Today in outraged Nintendo fans.
Nintendo today introduced what seems to be the rival in Pokemon Let’s GO Pikachu and Eevee. Obviously, since this is based on the original games, your rival comes from Pallet Town.
However, what seemed like a straight forward and fairly innocent tweet has outraged a bunch of Pokemon fans, all because Nintendo referred to him as a “Friendly Rival”. It’s unclear at this point if people are taking issue with the fact that he doesn’t look friendly, or because your rival shouldn’t be friendly, but all of the responses are fairly hilarious all the same.
Here’s a very small sampling of literally 1000s of responses about this important issue.
https://twitter.com/OttoTurk_/status/1019706496991588353
Just make two rivals where one is friendly and the other is a jerk. Is that so hard GameFreak?
— AK_Nemesis (Call me Nem) (@AK_Neme) July 18, 2018
"Friendly"
— Jason Andrew Cantu (@bombadus) July 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/SethRaider/status/1019707021967446017
https://twitter.com/BlazikenBlast/status/1019708199572819968
give us dicks like blue and silver
or at least give the friendly rivals more development like cheren— Jacob (is gone) (@Le_Jacob_Z) July 18, 2018