I played Pokémon omega Ruby recently and I think I’ve realized where a lot of the inspiration comes from, in the playnav you can play with your Pokémon and pet them, your cursor becomes a hand just like in this game and it even has the same number of fingers! When you pet your Pokémon it occasionally lets out pink hearts just like in monster mind, so I think it’s pretty cool to see where the inspiration must have come from, was I right?