Not Massive: Microsoft Hosts Bootleg Pokemon Game


It’s Pokemon. Pokemon.

Microsoft is really angling for a lawsuit from Nintendo. If you head over to the Microsoft store you can play a Pokemon game. It calls itself Capsmon Adventure: Brave Heroes Assemble, but it is Pokemon. Not even a vague ripoff, just Pokemon.

Capsmon Adventure was developed by a completely legitimate company called “ANIME GAMES” and describes itself as “Capsmon Adventure is a capsule-monster collection game with cute cartoon figures and beautiful and delicate scene, which provides you with lots of fun when exploring the fantastic Capsmon world!” The artwork is just Pokemon images superimposed over a really crappy looking Chinese ripoff title.

The game just uses Pokemon art. Now I couldn’t get the app working on my PC but a one star review on the store page says that there is no actual gameplay. The game plays itself and the player is simply managing available resources which can be bought with microtransactions. Shoddy mobile port? Check. Shady developer using stolen assets? Check. Game doesn’t work? Check.

Check out Capsmon here before Nintendo’s lawyers beat Microsoft like a pinata. One might hope that Microsoft would be paying the slightest attention to the game it hosts on its store, but I guess that’s too much to ask.

Source: Nintendo Life