In the early 2000s, a game called Bistro Recipe was released. It's similar to Pokémon in that there are 180 different monsters to collect. However, all the monsters are actually food, with things called Recipe Cards/Meal Tickets being used to turn them to life.
Later, an anime was made called Foodon Fighters.
A wiki for Bistro Recipe is here (
http://fightingfoodons.wikia.com) however, it's mostly dead and there isn't much information.
Back in 2015, a thread was made about this (
https://archive.nyafuu.org/vp/thread/23224177), shedding some more light on the game.
Bistro Recipe is obviously bigger in Japan than here since iirc it never got a Western release, so there's a small amount of nippon sites there too.
I'd like to give the Foodon Fighters another game, replacing 180 mons in Emerald with them. However, it'd be great if there was support from the community with this too. We could replace the moves in the games, give the Foodons their custom types, give them neat stats, which would make them work better with Pokémon's engine.
What would you say? Am I crazy for wanting to revive a dead set of monsters?
