In the upcoming Switch release New Pokémon Snap, it seems there's a fruit that looks just like an apple (and might even taste like one) but isn't actually an apple.
Nope - according to a tweet by Nintendo of America's Twitter account, this apple-like fruit pictured above and below is actually known as a "fluffruit" and is located in the Lental region. As noted, it can be used to catch the attention of pocket monsters in the wild, and then you can take some stunning snaps while they eat it.
Like the tweet above, there are a lot of other responses mentioning how this is clearly an apple. Others called it out for not even being fluffy and some have mentioned how odd this is when the Galar region had no issues identifying apples. One response speculated how this might be to avoid confusion with the Dragon-type Pokémon Applin.
For all we know, apples might still exist in this region - even if fluffruit looks exactly the same. In the original Pokémon Snap on the Nintendo 64, you could use "apple-shaped food" to lure Pokémon. What do you think? Is this actually an apple in disguise? Share your thoughts down below.
[source twitter.com]
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Its proabably just named that in the pokemon world but now that I think about it they call berry's berry's HMM.
Tastes like ambrosia though right? Explains the powers.
Next game the bicycles will be duocycles.
Mom will be female progenitor.
Tall grass will be Pokeweed.
And caves will be Earth Holes.
They just added apples to the game two years ago to evolve Applin.
So there will be another fruits that looks like in real life.
Let's say Orange, Grape, Papaya, Guava, etc.
Named them with Berry names.
I'm still going to refer to it as an apple when I'm playing with friends. No way am I saying "fluffruit" out loud to describe what's clearly an apple.
Now that I think about it, it's kinda odd how Sword and Shield made apples, like, a thing... The games have been using their fantasy berries as a general replacement for fruits for years!
Fluffruit is more fitting as a Pokemon name. Possible evolution names: Veggifuzz, Yetiyield, Sasquash
I dunno what the point is. I think even the recent Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game still had just plain ol' apples.
Apples are the odd one out in Pokémon games, apparently. All other fruit are turned into "Something Berry", but Sweet and Tart Apples are a thing, at least in Galar. And now, they're not in Lental anymore. Weirder and weirder...
I wonder what they taste like.
So since both components of "fluff-fruit" can't actually be pronounced as a single word (try it), is this supposed to be pronounced "flu-fruit" or "fluff-root?" Because either way, you're even more wrong.
Seriously, Bandai (wait, Bandai is developing this? ...Huh.), I mean this with all the love in the world, but did you even give this abomination of a name enough thought to try to say it out loud even a single time, or did it actually go straight from a stoned-out-of-his-gourd intern's mind directly into your press kit with no sober review at all?
@mr-duster Tastes like chicken.
It might have a fluffy texture on the inside.....like some apples do.
Not to want to discredit that one comment, but...come on.. no, they can't have been doing it to avoid confusion with Applin.
I mean... you can't go "Let's call this pokémon based on the name of this fruit" and then "Oh wait, this fruit name sounds like the one of our pokémon, let's change it!".
I really hope that won't turn out to be the real explanation cause it would be too hilariously dumb XD
Releasing an Apple would cost an extra 30%. Ask Epic.
I prefer called it PPAP rather than Apple. 🤣
Fluffruit, the most questionably named imaginary piece of food ever invented.
Cheeky Asians...
You can't name an apple "Apple"
Everybody knows Apples are canonically used as food resource in Mystery Dungeon games. Can't have the players mixing two different items.
When world building goes too far!
For a split second I thought "Fluffruit" was going to be a new Pokemon introduced in Snap
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