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Would love a full read-through and analysis honestly! Probably not on this channel as it'd be a little inappropriate, but I'd totally watch a 30-40 minute video on it!
You know if you go on to the Google play store and you type in monster carnival you will actually be able to find a MMO mobile game that rips off Pokemon entirely.
Translation from Chinese of 小精靈 (or similar terms); literally means "little spirit" but can be taken straight as "elf" among other diminutive mythological creatures.
The girl on the cover of that book and the included CD is dressed as the XM-07 Vigna Ghina from Mobile Suit Gundam F91. And like half of the humanoid monsters look like Angels from Devilman.
@Hamikon you literally just said "the sun is a star" you proved they are the same thing. OoOoOo OnEs BiGgEr stfu, what if it was stone and boulder version? Would you say its different then?
If anyone's wondering why so many Chinese Pokémon clones use the term "elves" to refer to Pokémon, it's because prior to the official localisation in Sun and Moon there was no canonical Chinese translation for the word "Pokémon". The most commonly used term was "Jingling" (精灵), which was a generic term used to describe small mythical creatures such as pixies, fairies, or elves. The official localised term is now "Baokemeng" (宝可梦), which is both a transliteration of the word "Pokémon" as well as the Chinese characters representing "treasure", "potential", and "dream".
Every year there is a fireworks shop in my town that sells the "blue spider" it's a pinsir painted blue with a bunch of herracross arms coming out of it's back. Premium bootleg
Yknow it's crazy you say this. Last year I bought fucking loads of fireworks from some guy with a shipping container in a storage area. A few did have Pokémon on them. I bought one that had Moltrese (or however the fuck it's spelled.) On the side of it and had visions of setting fire to my whole street accidentally. Luckily no bad shit happened.
One day, I had bought a pokeball with a suprise pokemon in it. The designs were low quality and the colours were so wrong, that I threw everything in the recycling bin
I recognized that art in the thumbnail IMMEDIATELY. I had that book back in MIDDLE SCHOOL. So excited someone is finally talking about it after all these years!! I used to have all the lookalikes bookmarked with the pkmn names on them haha! Please do share them! Bootlegs/ripoffs are so interesting to look at!
I mean, Kurama, Ninetales and Kyubimon basically have the same concept but look completely different from each other. The one from the rip-off book is just straight up Ninetales.
Honestly I can excuse the existence of that chinese P-Go clone that was mentioned. I mean Go is basically banned in China and the clone has surprisingly good artwork and distinct style from what I can see. So hey, it’s cool they have some alternative that doesn’t look too crap
@@TheFunwichHorror Somehow the word poke always translate into Elves in Chinese. As for Vietnamese, they always just call it Pokemon like any English name/loan word
The gameboy advance Robopon games were pretty good though, so I can't complain too much about the gameboy color one. Even as a kid I noticed that the GBC game was a blatant rip off though
If anyone is curious about the “elves” (idk if any one has answered it yet), the simplified Chinese translation of Pokémon was “寵物小精靈”, which directly translates to “pet elf”（”精靈”can mean elf, spirt, fairy according to context). Until Sun and Moon came and gave the official translation “寶可夢” for both traditional and simplified Chinese. “寶可夢” is a homophonic translation of “Pokémon”, with the characters “寶”(treasure) and 夢(dream) have some related meaning. For some more content, the traditional Chinese translation before it was officially changed to “寶可夢” was “神奇寶貝”. “神奇” means “unique, strange, miraculous” and “寶貝” can mean “sweetheart, treasure, something important”, which is probably why “寶可夢” has the character “寶” in the first place. Extra trivia, even thought Pokémon never had official Chinese translations for the games, the anime had translations and a dub. So a lot of kid were used to “神奇寶貝” growing up (for traditional Chinese translation, idk about the simplified side). Some still say “神奇寶貝” instead of “寶可夢” mostly in accident. You can tell a fans age be this lmao.
@@SethJV haven't seen anything about ingress so can't say, so... question: do you catch creatures in ingress just like in GO? if yes then yeah GO is a rip-off of ingress, otherwise is an evolution of the game
As a wise man once said "With every big fish there's a leech on the belly" Also kinda sad ya'll didn't mention Garfield Go when talking about Pokémon Go ripoffs.
There were more than one games released in the US. Honestly, growing up first gen pokemon (I'm 29), Robopon was far superior. It's sad it never took off past gba.
Kinda hard to say since the concept of cat-human hybrid creatures isn't exclusive to Inuyasha and the character drawn seems to be female - she has a kimono on.
Video games in China in recent decade focused on mobile online games, most of college students or people in this age range or younger have no idea console games continued to this day and have no knowledge that old popular franchise have sequels, if the game is not on the phone, people will just think the game not exist. Pokemon was a huge hit for the kids who born in the 90s and early 00s, but nowadays people have no idea which platform to play new Pokemon games, so there are some companies starts to make knockoffs in the name of "New Pokemon Game" to catch people's eye, or making the game in the same machanic but no Pokemon characters like the one knockoff Pokemon GO in the video. These games usually failed within days because people do recognize they are knockoffs.
While the player character sprite is definitely, at the very least, questionable, the actual gameplay of robopon and battle mechanics were pretty much as different as you can get for a turn based jrpg of that era. The moves a robot would use depended on their equipment and certain combinations would allow the use of new moves. It's not like pokemon was the first ever game of its type.
the nine tailed fox is a common Japanese myth but you guys missed the robotic latias on the cover, it looks waaay more like a copy then the dragonair 😭😭 /lh
>Pokemon bootleg. >"Various characteristics of the elves," >Elves? >Wait... Where have I heard that before... ROFL It's Vietnamese Crystal all over again.
That Robopon one is funny because SMT-fas would argue that Gamesfreak stole the Monster-Catching concept from ATlUS Shin Megami Tensei series and made it a game for children.
Yo-Kai Watch World is also an augmented reality monster collector yet is easily a way better game than Pokemon Go. The funny thing about Robopon is that in spite of how Robopon is seen as a knockoff, Japanese gamers still seem to love that game for its own merits as it continues to get fanart by several artists even today. Really happy this video covers ACTUAL bootlegs and plagiarism rather than needlessly bashing other games and series of the monster collecting genre like Digimon.
@@Surkk2960 Right. For some reason, it's not common knowledge that Nintendo has only something like 5-10% stake in Pokemon and GameFreak/The Pokemon Company essentially control everything about the franchise.
True, but Dragon Quest is not popular and is mostly played by a small marginal group because of nostalgia. And even though Dragon Quest 3 is getting an HD-2D remake soon, I haven't even seen it come to any store for pre-sale which is kind of sad and confusing if they're even going to sell physical copies of that game series anymore.
You said at the beginning Pokemon continues to be "one of the" highest grossing media licenses of all time. You should have said it is "the number one" highest because it is.
I remember constantly seeing ads for fake Pokémon games on RUclips a year or two ago. Some ads were actual Pokémon videos and trailers, with no editing to resemble the fake game in name or content.
A hippo, a Loch Ness monster and a 9 tailed fox I think are not fair to count for plagiarism... all 3 of them were very simple creatures done by game freak using common themes... well known themes even. And the art used for those Pokemon were so basic that they were practically the real world versions. There was nothing unique about the art that made them "Pokemon".
I’ve seen HUNDREDS of games like Capsmon Adventure over the years. My personal favorite was one based off of the Dragonball series, where each capturable unit/fighter had about 5 evolutions to fit their various iterations over the years. For instance an unevolved Krillin was from when he was a child, then there’s Krillin from when he fought Vegeta and Nappa, Krillin from when he fought Frieza, and so on.
"Nine Tailed Fox" originates from Asian mythology, and shows up in other video game franchises than just Pokemon. So to be fair, the one in that book might have nothing to do with Ninetails at all. Although it uses exactly the same colors.
It's amazing how many big-name RUclipsrs can talk about Robopon 2 while forgetting to mention how Quintet, the developers of Illusion of Gaia, ActRaiser, Soul Blazer, RoboTrek, and Terranigma, were involved in its development. Seriously, it wasn't just the font they borrowed. It was a lot of graphics, and their staff. Namely, Tomoyoshi Miyazaki, Masaya Hashimoto, Akira Kitanohara, and Toshiyaki Yamada. It helps to read the credits of games. :P
Giving that the Harry Potter game was made by the same developer that’s not surprising it works nearly the same. As for China and Tencent *spits* China and Tencent.
Surprise surprise, there's a blatant copyright infringing ripoff of a popular game in China made by Tencent. Telling me there was shit in my toilet would be less of a surprise.
Capsmon Adventure obviously isn't copying Pokémon. It just so happens, out of infinite possibilities, that they designed a bunch of characters and monsters with the exact same designs as those from the Pokémon universe. If you randomly generate pixels that somewhat resemble people and monsters, eventually those designs will repeat and create exactly the same thing. It's just a coincidence that each of those characters who resemble Pokémon trainers were also paired with creatures which resemble the Pokémon those trainers are known to use. This is the equivalent of throwing paint at a wall until you accidentally recreate the Mona Lisa through pure coincidence, or smashing your face on a keyboard until you accidentally recreate Shakespeare's entire repertoire. The odds of this naturally occurring are astronomical. Like, at least 1 in 12 or something crazy like that.
2:47 How can you see that cover and think the only obvious rip-offs are Caterpie and Dragonair? I see blatant Hoothoot, Mareep and Latias copies, too, and I basically stopped playing Pokemon by gen 3.
I don't think you were too fair to Robopon there with the sprites comment, as it wasn't too uncommon for characters to look like pokemon characters. There were simply way too many limitations. Good examples of characters having similar aesthetics on gb/c are River King, Medarot/Medabot 1, and Survival Kids. The irony here is not lost on me either. While it is true that Robopon was inspired by pokemon, Pokemon was heavily, and I mean HEAVILY inspired by games that also inspired the rest of the monster collecting genre, namely the biggest game in Japan at the time: Dragon Quest V, and lesser but still important, Slapstick (Known in the west as Robotrek.) The creator has admitted being inspired by Dragon Quest, and it's not too hard to see Robotrek's inspiration in multiple areas, especially pokemon. Come on, a game where your allies come out of capsules and there's an evil terrorist group? I rarely see this brought up when you can see clear inspiration in every other game, especially with the time travel elements being brought into the stories of other games. But no, they're just Pokemon knock offs.
Oh boy Greg, there are plenty more bootlegs that are surfacing and making traction as running gags. Super Fighter M is a Smash bootleg featuring almost all of the Smash characters from various IPs and on top of that, has absurd amount of monetization to further criminalize the application entirely. Yet Nintendo has not taken this down, it may be some time before it is but given that it was obviously developed in China, its no surprise if it never gets taken down.
So... the defense form there is a bit of a stretch for that 500 Manga Creatures book, but I can kind of...sort of... see where you get the idea. However, the Dugtrio and Quilfish are only missing one or two minor differences from their original counterparts and are far from "inspiration" as they're absolutely more just exact copies anyways.
I used to play a Chinese Pokémon knockoff that was really fun. Can't remember the name, but people called it a Pokémon GO knockoff despite it not focusing on actually moving around or throwing balls/orbs to collect creatures
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I’m going to need a critical analysis of this book.
I wouldn't mind seeing an entire video dedicated to that book.
Yes! Please post more pictures.
Would love a full read-through and analysis honestly! Probably not on this channel as it'd be a little inappropriate, but I'd totally watch a 30-40 minute video on it!
You know if you go on to the Google play store and you type in monster carnival you will actually be able to find a MMO mobile game that rips off Pokemon entirely.
never forget in Robopon, theres toilet robot thats typed as being Holy
praise the porcelain throne man
is that a holy shit reference
The holy see
The big white phone to god
Yeah i call a toilet holy too every time i take a good piss so that isnt that crazy
I wonder what it is about Pokemon that makes the word translate to "elves" in so many bootlegs.
Probably the same reason why yokai were called goblins in gaming's early days.
I see it also with several non-Pokémon games, it's a common mistranslation of stuff along the lines of Spirits, Sprites, etc
WELCOME!
IT'S ELF'S WORLD
@@Stonezorz EVERYONE CALL ME ELF MONSTER
Translation from Chinese of 小精靈 (or similar terms); literally means "little spirit" but can be taken straight as "elf" among other diminutive mythological creatures.
8:16 Elves? What is this, Vietnamese Crystal?
Hahah yes!
Seems like they translate Pokemon into those Languages into something like "Yokai" in the Japanese, what than translates back to Elves.
DYKG said it's like a bootleg translation
I thought that sounded like Vietnamese Crystal.
WELCOME!
IT’S ELF WORLD
The girl on the cover of that book and the included CD is dressed as the XM-07 Vigna Ghina from Mobile Suit Gundam F91. And like half of the humanoid monsters look like Angels from Devilman.
I noticed the Vigna Ghina too! Clearly Pokemon weren't the only ones getting plagiarized
I'm pretty sure I saw Inuyasha
036 is literally lucemon but with devil wings XD
@@Nagatem Guessing you mean the rookie stage form.
I also saw some humanoid monsters that look like they came from Shin Megami Tensei
3:10
Didn't know Inuyasha was a pocket monster
4:16 that's a digimon on the right
female inuyasha is waifu
@Hero Hamza Thank you for making me aware someone besides myself always thought so.
3:12
Yishan Li: "ok I need 50 more drawings to finish this stupid project...eemm ok these? Yeah no one will notice"
@Aquatic Ape hi Yishan Li, glad you are here in the comments section
Wow, Tencent even copied their mascot from Linux.
They originally said their mascot was a pigeon before becoming a penguin, but still could have been a copy of Tux
Lol China copying something?! I would have never guessed
That's because ten cents is the salary of their creative team.
I'm not even a minute into this video and I'm pissed that robopon did "sun" and "star" version like a sun isn't a star. God dammit.
"The Sun is a planet!" XD
Tbf people were expecting a Pokemon Star when sun and moon came out.
@Hamikon you're fun. I wish I could be friends with you IRL but I'm not cool enough.
@Hamikon you literally just said "the sun is a star" you proved they are the same thing. OoOoOo OnEs BiGgEr stfu, what if it was stone and boulder version? Would you say its different then?
The sun is a star. Or is that what you're trying to say?
3:12 is that InuYasha?
8:17 oh god it's Pokemon Vietnamese crystal all over again, they even call them "elves"
2:25 I spy a latias
@@YokomichiSilver a latias mixed with a digimon (?)
@@AzafuseKingTora We shall call it LatiMon.
If anyone's wondering why so many Chinese Pokémon clones use the term "elves" to refer to Pokémon, it's because prior to the official localisation in Sun and Moon there was no canonical Chinese translation for the word "Pokémon". The most commonly used term was "Jingling" (精灵), which was a generic term used to describe small mythical creatures such as pixies, fairies, or elves. The official localised term is now "Baokemeng" (宝可梦), which is both a transliteration of the word "Pokémon" as well as the Chinese characters representing "treasure", "potential", and "dream".
2:52 that looks so much more like Weedle. Enough of this Caterpie bias #JusticeForWeedle
#JusticeForWeedle
#Justiceforweedle
#JusticeForWeedle
@Zachary Erickson Being green doesn't automatically make it a Caterpie, y'know.
@Zachary Erickson and the Dratini ripoff was bright purple while Dratini is blue
Those "Let's hunt monsters" designs are great
I agree, the designs of the monsters from Let's Hunt Monsters are actually really good!
...Except the anime girls (for me at least)
I'd honestly play it!
yes they remind me Yokai Watch. I miss Yokai Watch. :(
Pokemon go ripoff or not it does look pretty good all things considered
Every year there is a fireworks shop in my town that sells the "blue spider" it's a pinsir painted blue with a bunch of herracross arms coming out of it's back. Premium bootleg
Yknow it's crazy you say this. Last year I bought fucking loads of fireworks from some guy with a shipping container in a storage area. A few did have Pokémon on them. I bought one that had Moltrese (or however the fuck it's spelled.) On the side of it and had visions of setting fire to my whole street accidentally.
Luckily no bad shit happened.
Would love to see a pic of this
One day, I had bought a pokeball with a suprise pokemon in it. The designs were low quality and the colours were so wrong, that I threw everything in the recycling bin
Yes, please do post these on Twitter!
They done it.
I recognized that art in the thumbnail IMMEDIATELY. I had that book back in MIDDLE SCHOOL. So excited someone is finally talking about it after all these years!! I used to have all the lookalikes bookmarked with the pkmn names on them haha! Please do share them! Bootlegs/ripoffs are so interesting to look at!
Can you really call a picture of a nine-tailed fox plagiarism since the concept existed before Pokemon?
I think you can considering it's in a book full of other blatant pokemon ripoffs.
I see your point, but the whole style is too similar to Ninetails. Objection overruled.
I mean, Kurama, Ninetales and Kyubimon basically have the same concept but look completely different from each other. The one from the rip-off book is just straight up Ninetales.
@@citybay1385 nice you mention kyuubimon.
Honestly I can excuse the existence of that chinese P-Go clone that was mentioned. I mean Go is basically banned in China and the clone has surprisingly good artwork and distinct style from what I can see. So hey, it’s cool they have some alternative that doesn’t look too crap
"Digimor and Pokemon style monsters" is what I want added to my tombstone.
Elfie Branford so no darth vader?
4:30 ... *Digimor.* Couldn't even be bothered to get the name right
Maybe she's from an alternate universe where it's called Digimor instead of Digimon.
@@PeterGriffin11 And I guess Copyright Laws don't exist in her dimension either?
Digital Mortars, even stronger than digital monsters.
8:18 - I remember "Elves" being used as a Pokémon stand in from "Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal" .
"EVERYONE CALL ME ELF MONSTER." -Professor Oak
@@ItsCosmoTewulf IT'S DECIDE TIME
Yeah, that's a weirdly specific translation. Maybe a Chinese/Vietnamese-speaker can shed some light to why that is?
@@TheFunwichHorror Somehow the word poke always translate into Elves in Chinese. As for Vietnamese, they always just call it Pokemon like any English name/loan word
The gameboy advance Robopon games were pretty good though, so I can't complain too much about the gameboy color one. Even as a kid I noticed that the GBC game was a blatant rip off though
If anyone is curious about the “elves” (idk if any one has answered it yet), the simplified Chinese translation of Pokémon was “寵物小精靈”, which directly translates to “pet elf”（”精靈”can mean elf, spirt, fairy according to context). Until Sun and Moon came and gave the official translation “寶可夢” for both traditional and simplified Chinese.
“寶可夢” is a homophonic translation of “Pokémon”, with the characters “寶”(treasure) and 夢(dream) have some related meaning.
For some more content, the traditional Chinese translation before it was officially changed to “寶可夢” was “神奇寶貝”. “神奇” means “unique, strange, miraculous” and “寶貝” can mean “sweetheart, treasure, something important”, which is probably why “寶可夢” has the character “寶” in the first place.
Extra trivia, even thought Pokémon never had official Chinese translations for the games, the anime had translations and a dub. So a lot of kid were used to “神奇寶貝” growing up (for traditional Chinese translation, idk about the simplified side). Some still say “神奇寶貝” instead of “寶可夢” mostly in accident. You can tell a fans age be this lmao.
Oh really? That’s pretty interesting actually!
5:00 the Harry Potter game was made by the same company as Pokémon go so you can’t really call that a rip off
They've been commissioned by WB to make that game. It's a rip-off
@@SquidSushi_ So Pokemon Go is a rip-off of Ingress? Dumb statement my bruddah.
@@SethJV haven't seen anything about ingress so can't say, so...
question: do you catch creatures in ingress just like in GO?
if yes then yeah GO is a rip-off of ingress, otherwise is an evolution of the game
8:24 "Elves?"
* Gets Vietnamese Crystal flashbacks *
EVERYONE CALL ME ELF MONSTER
Say what you want about the “Let’s Hunt Monsters” games, but that catching animation with the Yin and Yang splitting apart is pretty awesome.
Let's Hunt Monsters actually looks interesting. I wonder what all the monster's look like in the game.
Right? I wanna know what mythological creatures made it in.
"mom can we get pokemon?"
"no we have pokemon at home"
pokemon at home:
OVERUSED
Everyone, Call me the elf monster
yeah this joke is not overused at all.....really worked hard on that one
@@afteryouknowme4642 Thanks!
With that few pixels, won't every sprite you make on a GameBoy for a game like that be plagiarism?
As a wise man once said "With every big fish there's a leech on the belly"
Also kinda sad ya'll didn't mention Garfield Go when talking about Pokémon Go ripoffs.
Jaunt Ron!
I'd really love to see more of those 500 Manga Creatures.
It's grossly interesting.
There were more than one games released in the US. Honestly, growing up first gen pokemon (I'm 29), Robopon was far superior. It's sad it never took off past gba.
Robopon 2 actually completely changed the format (4v4 battles ftw), and was awesome. I played it into the dirt as a kid
Having both as a kid as well I can definitely agree Robopon was better too.
Heck yeah, Robopon 2's great. It's such a shame that the internet at large doesn't know or care about it.
"At least Tencent tries to make their own unique creatures"
*show a character that looks just like Peony from FEH*
Oh my, I had that Manga Creatures book! I remember spending a couple hours combing through it and trying to find the Pokémon rip offs.
3:13 Hey, look, it's Inuyasha!
Kinda hard to say since the concept of cat-human hybrid creatures isn't exclusive to Inuyasha and the character drawn seems to be female - she has a kimono on.
I can't help but see Fubuki.
@@FallenGemini Technically, Inuyasha is a dog-human hybrid creature, but yeah I always did think his ears looked more like a cat's.
Video games in China in recent decade focused on mobile online games, most of college students or people in this age range or younger have no idea console games continued to this day and have no knowledge that old popular franchise have sequels, if the game is not on the phone, people will just think the game not exist.
Pokemon was a huge hit for the kids who born in the 90s and early 00s, but nowadays people have no idea which platform to play new Pokemon games, so there are some companies starts to make knockoffs in the name of "New Pokemon Game" to catch people's eye, or making the game in the same machanic but no Pokemon characters like the one knockoff Pokemon GO in the video. These games usually failed within days because people do recognize they are knockoffs.
Wow, I thought I was the only kid that had Robopon on their GBC growing up...anyone else remember its oversized cartridge?
And that annoying alarm too.
Yeah.
@@doctaco3462 You can just turn it off
Why actually was the cartridge so big?
You pick out the dragonite and caterpie clones, but completely missed the Hoothoot wearing goggles.
Tencent: "Lets rip off ourselfs!"
2:49 what about that robot latias xD
Also a beta chicorita and a baby mareep
Also something like tirtuaga. At 2:44
2:51 that's obviously a fking green Weedle, not a Caterpie. It even has Weedle's eyes
Right?!
Fusion? Wouldn't put it past the book at this point
That book seems to be nothing but rip offs from other franchises. I think I noticed Digimon and Gundam being ripped off.
Imagine thinking all monster taming games are rip offs in 2020
literally the lowest IQ take
3:35 -- To be fair, a nine-tailed fox is a pretty generic design considering they're found in legends throughout Asia.
Exactly. Just look at Naruto. A Nine-tailed Fox.
But also to be fair, they've ripped off so many other pokemon it's not unreasonable to assume they ripped ninetales off too
@@pete1318 True.
While the player character sprite is definitely, at the very least, questionable, the actual gameplay of robopon and battle mechanics were pretty much as different as you can get for a turn based jrpg of that era. The moves a robot would use depended on their equipment and certain combinations would allow the use of new moves. It's not like pokemon was the first ever game of its type.
The shuckle looking pokemon in the thumbnail, really looks like a koffing body housing a slug.
Nintendo : hey let us see more copyrighted images
DYKG : How much u paying
Nintendo : $5
DYKG: Deal
10:11 - I heard this before, and honestly it made lots of sense. To go fast, you need these loops but fail a loop and its slow difficult.
the nine tailed fox is a common Japanese myth but you guys missed the robotic latias on the cover, it looks waaay more like a copy then the dragonair 😭😭 /lh
2:47 I see a Mecha Latias there.
That book even had an inuyasha rip off
>Pokemon bootleg.
>"Various characteristics of the elves,"
>Elves?
>Wait... Where have I heard that before...
ROFL It's Vietnamese Crystal all over again.
2:43
Me: Look at that Weedle ripoff
DYKG: Draw inspiration from Caterpie
Me: ...
That Robopon one is funny because SMT-fas would argue that Gamesfreak stole the Monster-Catching concept from ATlUS Shin Megami Tensei series and made it a game for children.
Funny thing about hudson soft, they tried to also sort of compete with pokemon by adding the charaboms into some of the gba bombernan games.
Did I just see Inuyasha in that manga character book?
Also, would the Harry Potter game count as a ripoff since it's also done by Niantic?
Yo-Kai Watch World is also an augmented reality monster collector yet is easily a way better game than Pokemon Go.
The funny thing about Robopon is that in spite of how Robopon is seen as a knockoff, Japanese gamers still seem to love that game for its own merits as it continues to get fanart by several artists even today.
Really happy this video covers ACTUAL bootlegs and plagiarism rather than needlessly bashing other games and series of the monster collecting genre like Digimon.
I really want to see more of that book, and the CD-ROM.
to be fair
ninetales is based on nine tailed fox mythology , kinda hard to reference
Kudos to Robopon for being the first to come Up with Sun/Moon
these videos are so chill. merry christmas
Wow, Hudson had some balls trying to take on Nintendo on their own console.
Well it was technically Hudson v Game Freak and both were working second party with Big N, so it could happen.
@@Surkk2960 Right. For some reason, it's not common knowledge that Nintendo has only something like 5-10% stake in Pokemon and GameFreak/The Pokemon Company essentially control everything about the franchise.
I'm here for Palworld. Maybe dykg can do an updated video on Nintendo plagiarism.
To be fair, Pokémon wasn’t the first monster catcher/battler.
Dragon Quest and SMT came first.
True, but Dragon Quest is not popular and is mostly played by a small marginal group because of nostalgia. And even though Dragon Quest 3 is getting an HD-2D remake soon, I haven't even seen it come to any store for pre-sale which is kind of sad and confusing if they're even going to sell physical copies of that game series anymore.
@@danielmalinen6337 Dragon Quest isn’t popular? HAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHA.
You must live nude a rock. Dragon Quest is a phenomenon in Japan
You said at the beginning Pokemon continues to be "one of the" highest grossing media licenses of all time. You should have said it is "the number one" highest because it is.
I remember constantly seeing ads for fake Pokémon games on RUclips a year or two ago. Some ads were actual Pokémon videos and trailers, with no editing to resemble the fake game in name or content.
A hippo, a Loch Ness monster and a 9 tailed fox I think are not fair to count for plagiarism... all 3 of them were very simple creatures done by game freak using common themes... well known themes even. And the art used for those Pokemon were so basic that they were practically the real world versions. There was nothing unique about the art that made them "Pokemon".
Pretty sure I saw Inuyasha in that book
I’ve seen HUNDREDS of games like Capsmon Adventure over the years. My personal favorite was one based off of the Dragonball series, where each capturable unit/fighter had about 5 evolutions to fit their various iterations over the years. For instance an unevolved Krillin was from when he was a child, then there’s Krillin from when he fought Vegeta and Nappa, Krillin from when he fought Frieza, and so on.
Robopon 2 Speedrunner here! Im so happy that Robopon got some light even if its related to pokemon
Besides color scheme, exactly how many ways do you think you can draw a nine-tailed fox?
The possibilities are big.
"Nine Tailed Fox" originates from Asian mythology, and shows up in other video game franchises than just Pokemon. So to be fair, the one in that book might have nothing to do with Ninetails at all. Although it uses exactly the same colors.
It's amazing how many big-name RUclipsrs can talk about Robopon 2 while forgetting to mention how Quintet, the developers of Illusion of Gaia, ActRaiser, Soul Blazer, RoboTrek, and Terranigma, were involved in its development. Seriously, it wasn't just the font they borrowed. It was a lot of graphics, and their staff.
Namely, Tomoyoshi Miyazaki, Masaya Hashimoto, Akira Kitanohara, and Toshiyaki Yamada. It helps to read the credits of games. :P
Giving that the Harry Potter game was made by the same developer that’s not surprising it works nearly the same.
As for China and Tencent *spits* China and Tencent.
Surprise surprise, there's a blatant copyright infringing ripoff of a popular game in China made by Tencent. Telling me there was shit in my toilet would be less of a surprise.
So back in 2002 or so, at a camp I was at a kid brought his gameboy and his copy of Robopon. Said it was Pokemon black version.
So there’s a Pokémon knockoff where I can catch Oolong
Is no one gonna talk about my boy Inuyasha at 3:12 ?
"Giant Mechanical Robots..." Thats undeniably a girl cosplaying the XM-07 Vigna Ghina from Gundam F91 on the cover and on the CD at 3:57.
"thinly veiled"? More like wrapped in cellophane.
Lets hunt monsters actually looks kinda neat
Some of those Let’s Hunt Monsters designs are pretty dope
3:13 Forget the Pokémon, is that Inuyasha?!
Capsmon Adventure obviously isn't copying Pokémon. It just so happens, out of infinite possibilities, that they designed a bunch of characters and monsters with the exact same designs as those from the Pokémon universe. If you randomly generate pixels that somewhat resemble people and monsters, eventually those designs will repeat and create exactly the same thing. It's just a coincidence that each of those characters who resemble Pokémon trainers were also paired with creatures which resemble the Pokémon those trainers are known to use. This is the equivalent of throwing paint at a wall until you accidentally recreate the Mona Lisa through pure coincidence, or smashing your face on a keyboard until you accidentally recreate Shakespeare's entire repertoire. The odds of this naturally occurring are astronomical. Like, at least 1 in 12 or something crazy like that.
Robopon 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. 100% worth a playthrough.
2:47 How can you see that cover and think the only obvious rip-offs are Caterpie and Dragonair? I see blatant Hoothoot, Mareep and Latias copies, too, and I basically stopped playing Pokemon by gen 3.
Time to update the video!🤭
I don't think you were too fair to Robopon there with the sprites comment, as it wasn't too uncommon for characters to look like pokemon characters. There were simply way too many limitations. Good examples of characters having similar aesthetics on gb/c are River King, Medarot/Medabot 1, and Survival Kids. The irony here is not lost on me either. While it is true that Robopon was inspired by pokemon, Pokemon was heavily, and I mean HEAVILY inspired by games that also inspired the rest of the monster collecting genre, namely the biggest game in Japan at the time: Dragon Quest V, and lesser but still important, Slapstick (Known in the west as Robotrek.)
The creator has admitted being inspired by Dragon Quest, and it's not too hard to see Robotrek's inspiration in multiple areas, especially pokemon. Come on, a game where your allies come out of capsules and there's an evil terrorist group? I rarely see this brought up when you can see clear inspiration in every other game, especially with the time travel elements being brought into the stories of other games. But no, they're just Pokemon knock offs.
We’re not going to address that specifically the capsmon artwork is the super mystery dungeon artwork with anime characters pasted in
That book has Digimon designs in it too. I noticed Flamon and Lucemon 😅
Hey, I have that 500 Manga Creatures book... and yes it is hilarious to see the "not Pokemon" in it.
Oh boy Greg, there are plenty more bootlegs that are surfacing and making traction as running gags.
Super Fighter M is a Smash bootleg featuring almost all of the Smash characters from various IPs and on top of that, has absurd amount of monetization to further criminalize the application entirely.
Yet Nintendo has not taken this down, it may be some time before it is but given that it was obviously developed in China, its no surprise if it never gets taken down.
alright, I'll check it out .
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He was doing everything in his power not to laugh at that google translate description
So... the defense form there is a bit of a stretch for that 500 Manga Creatures book, but I can kind of...sort of... see where you get the idea. However, the Dugtrio and Quilfish are only missing one or two minor differences from their original counterparts and are far from "inspiration" as they're absolutely more just exact copies anyways.
Digimon need to make a Pokemon go kind of game for cell phone.
So... What is Pokémon???
Mom can we get pokemon? We have pokemon at home! "Pokemon at home"
2:45 The first thing I noticed is the Vigna Ghina armor on the bottom right.
Robopon is actually pretty dope, and I have the physical copy😂😂
At the 4:12 timestamp, an anime girl with a robot armor can be seen. That armor is actually the Vigna Ghina mobile suit from Gundam F91
I used to play a Chinese Pokémon knockoff that was really fun. Can't remember the name, but people called it a Pokémon GO knockoff despite it not focusing on actually moving around or throwing balls/orbs to collect creatures