Pokémon-esque

English Alternative forms en Pokémonesque Etymology en :af Pokémon -esque 1 + Adjective Pokémon-esque,Pokémon-esque Resembling or characteristic of the Pokémon franchise or the creatures featured in it. en Spin April 2001 70 Haddock’s online project, titled “Screenshots”(whitelead.com/jrh/screenshots), uses the poppy, Pokémon-esque style of kiddie computer games to re-create some of the most incendiary scenes in recent memory (the Columbine killers in the cafeteria, the Rodney King beating, Elián and the feds). en Transformers w:GamesTM 2004 084 https://archive.org/details/gamestm-au-13-2004/page/5/mode/1up 1448-2606 While old-school fans might believe that the whole Armada setting manages to desecrate our fond childhood memories of the original series by changing virtually everything (‘Megatron, a tank? That’s rubbish!’), Transformers turns this negative into a pretty convincing positive thanks to those damn Minicons – the small and almost Pokémon[-]esque robots that seem to be so important to today’s transforming machine. en Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales Edge June 2007 92 https://archive.org/details/Edge_Gaming/Edge%20Gaming%20Magazine%20176/page/92/mode/1up Cards, collected around the map, are used to send Pokémon-esque monsters into battle. en A. Fitch Folklore w:Electronic Gaming Monthly 222 December 2007 110 https://archive.org/details/electronic-gaming-monthly-issue-222-december-2007/page/110/mode/1up Fantastical beasties from authentic Celtic lore serve as Pokémon-esque companions on the duo’s intertwining quest, so the monster-wrangling is both addicting and educational here. en PlayStation: The Official Magazine September 2009 48 https://archive.org/details/playstation-magazine-issue-23-september-2009/page/n49/mode/1up Did you know that the world is absolutely teeming with tiny monsters that are invisible to the naked eye? Oh, it’s totally true. Fortunately, a Sony scientist recently discovered that the PSP camera can detect these Pokémon-esque creatures just fine. en Aaron Feinstein We Don’t Want to Fit in: A Reflection on the Revolutionary Inclusive Theater Practices of The Miracle Project and Actionplay for Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum Peter Smagorinsky Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth: Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development w:Palgrave Macmillan 2016 140 978-1-137-54796-5 Ari played a Pokémon-esque character in our musical performance. en w:Chris Stuckmann Anime Impact: The Movies and Shows That Changed the World of Japanese Animation w:Mango Publishing 2018 978-1-63353-732-3 Their take on the way Techodes work reminds of a Pokémon-esque feel to a mecha-centered story. en Matt Alt Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World New York, N.Y. Crown 2020 2021 226 978-1-9848-2671-8 It was a business success the likes of which Nintendo had never dreamed—not at first, anyway—but it was also something more: a truly Pokémon-esque moment, in which Japan the nation evolved into Japan the fantasy superpower. en Daniel Dockery Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All w:Running Press 2022 9780762479511 In Japan, it had to settle for the silver medal, with the top spot occupied by a Yu-Gi-Oh! game, one that used Pokémon-esque tactics to propel its record breaking to boot. en w:Randall Munroe What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions w:Riverhead Books 2022 135–136 9780525537113 If you put a million hungry ants in a glass cube with one human, who’s more likely to walk out alive? —Eric Bowman / Everyone always assumes that if you put two animals together like this, they’ll battle to the death, which is a very Pokémon-esque view of biology. en terms containing italics en Pokémon