The developers of this Pocket Mortys game are cunningly exploiting the Nintendo franchise to the fullest, taking advantage of the fact that the company has suspended, if not halted, the release of Pokémon-themed games. Pocket Mortys is based on the Cartoon Network’s Rick and Morty animated series. It’s worth remembering that this series is not at all a children’s show.
Moreover, it is strongly recommended that children, especially impressionable children, should not watch it. The series is about the adventures of mad scientist Rick and his grandson Morty in a set of parallel universes, in each of which they created no small problems and not always “cleaned up” after themselves.
The creators of the game have taken the core concept of the animated series as their starting point: there are countless universes, therefore there are countless Rick and Morty. And gamers are invited to take a journey into this hilarious madness.
This game doesn’t just resemble the famous series of games. There is reason to speak of direct quotation. First of all, the similarities are noticeable in the geography of levels and combat mechanics. The main task of the gamer playing as Rick is to gather as many of Morty’s incarnations as possible and prepare them for the battles against enemies, which in this case are other incarnations of Rick living in different universes.
When creating the incarnations of Morty the imagination of the developers was on full swing. Throughout the game we’ll come across the embryo Morty, the skinless Morty, the mustachioed Morty, and many other equally impressive variations. It’s worth noting, though, that the game’s graphics are designed with a sense of proportion, and the characters aren’t as creepy as they could be, judging by their names.
The main challenge the game’s developers set the user is to defeat all members of the Council of Ricks. These are the five level bosses. But to get the right to fight each of them you must defeat many other enemies in intermediate battles, so-called local bosses that are also Reeks, but less powerful.
At the same time you have to improve your army and look for new recruits for Morty’s army. The main game unit for measuring success is special badges. There are also victory points and in-game currency, cleverly dubbed ‘shmeekli’. These can be spent on a variety of equipment and on vital to the game’s characters first-aid kits.
The game’s combat mechanics are fairly straightforward, almost replicating those of the Pokémon games. The characters have active and passive skills, through which they fight.
There is also a very interesting feature which can be used to temporarily ‘sculpt’ one more powerful character out of several Morty characters.
By some misunderstanding, the game creators have ignored Mortyballs. For this reason the game resembles the classic Serpentine while travelling.
We can’t help but mention another nice bonus for users: the absence of ads. So fans of the Rick and Morty series as well as Pokémon fans should be pleased with the game.