One ofPokemon’s creepiest traditions returns in the latest entry in the franchise,SwordandShield. Ever sincePokemon DiamondandPearlon the DS, each game features a side quest involving a ghost girl.
InSwordandShieldplayers can find a young girl in Hammerlocke standing near the castle above the train station. She’ll task players with delivering a note to a boy in Ballonlea named Frank. When they make it to Frank you quickly realize that he is a grown man, not a boy. He will then explain that he was good friends with the girl as a child but she didn’t tell him about a mysterious and fatal illness she had and they grew apart.
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When the player returns to the spot where the girl was before, her voice can be heard and the item Reaper Cloth will be on the ground. The Reaper Cloth is an item that can be held by a Pokemon. If it is held by a Dusclops when trading with another player it will evolve into a Dusknoir. Something that is, unfortunately, harder to do in these new games as theGlobal Trade Station is removed inPokemon SwordandShield.
InPokemon DiamondandPearlplayers could see the ghost of a young girl haunting the Old Chateau. Other ghost girls could be found inPokemon BlackandWhiteas well as their sequels,Pokemon XandY(which is one of themost popularPokemongenerationsamong fans),Pokemon Omega RubyandAlpha Sapphire, and the demo forPokemon SunandMoon. There have been many theories about whether these ghosts are related and their connection to the main story of their respective games, fueling many game theories over the years. Particularly the ghost girl fromXandY. In those games, when players enter Lumiose City, the music will stop, the screen will flash, and a creepy girl will float by menacingly. She says “No, you’re not the one” and then disappears as quickly as she appeared.
Even now players don’t know why she is there. Even the game’s producer Junichi Masuda has no idea why she is there, although he might just be messing with us. In the end, it looks like these are just weird Easter eggs the team at Game Freak likes to insert into their games, which can sometimes lead tohidden secrets inPokemon.
