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| The Cover for Pokémon Yellow |
Publisher: Nintendo
Creator: Game Freak
Console: Gameboy
ESRB Rating: E for Everyone
This Pokémon game, like all since then, has stories that have never been very detailed or intense, but I suppose that’s the beauty of it. It’s one of those games/series that doesn’t really need one. In the recent games, they try to expand on the storyline, but it seems like unnecessary work to me. They never needed one in the first place. If you rush the story, you get it over with quite quickly. However, if you take your time and do everything you can, catch all 151 original Pokémon, get all the best items and whatnot, you can get a lot of playtime out of it.
In the Pokémon games, you fight “battles” against other Pokémon trainers. You use your Pokémon and their “moves” to deal damage to the enemy. It isn’t too complicated, but it’s detailed enough that you have to think about what to do next. For example, should you use a water-type offensive move or a ground-type defensive one? Now, Pokémon has never been “hard”, per say, but you have to have a plan or some kind of strategy. Pulling a “LEEROY JENKINS!” move won’t help you. You have to train your Pokémon, stock up on items like potions and pokéballs so you’ll be prepared for the worst. Oh, and for the love of God, DON’T FORGET THE REPELS.
In Pokémon, the dialogue is more of a help system than anything. A skilled player can go through the game without taking to any of those random NPCs scattered around. Overall, it isn’t too wordy and adds nicely to the game, filling out that feeling of “You are a trainer” quite nicely. Due to this being such an old game, the music is nowhere near as impressive as that of more recent games, but it’s still very catchy. Like really catchy. It’s got that old-school 8-bit music that brings back a whole lot of nostalgia for older gamers.
Again, this is an old game, meaning that isn’t not going to be “Black Ops: II” level. It consists of 2-D sprites and simple animations for battles and the world around you. This game proves that graphics aren’t everything, and that a game can be amazing despite not looking the part. The controls are simple though. Up makes you step north, down is south, right and left are right and left, and “A” is to talk, “B” is to cancel. The classic layout that has been tried and tested time and again.
Unless you haven’t played it in a long time, there isn’t much replay value, which unfortunately brings down the game’s score a bit, but not by much. There simply isn’t enough variety in the game. A second play through won’t be done any differently, unless you’re doing some kind of challenge or playing by a special set of rules. The game ran smoothly though. Since it’s not a FPS or anything, there isn’t a whole lot of “WTF just happened” in Pokémon Yellow. It isn’t jumpy or sudden, and everything can be taken in and admired.
As this game is very old there is absolutely no online play. Although using a special adapter cord you can connect your gameboy with a friend to trade and battle with your Pokémon. If there were any glitches or exploits, they were few and far between. The ones that were encountered were nothing that would make a six-year-old me upset. There have been people running into some big ones, of course, but this happening to you is a million-in-one chance.
This game started a massive franchise, no doubt about it (or rather Red and Blue did, but you get the idea.). It was original, fresh, and a huge hit that has lasted all these years up until now. There are very few bad things about this game and is a classic that can be enjoyed to this day.
- Onnok
9/10
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I wanna play this game now!!
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