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## You'll Teach Me And I'll Teach You: Do Pokemon's Mechanics Actually Work?

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> > > > Pokemon has a brilliant mechanical narrative where you’re encouraged to treat your pokemon as living creatures, and use them to fashion an identity for yourself… or at least that’s how it works in theory. In practice, do Pokemon’s mechanics actually work… and is Ian Bogost right to suggest that maybe chasing after narrative in games is a lost cause?

> > > > Reload the Canons! is an ongoing Storming the Ivory Tower project where I play through The Canon of videogames. Except I’m not playing the original games. Instead, I’m playing only remakes, remixes, and weird fan projects. This is the canon of games as seen through the eyes of fans, and I’m going to treat fan games as what they are: legitimate works of art in their own right that deserve our analysis and respect. You can support Reload the Canons! and my other projects on the Storming the Ivory Tower Patreon.

> > If you enjoy articles where I drag other writers I have very good news about this one

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