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[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 54 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

For reference, the allegedly infringing patents are these:

[-] Grangle1@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

So the first two seem to deal with throwing a capture item at a creature (wild pokemon) and/or releasing a character's own creature to fight it (essentially first seen in Legends Arceus, tossing a ball at a pokemon to aggro it and then fighting it with your pokemon). The third one is, as others have said, Mount transitions (at least in pokemon, also first seen in Legends Arceus if you only count ride pokemon; if vehicles are included I believe the first would be Sword/Shield). Though if vehicles are included Nintendo would have a hard time fighting that one. Vehicle transformation, especially in racing games, has been around forever.

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