Shilo

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It's hard to claim parody when you outright use the various "pokemon" names, looks, etc, in such a way as to possibly offend. Nintendo has an intellectual property (IP) in Pokemon, and this game could have caused harm to that property if those holier than thou types had gotten wind of it. It's bad enough their little darlings could see kids and monsters getting along, but then to see them with cocks and fucking? OMG, the sky is falling, it's the end of days, etc.

I say that tongue in cheek, but that is exactly the kind of arguments that Nintendo would make, and a jury would find in their favor every time. Plus, if you don't defend your IP, future usage of it gets harder to defend. Pokemon is an insanely profitable IP, so of course they will defend it.

There's a book series available on Amazon called "Catch All the Girlfriends", and it is much more parody-ish than this game is, and contains graphic descriptions of sex between the "trainer" and the "girlfriends". Nintendo wouldn't be able to go after it easily, since the author doesn't use any Pokemon names, etc. If the game author did the same thing by bypassing the IP of Nintendo, he'd have been fine.
Yeah, probably the only way to go about an outright IP infringement such as this from the dev's point of view would have been to silently work on the project for years, never telling anyone about it, and then release the finished product out of the blue (ideally even without linking anything to your own person) and hope that it spreads through the internet enough before anyone can react to it. Similar to how things went with "Another Metroid 2 Remake" and "Pokemon Uranium".
But most developers won't forego the Patreon money or even just the publicity during the development phase. And so those projects die early on.
 

RustyV

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Dec 30, 2017
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Nintendo has deep pockets.
It's best to let it be.
 
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