"The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as 'an immense accumulation of Pokémon.'" So remarks Marx in volume one of Capital, and he was right. Joining Palworld, Temtem, Cassette Beasts, Coromon and, well, like 400 Pokémon games is Honkai: Nexus Anima, HoYoverse's just-announced creature-hoarding sim.

I am a 31-year-old man who mostly still plays games from 2005, so forgive me if I sound like a caveman describing an internal combustion engine here; I find much of this overwhelming. It looks like, well, what you'd expect from a Pokémon-like: you run about a bright and colourful world collecting innocent animals to deploy in dog-fights. Everyone is very high-energy and optimistic and at least one guy is rolling around town with the n

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