One YouTuber recreated Overwatch as an 8-bit Pokemon clone, and after watching it, we’re a little upset that this game doesn’t actually exist.
You have just started out on your exciting journey to become a Pokewatch trainer, with an end goal of being the best like no one ever was. You stand before the professor, who looks kind of like a mad scientist but you brush that off because he has “professor” as his title, for goodness sakes. The professor leads you to a table on which sit three Pokeballs. It is time to choose your starter.
Will it be Torbjorn, who “tends to fall asleep next to his turret?” Will it be D.Va, who “does practically no damage at all, beware of her nuke attack though”? Or will it be Genji, “a must-pick if there’s a healer on your team”?
That’s how this fan-made “if Overwatch were a Pokemon game” video starts, and it only gets better from there. Created by YouTuber iDeViL360, the crossover video combines the best (and worst) elements from both games perfectly.
Overwatch maps like Horizon Lunar Colony make faithfully rendered appearances, as well as several Overwatch characters. Mercy takes the place of Nurse Joy in the PokeCenters. Reaper plays the role of one of those insufferable trainers that forces you to battle with him even when you don’t want to. We even get to see a real Pokewatch battle between a level 54 Bastion and a level 2 Genji. We won’t reveal the winner. You’ll just have to see for yourself.
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Even with all of this, the best parts of the video are moments when it pokes fun at both games. There’s one part where the trainer is attempting to move through a patch grass, but struggles to proceed because every step she takes she is accosted by the same wild Pokewatch, popping up over and over again. Anyone who’s played a Pokemon game knows that pain.
That wild Pokewatch that keeps appearing? It happens to be one called Hanzo. Anyone who’s played Overwatch knows that pain all too well.