The universe is often frighteningly disdainful of mortal existence, specifically if you’re a cutesy Pokémon that’s somehow ended up in a first-person shooter (FPS).
Yes, there’s an unofficial Pokémon FPS now, and it’s every bit hilarious as it sounds. Independent game developer Dragon put together a fan mock-up after reading some memes about a hypothetical Pokémon FPS. Sort of like that Final Fantasy 7 classic camera concept from a few weeks back, only far more cursed. More like fire (away) Pokémon types, am I right?
You can watch a snippet of the fan-made Pokémon FPS below. Pikachu is undoubtedly grateful that this isn’t official, unless they want to end up on our best shooters of all time list eventually.
Last month I started working on developing a Pokémon First Person Shooter. #IndieGameDev #pokemon pic.twitter.com/dZZTuYWq22
— Dragon (@Dragon_GameDev2) January 17, 2022
The small team of fans behind this went into some detail on YouTube regarding how they made the mock-up which you can check out here. Dragon even imported models and animations from newer Pokémon games into the Unreal Engine to add that authentic flavor.
All snark aside, it’s neat that fans put this much work into a jokey concept. There have been 19 Pokémon games in the past 25 years, and the hype for the series isn’t dying down anytime soon. Not with Pokémon Legends: Arceus out so soon, anyway.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
