield are exclusive to the Nintendo Switch.
Source: 3dnews.ru