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Yup, another year, guess what? Another Pokémon game. Ooh, but this time around - like they didn't last time... - Nintendo promise a whole new ball game, that's "...bigger, better, and more addictive than ever before." (Nintendo.Com)
Well, I played it a long, long time ago, and I can confirm, that it is bigger. On import, of course, via my cousin, who seemed to enjoy his little adventures with his invisible Pikachu riding along on his shoulder, and wasn't amazed. This isn't to say that it's not fun, it is, well, for a while at least.
Prejudices aside, Pokémon was never a bad game. It had a money spinning CCG that truly was pointless, a poor TV show, which lasted far too long and some hideous memorabilia. Oh well.
Let's go back to that bold statement. Well, it's bigger. Much bigger in fact, with better graphics and more little pocket monsters, to stuff into balls. Oh, and yes, it is still addictive. It has a new system, whereby you can feed your Pokémon a new type of steroi... I mean sweet, called a "Pokéblock", which magically makes your pokemon stronger or prettier or clever etc. You can find 'blocks, and, this is the fun and addictive part, make them, from berries. Which is where trees come in handy, as you can water and grow trees, to get berries. And there's a fun mini-game, whereby you have to press the right button at the right time, in accordance to a spinner, and the better you are at this, the better your berries are.
Well, like I said, it was fun for, 2, maybe 3 days. But after that, you get the same old-same old syndrome, carried over from Pokémons of the past. It stills has the old fighting system, apart from some minor adjustments, and the battles are still random, so you end up just gazing away, pressing the A button constantly, and the directonal buttons occasionally.
I used to love Pokémon, really, I had Red, Yellow and Silver, and could hardly put them down. I spent nearly a year completing them all without cheating, getting all those fiesty little 'mons. But now it's so... So tedious. Yes, it's fun to play for a while, whilst reminiscing about the time I, you or anyone spent playing the games elders, but after a while it's plane boring.
For some reason, that came as a shock to me. The Pokémon serries is now aiming itself higher, at older audiences, having introduced, albeit in a very, very soft way, breeding - as they call it, and other little twiches like genders and the such. But it fell down a long time ago, falling into a hole laid by it self, I think. Yet, somehow, it thinks it can climb out it's hole by digging a bigger, better and more addictive one. Whoops.
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People may ask; "What was the point in writing that?". I might answer, angrily, that this is my 400th post, it's 00:00am, and I have just spent the entire day with my German speaking 1/2 pint 1/2 brothers and sisters, so am SLIGHTLY bored and intoxicated by yoghurt - don't ask.
Well, I played it a long, long time ago, and I can confirm, that it is bigger. On import, of course, via my cousin, who seemed to enjoy his little adventures with his invisible Pikachu riding along on his shoulder, and wasn't amazed. This isn't to say that it's not fun, it is, well, for a while at least.
Prejudices aside, Pokémon was never a bad game. It had a money spinning CCG that truly was pointless, a poor TV show, which lasted far too long and some hideous memorabilia. Oh well.
Let's go back to that bold statement. Well, it's bigger. Much bigger in fact, with better graphics and more little pocket monsters, to stuff into balls. Oh, and yes, it is still addictive. It has a new system, whereby you can feed your Pokémon a new type of steroi... I mean sweet, called a "Pokéblock", which magically makes your pokemon stronger or prettier or clever etc. You can find 'blocks, and, this is the fun and addictive part, make them, from berries. Which is where trees come in handy, as you can water and grow trees, to get berries. And there's a fun mini-game, whereby you have to press the right button at the right time, in accordance to a spinner, and the better you are at this, the better your berries are.
Well, like I said, it was fun for, 2, maybe 3 days. But after that, you get the same old-same old syndrome, carried over from Pokémons of the past. It stills has the old fighting system, apart from some minor adjustments, and the battles are still random, so you end up just gazing away, pressing the A button constantly, and the directonal buttons occasionally.
I used to love Pokémon, really, I had Red, Yellow and Silver, and could hardly put them down. I spent nearly a year completing them all without cheating, getting all those fiesty little 'mons. But now it's so... So tedious. Yes, it's fun to play for a while, whilst reminiscing about the time I, you or anyone spent playing the games elders, but after a while it's plane boring.
For some reason, that came as a shock to me. The Pokémon serries is now aiming itself higher, at older audiences, having introduced, albeit in a very, very soft way, breeding - as they call it, and other little twiches like genders and the such. But it fell down a long time ago, falling into a hole laid by it self, I think. Yet, somehow, it thinks it can climb out it's hole by digging a bigger, better and more addictive one. Whoops.
~~~~~
People may ask; "What was the point in writing that?". I might answer, angrily, that this is my 400th post, it's 00:00am, and I have just spent the entire day with my German speaking 1/2 pint 1/2 brothers and sisters, so am SLIGHTLY bored and intoxicated by yoghurt - don't ask.
I always play Pokemon when i'm in the car or on a train...i never get too old for it :P
The last pokemon game I played was "Pokemon Red" which I loved to bits.
So this new one will be all new to me :)
So this new one will be all new to me :)
Yup, another year, guess what? Another Pokémon game. Ooh, but this time around - like they didn't last time... - Nintendo promise a whole new ball game, that's "...bigger, better, and more addictive than ever before." (Nintendo.Com)
Well, I played it a long, long time ago, and I can confirm, that it is bigger. On import, of course, via my cousin, who seemed to enjoy his little adventures with his invisible Pikachu riding along on his shoulder, and wasn't amazed. This isn't to say that it's not fun, it is, well, for a while at least.
Prejudices aside, Pokémon was never a bad game. It had a money spinning CCG that truly was pointless, a poor TV show, which lasted far too long and some hideous memorabilia. Oh well.
Let's go back to that bold statement. Well, it's bigger. Much bigger in fact, with better graphics and more little pocket monsters, to stuff into balls. Oh, and yes, it is still addictive. It has a new system, whereby you can feed your Pokémon a new type of steroi... I mean sweet, called a "Pokéblock", which magically makes your pokemon stronger or prettier or clever etc. You can find 'blocks, and, this is the fun and addictive part, make them, from berries. Which is where trees come in handy, as you can water and grow trees, to get berries. And there's a fun mini-game, whereby you have to press the right button at the right time, in accordance to a spinner, and the better you are at this, the better your berries are.
Well, like I said, it was fun for, 2, maybe 3 days. But after that, you get the same old-same old syndrome, carried over from Pokémons of the past. It stills has the old fighting system, apart from some minor adjustments, and the battles are still random, so you end up just gazing away, pressing the A button constantly, and the directonal buttons occasionally.
I used to love Pokémon, really, I had Red, Yellow and Silver, and could hardly put them down. I spent nearly a year completing them all without cheating, getting all those fiesty little 'mons. But now it's so... So tedious. Yes, it's fun to play for a while, whilst reminiscing about the time I, you or anyone spent playing the games elders, but after a while it's plane boring.
For some reason, that came as a shock to me. The Pokémon serries is now aiming itself higher, at older audiences, having introduced, albeit in a very, very soft way, breeding - as they call it, and other little twiches like genders and the such. But it fell down a long time ago, falling into a hole laid by it self, I think. Yet, somehow, it thinks it can climb out it's hole by digging a bigger, better and more addictive one. Whoops.
~~~~~
People may ask; "What was the point in writing that?". I might answer, angrily, that this is my 400th post, it's 00:00am, and I have just spent the entire day with my German speaking 1/2 pint 1/2 brothers and sisters, so am SLIGHTLY bored and intoxicated by yoghurt - don't ask.
Well, I played it a long, long time ago, and I can confirm, that it is bigger. On import, of course, via my cousin, who seemed to enjoy his little adventures with his invisible Pikachu riding along on his shoulder, and wasn't amazed. This isn't to say that it's not fun, it is, well, for a while at least.
Prejudices aside, Pokémon was never a bad game. It had a money spinning CCG that truly was pointless, a poor TV show, which lasted far too long and some hideous memorabilia. Oh well.
Let's go back to that bold statement. Well, it's bigger. Much bigger in fact, with better graphics and more little pocket monsters, to stuff into balls. Oh, and yes, it is still addictive. It has a new system, whereby you can feed your Pokémon a new type of steroi... I mean sweet, called a "Pokéblock", which magically makes your pokemon stronger or prettier or clever etc. You can find 'blocks, and, this is the fun and addictive part, make them, from berries. Which is where trees come in handy, as you can water and grow trees, to get berries. And there's a fun mini-game, whereby you have to press the right button at the right time, in accordance to a spinner, and the better you are at this, the better your berries are.
Well, like I said, it was fun for, 2, maybe 3 days. But after that, you get the same old-same old syndrome, carried over from Pokémons of the past. It stills has the old fighting system, apart from some minor adjustments, and the battles are still random, so you end up just gazing away, pressing the A button constantly, and the directonal buttons occasionally.
I used to love Pokémon, really, I had Red, Yellow and Silver, and could hardly put them down. I spent nearly a year completing them all without cheating, getting all those fiesty little 'mons. But now it's so... So tedious. Yes, it's fun to play for a while, whilst reminiscing about the time I, you or anyone spent playing the games elders, but after a while it's plane boring.
For some reason, that came as a shock to me. The Pokémon serries is now aiming itself higher, at older audiences, having introduced, albeit in a very, very soft way, breeding - as they call it, and other little twiches like genders and the such. But it fell down a long time ago, falling into a hole laid by it self, I think. Yet, somehow, it thinks it can climb out it's hole by digging a bigger, better and more addictive one. Whoops.
~~~~~
People may ask; "What was the point in writing that?". I might answer, angrily, that this is my 400th post, it's 00:00am, and I have just spent the entire day with my German speaking 1/2 pint 1/2 brothers and sisters, so am SLIGHTLY bored and intoxicated by yoghurt - don't ask.