>>51168484yokai watch sucks. the towns in the games are fun but the yokais are all recolors and ugly ones at that. the few cute ones are useless healers, aside from waifus which may as well just be human characters and dont count towards the "creature" design rating. i made it through the first season(?) of the anime but dropped it a few eps into the introduction of the female protag/space bunny, i just realized i wasnt enjoying it at all.
the majority of digimon dont appeal to my taste in design either but at least they look like monsters and its fun to play. i love evo trees being available to virtually any digimon.
i dont consider them ripoffs just giving my opinion. the indie ripoffs i wish did better because i like playing monster games in general, but either the graphics end up being shit or the designs do. its always either failure to be super edgy and outperform pokemon, or tumblr users making uwu softcore games that look like garbage (more often the player character than the creatures, but it affects my interest the same way)
solar light and lunar dark has been my favorite pokemon "ripoff" so far. the only one i liked, if it counts
