Pocket Mortys (iOS) Review
Rick and Morty is one of the best new shows of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block in recent memory. The show has really taken off, so of course, Adult Swm wants to capitalize on that. So Big Pixel Studios and Adult Swim Games have just dropped a new game based on the hit series for mobile devices in Pocket Mortys. Essentially, Big Pixel Studios has taken the basic mechanics of the Pokemon games and re-skinned the style of the handheld Pokemon games with Rick and Morty characters. Rick and Morty is a free-to-play “freemium” game, and it’s available at the App Store and Google Play. At first glance, the idea of a Rick and Morty meets Pokemon sounds a little interesting. It’s a bizarre combination. In a way, it fits the insane, post-modern style of the animated series, which routinely satires and mashes various genres together. Unfortunately the results for Pocket Mortys are less than stellar. In Pocket Mortys, the neurotic teenager Morty and his foul-mouthed, alcohol-fueled grandfather, Rick Sanchez,