Comment by knollimar

Can someone clarify the patent? Most discourse I've seen outside this website regarding this focuses on parts only listed in non-limited examples (like ball throwing). I don't think that's relevant at all here (except claim 10).

The main text from what I understand is the claims in sections 37 to 41. Claim 1 is what I'm understanding the be the main claim, which can be summarized as summons that can either do manual combat or automatically battle after following a player around/being directed.

The other claims are to be taken individually, correct? If not, claim 10 (requiring attack of sub character and option for capture) would disqualify most non-capture games and would likely make this a non-issue, but if just the first claim needs to stand then this would be really broad (and from what I understand, prior art in that space would be easy to point to).