WARNING: If you don't want to raeg, don't read any further. Seriously.
I actually subjected myself to this entire game. Not only is the game design shitty (you battle four people with a cutscene in between where you get scripted "hidden" treasures that aren't really hidden at all), but it's disturbing as fuck. The trainers you battle all have psychotic grins on their faces and their clothes are bloodstained. One man even wears a cloak made out of Pokémon skin, with their empty faces stitched onto the cloak. Even Nurse Joy (who has supposedly decided to join your cause after seeing the abuse Pokémon face) has bloodstains on her hat, and I seriously don't know why, considering she's one of the good guys but does absolutely nothing but show up once and disappear. She doesn't even heal you.
Oh, and the gore doesn't extend to the enemies. The Pokémon themselves are battered, bloody, and show signs of injury and abuse. Pikachu has bandages and a piece of his ear torn out. Snivy still has a syringe sticking out of its body. Oshawott has been shaved from the neck down. Tepig is covered in bruises.
For fuck's sake, even the surroundings are covered in blood. It looks like a war zone. The trees have bloodstains just thrown haphazardly on them as if a tomato truck exploded there a few moments ago. For some reason, there are barb-wire fences everywhere that also have mangled bits of bloody flesh in them. Also, there are so many (bloody!) bear traps scattered on the ground that one wonders if they are not planted by humans, but rather springing up from the ground like some sort of fucked-up Venus flytrap.
Oh, and those "treasure chests" contain nothing but videos of factory farms, wallpaper of the game, and the like. One of them contains a Mudkip, and a reference to the actual meme ensues. It's awkward and horrible. If you thought the "so i herd u liek mudkipz" meme couldn't get any worse... it just did. PETA got their grubby hands on it.
The final boss in this game is Ash Ketchum, who is apparently your former trainer. (However, Pikachu starts the game by escaping from another trainer of his, which implies that perhaps he were traded or something... I don't know.) Some extremely out-of-character dialogue ensues. (Did I mention that all the Pokémon in this game can talk with humans?) Ash Ketchum, in defiance of everything we know about his character, says that he only cares about making money as a performer in the "Pokémon Battle Entertainment Industry" and that he does not care about Pikachu's well-being. After you beat him, he repents and proceeds to carry out Pikachu's plan of hacking the broadcasts in Unova to display PETA propaganda.
By the way, the battle system is a butchered version of the original. Each Pokémon who joins your party (there are four) has two moves lifted directly from the game, and then two "PETA"-themed moves that were especially designed for this shitload of fuck. The PETA moves are largely useless, but their names carry extremely unfortunate implications. One of Tepig's PETA moves is called "Shame," implying that PETArds should shame the opposition into disagreeing with them. It gets worse: one of Oshawott's PETA moves is called "Recruit," but instead of persuading the foe, it summons your cronies to attack the foe for you. Yes, PETA just used Pokémon to advocate mob attacks as a way of forcing people to agree to your agenda. (Pikachu's PETA moves are "Group Hug" and "Protest," and I remember that one of Snivy's PETA moves is "Educate," which basically consists of throwing papers at the enemy, which also raises your Defense... somehow.) Oh, and there is no Items screen or "run" screen either, not that you need it; the fights are incredibly easy. Part of this is because switching out Pokémon does not seem to take up an entire turn (though I may be wrong about this, and I sure as hell am not playing this shit again).
