Pokémon-esque

comparative more Pokémon-esque · superlative most Pokémon-esque · alternative Pokémonesque

1. Resembling or characteristic of the Pokémon franchise or the creatures featured in it.

   Ari played a Pokémon-esque character in our musical performance.

   2016, Aaron Feinstein, “We Don’t Want to Fit in: A Reflection on the Revolutionary Inclusive Theater Practices of The Miracle Project and Actionplay for Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum”, in Peter Smagorinsky, editor, Creativity and Community among Autism-Spectrum Youth: Creating Positive Social Updrafts through Play and Performance (Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 140

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   Haddock’s online project, titled “Screenshots”(whitelead.com/jrh/screenshots), uses the poppy, Pokémon-esque style of kiddie computer games to re-create some of the most incendiary scenes in recent memory (the Columbine killers in the cafeteria, the Rodney King beating, Elián and the feds).

   2001 April, Spin, page 70

   While old-school fans might believe that the whole Armada setting manages to desecrate our fond childhood memories of the original series by changing virtually everything (‘Megatron, a tank? That’s rubbish!’), Transformers turns this negative into a pretty convincing positive thanks to those damn Minicons – the small and almost Pokémon[-]esque robots that seem to be so important to today’s transforming machine.

   2004, “Transformers”, in GamesTM, →ISSN, page 084

   Cards, collected around the map, are used to send Pokémon-esque monsters into battle.

   2007 June, “Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales”, in Edge, page 92

   Fantastical beasties from authentic Celtic lore serve as Pokémon-esque companions on the duo’s intertwining quest, so the monster-wrangling is both addicting and educational here.

   2007 December, A. Fitch, “Folklore”, in Electronic Gaming Monthly, number 222, page 110

   Did you know that the world is absolutely teeming with tiny monsters that are invisible to the naked eye? Oh, it’s totally true. Fortunately, a Sony scientist recently discovered that the PSP camera can detect these Pokémon-esque creatures just fine.

   2009 September, PlayStation: The Official Magazine, page 48