What would you think of a Pokemon style squid game spinoff?

[FakeNate0]

I know, a bit tacky. What would you think if Nintendo or a separate fangame community were to create a squid game clone, but for trainers or their Pokemon, no deaths obviously. I know Nintendo will never create or accept anything like that, it goes into fangame territory and Nintendo doing takedowns and all. I'll delete this comment if it's a bad idea. (PS. Thought of this after seeing some profiles on another Pokemon website changing their profile pics to squid game characters.)

 

[Hands]

It's too off brand honestly

 

[PoryKid575]

I think it would be too jarring, even without deaths, Squid Game is supposed to be a critique of capitalism (particularly the extreme form of it found in South Korea) / the way our societies exploit the desperation of the poor. Setting it in the Pokemon world, a world that appears to functionally be a utopia, would remove that context. What would be the motivation for trainers to stay in the Squid Game? Healthcare seems to be free, and at least personally I wouldn't be in a hurry to drink / gamble out of misery if I had a BFF in a Pokemon.

 

[Devalue]

(Disclaimer: Never watched Squid Game. Learned enough via cultural osmosis.)

Depends how far you can deviate and still be called a clone. Wipes away the dystopian part, obviously. Imagines a bunch of Pokemon competing for a spot in their trainer's Elite Four team. Replaces death with knocking Pokemon out. Never shied away from knocking Pokemon out in the mainline games. Copies a battle royale game like Fall Guys from there. Still feels a little off from the usual emphasis on friendship, but not that far.

Taps into something like the Pokeathlon (from Heartgold/SoulSilver) or even Pokemon Stadium minigames, alternatively. Do not forget some of the competitions throughout the anime either. Remembers a Pokemon race in the anime and a water race in one of the movies. Models a minigame after some of those easily enough.





Would not be interested personally, however. Never cared for multiplayer games, including battle royale games.

 

[FakeNate0]

I was thinking somewhere around those lines too alongside the mini games. I remembered vaguely in the advanced arc of the anime there was a Pokemon escape room like maze with "dangerous obstacles" for a months worth of poke blocks or a similar prize. Team rocket was sabotaging Ash, his friends, other competitors, and even the said sabotaging backfired on themselves, despite the fact they stole the prize. Pikachu, like always saved the day and the prize from team rocket. All these examples pre date squid game. But as mentioned by user porykid, squid game, is a commentary on extreme form of capitalism exploiting the poor. I don't know if squid game is more similar to the Jigsaw challenges from Saw "horror competition" franchise then anything, to traumatize and or kill their contestants. This goes off topic though, and now upon closer inspection wouldn't reflect Pokemons values or political movements. It would be interesting if this was the way they decided the new E4 in gen 10, but there is absolutely no problem with how the design team decides the NPCs and their teams. It would be a nightmare if the E4 and champion were designed off real life competitive players and would make the games more inaccessible to new and casual players, I probably wouldn't make the top 1000 or 10000. (I'm being generous with how bad I am, and will probably rank 997861 in an actual Pokemon competition.)