Summary
APokemon GOplayer who had a seemingly normal encounter with the nefarious Team GO Rocket leader Giovanni ended up getting spooked by a weird bug. ThePokemon GOglitch turns Giovanni’s threatening messages into something a bit more fearsome, and perhaps a bit funny.
For manyPokemon GOfans, fighting Team GO Rocket’s Giovanni is just a part of common gameplay.Pokemon GOplayers don’t have to fight Team GO Rocket, but doing so can offer a lot of bonuses and benefits, including rareShadow Pokemon. However, most fans ofPokemon GOaren’t greeted by something like this when they win.
Reddit user FlanofMystery shared their weird gameplay moment with fellow fans. FlanofMystery had just wrapped up the Shadow Lugia Raid, and was receiving the last message fromTeam GO Rocket’s Giovanni, who they had just bested. However, something went wrong and the game froze, apparently impacting how Giovanni’s model loaded. As a result, Giovanni’s body looks fairly normal, but his head and neck have gone completely wrong, with his head appearing behind his body, his neck missing, his eyes bulging out, and his teeth fully visible. It seems as though parts of his body either didn’t load, or that the viewable layers are out of order, causing some things to appear behind when they should be in front.
Pokemon GO Players React to Weird Giovanni Glitch
This moment has struck some fellow fans as weird, yet amusing. One compared Giovanni’s appearance to the aliens inJohn Carpenter’s filmThey Live. Another joked about his bugging eyes and visible teeth, saying that he was surprised that the player had beaten him, while another said the player made him mad. It’s not clear if the player was able to successfully claim their win and reward after the game crashed, but this is definitely an abnormal scene for a game that typically sees its worst jumpscares come in the form of an occasional photobombing.
Unfortunately, while the game is lacking in jumpscares, it’s not lacking in bugs.Pokemon GOplayers have faced everything from their player avatars becoming giants to being seeminglybullied by Team GO Rocket. Some of these bugs have had more significant impacts on gameplay, like making it nearly impossible to achieve good or better throws when catching Pokemon due to hitbox issues. Thankfully, Niantic is usually pretty quick about fixing the most egregious of issues in its mobile game, but it’s nonetheless frustrating for players to go through.
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