A Disappointment and Breakthrough at the Same Time reviews for Pokemon Colosseum

A Disappointment and Breakthrough at the Same Time

Just recently Pokémon Colosseum was released in the United States, and when I started to play it for the first time, I at first expected—at the very least—to see an improvement in battle graphics and flexibility over Pokémon Stadium.

When I started reading up, though, I was disappointed.

The storyboard around which Colosseum is based prevents the use of interactive battle, which was immediately available to you when you played the Stadium series.

In other words, Colosseum has forced the glory of the Pokémon trilogy come to a screeching halt by refusing multiplayer flexibility until the story mode was completed—and God knows how long that would take.

During the course of the game you, playing as an ex-Team Snagem associate, venture out on a quest in Cipher espionage.

You meet a female that helps you tell normal Pokémon apart from Shadow Pokémon—the carbon copies of Pokémon developed by Cipher—and your tact is to capture and purify as many of those Pokémon as you could in the time it would take.

The storyboard was exhaustive on one front (it consumed a lot of your time and space on the Memory Card—48 blocks!) and crude on the other.

Add that to the effort required to purify those Shadow Pokémon and the restrictions levied (they can't grow), compound those restrictions with Hyper Mode, and then further compound it with the restriction on multiplayer play.

You have a clunker of a GameCube program that doesn't allow you much freedom or wonder.

Then, compound that clunker by denying compatibility with Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, or Crystal, and you have one of the biggest disappointments in Pokémon RPG history—even worse than Pokémon Trading Card Game for Game Boy.

If you want to see quality combat graphics and flexibility, stick to Pokémon Stadium 2 and refuse the offer of Pokémon Colosseum.

Colosseum is not much of a breakthrough in RPG technology when you levy those needless, stringent, crude restrictions!

My final rating on the decimal scale: 28 out of a possible 100.

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