Pokemon Yellow Review : Pika? A Special Red & Blue Remake Starring Pikachu!


{Overview}: This game has its similarities to it's processors; with one big difference: your starter is always Pikachu and your rival's starter is always Eevee. This version is basically the video game version of the original Pokemon cartoon (with Ash, Misty, and Brock). The game has been tweaked a bit to better follow the anime a little better. Unfortunately, Brock and Misty will not be joining you on your journey like in the anime; so the game does not exactly mirror the storyline word per word. This is not much a problem, it could not be done (having two other sprites trail behind you). It would take too much work if the developers payed attention to every little detail. Only really major changes were focused on.

{Graphics}: To a modern gamer the graphics will seem unsatisfactory, however, these graphics are very well up to par with game boy color graphics. They ate also one of the many contributors to nostalgia to now-grown-up Pokemon fans. The little addition of having a little Pikachu sprite trail behind you in this special edition is also well done. As well as pikachu's status feeble much he cares for you, the trainer, and whether he is happy with you or not.

{Sound}: The sounds in the game are classic and you may sometimes catch yourself humming these tunes long after you've turned off the game. These are yet another part of the reason this game is full of nostalgia.


{Replay Value}: Due to there being 151 Pokemon that you can catch or trade and that you only can have six Pokemon in your party, this game gives high replay value due to multiple strategies to use different combinations of Pokemon to beat the game as well as rebattling previous trainers over again.


{Story}: The story in this game is the same as every other Pokemon game - You start out in your hometown (In this case Pallet Town) and earn all of the badges in the specified region by defeating all the gym leaders and face the elite four and champion. The earlier generation 1 focuses more on the "gotta catch them all!" catchphrase as well.


{Difficulty}: The controls for this game are simple - use the control pad to move your character through the world as well as to select your decision in battle (attack, use an item, or flee) you can also run with B (with the running shoes) and access the menu with start. Your registered (or "hot keyed") item is also accessed via the select button. This game can be fairly challenging, however, as long as you battle every trainer you come across and choose the right Pokemon, it can turn out do be a cakewalk.

Very good review. Nice and brief. Even with 400 words, which is just outside of the limit for Staff member reviews. Pretty good. But I'll give you some advice for the future reviews. You don't have to have so much empty space between parts. There's no reason to hit enter 10 times for each part. I would say 2 or 3 spaces if you want to make separate spots for it.

pacman1755 : Thanks for the advice. About the breaks, I didn't type up the review here. I typed it in notes on mynipod and copied it in and it just made the breaks in the post itself. Idk how to stop that from happening, sorry :/