{"id":19387,"date":"2018-05-04T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/we_nearly_had_a_terrifying_second_pikachu_evolution_with_horns_and_fangs"},"modified":"2018-05-04T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T11:20:00","slug":"we-nearly-had-a-terrifying-second-pikachu-evolution-with-horns-and-fangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/we-nearly-had-a-terrifying-second-pikachu-evolution-with-horns-and-fangs\/","title":{"rendered":"We Nearly Had A Terrifying Second Pikachu Evolution With Horns And Fangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/we_nearly_had_a_terrifying_second_pikachu_evolution_with_horns_and_fangs\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/we_nearly_had_a_terrifying_second_pikachu_evolution_with_horns_and_fangs\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"pikachu.png\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/we_nearly_had_a_terrifying_second_pikachu_evolution_with_horns_and_fangs\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/we_nearly_had_a_terrifying_second_pikachu_evolution_with_horns_and_fangs\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"pikachu.png\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We all love Pikachu; for people of a certain age (this writer included), that adorable little yellow face is a perfect representation of their entire childhood, when nothing else in life mattered except &#8216;catching em&#8217; all&#8217;. As it turns out, things could have been very different for the electric rodent.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Sugimori, Atsuko Nishida, and Koji Nishino, key illustrators and designers of the <strong>Pok\u00e9mon<\/strong> series, recently sat down with Japanese newspaper\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/fukayomi\/ichiran\/20180501-OYT8T50139.html?page_no=1\">Yomiuri<\/a>\u00a0to talk all things Pikachu (translated by\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconera.com\/2018\/05\/03\/pikachu-originally-second-evolution-called-gorochu-large-fangs-two-horns\/\">Siliconera<\/a>). When asked about Pikachu&#8217;s evolution stages, and if there were any other designs created, Nishida spoke of an early idea for a pretty scary sounding final evolution.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p>&#8220;Yes. It was \u201cPika(chu),\u201d \u201cRai(chu),\u201d and \u201cGoro(chu).\u201d The Pok\u00e9mon known as Gorochu bared fangs and even had a pair of horns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The word &#8220;Goro&#8221; comes from the Japanese phrase &#8220;Goro-Goro&#8221;, which is used as an onomatopoeic description of large rumbles such as thunder, suggesting that this final evolution may have been a colossal beast of the electric mouse family.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Gorochu never made it into the games, but it wasn&#8217;t scrapped because of its scary nature, or from fear that it wouldn&#8217;t suit Pikachu&#8217;s loveable ways, as Sugimori explains.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"7\">\n<p>&#8220;There wasn\u2019t any problem with its appearances, but it was omitted due to matters surrounding game balance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Was it\u00a0<em>too\u00a0<\/em>strong? Or did it simply not fit well alongside the rest of the original 151? We&#8217;ll likely never know.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think a final, beast-like evolution for Pikachu could have worked well? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all love Pikachu; for people of a certain age (this writer included), that adorable little yellow face is a perfect representation of their entire childhood, when nothing else in life mattered except &#8216;catching em&#8217; all&#8217;. As it turns out, things could have been very different for the electric rodent. Ken Sugimori, Atsuko Nishida, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}