Pokemon Legends: Arceus sends players back in time to ancient Sinnoh, back when humans saw Pokemon more like monsters than pals. Pokeballs are made of wood, people live in villages instead of towns, and there are clans. Pokemon Legends: Arceus, like most Pokemon titles, keeps the story simple and the goal is to complete the Pokedex. However, one of the games' biggest surprises was a familiar face to be in the Hisui region, and he was not an ancestor.
The surprise was Ingo, one of the leaders of the Battle Subway from Unova. It turned out that the player was not the only character to randomly be thrown into the past. However, he was less lucky than the protagonist and his memories of Unova are mostly gone. While Arceus appears to have taken the protagonist to the past for a reason, Ingo's displacement in time is a mystery that goes unsolved. To make matters even more interesting and unsettling, he is not the first character in a Pokemon game to have this happen.
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The Pokemon games have a subtle history of NPCs being subjected to amnesia after traveling through time and space for reasons unknown. Ingo is just the most recent and most noticed of a couple of times this has happened in the games. One such character is Anabel, who originally was a Tower Tycoon of the Battle Tower in Hoenn. Skipping ahead many generations, she is seen again in Alola with amnesia. She was found unconscious on Poni island and joined the International Police. According to the story, she got lost in a wormhole and that is how she teleported and lost her memories.
Another such character is Looker, who has appeared in many games and works with the International Police to
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