DOWN+B. DOWN+B. DOWN+B.
Oh, sorry, didn’t see you there. I was just playing some Smash Bros. to celebrate Cereal Life‘s leak of an upcoming new Pokémon Cereal from General Mills. My character? Pichu, of course. Who else is there?
But much like everyone’s favorite pre-evolved rat, I might be hurting myself by getting too electrically excited. See, Pokémon Cereal has a very dear reputation, especially to me. With the original Pokémon Cereal released by Kellogg’s in 2000, this General Mills “Berry Bolt” cereal has a lot to live up to. Sure, Kellogg’s version was *just* an oats & marbits cereal, like any ol’ Lucky Charm chaser, but what it lacked in originality—and hey, it still tasted great—it made up for with charm: namely, adorably diverse pastel marshmallows, a holographically embossed box, and bowl pal toys inside.
Will General Mills’ team bring anything so super nostalgically effective to the table? Since as with most of Cereal Life’s leaks, the box art here is far from final, it’s difficult to say—however, as it is a puffed cereal, it’s very unlikely to be anything but corn based (and therefore extremely weak to both Oat and Milk type Pokémon), while its two meager, monochrome marshmallow designs leave me about as giddy as a post-dinner Snorlax.
Maybe they can make up for it with some sort of in-box exclusive—General Mills has been doing Pokémon Card promotions for a while now—but as it stands, you might be better off using a Max Revive on an old eBay box of the original stuff. It may be crusty and inedible, but at least you could pretend it’s a Gengar.
A new cereal without marshmallows? Can it be true?