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The recently-announced WiiWare game, "Melee! Pokemon Scramble!" has been released on the Japanese WiiWare service.
And before anyone asks - no, there's no word on any English language release of the game yet.
So anyway, I downloaded the game today and played around for about an hour. You start the game off with a Koratta toy and immediately get thrown into the middle of a Battle Royal. You're too weak to win, so after you inevitably lose, you're sent to a terminal where you're told to gather more friends.
You have access to six different areas at first, with each area having a specific theme (a forest, a rocky cave, a beach, etc.). You can enter the levels in any order you want.
The levels in each game are a straightforward affair. There are no twists or turns to make - you just go straight the whole way. Fighting happens in real time, so the action isn't broken up by any turn-based battles or anything like that. You're also able to switch pokemon at any time, and there doesn't seem to be the six pokemon limit that exists in the handheld games.
Sometimes, the pokemon you fight will join you. But from what I've been able to determine, whether or not a pokemon joins your team is completely random.
Battles basically consist of you tapping the attack button over and over and over. There is an element of strategy in that you get to assign certain attacks to certain buttons, with new attacks made available by purchasing them in the terminal. And there's the whole type match-up thing. But for the most part, battles are a button-mashing affair. You'll encounter a ton of pokemon - the results screen at the end of the first level told me that I had defeated 84 of the critters - so you're never left without anything to do.
At the end of each level, you face off against a boss pokemon which is, for some reason, a giant. So far, the bosses I've encountered have been Fushigisou, Kameil, and Arbok.
By the way...I've only encountered Kanto pokemon so far. Hmm.
So far, the game has been a lot of fun. There are enough new things to keep me interested at the moment, but I could see how this game could get very tedious as time goes on. In any case, the game is a nice breath of fresh air after the last few releases and I think that every fan should at least give it a shot whenever it becomes available.
And before anyone asks - no, there's no word on any English language release of the game yet.
So anyway, I downloaded the game today and played around for about an hour. You start the game off with a Koratta toy and immediately get thrown into the middle of a Battle Royal. You're too weak to win, so after you inevitably lose, you're sent to a terminal where you're told to gather more friends.
You have access to six different areas at first, with each area having a specific theme (a forest, a rocky cave, a beach, etc.). You can enter the levels in any order you want.
The levels in each game are a straightforward affair. There are no twists or turns to make - you just go straight the whole way. Fighting happens in real time, so the action isn't broken up by any turn-based battles or anything like that. You're also able to switch pokemon at any time, and there doesn't seem to be the six pokemon limit that exists in the handheld games.
Sometimes, the pokemon you fight will join you. But from what I've been able to determine, whether or not a pokemon joins your team is completely random.
Battles basically consist of you tapping the attack button over and over and over. There is an element of strategy in that you get to assign certain attacks to certain buttons, with new attacks made available by purchasing them in the terminal. And there's the whole type match-up thing. But for the most part, battles are a button-mashing affair. You'll encounter a ton of pokemon - the results screen at the end of the first level told me that I had defeated 84 of the critters - so you're never left without anything to do.
At the end of each level, you face off against a boss pokemon which is, for some reason, a giant. So far, the bosses I've encountered have been Fushigisou, Kameil, and Arbok.
By the way...I've only encountered Kanto pokemon so far. Hmm.
So far, the game has been a lot of fun. There are enough new things to keep me interested at the moment, but I could see how this game could get very tedious as time goes on. In any case, the game is a nice breath of fresh air after the last few releases and I think that every fan should at least give it a shot whenever it becomes available.
