>>55541909Just play the game, dear schizo. There's an ending where you abandon the city and leave everyone, including Cynthia, to die in the hurricane.
>>55541916The question of "is it legal" is pointless because of how broken out copyright system is. You could make a game that's 100% within the realm of fair use and still have a company send their lawyers after you. What are you going to do, hire your own law firm to make your case in court? You can't afford that. Even if you're 100% in the right, you have to do what the bullies say because you can't fight them. Justice is for the ones who can afford it.
But okay, to actually answer your question, if you accept donations through ko-fi or paypal or whatever, it doesn't necessarily have to be for any one specific thing. Say you make a VN using art assets from pokemonfan2007 or whatever, but you also write fanfic, make youtube videos, and do other things on the internet. If pokemonfan2007 finds out about it and tells Ko-Fi, "this person stole my art so you should shut them down," they're going to ignore him. As long as your donation page isn't specifically for that one single project, you're fine.
If you're directly charging money for the product, that's a different story. Now you're selling access to a thing that includes other people's property, and pokemonfan2007 has a stronger leg to stand on to call you a thief. But now you have bigger problems because you've made something using Nintendo's IP, and you're trying to sell it as yours. That's playing with fire. You might be safe under parody laws (which Nintendo has never respected but nevermind that) if what you're doing can be interpreted as an obvious satire of the pokemon setting, but if you just straight-up made "a pokemon game" you have no protection. If you game also has the word "pokemon" in the title, you're going to be in even more trouble because now you're stepping into the realm of trademark law, and there's no protection for parody there.
