HALF-POKEMON, HALF-BOOTLEG-SIMPSONS AND HALF-ASSED - THIS IS BOOTLEMON: BOOTLEG MONSTERS!

Nine hundred Pokemon and not ONE is a weed leaf?

A quarter-century of Pokemon and NO game for the grown-ups?

Thousands of Pokemon cards and you STILL win fights on coin flips?

Nuts to that. We need a new kind of monster-battle game.

And here it is! BOOTLEMON: BOOTLEG MONSTERS.

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Imagine Pokemon, but in the style of a twisted, early-90's bootleg Simpsons t-shirt. THAT'S BootLemon, in appearance, attitude and absense of innocence!

Why "bootleg?" Because warped, scrawled-out mockeries of Pokemon are more fun to me than the sterile, painfully-polished monsters presented by Game Freak today.

Also, I'm making this game on my own with no money. I know I can't rival Nintendo, so why act like I can?

BootLemon is a cheap imitation of Pokemon, so let's just admit it and OWN the bootleg style! I can't render vivid portraits of my creatures, so why bother? Let's draw them as crappy scribbles and enjoy the crappiness! As long as the monsters are fun, the story is fun and the game is fun, BootLemon can look however it wants to look!

BootLemon will soon be ready at Tabletopia.com for you to play. Unlike Pokemon, BootLemon allows you to alter the types of your monsters turn-by-turn and create shields against attacks that your monsters are most weak against. Fire creatures, for example, won't necessarily be doomed against water attacks anymore, if the player defends their creatures smartly enough!

Whereas the Pokemon Trading Card Game forces monsters to only use their own attacks, BootLemon has an open-skill system that allows every monster to use any attack in the game, provided those monsters' have the right elemental energy in play. The open-skills are randomized though, so those of you who love Pokemon randomizer-roms and want something similar for the Pokemon TGC, look no further than BootLemon!

If BootLemon interests you, tell everyone you know and bring them to this blog! BootLemon needs a community, so let's build one!

Follow this blog to follow BootLemon's development and explore my general thoughts on Pokemon. I plan to review the original Pokemon games, anime and merch-wave, document my nuzlocke and randomizer play-throughs and unload a LOT of musings about where Pokemon is going today.

Can I out-do Pokemon on no money or skill? Follow BootLemon and find out!