>>42522869This is a western thing. Japan doesn't treat all monster collection games as "Pokemon clones" and doesn't act like all such games are "rivals" of each other.
Considering all this, it's kinda telling than this incredibly blatant Pokemon clone is a western game. The devs were so drunk on the entire "all monster collection games are Pokemon clones" thing they didn't set out to make a monster collection game, they set out to make a Pokemon clone. And they did.