Nintendo Is On The Hunt For Videos Of Fan-made 'Pokémon FPS' Project

Nintendo's notoriously long DMCA hammer has thwacked another fan-made project, this time a first-person shooter where you could load Pokémon's faces with bullets.

The project came from Redditor Dragon_GameDev2, a humble fan creator who, over the course of a month, got a prototype of a game in Unreal Engine where a player would be dropped in a forest with modern weaponry and set loose to hunt and defend themselves from various Pokémon.

Last Tuesday, Dragon_GameDev2 showed the game in action on Reddit. Surprisingly, the post is still up, so viewers can still get a sense of what they're working on.

Unfortunately, footage of the game on YouTube and Twitter has been hit with Nintendo's infamous legal strikes. All the content from Dragon_GameDev's YouTube channel has been erased, including the clips on his Twitter account. One can still find stray reuploads of the footage with a little digging, but it feels like only a matter of time until those get taken down as well.

Last month I started working on developing a Pokémon First Person Shooter. #IndieGameDev #pokemon pic.twitter.com/dZZTuYWq22

— Dragon (@Dragon_GameDev2) January 17, 2022

It's yet another example of Nintendo being notoriously guarded about fan-made games featuring their IP. In September 2020, Nintendo discovered a very NSFW, fan-made Mario game starring Peach and killed a project that had a small fanbase for eight years.