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Dominik Pretty sure I could "switch mounts in the air" from my insect glaive to a monster in Monster Hunter World. So no, that wouldn't hold up either.

As far as capturing creatures using a device? Maybe not a ball, sure. Digimon, Cassette Beasts, SMT...

Even trying to patent it is scummy. Sloptendo deserves to fail after intentionally under serving fans and now trying to overly monetize every single fraction of the game they THINK they can get away with. They took all the WRONG lessons from Bungie.

I'll never buy another Pokémon game at this rate. Couldn't even bother finishing Scarlet once I got to that one final area. The quality isn't there, and they're only being greedy to defend their IP. Otherwise - TemTem, Nexomon, they had years and years and years to sue other creature collectors. They're just throwing a pissy toddler fit because Palworld did even better.

And if you're gonna lick the corpo boots unrepentantly and defend this kind of behavior from the LARGEST MEDIA FRANCHISE IN THE WORLD, I might be done with The Best War Games, too.