Cubone is kidnapped by Team Rocket and taken to the Celadon Game Corner. These tragic elements are important because they are made central to the horror her. It is implied that Cubone knows that she was murdered, but is tragically unsure of what this means for it. Often known as the “scary” part of Pokemon, Let’s Go’s Lavender Town gives Cubone a real presence for the first time ever, as it climbs the steps of the Pokemon Tower searching for its dead mother. Aside from the spooky music and immaterial wraithlike ghosts, Cubone’s tale is given some real love, making it incredibly touching and bittersweet in the most heartfelt way. In Pokemon Let’s Go, the whole sequence of events that takes place in Lavender Town is changed. It is implied that this Marowak was brutally murdered by members of Team Rocket and was unable to ascend to the afterlife due to the fact that it feared for its now-orphaned Cubone. The player, however, can cause the ghosts to materialize if they have the Silph Scope.Īfter obtaining the item from a Team Rocket base, it becomes clear that the unsettling omens plaguing Lavender Town came about due to the fact that a late Marowak couldn’t rest. In particular, the story of Cubone’s mother was changed slightly - slightly, but enough to make a serious difference.įor those who aren’t familiar with the story of Cubone and its lost mother, Generation 1 Pokemon games have always featured a story in which Lavender Town’s Pokemon Tower has been overrun by terrifying ghosts. This is because Let’s Go brought a whole new take on Lavender Town, which ultimately succeeded in taming the horror imbued in the infamous setting. Let’s Go builds on the bridge between Gen 1 and Gen 2 that made this so by directly confronting and actually resolving the horrors of Lavender Town. Ultimately, though, things seem to be a little better at this point in the Pokemon timeline.

It is true that the uncanny atmosphere of Lavender Town persists after the events of Generation 1, as the soundtracks in Gold and Silver - set three years after Gen 1 - attest to with their toned down yet still eerie instrumentation. This year, however, saw the release of Pokemon Let’s Go, the most recent iteration of Pokemon Generation 1. From the Creepypasta tales surrounding the apocryphal Pokemon Green to the anime depiction of ghosts incarnate, the atmosphere of Lavender Town is uncanny, weird, and deeply unsettling. Pokemon’s Lavender Town is notoriously spooky.

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