【I Am a Plaything】

There's a Pokémongame on I Am a PlaythingPC now. Sort of.

For all the ways that Minecrafthas been twisted and transformed over the years, Pokémon: Cobalt and Amethystis something new. It's a full-blown game built inside of Minecraft, with what developer Phoenix Projects says is "60 to 80 hours" of gameplay.

At its heart, Cobalt and Amethystis meant to recreate the original PokémonRPG in a new format. According to the official description, it includes "battling, capturing, and training Pokémon, fighting trainers, and challenging Gym Leaders and, ultimately, the Pokémon League."

The game is the product of an almost three-year development process. Getting it set up and running smoothly is a little tricky -- since this is Minecraftand not an actual Pokémon game -- but the video above provides step-by-step instructions.

We haven't tested the game ourselves yet, so it's hard to say how it runs or plays. But on the face of things, this is an impressive twisting of the Minecraftfoundation into something completely different.

If you're interested in the technical side of things, Phoenix chronicled Cobalt and Amethyst's development in a 139-episode YouTube playlist.

You can download the game for free right here and check out more stuff on Phoenix Projects' website. You might want to act quickly, however; Nintendo is diligent about protecting its intellectual property and has a history of shutting down Pokémon fan projects.