Despite the generally iterative nature of video games (you can find traces of 2001 smash hit Grand Theft Auto III in almost every modern game) there’s always been a curious lack of games trying to mimic the wildly popular Pokemon franchise. And why is that so curious? Because as Statista pointed out in 2021, the Pokemon franchise is literally the most valuable media franchise of all time, having brought in an estimated $100 billion in revenue across all of its media ventures (video games, movies, television shows, toys, merchandising, trading cards, et al.) (And that figure came out before the…