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[Martin]

It wasn't a ripoff...You weren't encouraged to CATCH EM ALL, battle gym leaders, drug your monster up, etc...
It shared similarities, but is every monster fighting minigame a pokemon rip-off?
FFVs Beastmaster is a pokemon rip-off!(wait a minute...)

Sir, I think you should walk in the railway for a while and let a train DESTROY YOU.


Pokemon IS THE WIN! Along with FF!! So you mix both and what you get?; A chocobo inside a pokeball

[Impulse]

Sir, I think you should walk in the railway for a while and let a train DESTROY YOU.


Pokemon IS THE WIN! Along with FF!! So you mix both and what you get?; A chocobo inside a pokeball

...I wish I could have a chocobo inside a Pokeball.
Let's work together to make this reality!

[Enrei]

Sir, I think you should walk in the railway for a while and let a train DESTROY YOU.


Pokemon IS THE WIN! Along with FF!! So you mix both and what you get?; A chocobo inside a pokeball

Er...what? I like Pokemon a lot, I was just making a joke with the FFV thing, since FFV was out before Pokemon, yet allowed you to use a monster to fight a monster, and the beastmaster class had to use something like Pokeballs in order to carry around those huge monsters!

I guess it depends on your perspective?? both the LSes on the servers I was on called it a ripoff of Pokemon

Time to form your own opinion. Do you think it was a Pokemon rip-off? Do you think they sat down and said "LET'S COPY POKEMON, YESSSS!"? Square Enix owns the rights to a little series called Dragon Quest Monsters, which started way back on the GameBoy, maybe they wanted to reincarnate that into an FF minigame.