While playing Detective Pikachu Returns, it dawned on me that this brusque version of the series’ mascot is likely the least agile Pokémon I’d ever seen. In one scene, Pikachu needed to climb on the back of a Growlithe, and after giving a couple of little despondent hops, like a child that can’t reach a cookie jar, he asked the Growlithe to lay down so he could ungracefully climb aboard.
