Poke-Clones (pokemon ripoffs) - Cheap knockoffs of everyone's favorite monster collecting game

[Nauseated Courgi]

Pokemon is a game that doesn't need any introduction (especially considering recent events), but what about it's many lesser clones?

I'm sure some of you have seen at least one of them. Games trying to imitate the franchise, but they always seem to get something about their originator wrong or try to poorly disguise what their copying (renaming typings being a common example).

My example of a Poke-clone game would have to be the Roblox game Loomian Legacy.



A quick background of this game. Before this game was around, there was a game prior to it called Pokemon Brick Bronze. It was a pokemon fangame on Roblox that was pretty popular among it's user base. One day, of course, Nintendo's lawyers came around and did what they always do and got that game shut down. A year or two later, that same creator for the game came around and made this one.

It's pretty standard affair for a Not-Pokemon game. Some typings given different names (Fairy being called "Light", Flying being called "Air"), some fakemon designs being clear knockoffs of pokemon in the original games. It even has their version of shadow pokemon (or "Corrupted Loomians"). The only difference about this one is that the combat system uses an energy mechanic for moves instead of PP (kinda of like a certain Pokeclone) and all the Fakemon have 3D Models instead of them being 2D sprites.

Now what do you guys got?

 

[NerdShamer]

Don't we already have an thread on Temtems?

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

Don't we already have an thread on Temtems?

This thread is more for general pokemon clones than just Temtem.

 

[NerdShamer]

This thread is more for general pokemon clones than just Temtem.

Well, it's the biggest clone around, nowadays. But even that resembles an failure. Besides, I mostly have old shit on dinosaurs biting each other.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

Crystal Monsters was a basic, yet surprisingly interestingly written game on the DSI e-shop. It was about how only certain people can see these monsters in the first place, and are kind of hated for it.
I’d honestly recommend it if you like Pokémon, just because it’s a take on it you don’t see that often.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keitai_Denj%C5%AB_Telefang

How about Telefang I've never played it, but it seems ripe to be a Pokemon clone just judgeing by the Wiki page.

 

[SSF2T Old User]

EvoCreo

It's for Mobile Phones but its literally like playing the 2D DS versions of the pokemon games.

 

[An Account]

Isn't a big part of roblox's appeal being able to clone other games in its engine? I know they've got Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2 mods that are decently popular.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

Isn't a big part of roblox's appeal being able to clone other games in its engine? I know they've got Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2 mods that are decently popular.

That and making your own games on them. Although, last I checked a good chunk of them are either Horror games based on popular children TV show characters or Role-playing servers. There are some interesting original games on there every now and then, but it's just a lot of the same stuff.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

There's one on Steam called Monster Sanctuary that's all about 3x3 battles and presented as a sidescroller. It's decent but the capture mechanic is garbage (eggs randomly drop after battles). It's got a couple interesting gimmicks with damage scaling and comboing across the turns of your entire team, though.

 

[Jean Lafitte 1812]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keitai_Denj%C5%AB_Telefang

How about Telefang I've never played it, but it seems ripe to be a Pokemon clone just judgeing by the Wiki page.

They even got bootlegged as Pokemon games back in the day. Pretty good games though if you play the real translation, or the bootleg for laughs.

My favorite back in the day was Dragon Warrior Monsters, but that's less of a direct ripoff. The monster catching mechanics were already in the series, but they made a stand-alone game to ride that sweet Pocket Monster wave.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keitai_Denj%C5%AB_Telefang

How about Telefang I've never played it, but it seems ripe to be a Pokemon clone just judgeing by the Wiki page.

The game is decent, but fandom is so teeny, it literally has a "queen", annoying sjw RacieB (yes, that bitch that ruined Hekixchamber)...but then again, you can simply avoid those people.

 

[Disc]

I don't think we need just a pokemon ripoffs thread, a Temtems thread AND a Pokemon main thread. Not to mention even just starting has had people mention games they're positively interested in, as well.

With Temtem dying down bar probably one last gasp for the Kisiwa, what if we merge this thread and the temtem thread into Mon Games general? @Nauseated Courgi turns the OP of the temtem's thread into a general hello and explanation, we merge the two, and use it to talk about any mon game that isn't Pokemon.

 

[NerdShamer]

I don't think we need just a pokemon ripoffs thread, a Temtems thread AND a Pokemon main thread. Not to mention even just starting has had people mention games they're positively interested in, as well.

With Temtem dying down bar probably one last gasp for the Kisiwa, what if we merge this thread and the temtem thread into Mon Games general? @Nauseated Courgi turns the OP of the temtem's thread into a general hello and explanation, we merge the two, and use it to talk about any mon game that isn't Pokemon.

I'd say keep the temtem thread, because it'll get lost when it's merged.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

I don't think we need just a pokemon ripoffs thread, a Temtems thread AND a Pokemon main thread. Not to mention even just starting has had people mention games they're positively interested in, as well.

With Temtem dying down bar probably one last gasp for the Kisiwa, what if we merge this thread and the temtem thread into Mon Games general? @Nauseated Courgi turns the OP of the temtem's thread into a general hello and explanation, we merge the two, and use it to talk about any mon game that isn't Pokemon.

I'd say keep the temtem thread, because it'll get lost when it's merged.

So do you guys think it's better that this just get removed/fade into obscurity until someone feels like bringing it up again?

 

[NerdShamer]

More or less

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Crystal Monsters was a basic, yet surprisingly interestingly written game on the DSI e-shop. It was about how only certain people can see these monsters in the first place, and are kind of hated for it.
I’d honestly recommend it if you like Pokémon, just because it’s a take on it you don’t see that often.

The DSI shop closed down in 2017. Pretty much impossible to legally get now, sadly.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

The DSI shop closed down in 2017. Pretty much impossible to legally get now, sadly.

No, it’s actually still up on the 3DS shop. A lot of stuff got kind of moved over.

 

[kobox666]

Back in the day you had 3 big monster collecting games: pokemon, Digimon, and Monster Rancher. I have always prefered Monster Rancher over the other two. I feel you had a better conection with your monster, it felt like a being you were breeding, rather than just a collection of stats. I remember in Monster Rancher 2 having a Draco Moochi and how it regularly gave me mud dolls as gifts. Lol, I think my first experience with death, that I remember, was when it died. And messing around with your cds to get new monster was always fun. I wonder if Monster Rancher could ever make a comback? Maybe make it so that it reads your system for other installed games?

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

Thanks to MonsterCrown's
] twitter , I am now aware of like 5 more various mons popping up...my fav is one where 2 out of 3 beasts in twitter header are explicit Digimon ripoffs.

And how Casette Beasts site plaintext complains about/shits on various aspects of Pokemon in few articles.