• theneverfox@pawb.social
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    10 months ago

    People keep saying that Nintendo is going to sue them or something, but remember digimon?

    Pokemon isn’t even an original idea - they just took one aspect of the jrpg and took it further. There’s been countless games that played with the same concept - they’re very litigious, but they don’t have any standing against a game that doesn’t use their IP - and the concept is not their IP, the Pokemon are

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      10 months ago

      Shin Megami Tensei did it first anyway. And Pokemon straight up stole monster designs from Dragon Quest.