{"id":45607,"date":"2012-10-09T10:54:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T08:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=45607"},"modified":"2012-10-09T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T08:56:06","slug":"peta-pokes-pokemon-with-parody-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/45607-peta-pokes-pokemon-with-parody-game","title":{"rendered":"PETA pokes Pok\u00e9mon with parody game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of PETA\u2019s new campaign to promote public awareness about fantasy Japanese creature combat, the animal-rights group has launched a parody game of Pok\u00e9mon: Black and White 2.<\/p>\n<p>PETA has apparently decided that Pok\u00e9mon treats its hybrid (and completely unreal) creatures like captive animals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amount of time that Pok\u00e9mon spend stuffed in pokeballs is akin to how elephants are chained up in train carts, waiting to be let out to &#8216;perform&#8217; in circuses,&#8221; PETA wrote on its official <a href=\"http:\/\/features.peta.org\/pokemon-black-and-white-parody\/\">website<\/a>. &#8220;But the difference between real life and this fictional world full of organized animal fighting is that Pok\u00e9mon games paint rosy pictures of things that are actually horrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon Black &amp; Blue: Gotta Free &#8216;Em All embodies this anti-Pokemon campaign to its fullest, by turning the tables and letting players play as Pok\u00e9mon, escape captivity, and fight the trainers themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Players are given choices about how to &#8220;use attacks to exploit a Trainer&#8217;s weakness,&#8221; including group hugs, protests, quick attack, and thundershock.<\/p>\n<p>Whether PETA is stretching its arm a bit far going after Pok\u00e9mon, or whether the group has a really subtle sense of humour is debatable. Either way, go <a href=\" http:\/\/features.peta.org\/pokemon-black-and-white-parody\/\" target=\"_blank\">get revenge<\/a> on Pikachu\u2019s evil trainer.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/features.peta.org\/pokemon-black-and-white-parody\/\" target=\"_blank\">PETA<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45465-world-of-warcraft-hackers-kill-thousands-of-players-instantly.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>World of WarCraft hackers kill thousands of players instantly<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45445-games-you-can-play-this-week-24.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Games you can play this week<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45274-fifa-13-vs-pes-2013-who-scored-most.html\">FIFA 13 vs PES 2013 \u2013 who scored most?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45266-big-games-of-october-2012.html\">Big games of Octob<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45266-big-games-of-october-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">er 2012<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45344-dishonored-pre-order-price-roundup.html\">Dishonored pre-order price roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45307-resident-evil-6-divides-critics-evolving-or-infected.html\">Resident Evil 6 divides critics: evolving or infected?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotta catch all those nasty Pok\u00e9man trainers and make them pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":45608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,7083,321,777,7084,7081,7082],"class_list":["post-45607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-people-for-the-ethical-treatment-of-animals","tag-peta","tag-pokemon","tag-pokemon-black-and-blue","tag-pokemon-black-and-white","tag-pokemon-parody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}