Pokémon Battle Revolution

playing this without a ds was a special kind of limbo

Lots of nostalgia for this game but in reality it's pretty dogshit. Cool to see the pokemon you transferred from the DS in 3d but after that there is absolutely nothing to do here.

that cover art is glorious trolling, completely unclear if intentional or not but i'm just gonna assume it's fuckery. just look at that piplup head on top of that building and that lickitung.

Nostalgia. Also those 3d models ruled

I know this game is objectively kinda ass but I sunk half my childhood into this thing and dammit I WILL cope

This game sucks ass, I grew up playing Stadium and it was way better so I don’t even have nostalgia for it. Even aside from how limited of a game it is the personality is so sterile and they were literally still using n64 models

Yeah it's not good, but I bumped up my score to a 3 on nostalgia and what it did for the series. This game iirc is what kind of birthed VGC and tournament pokemon play and it was also the first place other than at the time Shoddy Battle where you could play competitive matches online against randoms. This is what got me into playing pokemon competitively and it was my first exposure to doubles outside of single player campaigns. Of course, the game was incredibly unbalanced and you had shit like Darkrai spamming Dark Void all the time, but I still have fond memories of spending afternoons after school playing online random battles.

It's visually weird, pretty sometimes, sometimes good battle animations, but really ugly with reused models from the n64 era and some animations that just looked goofy as hell. Music does slap though, and the anime narrator doing the battle narration was really hype and it's something I wish would come back somehow.