So I tried to get the Magearna mystery gift for Sun/Moon just now. And, you know how every mystery gift is given to you in the game in the form of a deliveryperson who shows up at the pokemon center?
Firstly, I've always thought that this was a rather unnecessary step, and wondered why they can't just download the pokemon/items that I'm receiving directly into my inventory or PC boxes. So, the current system is a bit tedious, but usually not much of a hassle.
But for the Magearna gift in particular, I was told to go specifically to the Antiques shop in Hau'oli city to pick up my gift.
And when I got to Hau'oli city, I was like... where the fuck is the antiques shop?
So I googled it, and everyone said it was in the upper-right corner of the shopping mall.
So then I was like
Where the fuck is the shopping mall
And all the while, I'm wondering, why did they have to make this so complicated...? Why couldn't I just get the regular mystery gift delivery person that I could find in any pokemon center??
So I finally make it to the antiques shop, and, standing there, is the same deliveryman as normal for Sun/Moon. Like, the same character model and everything. So now I'm really wondering why the hell they had to put the deliveryman only in this one specific location that I needed multiple google searches in order to find.
And then the deliveryman says,
"Oh, sorry... I was told this was an antique, so I almost delivered it to the wrong place."
...
Get it?
Because it's a legendary, ~ancient~ pokemon?
...
That joke alone, almost made the whole thing worth the hassle.
Almost.
Edit: Also, I suppose this technically wasn't a mystery gift at all, since I got it through the QR code scanner rather than the actual mystery gift feature -- which means I didn't even need to connect my 3DS to the internet in order to receive Magearna. I only needed to scan the code off of the Pokemon website.
But like... still... it's a pretty similar idea...
