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Nice opening cinematics. It's pretty silly, because every time he tries to speak to humans, it comes out as "Pika Pika". He's not sure why he can understand the humans but they can't understand him. Now we come to our human protagonist, Tim Goodman, who came to Ryme City looking for clues to his dad's disappearance. An Aipom steals his brochure for the Baker Detective Agency, and also a necklace belonging to a young girl...but Tim can understand Detective Pikachu. The Aipom run off, and we give chase. They throw hot dogs with too much ketchup at us...this game's certainly making sure to differentiate itself from the anime, at any rate. A lot of quick time events. The Aipom get away again, but they've left a trail. We ask someone which way they went, but we quickly learn that Tim can't be seen talking too openly to Pikachu or he seems weird. Pikachu gives a signal for when he's got something to say. It's tough to move around. And Pikachu can get testimony from other Pokmon. It's a Diggersby that eventually confirms that the ketchup-tailed one, not the paint-tailed one, is the one that has the necklace. This is a very trying tutorial. Just let me do things! I didn't even choose easy mode. Pikachu says he's a great detective. Finally, we get a title card for Chapter 1, Tahnti Park. Unconscious Aipom with a Tamato Berry in its tail; seems to be the one we were chasing but the necklace is gone. We look for clues, and find a black feather under the Aipom, which has scratches on its face. Maybe it got in a fight with a Murkrow? It also seemed to have been in a tree, so that suggests something that would live in a tree. Our first potential witness is busy looking for a pen he lost. Another witness suggests it might be the Pidove around here, and tells us how to get them to return after we frightened them off. Another witness tells us there are three areas to this park. This is the fountain area, and to the right is the cafe area; to the left is the nature area. This area has Pidove; Taillow are near the cafe; and in the nature area, Starly and Murkrow. Heh, my initial suspect is still alive! We have to visit the cafe area to get food to lure the birds anyway, but Taillow doesn't have any black, so that's out. But Starly and Pidove are both still potential suspects even though I figure it's probably Murkrow. I head off to the nature area first by mistake, but Starly is very helpful, telling us that Murkrow often goes off to collect shiny things for its nest. Also the Aipoms are jerks to Starly too. There's one here that we need to interview, but a rowdy Poochyena wants to play and is scaring it off. Another human witness confirms that Murkrow fights with Aipom. We have to find the other Poochyena so Mightyena can put them down for their afternoon nap. We find it and can interview Aipom, and learn that it got attacked by Murkrow for infringing on its territory while playing with Poochyena. We learn Murkrow's nest is in the thick tree near the pond, and finally get confirmation that it's a Murkrow feather. Pikachu climbs the tree to investigate the nest, and finds evidence in the form of another feather, but Murkrow returns. Time to interrogate the suspect. Murkrow claims to have lost the necklace during the fight. It says Burmy were in the tree, too. We head back to the tree and interrogate the Burmy. They're not helpful...they're afraid. They mention a ball flying around. A scary black-and-white ball. And one of the Burmy got caught up in the fight and is missing. We have to shake other trees to look for it. The first one we try yields a Ferroseed instead. Oh, the soccer ball that Scraggy and the boy are playing with! One of them got hit by it last night and its Cloak broke...ah, those are the leaves we found near Aipom! Also, something small went running off, but it didn't seem like Burmy. Heading to the cafe area, we find Tepig in a bush. It was looking for Berries, and it found a coin. And in a big tree, there was a Wormadam...no, three Wormadam. And the missing Burmy.
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