Today, Overwatch announced the PachiMarchi Challenge, the new event that celebrates the game strange half-onion and half-octopus pet Pachimari. Starting today, players who win games in Quick Play, Arcade or Competitive mode can win Pachimari-themed cosmetics, including a Pachimari Roadhog skin, which is, depending on your inclination, very beautiful or extremely unsettling.
Watching the trailer seems to hold you hostage in a dream of primary color fever. It’s totally chaotic like Roadhog and his partner (romantic, platonic, who can say? They’ll never say it). Junkrat takes turns showing his Pachimari Prizes while joking in Japanese. It’s very big “Never give up“Energy.
Pachimari is a fan favorite. Whenever my friends and I played Overwatch together, we had a rule that didn’t say your player’s icon had to be a Pachimari flavor. I even have a Pachimari stuffed animal. He is next to my bed looking at me with black eyes and beads, with his mouth open to devour me or let out a cry of agony * ahem *.
It makes sense that Roadhog has been chosen to be the face of the PachiMArchi Challenge. He has an emotional so-called “secret friend” in which the imposing character from the tank, who never speaks more than five words at a time, surreptitiously pulls out a toy from Pachimari and squeaks it before secreting it again. I’m still not sure which field I’m in between “nice” or “bad-sounding,” but I can say this: I want a real version of this hat.