Indeed it does. Fortunately it's good til like march or something.
For those of you in postgame that QR code made me find that there is a mall in the first island city. I don't remember it being there at all. Judging from the contents it opened up after beating the game. And you are not actually told it exists.
I found that by accident pretty much right after getting the Charizard ride and going back to the first island to hunt for Zygarde Cells. I think I stopped to check if the outfits in shops rotated like in XY, and just ran into the wrong door.
Next thing I know, I've been abusively harangued for
walking in a public place, then dragooned into picking up what is clearly thinly-disguised Poke-poop and
feeding it to a Pokemon like some godawful recreation of 2 Grimers 1 Cup. I actually flinched when I encountered my second,
non-psychotic, janitor in the Game Freak building.
Later I spent half a minute frantically mashing a large bone into a bowl spraying goo everywhere while the camera focused on Mallow's midsection as she kept instructing me to do it faster and harder, and then managed to jump into Olivia's bed and get a message about what the mattress told me about her personality or something. The undertones in this game are getting weird.
So, this is extremely random, but does anyone here nickname their Pokemon with regular people names? Like... George? Richard? Fitzgerald?
Just wondering if I'm the only one.
I do occasionally, though I generally try to avoid it. I prefer to use references or bad puns, but I've been known to name things random gibberish when I can't think of anything, (which is more and more frequent after 7 gens of Pokes) flat-out insulting nicknames for Pokemon who gave me an unreasonably hard time when catching them, (Like the zubat who killed half my party using SOS/Confuse Ray stall...) and stuff like 'Tradebait' or 'Sparekachu' or what-have-you for Pokemon I'm catching to trade to NPCs.