Pikachu is a perfectly acceptable name for a Pokémon, engulfing the entire nature of its creature, cute, but also powerful. But, these new names of Pokémon, seen in the newest edition, Black and White, are just not living up to standards.
I remember playing Pokémon outside of school, throwing down my Ninetails, a fox-dog like creature with well, nine tails and laughing as my opponent stared wide-eyed at my ingenious move. But, who would want to throw down a card and say, “Ha! I’ve got you now with my Co… Cof… Cofagrigus?”
These new names are now just a jumble of letters, too hard to pronounce or even begin to try to spell. Now, from the earlier generations I do admit, the Pokémon Suicune was probably the hardest name to pronounce. Sea-coon, Swi-coon, Su-ee-soon?
But now, we have Reuniclus, Alomomola, and Zoroark. What happened to good old Jigglypuff, Squirtle, Ditto, Charmander, Snorlax, the list goes on and on. These names were simple names, made of words that we already knew, mixed with the names of the animals or shapes they resembled. An example would be Squirtle. Squirt, since it’s a water Pokémon, and turtle, because it resembles a turtle.
Why have the originators given up? They have stopped putting any extra thought into the names of these poor creatures and now they are just throwing letters together to make somewhat name sounding words. I could do it easily; see, Amoonguss. Oh wait, that is a Pokémon!
How could they deprive future children of the joy of ripping open a new pack of cards and screaming, “Look! I got a Jolteon!” Now, all they get to say is, “Look, I got a, um, I got some Pokémon.” It’s unfair to our next generation to make up horrible names for great new Pokémon.
All the namers need to do is this, change the names of the future Pokémon so they are back to the way they are and then add a sheet of pronunciations for this generation. It’s the least they could do for ruining my favorite game.
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