The name of an RPG video game that was released in 2021 by Bethesda, using pokemon and pokemon battling, but setting it in the context of a harsh, post-apocalyptic setting. The nature of the apocalypse was kept vague, but implied to be the work of a dozen legendary pokemon (among many others) being used in a brutal battle between the forces of Team Rocket, Team Magma, Team Aqua, Team Plasma and Team Galactic fifty six years before the game took place. Decades later, and the pokemon world is still unrecognizeable. Unlike most Pokemon games, this one was rated M for mature, more for the very complicated themes rather than anything graphic onscreen.
Play still centers around pokemon battles, but rather than gym badges and elite four, it's got a narrative story and various sidequests as your character tries to unravel a mystery about the killer of their family, tracking them down and grasping the bigger story at play.
The game as highly controversial in the fanbase, but it has it's supporters, especially for the breadth of the game - every pokemon region can be visited, and each town has vastly more nuance and detail, the game being a truly massive one. But with it's radical departure from conventional pokemon, and it's non-canon status (the liscence was only granted as a result of a very complicated lawsuit involving something else between Nintendo and Bethesda), it was despised by much of the mainstream playerbase of pokemon games.
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