Grand Theft Auto and Pokémon, a Match Made in Bizarro World

Nintendo, as we know, are the family-friendly funsters of the gaming world. While everyone else is tearing opponents’ spines and/or scrotes off in Mortal Kombat, or firing more angry bullets about than Arnold Schwarzenegger in… every one of his movies ever in Call of Duty, these guys aren’t about any of that.

Over Nintendo way, everything’s different. Little cartoon bluebirds are constantly perching on their shoulders, the sun shines out of everyone’s assholes, and they’re all as polite to each other as Canadians. They’re the hippies of video games; presumably with a little more showering.

Which is all well and good. After all, as Jermaine Stewart once (almost) sang, we don’t have to take our foes’ heads off to have a good time, oh no. But it would be kinda nice if, just occasionally, Nintendo butched up a little. With this, for instance.

YouTuber Hat-Loving Gamer has made a brilliant clip of Grand Theft Auto in the style of a Pokémon game. It’s a neat little homage to the ‘mon on the twentieth anniversary of the series, but it’s also an improvement. Remember thinking, way back in the day, if only Pokémon had more prostitutes and weaponized sex toys? I know I do. Check out the video below, as that disturbing dream becomes reality.