>Looking up those patents, [the first](https://patents.google.com/patent/JP7545191B1/en) alludes to a system where a player aims and fires an “item” toward a character in a field, and in doing so triggers combat, and then dives into extraordinary intricacies about switching between modes within this. [The second](https://patents.google.com/patent/JP7493117B2/en) is very similar, but seems more directly focused on tweaking previous patents to including being able to capture Pokémon in the wild, rather than only during battle. [The third](https://patents.google.com/patent/JP7528390B2/en), rather wildly, seems to be trying to claim a modification to the invention of riding creatures in an open world and being able to transition between them easily.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/31095106
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