Pokémon Legends: Arceus players are recording wild Pokémon’s antics

Pokémon Legends: Arceus starts with a life-or-death test: You must survive an expedition and go and catch a wild Pokémon, like Bidoof. Arceus takes place in a world where Pokémon don’t commonly live with humans yet. By and large, the human characters in its world are scared of Pokémon and don’t even know what some look like. As the protagonist, it’s up to you to bridge that gap and build understanding by catching Pokémon. Arceus players have had the treat of discovering and documenting how different Pokémon’s personalities manifest out in the world.

Legends: Arceus is an open-world adventure where you explore different natural environments like snowy mountains, grassy plains, and so on, each of which is populated with Pokémon that you can catch and battle. You can also find In Arceus, Pokémon have different personalities, so depending on the kind, they might react differently to humans. Starly, for instance are very skittish. They will fly off if they come across a trainer. Buizels can be aggressive and even threaten trainers.

Many players are creating videos of particularly funny or stressful situations and sharing them with their friends on social media. While some are horrifying to see, like clips of trainers making eye contact with the glowing red eyes of a giant alpha Pokémon, many of these clips highlight the silly behaviors from beloved Pokémon like Mr. Mime performs miming acts for wild Pokemon.

Here, a shiny Ursaring just glitches out and spins in a circle — which almost makes the big bear even scarier.

Players have also joked about Pokémon making quick getaways. After being noticed by a trainer, Teddiursa runs to the cliff.

Another way to catch Pokémon is by knocking them out of the trees. Most bugs, like Burmy, fall out. But in this instance, an entire Machop was trying to climb the tree.

Players also deal with Alpha Pokémon, which are even more giant and powerful versions of each Pokémon. An Alpha Rapidash slays a Shinx, then uses its terrifying red eyes to attack the trainer.

Rapidash was bad enough, but Snorlax is equally terrifying. Alpha Snorlax is huge enough to be seen in its natural form. This tweet shows that the giant monster is still able to move as fast as an arrow.

Although Pokémon usually just hide in tall grasses in older games, Arceus shows them walking around, allowing the different personalities of each Pokémon to shine through in new ways. Now you can watch them react on the spot, and it’s opened up a world of possible interactions — leaving space for plenty of goofs.