Pokémon Legends: Arceus players keep posting the goofy antics of wild Pokémon

polygon.com:

Pokémon Legends: Arceusstarts 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. In Arceus, Pokémon have different personalities, so depending on the kind, they might react differently to humans. Starly, for example, are skittish and will fly away when they see a trainer. Buizels are aggressive and will even attack the trainer.

As players see more of the world, many of them are documenting particularly silly or even stressful moments and posting them 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, who literally puts on miming shows for you in the wild.

As soon as I walked up to him, Mr Mime started putting on a show lol pic.twitter.com/esNMJVOKJM

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

I wanted it at first but now I’m just terrified…<a