VIDEO: Instead of catching them all, isn’t it about time we freed them all?

Matt Hawkins Contributing Writer, Video Games

The time to acknowledge the rights of Pokemon is now.

When you get down to it, the whole nature of Pokemon is fairly insidious. It’s about running around the wilderness, encountering wild animals, beating them down with their own kind, to the point that they can no longer defend themselves, capturing them, and then adding them to your slave army.

Sure you’re always told that bonds of friendship is borne from such a relationship, but that’s total hogwash; the nature of the game forces you to concentrate on a Pokeman that fills the bill at hand, i.e. whomever the opponent is in your never-ending bloodlust for gym badges. Sure Squirtle is cute and all, but he’s not equipped for every single match, so sooner or later, back to the line buddy.

On that note, from the same folks who produced video above is their prior production, also Pokemon related, practically a prequel of sorts…

If Pokémon Aren’t Slaves, Then Why Do You Call Yourselves Masters? [Kotaku]

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