Nintendo, in its ongoing battle against Pocketpair and Palworld , has been filing various patents left, right, and centre in the US, the latest of which is almost certainly cause for concern.

As detailed by Games Fray , Patent No. 12,403,39 has been granted which essentially covers the summoning of a sub character and letting it fight on your behalf. Now, we're not sure about you, but we can already think of quite a few games that make use of such mechanics outside of Pokémon. Elden Ring , for example?

It goes into further detail and states that the sub character can either be controller by issuing commands, or it can act on its own accord, battling enemies automatically should any appear within the immediate vicinity.

So, according to analysis from Games Fray, games that make u

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