Pokémon Diamond / Pearl: Rettan’s follow-up animation is far too funny to withhold from you

Did you smile about anything today? If not, we have a hot candidate for you here. Fans are just laughing at a discovery Pokémon Shining Diamond & Shining Pearlthat turns the Pokémon Rettan into a rolling pile of snakes.

Snake animation? No thank you!

Sometimes you have to cut corners in games. Be it due to time constraints or technical restrictions, for example due to the hardware of the Nintendo Switch. Either way, there are probably good reasons why the developers of Pokémon Diamond / Pearl decided against realistic movement animation for their Pokémon when they follow the player.

But in the case of Rettan it takes on absurd traits, as a Reddit user shows in a video clip. The Snake Pokémon isn’t snaking after you like you’d expect. No, it remains in its curled up position and drives motionless through the landscape as if on rollers. But see for yourself.

Link to Reddit content

In any case, many fans take it with humor. M-Vid, for example, only comments with a dry “Nice vacuum cleaner robot, man.” Others are also a bit disappointed, because the animation problem is not only a problem for Rettan. SquigglyLegend33 writes on Reddit: “I was so excited that my Milotic is following me and then it just looks like it’s floating around paralyzed.”

Despite such little quirks like that constant bumping into corners Incidentally, Pokémon Diamond / Pearl for the Switch turned out to be a loving remake of a fantastic generation in our test. And if you want to take your Pokémon for a walk despite the confusing animations, we’ll tell you in our guide, how it works.

What do you think about the slightly inappropriate follow-up animations? Good for a laugh or rather disappointing? Let us know in the comments.