What you see before your eyes is a review for one of the most popular
games ever created, which inspired a generation. Pokemon Red and Blue
were games available in Japan in 1996, and then transferred over seas
to the U.S. in 1998. It doesn't matter if you love 'em or hate them, no
one can deny the following Pokemon led in the 90's. Spawning a
successful cartoon after the games success, and popularization of a
trading card series in the global market, Pokemon seemed to be
unstoppable. It all started with two simple traditional Japanese RPG's
birthed from mother Nintendo.
The game's setting is a fictional world populated by Pokemon, which
symbolize various animals, fantasy creatures, and imaginative original
designs. Pokemon are the fascination of the game's world, studied by
science, used as pets, and Pokemon trainers capture these Pokemon to
engage them in fights with other trainers in dog-fighting style
competitions. All these Pokemon are capable of powerful abilities in
relation to what elemental class they are. Pokemon are separated into
fire, water, grass, flying, ghost, electric, ect. All these classes
have differing strengths and weaknesses, all centering a
rock/paper/scissors formula. For example, fire beats grass, electric
beats flying, rock beats electric, water beats rock, and so on. Battle
normally involves you choosing the opposite element of which ever
Pokemon you're facing, if you battling a fire Pokemon, you going to be
breaking out your water fighter.
You are a lone adventurer on a quest to become the greatest Pokemon
Trainer in the Pokemon League. The world won't simply hand you the
championship belt, you must prove yourself by traveling to the world's
eight unique Pokemon gyms, and defeating their gym masters. The game
itself is focused on traveling gym to gym, but also juggling various
quests, battling random trainers, and coming toe to toe with the
nefarious Team Rocket, who play as the villians of this story.
The quest itself is not a challenging one, once you master the formula.
However this does not mean this is a short winded adventure; the game
should take a good 20-30 hours to beat depending on how you play.
Completionists will be in awe over the 150 Pokemon you can capture,
train, and evolve, racking the play time up dozens of hours.
Past its cute kid-friendly shell, Pokemon is a masterful RPG
interlacing simplistic Japanese designs, and implementing an addictive
formula. As a representative of the RPG genre it's easy enough for
newcomers and enjoyable for the hard-core audience. Pokemon is a
legendary franchise from Nintendo and is an all time classic adventure.
Giving this game a perfect 10 was no easy decision, but one I feel
comfortable with. Very few games every created deserve this medal, but
Pokemon is the unicorn of handheld gaming, no one should pass up.
