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If Pokemon had been around when I was 10, I would have been that intensely crazy little boy on your block who lived, breathed, and ate Pokemon in all its forms. However, I am not in the days of my youth and to me pokemon is just another franchise being kept alive by the imagination of millions of little kids and the occasional adult.
One of the newest Pokemon Wii games is the Colosseum. It is essentially two games. The first is the Story Mode and the second is the Battle Mode (which resembles the N64 Stadium titles). The game’s story is dark and would be great for a quick fix television show but it does not fulfill the needs of a RPG game. Playing as an evil anti-hero, you travel through the story secuence with ease. There is a lot of sneaking around and stealing of Pokemon from their masters. This type of Pokemon collecting is almost all there is in the game. Which is not necessarily a good switch from the old search, earn, and find.
The absence of collecting in the traditional sense might come as a shock to those accustomed to the handheld RPGs, but the Battle Mode is as familiar as can be, with several types of matches to fight against the computer or your friends, providing they have Game Boy Advances. Connectivity is a big aspect of Colosseum; not only can you hook up your GBA and import your collection from Ruby or Sapphire, but you also need it if you want to play multiplayer Battle Mode. If you and your friends are pumped up about battling each other in the arena, though, odds are that you already have GBAs and nearly unbeatable Poke battalions from the previous games, so this requirement might not be too much of a drawback.
What is a drawback, however, is the ridiculously low level of challenge. Now, I understand that the game is geared toward younger players, but I was at least five hours into it before I got to a battle that didn’t feel like it was set to “tutorial” difficulty. For a world where practically everyone trains Pokemon, there sure are a lot of awful trainers wandering around. The fact that my victory was assured before the battle even started just made me lose interest even faster.
If you’re a fan, you’ll love the premise, the gameplay, and the overwhelming number of little critters to collect and bend to your will. Even though none of these elements are so astounding as to bring outsiders into the fold, the franchise’s debut on the GameCube (Pokemon Channel doesn’t count) is a trainer’s dream come true.
In all honesty, Pokemon Colosseum is what fans have been asking for at every opportunity during the last few years. The problem is that we got what we asked for, and I for one don’t like it all too much. What was once a handheld RPG with the gotta-catch-‘em-all hook is now a bland and (because of the Game Boy editions) predicable trek that would look more at home on the N64. While some attack and environmental effects are nice, others are embarrassingly bad. The game also features a sadly mixed bag of sound – your critters and the townsfolk offer nothing more than beeps, but the score is painfully perky and overdone. Fans will and should pick this up. But many old devotees will be disappointed because, at best, Colosseum feels like a sad shell of the franchise’s glory days and at worst, a poor example in the RPG genre.
