Think about A Pokémon Recreation Based mostly On Ken Sugimori’s Authentic Artwork

Think about a world during which somebody took Ken Sugimori’s unique Pokémon artwork and introduced it to life with animation. After which, on this fantastic idyll, somebody took inspiration from this fanart, and developed a 3D Pokémon recreation primarily based on it. And simply to make certain, this developer would have already constructed an engine for creating Pokémon-inspired video games. Clearly we will’t stay on this world, as a result of Nintendo would miserably crush it, however simply think about.

If I have been imagining such a factor, the thought presumably planted in my mind by GamesRadar, I’d start with the extraordinary fanart of pokeyugami, who would create cute animations exhibiting how the earliest Pokémon video games would look have been they 3D and primarily based on the artwork of unique Pokémon TCG card designer, Ken Sugimori. In my head, it could look one thing like this:

Or possibly like this:

What I’d then do, purely speculatively after all, is decide studio Yanako RPGs to see these clips, which might be impressed by them to develop a full recreation primarily based on the idea. I’d select Yanako RPGs, as a result of it could be the developer behind MonMae, an open supply engine that enables anybody to make their very own monster-collecting recreation, which can be growing a recreation throughout the engine, Dokimon. I imply, that identify would clearly be far too on-the-nose and get a developer sued into the solar, nevertheless it’s simply what my creativeness got here up with within the second. I’d undoubtedly keep in mind to give you one thing multiple letter off a multi-billion franchise earlier than I launched such a recreation for God’s sake.

In my thoughts, it will get declared with a tweet like this:

The sport can be created utilizing the identical watercolor artwork, but additionally implement concepts from the more moderen Pokémon video games, in addition to being impressed by Pokémon Black & White 2.

Positive, it’d be beautiful if any of this might really occur, however given Nintendo’s repute for releasing its rabid authorized hounds at anybody who even seems to be at them humorous (thus illegally reflecting their copyrighted artworks of their eyeballs), it must stay my fantasy.