Mortasheen (Like Pokemon, But Better In Every Way)

[Emiscary]

http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen.htm

So you ever imagine what Pokemon would be like if real biologists had something to do with how it was written? Or if the premise of what's basically recreational dog-fighting was taken to its logical extreme?

The answer as it turns out, is a sprawling dystopia populated by: mutants, hybrids, the undead & the occasional straight up monster (the average life expectancy of normal humans is what you'd expect it to be). That being said, Mortasheen as a setting isn't that much of a downer. The tone is more reminiscent of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" or "Beetlejuice" than standard gothic horror fare.

As an example, here's what's essentially the author's interpretation of Mew:

http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/necromon.htm

An overgrown (an oddly adorable) biomechanical telepathic nanite with Akira-esque potential for destruction.

Still very much in development, but I've been following it for a while now- and I figure there's gotta be some aging Pokemon geeks here who'd eat it right up.

As a thought experiment, I decided to build a Pokemon style "team" of bioconstructs:

http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/krankenhyde.htm
http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/lester.htm
http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/victrossus.htm
http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/afterspawn.htm
http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/oodoov.htm

(Considering the nature of the setting, I figured I was better off designing a team to take out enemy *trainers* as opposed to monsters. Plus, this way I get to keep all their knowledge when I'm done.)

 

[hazabaza1]

Some fucked up stuff, yo.
But honestly, I think I prefer the cutsey stuff that Pokemon has going for it.

 

[Emiscary]

Some fucked up stuff, yo.
But honestly, I think I prefer the cutsey stuff that Pokemon has going for it.

There's no shame in that ma'am.



(I'll take a moment to point out the fact that I'm kidding. I find outside Canadians/The British it's not safe to assume people will get sarcasm. Especially in text >.>)

Also this:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/482060

Just because you're fucked up doesn't preclude you from being cutesy.

 

[Leemaster777]

Some fucked up stuff, yo.
But honestly, I think I prefer the cutsey stuff that Pokemon has going for it.

Agreed. A for effort, but I think I'll stick with my cutsey pocket battle monsters, thank you very much.

 

[Terminate421]

That is not better than Pokemon in anyway.

Hell, it's worse than that Facebook game which STOLE pokemon designs.

 

[SoranMBane]

I've been following this for a while too, and it's definitely one of the few tabletop games I'd actually consider playing. I just love how demented some of them can be while still being endearing in their own messed up ways. Personally, I'd say Hemogobble [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/hemogobble.htm] is my favourite monster:

Spoiler

 

[Emiscary]

I've been following this for a while too, and it's definitely one of the few tabletop games I'd actually consider playing. I just love how demented some of them can be while still being endearing in their own messed up ways. Personally, I'd say Hemogobble [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/hemogobble.htm] is my favourite monster:

Spoiler

How can anyone look at that goofy drinking bird-lookin' doofus and not fall in love?

Oh, and for all you squeamish kids clamoring to play with another brightly colored dragon that comes in 3 progressively more ostentatious shapes ('evolutions') & a 1 word vocabulary?

I give you Depraven:

http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/depraven.htm

Yeah, that's a flying tentacle rapist. It combines the best features of a crow, a phoenix, and a facehugger. It likes to get in your head before it gets all up inside you

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Great, now I probably won't sleep tonight...

 

[Hazy992]

What's that sound? Oh right, it's just the sound of my childhood dying

 

[piinyouri]

Wouldn't play it but those designs are fantastically bizarre.

 

[Emiscary]

What's that sound? Oh right, it's just the sound of my childhood dying

My childhood & Slashriek respond by laughing derisively at you.

Spoiler

http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/slashriek.htm

(Anyone who's horror trope savvy should get a chuckle out of the above.)

 

[Hazy992]

What's that sound? Oh right, it's just the sound of my childhood dying

My childhood & Slashriek respond by laughing derisively at you.

Spoiler

http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/slashriek.htm

(Anyone who's horror trope savvy should get a chuckle out of the above.)

D: You heartless monster
There is no God!

 

[Emiscary]

Spoiler

http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/madcap.htm

(Because it's contextually appropriate.)

 

[Strain42]

I clicked on this topic expecting to come in, yell "BLASPHEMY, HOW COULD YOU EVEN SUGGEST SUCH A THING!?" and Fly out of here on my Archeops while I play Pokemon Yellow to get my Growlithe to level 50 so he can learn Flamethrower before I evolve him.

...and I think I'll still do that, but I'll go ahead and try to say something productive on top of that.

For starters, I like that Mew thing, and I kinda like that Voodoo doll one, but most of these seem unnecessarily grotesque. Like the designer was trying too hard to make them seem unappealing.

I guarantee you that after I'm done here, I'll probably go onto that site and spend some time looking through every single design on that site.

But I do disagree with the title (which I can only assume you phrased that way to be hyperbolic and lure people like me here out of curiosity)

This is apparently a pen and paper style game. I will say this, if the people working on this game ever make this into an actual Pokemon style game, I will most definitely check it out. But for right now, it's got a long way to go.

But I wish it luck. I'm always in support of more monster taming games that AREN'T just directly ripping off Pokemon (like MinoMonsters for iOS devices)

Now then...

-reads title- BLASPHEMY!!! HOW COULD YOU EVEN SUGGEST SUCH A THING!?

-Flies out of here on his Archeops while he plays Pokemon Yellow to get his Growlithe to level 50 so it can learn Flamethrower before he evolves it.-

 

[Arakasi]

I'm loving it.

Its already infinitely better than Pokemon in my mind, and I love Pokemon.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Some fucked up stuff, yo.
But honestly, I think I prefer the cutsey stuff that Pokemon has going for it.

agreed..

this just, it reeks of someone like H.G. Wells getting ahold of it and ripping his teeth into it while being high...

Captcha: "one hit wonder"

heh, funny considering the topic.

 

[Emiscary]

For starters, I like that Mew thing, and I kinda like that Voodoo doll one, but most of these seem unnecessarily grotesque. Like the designer was trying too hard to make them seem unappealing.

Or, (crazy thought) his tastes are different from yours and he was designing things that he himself (and me, and a few other people in this thread) found interesting/humorous/novel.

And of course the thread's title is designed to get people to wanna read it. Some of us paid attention in English class

 

[darkcalling]

I stumbled across this on DeviantArt a while back and was very impressed by the designs. For me Pokemon always seemed like an interesting idea but the creature designs were just too cute for my taste.

Also the fact that Pokemon can only speak their own name REALLY got annoying. Either let them actually speak or shut them up.

 

[Strain42]

For starters, I like that Mew thing, and I kinda like that Voodoo doll one, but most of these seem unnecessarily grotesque. Like the designer was trying too hard to make them seem unappealing.

Or, (crazy thought) his tastes are different from yours and he was designing things that he himself (and me, and a few other people in this thread) found interesting/humorous/novel.

And of course the thread's title is designed to get people to wanna read it. Some of us paid attention in English class

Or, (crazy thought) I thought it was pretty obvious I was speaking from my own perspective and felt that the general idea of "in my opinion" went without saying.

For what it's worth, I did look through a lot of those, and I actually liked a fair share of them. He re-uses a few common themes a bit too often (like ones with stitched up body parts)

 

[TheTim]

Not better at all,

though i must admit that it is kinda fun guessing which pokemon designs they took from.