Pokémon Sword and Shield, the eighth-generation main series Pokémon games were just announced for Nintendo Switch on February 27^th, 2019. This new pair of Pokémon games will be released world-wide later in fall of 2019. While Nintendo only showed a small taste of what these new games will offer, the internet is buzzing about the three new starter Pokemon that were showed during the first Nintendo Direct regarding the new Nintendo Switch Pokemon games.

As with the previous seven generations of Pokémon games, players begin their adventure in the newly-revealed Galar region by choosing one of three starter Pokémon; a grass type, a fire type, or a water type. The new starters for Pokémon Sword and Shield are the grass type Grookey, the fire type Scorbunny, and the water type Sobble. What do we know about these three new Pokémon so far?

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The popular Pokémon games, and related media including the anime and manga series and trading card game, were created for children. There is no denying that fact. Despite its origins as a children’s game and anime, Pokémon has a much wider appeal. Many of the people who were children when Pokémon was first created over 20 years ago still find themselves drawn to the world of Pokémon. Many of the original Pokémon fans are still hooked on the series, despite aging much more rapidly than the anime’s main character, Ash. Why are so many of the original Pokémon fans still following the series two decades later as grown adults?

Some adult Pokémon fans never left the series and continued to pick up the latest iteration of the games each time a new one was released. Others might have attempted to put aside childish things at some point in their adolescence, only to be inexplicably pulled back into by the series’ after years away. There are even some newer adult Pokémon fans who first started playing as adults.

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