Wednesday, April 14, 2021

No. 877: Morepeko

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Time for another regional Pika-clone. This one has Doraemon pockets and a bifurcated colorscheme like Monokuma. Also it has the body shape of a Minion.

When its belly is empty it gets Hangry and changes form, but the only gameplay difference is that its signature move becomes Dark-type instead of Electric.

Last gen we had Mimikyu, who was the resident Pika-clone while also having a fun gimmick and a fantastic design concept. Morepeko is mildly gimmicky and that's better than not being anything at all besides a fruitless effort to capture the Pikachu Appeal, (the Pikappeal, if you will) but I still don't like it much. Attaching it to Marnie in an attempt to siphon some of her popularity didn't work, it's just kind of dumb and useless.

Morepeko? how about LESSpeko, thank you.


Overall: 3/10

3 comments:

  1. When I saw the "morph" in Morpeko's name, for a second I thought that its gimmick was transforming in all the other Pikaclones.

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  2. Mimikyu is not really the pikaclone of the last gen though. Togedemaru is. Mimikyu is kind of its own thing.

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  3. Year late but It's actually Morpeko not Morepeko

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