>>56627456What's really funny is that a lot of pokemon knockoffs do the exact same thing, the monsters are just there for their own sake, have little to no agency or relevance to the world at large, and the game could be easily rewritten with the human characters fighting under their own power. The knockoffs inevitably fail or underperform, and yet for some reason pokemon moves closer to its imitators.
The same thing happens with Monster Hunter and its own knockoffs like God Eater and Toukiden. The love and care that goes into creature design and worldbuilding gets ignored in favor of making a nondescript evil force for generic plotlines about human drama.
