>>55271237Some of the people that worked on Mother 2 went on to work on Pokemon, on top of that, 1 /3 of The Pokemon Company is made up of Creatures Inc, alongside Game Freak and Nintendo to make the other 2/3
Creatures Inc was made as a successor to Ape Inc, with staff going over to Creatures
So in a lot of ways you can view Pokemon as a spiritual successor to the Mother series, arguably Red and Mewtwo could be seen as extremely loosely based on Ninten/Ness and Giegue/Giygas, but I highly doubt that was intentional
Pokemon as a whole was created from an interest in collecting bugs irl, and the Dragon Quest series, while the idea of forming a team with monsters originated from the Shin Megami Tensei series
Could also be seen as a nod to their connection that Pokemon Trainer and Lucas are paired up during Brawl's Subspace story mode, but who knows if that was even intentional
