Pokémon Review

[Fingerbones]

The fact that a whole game franchise can be reviewed as one game shows just how repetitive it is. The games are virtually unchanging. Throw in a couple new monsters, call it a different color and you have a whole new game by Nintendo's standards. There isn't even any strategy in combat. You can use abilities that lower your enemy's stats or boost yours, but you don't need to. If you have a powerful enough attack you can just tap A and everything will die eventually.

You only need two pokemon anyway. Its actually more beneficial to have only two. That way they'll be extremely high level and they'll crush every enemy with ease. That's incredibly unbalanced.

And I never understood why 50 trainers are standing by every road and start battles for know reason. They take your money when you lose even if you didn't agree. That's stealing! Shouldn't that be illegal? The writing for them is terrible anyway.

The only time you'll ever have any trouble is when your pokemon are too low level. That can be solved, not by skill, by grinding for four hours in the grass. That's your idea of fun? Mindlessly killing the same enemies for hours by just tapping A?

In the end, this game relies on the WoW method of getting players addicted instead of actually being fun.

 

[Deofuta]

Um, what is this?

'WoW's method?' Please. Pokemon was around for years before WoW.

Ive seen so called 'reviews' before, this takes the cake for...blah.

EDIT: Wait! I can keep going!

'No strategy', Really! Nice! No Mention of the EV system? Or the use of Types to vs each other?

I can see your idea of only using 2 Pokemon for the beginning, although doing so makes the game foolishly hard on yourself, but if you intend to think that will beat anything and everything you are dead wrong.

Damn, normally I can take off colored reviews, but this is just insulting to the readers. It is purely opinionated, which would have been ok if you had based it in fact, you know, at all.

EDIT 2: I will in fact keep going. This 'review' sounds as if you took a look at the box cover, read a description of it, and watched the television series. It has been marketed for children, but has an incredibly deep strategic aspect to it. One that has somehow, enraptured a generation of gamers, who still play it well into their twenties and beyond.

EDIT 3: Want to see a brief slice of the depth you neglected and I needed to point out? http://www.smogon.com/ Cheers

 

[Mockingjay]

It's a game aimed at children. Proof?

'I like shorts, they're comfy and easy to wear'

 

[spike0918]

Well, you look through stuff about EV's and the like and tell me Pokemon isn't actually complex and "hardcore" underneath the cutesy exterior.

Also, did you make an account just to yell at Pokemon? At least try to take in the site before you make a thread bashing a beloved series.

 

[Rakkana]

A review? More like a rant... and no, you don't sound clever.

One day you shall become one of us.

 

[Rakkana]

sorry double post

 

[teutonicman]

Dude it's not the WOW method, grinding has been around since the dawn of rpgs. This post seems like some kind of trolling attempt.

 

[Deofuta]

Check out the other one he made within 5 minutes of this one. Its full of intelligent comments and interesting insight...oh wait.

Also, you need to check the replies of your reviews, if you want to see honest improvement in your reviews it is a good idea to look at what we are saying. Also, this is not Quantity over Quality. Many reviewers here spend weeks carefully creating an excellent thread about something they truly care about. Try and Lurk a bit, and then try making a new review (Or better yet, edit this one)

 

[MissAshley]

The games are virtually unchanging.

I could post a timeline of every single addition each game has made. . .

. . .Or I can just say you apparently have an unusual definition of "unchanging."

 

[Jack and Calumon]

AHAHAHAHA! I totally agree on every level. Pokémon is so much inferior to...

Come on... I'm not going to go through with that sentence. I would get hated and 90% of that sentence I said was lies.

Now... Pokémon DOES change. New ways of getting around, new rivals, new gameplay additions (Contests, Pokéathatlon) and in fact, you say you can review the entire franchise like that?

AHEM

Mystery Dungeon, Ranger and so many other games in the same franchise were massively different. In fact, WHY AM I POSTING HERE? This is obviously troll. An attempt to get under our skin and attract attention.

Calumon: I don't see your idea for 2 Pokémon. The Elite four can be really hard.

 

[tlozoot]

Crap like this gets replies, and many actual, insightful reviews go by without notice?

There is no justice...

 

[Proco123]

I may get hate for this,
but i do agree with some things he has said.

Don't get me wrong I loved some of the pokemon games, I recently bought Soul Silver due to a love of the original Silver game.
But where he says it is Unchanging, I would say it practically hasnt changed much at all. They've added new small features like contests and what not and some new items. Gameplay-wise, It has stayed the same since Red and Blue. When I played Silver years ago, I managed to go through the whole game just tapping A with my Typhlosion all the way through. Nowadays I do play with more stratagy as it makes it more fun to play and more interesting.

Also the graphics have Improved dramatically, but compared to a game such as mario which started as a side scroller and is now in full 3D in Maeio Galaxy, there have been little graphic changes.

I agree with most of you in saying he is wrong with what he has said, he has been quick to prejudge, but there is truth in what he said also. I for example havent gotten very far in Soul Silver because it is too similar to every other Pokemon Game.

 

[Kalabrikan]

Throw in a couple new monsters, call it a different color and you have a whole new game by Nintendo's standards.

"I haven't played more than one of the Pokemon games but I'm going to criticize them, anyway."

There isn't even any strategy in combat. You can use abilities that lower your enemy's stats or boost yours, but you don't need to. If you have a powerful enough attack you can just tap A and everything will die eventually.

http://www.smogon.com/

You only need two pokemon anyway. Its actually more beneficial to have only two. That way they'll be extremely high level and they'll crush every enemy with ease.

Try fighting Lance with a Typhlosion and an Ampharos in HeartGold.

In the end, this game relies on the WoW method of getting players addicted instead of actually being fun.

In the end I've read this review before. It is every general criticism of the Pokemon franchise regurgitated from regurgitations to form a boring article of vomit that was so cleanly thrown up into the toilet that any disgust I get out of it is merely the initial gut reaction from the sight of vomit.

 

[Rylingo]

But where he says it is Unchanging, I would say it practically hasnt changed much at all. They've added new small features like contests and what not and some new items.

Lets not forget the massive overhaul of how special and normal attack moves function. Basically every move in the game was changed by this. Lets not forget the addition of abilities to change the way the pokemon function.

Gameplay-wise, It has stayed the same since Red and Blue. When I played Silver years ago, I managed to go through the whole game just tapping A with my Typhlosion all the way through. Nowadays I do play with more stratagy as it makes it more fun to play and more interesting.

Only playing single player in pokemon is like only playing single player in a fighting game. Your missing the best part. Sure you can beat most CPU easy level opponents in fighting games by button mashing. Try it against a good opponent though! The same is with pokemon. You can trounce opponents by overleveling your starter and button mashing. Try that against an good opponent though. Two level 10 ratatas would win against you using FEAR if you tried that.