Seeing a smartphone in Pokemon Legends Arceus annoys me. The game is loosely based on feudal Japan so the main character owning a smartphone is very out of place. So is the fact that the characters don't look ethnically Japanese. Maybe there is some later story element I haven't seen yet which explains the smartphone.
We saw something similar in Breath of the Wild but in that game the story's explanation was good enough for the setting.
We saw something similar in Breath of the Wild but in that game the story's explanation was good enough for the setting.