With little
beyond simple puzzles, quicktime events, and Pokémon fanservice, it would be relatively easy to write off Detective Pikachu — that is, if it weren't for the existence of Detective Pikachu himself.
The plot invokes multiple genre constants — mistaken identity, the ticking clock, a load of suspects — while creating multilayered
puzzle with levels that start as
simple as finding the bomb that imperceptibly dissolve to ones as mystifying as the very nature of reality and the potential for levels
beyond our comprehension.