As part of PETA’s new campaign to promote public awareness about fantasy Japanese creature combat, the animal-rights group has launched a parody game of Pokémon: Black and White 2.
PETA has apparently decided that Pokémon treats its hybrid (and completely unreal) creatures like captive animals.
“The amount of time that Pokémon spend stuffed in pokeballs is akin to how elephants are chained up in train carts, waiting to be let out to ‘perform’ in circuses,” PETA wrote on its official website. “But the difference between real life and this fictional world full of organized animal fighting is that Pokémon games paint rosy pictures of things that are actually horrible.”
Pokémon Black & Blue: Gotta Free ‘Em All embodies this anti-Pokemon campaign to its fullest, by turning the tables and letting players play as Pokémon, escape captivity, and fight the trainers themselves.
Players are given choices about how to “use attacks to exploit a Trainer’s weakness,” including group hugs, protests, quick attack, and thundershock.
Whether PETA is stretching its arm a bit far going after Pokémon, or whether the group has a really subtle sense of humour is debatable. Either way, go get revenge on Pikachu’s evil trainer.
Source: PETA
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“The amount of time that Pokémon spend stuffed in pokeballs is akin to how elephants are chained up in train carts”. Yeah, sure, ’cause they know what goes on inside a pokéball…