Bootleg Pokémon game boosts controversy between Sword and Shield fans

Let's go Pokemon Mobile is not an official game for pocket monsters, but you would not know if it holds the attention it's getting recently. Imitations have been a huge topic of conversation for the Pokemon community over the past week, largely because of a wider controversy involving Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield.

To shorten it, Pokemon Sword and Shield do not include all the monsters in the collection more general, and this news has angered fans who have the slogan "You must catch them all". Game Freak explained that this reduced the list of creatures in general because the developer wanted to give the models more faithful animations. It's a good development decision, except that some rabid players have taken this statement as a weak excuse. The result is that every time, new Pokémon sequences are broadcast, the players will highlight supposedly dull animations or highlight what seem to be "recycled" movements.

Although most of these discussions lack nuance and do not take into account the complex realities of game development, it is also a conversation that refuses to die. The latest outbreak of this unfortunate debacle is the appearance of an imitation which, at first glance, seems to have more lush animations than those of Sword and shield.

Sequences showing combat animations from this unofficial game have become viral on Twitter, with confused fans wondering how it is that a game developed by fans can surpass the offers of a real Pokémon game.

"Blastoise has just fired from his guns," commented a speaker on YouTube. On the other hand, in Pokémon games, Blastoise springs from the water of his head, which makes no sense if one considers that its design includes real water cannons. "The animation is well above the qualifications of the big Pokémon games," added the commentator.

The irony of this conversation is that it ignores much of what the Pokemon developers are facing. A game imitated does not have to design new monsters, movements or models. Fans also ignore that the game of imitations does not have the entirety of the Compendium It is therefore theoretically easier to devote more resources to all kinds of monsters. In short, people praise the production of a game that was possible only through the new design philosophy of Game Freak.

But the kicker is this: the whimsical animations that so many people compliment? Well, the bootleg game does not seem to have invented it either, as noted by Twitter user Lewchube.

Pokkén Tournament is a fighting game and this kind of video game requires deep animations that clearly communicate the differences between dozens of moves. Pokkén The list of its developers is also limited, which allows its developers to flesh out his characters in a way that Game Freak would probably never have, at least not with a thousand monsters to consider. The same goes for the clips that claim to show "better" animations of old Pokémon Nintendo 64 games – these also had a much smaller list than modern games. Be that as it may, the bootleg game is not sure proof that Game Freak draws a fast one for the fans.

All the same, the furore around Pokemon Sword and Shield continue a month later. The members of the community are get tired of all the fights in. The Pokémon group is not very well placed at the moment, but if there is a slight drawback, it is that we have more and more discussions about what game development actually involves. Now, if fans could stop harassing @ Pokemon's general social media feeds – these poor social media managers are not even part of Game Freak!