[Wii] Pokemon Battle Revolution

Name: Mark
Code: 2320 3182 0206

So far the game seems basically like a stripped down Stadium 3 with online play. The colosseums work just like the Battle Tower/Frontier from the portable games with seven consecutive battles of increasing difficulty. Contrary to previously reported, you can choose between three skin colors for your avatar. People had complained about this feature not being available in the Japanese version. (All Japanese people want to be white why lie.) You start off with three default characters and no additional accessories. Additional hats, shoes, gloves, and whatever else you want have to be purchased with earned points. This means that until you beat some colosseums you're going to look exactly like everyone else.

The game also looks very pretty in 480p and 16x9, though a great deal of the non-4th gen monsters look like rehashes of previous game's models. They could have at least given poor ugly souls like Gengar and Heracross some texture love. All in all, it's possibly the best-looking Wii game to date. (The two runner-ups being Gamecube ports Zelda and Resident Evil 4, which is just plain sad.)

So far I only have two major complaints. The first is that you can not apply rules to random online battles, which means about two thirds of the battles you'll have will be against twelve year olds with Mewtwo and Dialga on their teams. The plus is that they tend to be awful at the game and the mental image of tears streaming down their chubby prepubescent cheeks as Tyranitar crushes Mr. Psychic-cat in his jaws is delicious.

My second complaint is simply that "Let me show you my pokemans!" is too long to work as an intro message. I have yet to try "Herd u liek mudkips."

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yay, finally had my first friend battle. Tyranitar really does seem ridiculously broke though. Maybe I should stop using him.

There's nowhere I can't reach.