See Pokémon-esque in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Haddock’s online project, titled “Screenshots”(whitelead.com/jrh/screenshots), uses the poppy, Pokémon-esque style of kiddie computer games to re-create some of the most incendiary scenes in recent memory (the Columbine killers in the cafeteria, the Rodney King beating, Elián and the feds).",
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"text": "Fantastical beasties from authentic Celtic lore serve as Pokémon'''-esque companions on the duo’s intertwining quest, so the monster-wrangling is both addicting and educational here.",
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"text": "If you put a million hungry ants in a glass cube with one human, who’s more likely to walk out alive? —Eric Bowman / Everyone always assumes that if you put two animals together like this, they’ll battle to the death, which is a very Pokémon-esque view of biology.",
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