Hey all! In the spirit of not misinforming people if there are any corrections/updates to this story I'll update it here! Edit: so based off what a lot of you are saying this game has been around in some form or another for 7 years not 2! Thanks for letting me know! Also for the love of God, DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS GAME Even if you don't plan on spending money, it can steal data from your phone. If you've ever logged into an account on your phone it puts your passwords at risk, if you've ever made a purchase on your phone it puts your financials at risk. A pretty animation you can look up on YT ain't worth getting your passwords stolen
I think I found the game under a new name, and now they seem to be abusing a fatal flaw of the play store's features, now it is listed as early access, what this means is that nobody can post reviews, therefore, you can't look through the reviews to find anyone telling you the huge scam it is.
Passion projects typically don't have microtransactions though. Profiting off of someone else's IP is a different beast from giving people a free fan game/romhack.
There are actually ads all over youtube of games using OFFICIAL POKEMON FOOTAGE. This seems crazy to me, seeing as Nintendo is normally so protective of their copyrights. I wonder how these people and RUclips itself are getting away with this...
RUclips has a clause in their ToS where they aren't responsible. It's why whenever anyone pretends to be a company and issues a takedown they just do it without checking if the takedown is from a legitimate source, so they can't be held responsible. With the sheer number of videos they can't catch 'em all.
Hell I got an ad for this scam game when I clicked on this video! It changes it’s name all the time. For a while it was pet impact, then pet compact, now god knows what
many small ad budgets from shell companys nintendo would have to call alphebit uncomplient in intent to remove them and sue them for anything to happen
Pokemon should be putting this much effort into there games instead of just the stock animation plug an play garbage. I'm upset pokemon doesn't do any of this.
I dont mind most of the stock plug and play animations for special moves - it *usually* works out (exceptions apply, depends on the mons deafult animatiosn for these), phsyical moves - especailly ones that make contact? 1000% need to be done mroe individually. Signature moves are *usually* fine too, though some are largely dissapointing in 3d imo. Its just so akward to see a pokemon stand idly without soul before attacking with a physical attack by just... hopping in place a bit...
Between this, your iceberg, and your pokemon cost videos, you might have some of my favorite Pokemon deep dives. This was extremely well-researched and I’m glad you’re doing your part to protect people who might’ve been tempered to try the game.
This is not a "fan made" game. It's a game by a scummy company that illegally uses the Pokémon IP. I refuse to lump this game with the community driven content made by fans for free.
@@gilldominicmendoza5202 I agree, this particular game is very scummy and even dangerous. I was referring to the fan made animations that the game was using. My bad if you thought I was supporting this game.
Probably helps they don't have a bigger cooperation above them giving them super strict deadlines with the absolute minimum to make a game. Btw I'm not talkin Nintendo. Pokemon Company is one of the probably worst companies in the world.
It's because while these animations look good, they are also simpler... they are also made over YEARS and put individually and then just gathered together.... Not to mention that with the exception of their base animations from previous gens, they have to be lore accurate. Honestly, it instead just shows that Gamefreak should probably use 2d and 3d in their battles...
its disgraceful to know that there are devs out there making scam apps like this... im glad i saw this when i did because i had the thought of downloading this game, good thing i didnt...
And there are some posts on IG that are comparing the z-move animation in sun and moon (or ultra sun and ultra moon) and this games animation attack saying that the bottom game did better and the fact that many comments are roasting or bashing Nintendo shows how complete idiots they are
The animations are really cool but I think its safe to assume they somehow stole them or grievously underpaid whoever made it for them. This is one of the few times I am glad that Nintendo is suing someone. May the Nintendo Ninjas show them no mercy.
I remember playing one of those knockoffs games, there was that one guy who i felt so bad in the world chat losing over thousands of real dollars because he was trying to get a nonexistent mega version of mewtwo because the way to get it is by becoming number 1, By number one i mean becoming the number 1 spender of the week. He was on 1st but someone snagged the 1st place cuz someone spent more money at the last minute.
I plan on doing more deep dives, to this day my favorite video is one of my first which is where I tally up how much each pokemon is worth in USD. There'll still be romhacks but expect one of these every once in a while :)
@@moopsten With that thumbnail you marked youself fisrt poketube for me to ask this from. Which one you'd rather have? Team of "feminine" pokemon (such as Gardevoir, Lopunny, Gothitelle, Primarina ect) but they're all MALE? or Team of "masculine" pokemon (Machamp, Slaking, Alakazam, Incineroar ect) but they're all FEMALE?
I just searched this game on Google Play and the only thing I'm getting is "Pocket Arena", but looking through the comments it seems like it was originally called "Megamon", and the comments also confirm that the game is the same as Elf Fantasy. So yeah, they did it again
I was also enamoured by the Gardevoir animation when i saw it, i tried to find it and play it a bit even but it led nowhere for me. I'm rlly thankful that you made a video on this bcs i was still rlly curious abt this game! Edit: Jeez and i thinking it wouldn't do any harm to play it for a bit… At least i got informed about this!!
Pokémon cafe (an official Pokémon game) got some surprising facts too: -it’s a Gacha game -you can spend real money to get more in game currency -there’s a summer Vaporeon outfit and a maid gardevoir outfit. (I know a maid outfit isn’t necessarily sexual but it’s heavily sexualized on the internet and in for example anime series, something from Japan (just like the Nintendo company) and Gardevoir is also heavily sexualized by the internet and there’s simply no way Nintendo doesn’t know this.)
That whole thing about constantly taking the game down and re-uploading it under a new developer is something that they do for several other games like DragonBall Afk, or several one piece games
14:10 It's so obvious Moop has NEVER played a gacha game before, because usually in gacha games the first roll is always guaranteed to be the same character on EVERY ACCOUNT! This is the case for Honkai Star Rail with Asta, Genshin Impact with Noelle(if you decide to roll on the beginner banner that is), Solo Leveling ARISE with Song Chiyul, Wuthering Waves with Chixia, and etc etc. So this is not at all proof of them rigging the rates of the game, this is just a common gacha mechanic. And the whole cryogenal thing is just bad luck.
Fate Grand Order does not give a fixed 5-star to every character with the first roll, it does guarantee a 5-star on your first roll, but which one you get is picked at random from the pool of whatever is available in the banner you pick. My boyfriend got Artoria Pendragon and I got Summer Tamamo-no-mae. So while it is possible that in the case of this game, the first S tier is always Cryogonal, when it comes to anonymous chinese publishers that go out of their way to conceal their identities and involvement with the game, it sure as hell wouldn't surprise me if they did rig the Gacha rates. Hell, a massive Korean company, NEXON, got busted rigging the gacha rates in Maple Story to the point where the odds of getting the best reward from the cubes they sold in that game were literally 0.
I remember playing a game fairly similar to this years ago. I got bored eventually and i left. Game disappeared, never showed up again, and now there are several other games like it. Its fairly impressive im ngl.
As a teacher in a SEN school, I'm making a real push for more education on gacha games and their risks for staff and students alike. I can think of so many students who absolutely love Pokémon (as do I!) who would fall prey to this sort of thing so easily... I'm a Genshin player myself so it's not like I don't understand, but education on the risks should be as necessary as education on any other type of gambling IMO!
13:00 This story hit me hard, and probably has traumatized me from ever spending money on games again. When I was like 5 or 6 I played this game that I think was called Shark Dash. I found out that if I clicked on the plus symbol next to the gold, and then click on another button, I would get more gold. Later on I would find out that that actually close real money and I probably ended up spending around a thousand dollars. It’s absolutely scummy how in game purchases didn’t need any verification back then and children could just spend thousands without knowing. Anyway that’s the story of how I’ll never spend any money on games ever again
Something like this happened to me: I started playing a free-to-play Pokémon game without knowing that it was fake. The game itself got me hooked at the time. It’s impressive how far the criminals go in order to fool people.
Really nice video! Wanna add a small extra detail on the gem prices section starting at 12:20, from the perspective of a former gacha player (not of the super known ones you mentioned, though still decently "reputable" ones - plus most follow a similar pattern): Those packs do seem disproportionate at first, but it's while at the initial purchase stage. That "firstX2" is pretty roughly translated but it's usual that the games offer you as a starting player double the gems/quartz/etc you buy for the first couple purchases of each pack. After those, the ratio of "extra gems" plummets dramatically. As an example, Magia Record from Aniplex would offer more than 100% bonus gems on the smaller packages - but for the big one, it'd go from the "One Time Only" 1000 Magia Stones (560 paid + 440 free) to 750 (560+190) for the same low price of... 69.99 Yeah the pricing wasn't very healthy there either. And that was 3-4 10x rolls lmao Just to mention the smaller one, it'd go from 50 stones (8 paid + 42 free) for 0.99 to 8 for the same price, no bonus. Small bonus starting at around the 15 USD packages, and even then a small one like the pack mentioned above.
The reason why there are other apps with the same ad or animations is because they all are the same game but they have more than 1 so they don't lose all their players. They can login or join all the same servers!
The animations are certainly something. But as soon as I saw the game I knew it was gonna be gacha. (A genre I do not care for) Now I know it’s sketchy, shady and predatory gacha.
I'm an asian, the game i have seen lots of times in app store, but the name change again and again. the animations of gardevoir's skill I have seen a lot, too. and every time i see, they are completely different but still beautiful
Thanks for this video I already knew about this game from some other youtubers and was thinking to download it but it's thanks to you that i get to know how dangerous it can be for downloading it thanks again❤️❤️👍👍
So this game has been floating around for like 7 years and had no animations. I played what was probably the first iteration. It was fun but monetized to hell
1. Games asking for your contacts etc is common, just to prevent spreading misinformation.. 2. The animations are stolen from other games using rigs in blender, it only takes a few minutes to take the animation and insert another rigged model to it 3 is just my personal opinion but SwSh demake shows perfectly why Pokémon should've stayed in the pixel lane
Man, this makes me sad. I really enjoyed playing this game, and I was still enjoying it before I got completely locked out of it. It just scratched that one niche that I really loved, and it felt perfect: AFK style games. I have played AFK Arena for several years now, and when I found a freaking POKEMON styled AFK game, my excitement was immeasurable. So, uh..... could someone maybe make a non predatory AFK Pokemon collecting game? 😅
@@atomanni-k5m Don't know. It just kicked me out of the game and I couldn't log back in. And it won't let me install any of the games anymore either. I guess it targets free to play accounts too?
glad i found this video before even touching it on the play store! i've been gettings ads of this game (or at least something that seems similar) with the same stolen assets, gacha mechanic, cool animations. the title is in chinese but when translated it's also got something to do with its previous names. ironically, i got an ad for it while watching this video lol
If I remember correctly the Gardevoir animation got into my feed and many people in the comments were calling out the scam, the channel was promoting the game.
Yeah feels like the video was just not well researched enough and very badly put together. The only thing you need to actually know about this game is that it's not official or licensed and therefore you should not spend money on it. That's it. And as for the stealing data thing, Facebook and other huge social media apps already do that and on a much larger scale and I doubt it'd cause any real damage or harm especially since it's a very popular game in East Asia and if it caused a huge issue then a massive scandal would've come out by now, and if you're really scared just use a throwaway email lol.
It really sucks because when I saw the initial animation with the Gardevoir, I went “holy crap that’s my favorite Pokémon” (not for that reason you freaks), but just now, knowing this, it saddens me
@@rakhmathadita3917 and love live somehow survive 10 years The second game only have short life but their third game somehow stay 1 year despite we never hear them before In short if your game is love live rest assured it have quite long life
Would like to point out that usually in gacha games your first pull is always rigged to be one specific character on this case Geodude and honestly the same can be said about Cryogonal it's the classic highest rarity character they give you for free just so you feel good about it
Gatchas are one of my favorite mechanics to see in a game for many reasons! No coincidence the arts and animations are amazing because in these types of games character creation is turned up to high gear because if you want people to pull gotta get em invested into the characters.
Now that's weird,because when I did play it (for like a week no money spent, just grinded) I was never asked for any personal info nor did I ever get multiple duplicate pokemon everytime i drew 10. Maybe it's because I downloaded it when it was a bit new, IDK. But damn this game was so scummy. I was bored within a week wtf
you never get asked, using tos they steal your data with your unknown consent. every big app does it but this one may be much worse with valuable data being stolen.
I think I found the game you were talking about but it has a different name and different company name but the previews are still the same the game is called pet tamer: evolve journey (early access)
I downloaded this game for fun, as a personal experience, takes about 3 months to obtain every S tier playing F2P, (except for the blazakin line) and it progressively grows more and more strategic, new pokemon added monthly or so and other gameplay are added on holidays
I actually play a gatcha game that being yugioh duel links (i still wish someone archived all the dialog from past events) and it not only follows cappa it's also a ko-money official game
The one thing i dislike about duel links is them removing duel quizzes and loaner deck duels. I know theyre still there but i thought it was nice to have a way for new players to explore new archetypes they might want to try or a quick way to receive gems.
I actually once played this game when i was an unsuspecting kid. I was so immersed in the animations and gameplay that i failed to realize on why they needed to access my phone calls
I'm going to have to say that little research was done on the game and heavy overgeneralization was used. The game gets updated every month, at first there was only 7 s+ mons, now there's over 30, new S+ mons gets added every month, the game gets taken down from the store (Because of copyright), you are alerted ingame when it happens and where to download the game. This is a competitive game with team building, not a story based game, content has been pushed out every month for 7 years and will continue to do so. The discord does not "encourage" spending, infact, it does the opposite, with listing extensive guides on what to do, how to save, how much diamonds you can expect to get in a month, what to avoid doing. The game is F2P if you have time to put in the game, a lot of the top ranking players in older servers haven't even paid a dollar. "Stealing information and cash", when making accusations, provide proof. The app doesn't collect more data than your average app. And when it comes to "Stealing cash", the game does not steal your cash, sure, it asks for it, but It's also your choice to not spend it. You weren't forced to, take responsibility for your own actions. Be better Moopsten.
Never an app or never a game? Cause a lot of apps ask for access to phone-calls because something they do interferes with the ring function... Lovense apps for example 😅
I saw an add for the game a couple days ago while scrolling RUclips shorts, and thought that it was pretty sketchy and if anyone else would notice that the game exists. I'm glad that it's being addressed as a giant scam now.
Actually its sad that its corrupted because it looked like an actual game with some potential, it could stay even hidden from the market and played via the hidden market like via apk’s or ipa’s..
About time someone made a video about this game 👍I've been a fan of Pokemon games since Red release so it's nice to see people pointing out scams like this, nice job 🙂👍
ive been playing this game for a bit before seeing that video, yet it feels like the game you're describing is totally different from what ive been playing, even the name and discord is different
My little cousin is a professional PtW kid, and this is a very legitimate concern i have, as he has gotten crazy with it, and (kinda related, i think) has even hacked freaking Prodigy Math Game
Im SOO happy I found this video randomly! Ever since I downloaded the “Delta Emulator” on my iOS I have been getting adds for this game. Mines called “Battle Masters: Adventure.” At the moment. I have been wanting to check it out but just really felt the trailers were too good to be true, along with getting a second add shortly after the first one displaying “first person gameplay” and realized it’s prolly fake. Thank you for spreading the word man you are great for this video!! I want an open world Pokémon game that feels like gta and or a Pokémon vr game but until Nintendo say something don’t believe it. Edit: while watching this video halfway thru and while initially typing my comment I got yet another add from them.. just saying, they’re throwing their adds onto your video.
There At Least 2 Games Like This For Dragon Ball And 2 For Digimon, One It Looks Like 3D Assets And The Other Is Basically Like This One With 2D Art/Sprites? Whatever (The Only Thing I Remember Is The Knock Off "Susanoomon" Using His "Ama-No-Habakiri" And Cutting Earth In Half, But This One Game I Cant Actually Find It)
I used to play a game with a very similar game. It kept swapping names so it was like, poke elf or elf fantasy. It was cute anime girl pokemon. So it was like moemon but a generic gatcha game. It even had a public chat.
Take all the cool animations and upload them to RUclips but put em in family guy so RUclips won’t nuke it, then tell everyone what actions where taken, if the enemy aims for the gut, go for the balls
Oh this game... once im out of the forced tutorial i went to check what trainer characters they have and i uninstall immediately because i felt so humiliated that they DO NOT HAVE SERENA IN THE KNOCK OFF GAME!!! HOW DARE THEY !
Welp, I’ve been playing it the last two months. I figured this was the case. Thankfully I haven’t spent much, only a little bit. Good thing I know this now, I will not spend anymore and I will be watching my money carefully.
I'm glad I mentioned this game to my friends after I found it last night because they sent me this video, it was the exact game under a different name, I thought it was neat but I was skeptical by how good the animations were, the second I found out they're asking to make phone calls on your behalf and steal your information, I deleted it, and the other app I played that was similar. Luckily for me, I chose to make my accounts with them with my side emails with passwords I use as link codes for dynamax adventures lmao! and I've never linked payment methods to my phone or the email account that I used, so they're SOL with me!
Hey all! In the spirit of not misinforming people if there are any corrections/updates to this story I'll update it here!
Edit: so based off what a lot of you are saying this game has been around in some form or another for 7 years not 2! Thanks for letting me know!
Also for the love of God, DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS GAME
Even if you don't plan on spending money, it can steal data from your phone. If you've ever logged into an account on your phone it puts your passwords at risk, if you've ever made a purchase on your phone it puts your financials at risk. A pretty animation you can look up on YT ain't worth getting your passwords stolen
would paying ethical hackers maybe work
I think it’s funny that he’s been so long trying to get one ralt and I have two and yes, I play the game
I can’t find Pokémon fan games
I think I found the game under a new name, and now they seem to be abusing a fatal flaw of the play store's features, now it is listed as early access, what this means is that nobody can post reviews, therefore, you can't look through the reviews to find anyone telling you the huge scam it is.
@@Jelly_shy_guy_man check youtube for one then google the name or look in the descriptions for a link, be safe
Nintendo really should be focused of more games like these instead of free rom hacks huh 😭
Tbf there isn't really any legal distinguisher between a passion project and a shameless cash grab
Passion projects typically don't have microtransactions though. Profiting off of someone else's IP is a different beast from giving people a free fan game/romhack.
Did... did you watch the video??? They're _trying_ to focus on it, but they haven't been able to take it down.
Real
@@JadeJuno yeah I know….I’m just saying they should leave free fan games alone when there’s games like this
There are actually ads all over youtube of games using OFFICIAL POKEMON FOOTAGE. This seems crazy to me, seeing as Nintendo is normally so protective of their copyrights. I wonder how these people and RUclips itself are getting away with this...
RUclips has a clause in their ToS where they aren't responsible. It's why whenever anyone pretends to be a company and issues a takedown they just do it without checking if the takedown is from a legitimate source, so they can't be held responsible. With the sheer number of videos they can't catch 'em all.
RUclips is too greedy. Some of the ads here are basically softcore p*rn
Hell I got an ad for this scam game when I clicked on this video!
It changes it’s name all the time. For a while it was pet impact, then pet compact, now god knows what
many small ad budgets from shell companys nintendo would have to call alphebit uncomplient in intent to remove them and sue them for anything to happen
correction. protective of their Trademarks
Pokemon should be putting this much effort into there games instead of just the stock animation plug an play garbage. I'm upset pokemon doesn't do any of this.
I dont mind most of the stock plug and play animations for special moves - it *usually* works out (exceptions apply, depends on the mons deafult animatiosn for these), phsyical moves - especailly ones that make contact? 1000% need to be done mroe individually. Signature moves are *usually* fine too, though some are largely dissapointing in 3d imo. Its just so akward to see a pokemon stand idly without soul before attacking with a physical attack by just... hopping in place a bit...
Between this, your iceberg, and your pokemon cost videos, you might have some of my favorite Pokemon deep dives. This was extremely well-researched and I’m glad you’re doing your part to protect people who might’ve been tempered to try the game.
More on the way!
All jokes aside, it’s disgraceful that fan made games have so much better animation and quality than the mainline games.
This is not a "fan made" game. It's a game by a scummy company that illegally uses the Pokémon IP. I refuse to lump this game with the community driven content made by fans for free.
@@gilldominicmendoza5202 I agree, this particular game is very scummy and even dangerous. I was referring to the fan made animations that the game was using. My bad if you thought I was supporting this game.
@@gilldominicmendoza5202These guys paid for bangers with their money! Imagine what The Pokémon Company ™ can do with their budget!
Probably helps they don't have a bigger cooperation above them giving them super strict deadlines with the absolute minimum to make a game. Btw I'm not talkin Nintendo. Pokemon Company is one of the probably worst companies in the world.
It's because while these animations look good, they are also simpler... they are also made over YEARS and put individually and then just gathered together....
Not to mention that with the exception of their base animations from previous gens, they have to be lore accurate.
Honestly, it instead just shows that Gamefreak should probably use 2d and 3d in their battles...
Nintendo only going for 72 mil?
The company really has changed being so gentle on the suit
its disgraceful to know that there are devs out there making scam apps like this... im glad i saw this when i did because i had the thought of downloading this game, good thing i didnt...
Thanks again moopsten for shining a light on this
And there are some posts on IG that are comparing the z-move animation in sun and moon (or ultra sun and ultra moon) and this games animation attack saying that the bottom game did better and the fact that many comments are roasting or bashing Nintendo shows how complete idiots they are
That's the sad thing about our society... People focus on making money instead of focusing on customer safety and satisfaction
Genshin is still there along with lootboxes in games like CoD or CSGO
The badass animations are also stolen
The animations are really cool but I think its safe to assume they somehow stole them or grievously underpaid whoever made it for them. This is one of the few times I am glad that Nintendo is suing someone. May the Nintendo Ninjas show them no mercy.
Still think that this is annoying because even THEN overworked animators BEAT animators at a billion dollar company
It may have been the company themselves which may have been a single person working on the game.
@@SonicKirby_069 Tf you on bud? That overpaid animator has a long time while companies rush their poor animators leading to lower quality animation.
Is Big Corp any better?
This is actually a educational video because it shines a light on the atrocious side of bootlegs of famous franchises.
"just ignore it" honestly that's the best advice you can give when something's trying to hurt you in the digital world
I remember playing one of those knockoffs games, there was that one guy who i felt so bad in the world chat losing over thousands of real dollars because he was trying to get a nonexistent mega version of mewtwo because the way to get it is by becoming number 1, By number one i mean becoming the number 1 spender of the week.
He was on 1st but someone snagged the 1st place cuz someone spent more money at the last minute.
I remember downloading one of them and i couldn't even play it it stuck on the loading screen
Oof
@@EXMasterReidXDsame
I still remember the time where mobile games are only there to to entertain people without stealing money
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You got the police’s attention
@@Kingklownmemes so they’ve finally caught up to me now… ashamed that they would’ve caught me 20 murders earlier if corruption hadn’t impeded them
What world do you live on? They’ve always been about making money.
@@teamofone1219 well not this desperate at least
They've never been good. Unless you mean like the literal one good mobile game that wasn't a cash grab while the other 99% was swimming around.
This is my favorite video you've made. I love the rom hacks and the fan games but this informative one is really well made.
I plan on doing more deep dives, to this day my favorite video is one of my first which is where I tally up how much each pokemon is worth in USD. There'll still be romhacks but expect one of these every once in a while :)
@@moopsten With that thumbnail you marked youself fisrt poketube for me to ask this from.
Which one you'd rather have?
Team of "feminine" pokemon (such as Gardevoir, Lopunny, Gothitelle, Primarina ect) but they're all MALE?
or
Team of "masculine" pokemon (Machamp, Slaking, Alakazam, Incineroar ect) but they're all FEMALE?
@@moopstenisn't there a one tath dosent steal but has these animation pleaseeeee
Came for Gardevior stayed for Moop
I came too
You ain't alone
Ofc your freaky ahh came here.
@@Justaphase69er....
*Came*
Summary of the story is that the devs aren't affiliated with pokemon in any way lmfao
@mizzix You forgot the part about using the ip to exploit children
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@@viewer6152they're the true kings
They are stealing user data and changing the name to manipulate its mainly child audience
@@viewer6152i mean it isnt labled pokemon on google
Well thanks for the info, ngl that Gardevoir animation would have suckered me into playing it. But at least I know what this is about now.
I just searched this game on Google Play and the only thing I'm getting is "Pocket Arena", but looking through the comments it seems like it was originally called "Megamon", and the comments also confirm that the game is the same as Elf Fantasy. So yeah, they did it again
Is it called something different, now? Because I can't download it.
@@baalfgames5318 still Pocket Arena for me
Dragon Village Grand Battle shows up as the first suggestion when i looked
@@baalfgames5318Rise of Elf & SuperBeastShowdown on iPhones.
It was called pet impact recently aswell.
I was also enamoured by the Gardevoir animation when i saw it, i tried to find it and play it a bit even but it led nowhere for me.
I'm rlly thankful that you made a video on this bcs i was still rlly curious abt this game!
Edit: Jeez and i thinking it wouldn't do any harm to play it for a bit… At least i got informed about this!!
If you want to play it, try to use an APK. I can't find it on the app store as well.
Respect Moop for creating awareness to such games... ❤
Pokémon cafe (an official Pokémon game) got some surprising facts too:
-it’s a Gacha game
-you can spend real money to get more in game currency
-there’s a summer Vaporeon outfit and a maid gardevoir outfit. (I know a maid outfit isn’t necessarily sexual but it’s heavily sexualized on the internet and in for example anime series, something from Japan (just like the Nintendo company) and Gardevoir is also heavily sexualized by the internet and there’s simply no way Nintendo doesn’t know this.)
third time's the charm, they say. gardevoir was introduced in third generation
where to get maid and Vaporeon outfit?
That whole thing about constantly taking the game down and re-uploading it under a new developer is something that they do for several other games like DragonBall Afk, or several one piece games
the phone call access is usually asked to check if someone is calling and either "mute" or "stop the game" usually
Gardevoirtini is not the fusion with victini i was expecting
pokemon fusion: “write that down! White that down!”
oh yeah, ooohhh yeaaaaaaaahhh
14:10 It's so obvious Moop has NEVER played a gacha game before, because usually in gacha games the first roll is always guaranteed to be the same character on EVERY ACCOUNT! This is the case for Honkai Star Rail with Asta, Genshin Impact with Noelle(if you decide to roll on the beginner banner that is), Solo Leveling ARISE with Song Chiyul, Wuthering Waves with Chixia, and etc etc. So this is not at all proof of them rigging the rates of the game, this is just a common gacha mechanic. And the whole cryogenal thing is just bad luck.
Fate Grand Order does not give a fixed 5-star to every character with the first roll, it does guarantee a 5-star on your first roll, but which one you get is picked at random from the pool of whatever is available in the banner you pick. My boyfriend got Artoria Pendragon and I got Summer Tamamo-no-mae. So while it is possible that in the case of this game, the first S tier is always Cryogonal, when it comes to anonymous chinese publishers that go out of their way to conceal their identities and involvement with the game, it sure as hell wouldn't surprise me if they did rig the Gacha rates. Hell, a massive Korean company, NEXON, got busted rigging the gacha rates in Maple Story to the point where the odds of getting the best reward from the cubes they sold in that game were literally 0.
you're right i'm down bad with that Shiny Mega Gardevoir animation
I remember playing a game fairly similar to this years ago. I got bored eventually and i left. Game disappeared, never showed up again, and now there are several other games like it. Its fairly impressive im ngl.
As a teacher in a SEN school, I'm making a real push for more education on gacha games and their risks for staff and students alike. I can think of so many students who absolutely love Pokémon (as do I!) who would fall prey to this sort of thing so easily... I'm a Genshin player myself so it's not like I don't understand, but education on the risks should be as necessary as education on any other type of gambling IMO!
13:00
This story hit me hard, and probably has traumatized me from ever spending money on games again.
When I was like 5 or 6 I played this game that I think was called Shark Dash. I found out that if I clicked on the plus symbol next to the gold, and then click on another button, I would get more gold. Later on I would find out that that actually close real money and I probably ended up spending around a thousand dollars. It’s absolutely scummy how in game purchases didn’t need any verification back then and children could just spend thousands without knowing.
Anyway that’s the story of how I’ll never spend any money on games ever again
I just remembered that game
If Nintendo/Gamefreak wanted to do something about this, I would suggest just upscaling the quality of their games to the level of these knockoffs
Something like this happened to me:
I started playing a free-to-play Pokémon game without knowing that it was fake.
The game itself got me hooked at the time. It’s impressive how far the criminals go in order to fool people.
I really hope we can find the animations original sources eventually. They’re really cool…
Reminds me of Super Robot Wars in a way.
@@CyberDagger003 you know what, I totally get it. I am a massive simp for both SRW and Pokemon and I can see some similarities myself.
Anyone got a link for the gardevoir animation?
Really nice video!
Wanna add a small extra detail on the gem prices section starting at 12:20, from the perspective of a former gacha player (not of the super known ones you mentioned, though still decently "reputable" ones - plus most follow a similar pattern): Those packs do seem disproportionate at first, but it's while at the initial purchase stage. That "firstX2" is pretty roughly translated but it's usual that the games offer you as a starting player double the gems/quartz/etc you buy for the first couple purchases of each pack. After those, the ratio of "extra gems" plummets dramatically.
As an example, Magia Record from Aniplex would offer more than 100% bonus gems on the smaller packages - but for the big one, it'd go from the "One Time Only" 1000 Magia Stones (560 paid + 440 free) to 750 (560+190) for the same low price of... 69.99
Yeah the pricing wasn't very healthy there either. And that was 3-4 10x rolls lmao
Just to mention the smaller one, it'd go from 50 stones (8 paid + 42 free) for 0.99 to 8 for the same price, no bonus. Small bonus starting at around the 15 USD packages, and even then a small one like the pack mentioned above.
14:27 "Why was each of them getting a Cryogonal?"
I pulled a Qiqi...
IT would BE A GOOD GAME IF IT WASNT SCAM
Well, didn't know about this until now, and I'm wondering if there's a Lopunny/Mega Lopunny set of animations, or if it's even in this game.
The reason why there are other apps with the same ad or animations is because they all are the same game but they have more than 1 so they don't lose all their players. They can login or join all the same servers!
The animations are certainly something. But as soon as I saw the game I knew it was gonna be gacha. (A genre I do not care for) Now I know it’s sketchy, shady and predatory gacha.
Pokémon already has Masters EX anyways
10:21 “we trust Nintendo” I don’t even trust my government 😂
Not my boy Cryogonal getting dissed😭
Still W content bro
Who tf likes cryogonal bro 💀
Cryogonal on hieno pokémoni. ❄️
@@ghosthegoatedhim/her apparently
I guess some Chinese Pokemon knockoff is trying to make it's own... *Impact.*
There are a few of them tho, they literally just changed their name, gancha each Pokemon have different rarity and offline rewards
I'm an asian, the game i have seen lots of times in app store, but the name change again and again. the animations of gardevoir's skill I have seen a lot, too. and every time i see, they are completely different but still beautiful
Remember when mobile games where still...games?
Thats why I love Pokemon Go. One of the last survivors....
@@lemony4478 check out coromon
@@lemony4478 It’s official though
you know it is a non-nintendo game, if blastoise fires the hydropump from its cannon and not its face XD
So uh... I'm sure you know right?
Thanks for this video I already knew about this game from some other youtubers and was thinking to download it but it's thanks to you that i get to know how dangerous it can be for downloading it thanks again❤️❤️👍👍
So this game has been floating around for like 7 years and had no animations. I played what was probably the first iteration. It was fun but monetized to hell
1. Games asking for your contacts etc is common, just to prevent spreading misinformation..
2. The animations are stolen from other games using rigs in blender, it only takes a few minutes to take the animation and insert another rigged model to it
3 is just my personal opinion but SwSh demake shows perfectly why Pokémon should've stayed in the pixel lane
Surfshark hit Moopsten with a sponsor at the best time possible
1:05 Gen 10 animation leaks lookin crazy
fire
bro i just got an add of a fake pokémon game with guns literally the player was shooting a lugia
LMAO WHAT WAS THE NAME
@ i can’t remember bro you’re too late
:edit: nvm i remember it’s pocket superpower m
pikachu sounds like the free 5* you get in gatcha games like this and squirtle is a 3* and becomes a 5* as blastiose
2:18
The way how you sentenced the list of reasons made it sound like a phone call access was strangely the least harmful out of the rest.
"If Nintendo can't take this game down, what am I gonna do" 😂😂
1:11 …bro did they skin that gardevoir???? its dress is part of its body 😨
haircut
Man, this makes me sad. I really enjoyed playing this game, and I was still enjoying it before I got completely locked out of it. It just scratched that one niche that I really loved, and it felt perfect: AFK style games. I have played AFK Arena for several years now, and when I found a freaking POKEMON styled AFK game, my excitement was immeasurable. So, uh..... could someone maybe make a non predatory AFK Pokemon collecting game? 😅
locked out? why?
@@atomanni-k5m Don't know. It just kicked me out of the game and I couldn't log back in. And it won't let me install any of the games anymore either. I guess it targets free to play accounts too?
Maybe you should consider pokemon sleep.
nintendo needs to take notes from those battle animations!
glad i found this video before even touching it on the play store! i've been gettings ads of this game (or at least something that seems similar) with the same stolen assets, gacha mechanic, cool animations. the title is in chinese but when translated it's also got something to do with its previous names. ironically, i got an ad for it while watching this video lol
Currently called "Pocket Incoming: World". I got an ad for it while watching this video lmao
9:56 Elders have harder times than kids when it comes to technology
If I remember correctly the Gardevoir animation got into my feed and many people in the comments were calling out the scam, the channel was promoting the game.
i like how a chunk of the video is about gachas targeting kids being scummy, while pokemon themselves has a official gacha lol
Yeah feels like the video was just not well researched enough and very badly put together. The only thing you need to actually know about this game is that it's not official or licensed and therefore you should not spend money on it. That's it. And as for the stealing data thing, Facebook and other huge social media apps already do that and on a much larger scale and I doubt it'd cause any real damage or harm especially since it's a very popular game in East Asia and if it caused a huge issue then a massive scandal would've come out by now, and if you're really scared just use a throwaway email lol.
It really sucks because when I saw the initial animation with the Gardevoir, I went “holy crap that’s my favorite Pokémon” (not for that reason you freaks), but just now, knowing this, it saddens me
now if you rephrase this video enough, you'll get hypnos lullaby, but hypno is just mugging the child for there parents money.
17:18 "there is expectation of longevity"
bandai and squarenix mobile game : "we dont do that here"
oof
R.I.P dq tact btw
@@rakhmathadita3917 and love live somehow survive 10 years
The second game only have short life but their third game somehow stay 1 year despite we never hear them before
In short if your game is love live rest assured it have quite long life
Would like to point out that usually in gacha games your first pull is always rigged to be one specific character on this case Geodude and honestly the same can be said about Cryogonal it's the classic highest rarity character they give you for free just so you feel good about it
Gatchas are one of my favorite mechanics to see in a game for many reasons!
No coincidence the arts and animations are amazing because in these types of games character creation is turned up to high gear because if you want people to pull gotta get em invested into the characters.
The reasoning for Moop wanting to play this game is the same reasoning for how I got into One Piece💀💀💀
No way i got an ad for pretty much this exact game mid way through except it was called "pet tamer: evolve journey" lmao
That was a smooth sponsor transition ngl
The data at risk is pretty much nothing at all most of the times, happens a lot with games off the Playstore
Now that's weird,because when I did play it (for like a week no money spent, just grinded) I was never asked for any personal info nor did I ever get multiple duplicate pokemon everytime i drew 10. Maybe it's because I downloaded it when it was a bit new, IDK. But damn this game was so scummy. I was bored within a week wtf
you never get asked, using tos they steal your data with your unknown consent. every big app does it but this one may be much worse with valuable data being stolen.
It does also show the odds of winning the gacha not for each individual Pokémon but for each rarity
I think I found the game you were talking about but it has a different name and different company name but the previews are still the same the game is called pet tamer: evolve journey (early access)
Moop: There's nothing we can do.
Napoleon in the back:
I downloaded this game for fun, as a personal experience, takes about 3 months to obtain every S tier playing F2P, (except for the blazakin line) and it progressively grows more and more strategic, new pokemon added monthly or so and other gameplay are added on holidays
Finally Nintendo doing something about the app
Wild that the ad youtube put in front of this video is for the very same game you're warning us not to play, lol.
I actually play a gatcha game that being yugioh duel links (i still wish someone archived all the dialog from past events) and it not only follows cappa it's also a ko-money official game
And also they basically tell you the odds of pulling the SR/UR by saying how many are left in the box you’re buying from
The one thing i dislike about duel links is them removing duel quizzes and loaner deck duels. I know theyre still there but i thought it was nice to have a way for new players to explore new archetypes they might want to try or a quick way to receive gems.
I actually once played this game when i was an unsuspecting kid. I was so immersed in the animations and gameplay that i failed to realize on why they needed to access my phone calls
I'm going to have to say that little research was done on the game and heavy overgeneralization was used. The game gets updated every month, at first there was only 7 s+ mons, now there's over 30, new S+ mons gets added every month, the game gets taken down from the store (Because of copyright), you are alerted ingame when it happens and where to download the game. This is a competitive game with team building, not a story based game, content has been pushed out every month for 7 years and will continue to do so.
The discord does not "encourage" spending, infact, it does the opposite, with listing extensive guides on what to do, how to save, how much diamonds you can expect to get in a month, what to avoid doing. The game is F2P if you have time to put in the game, a lot of the top ranking players in older servers haven't even paid a dollar.
"Stealing information and cash", when making accusations, provide proof. The app doesn't collect more data than your average app. And when it comes to "Stealing cash", the game does not steal your cash, sure, it asks for it, but It's also your choice to not spend it. You weren't forced to, take responsibility for your own actions.
Be better Moopsten.
I suspect you work for this sham of a company, shame on you.
Whats the game even called i wanna give it a try but cant find it
@@takedatakehashi6021 you really don’t, the game is borderline malware
@@glitchyboi-nk1qv honestly just like the animations so if I can view them elsewhere I wouldn't try it either
@@takedatakehashi6021 not worth it, trust me
Never an app or never a game? Cause a lot of apps ask for access to phone-calls because something they do interferes with the ring function... Lovense apps for example 😅
I saw an add for the game a couple days ago while scrolling RUclips shorts, and thought that it was pretty sketchy and if anyone else would notice that the game exists. I'm glad that it's being addressed as a giant scam now.
You didn't have to roast my boy cryogonal like that 😔
Damn! That Gardevoir animation is Stunning!
I won't download, I don't even play phone games, but I can admire impressive work.
Actually its sad that its corrupted because it looked like an actual game with some potential, it could stay even hidden from the market and played via the hidden market like via apk’s or ipa’s..
About time someone made a video about this game 👍I've been a fan of Pokemon games since Red release so it's nice to see people pointing out scams like this, nice job 🙂👍
Thing is,I used to play these games,used to be just hooked to it,I only found the issue of the games getting removed. it's kinda unbelievable here.
ive been playing this game for a bit before seeing that video, yet it feels like the game you're describing is totally different from what ive been playing, even the name and discord is different
So that's where that meme of some random illegal Pokémon game vs the actual one
My little cousin is a professional PtW kid, and this is a very legitimate concern i have, as he has gotten crazy with it, and (kinda related, i think) has even hacked freaking Prodigy Math Game
Im SOO happy I found this video randomly! Ever since I downloaded the “Delta Emulator” on my iOS I have been getting adds for this game. Mines called “Battle Masters: Adventure.” At the moment. I have been wanting to check it out but just really felt the trailers were too good to be true, along with getting a second add shortly after the first one displaying “first person gameplay” and realized it’s prolly fake. Thank you for spreading the word man you are great for this video!! I want an open world Pokémon game that feels like gta and or a Pokémon vr game but until Nintendo say something don’t believe it.
Edit: while watching this video halfway thru and while initially typing my comment I got yet another add from them.. just saying, they’re throwing their adds onto your video.
now if they took that 72 mil and put it towards a pokemon game, i'd be on board
The short answer to the title is “because it’s visually 100x better”
There At Least 2 Games Like This For Dragon Ball
And 2 For Digimon, One It Looks Like 3D Assets And The Other Is Basically Like This One With 2D Art/Sprites? Whatever (The Only Thing I Remember Is The Knock Off "Susanoomon" Using His "Ama-No-Habakiri" And Cutting Earth In Half, But This One Game I Cant Actually Find It)
I used to play a game with a very similar game. It kept swapping names so it was like, poke elf or elf fantasy. It was cute anime girl pokemon. So it was like moemon but a generic gatcha game. It even had a public chat.
Take all the cool animations and upload them to RUclips but put em in family guy so RUclips won’t nuke it, then tell everyone what actions where taken, if the enemy aims for the gut, go for the balls
Oh this game... once im out of the forced tutorial i went to check what trainer characters they have and i uninstall immediately because i felt so humiliated that they DO NOT HAVE SERENA IN THE KNOCK OFF GAME!!! HOW DARE THEY !
@@NexTJesS they better not speak on my gal serena
Welp, I’ve been playing it the last two months. I figured this was the case. Thankfully I haven’t spent much, only a little bit. Good thing I know this now, I will not spend anymore and I will be watching my money carefully.
I'm glad I mentioned this game to my friends after I found it last night because they sent me this video, it was the exact game under a different name, I thought it was neat but I was skeptical by how good the animations were, the second I found out they're asking to make phone calls on your behalf and steal your information, I deleted it, and the other app I played that was similar. Luckily for me, I chose to make my accounts with them with my side emails with passwords I use as link codes for dynamax adventures lmao! and I've never linked payment methods to my phone or the email account that I used, so they're SOL with me!