Okay, so I'm sure 90% of you guys don't play Pokemon anymore, and I certainly understand. After years of handhelds games, and years of Stadium ish console games, I'm sure you got tired of them. That or the mass merchandising, yearly movies, boring and stale TV show, or perhaps the 300560343589 new Pokemon that you don't care about.
Its all cool, but I'm going to talk about this game because it might interest you if:
- You love the original 150 Pokemon
- Like Collecting Pokemon, currency, or playing 4 player multiplayer
- Like to beat the crap out of Pokemon
So to play this, you use the controller sideways. The A button is used to bring up a real time menu to switch away your Pokemons, and the 1 & 2 buttons are used for your Toy Pokemon's attacks. I'm currently in the S Rank, and have yet to gone further.
There are 6 stages to play, each focusing on similar Pokemon types like a fire world with fire types, or a beach world with water types and so on. You have these things called "Keys" which look like wind up keys. You get three of them, and these basically work as lives. So if your Pokemon is knocked out, you'll lose a key, and if you lose all three keys, you lose the level, BUT get to keep any Pokemon you befriended along the way.
Befriending Pokemon works by beating the shit out of groups of them, and hopefully some of them get knocked back into their toy form. You can keep collecting these dudes, as they come in all sorts of different levels or attacks. You can also release any Pokemons you don't want anymore, and they'll leave those Pokemon Coins.
The coins can be used to buy new random Pokemon at higher levels depending on your current Rank, or to teach them new moves, which are also random.
After receiving a certain power level Pokemon, the gates to the Battle Royale open.
After you beat the Battle Royale, you're given a launch pad so you can go to the next difficulty. You'll have 6 more levels, and a new Battle Royale to beat.
But hey, if you have a Wii and an internet connection, why don't you just try the demo? Its available for a limited time and it only takes up around 180 something blocks.
Oh, and all those pictures in this post were taken by me. The game lets you pause and take a picture to be saved on your SD card at any time.
Here is a gameplay video, not by me.
If you want to know anything more about Pokemon Rumble, just ask me.
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