PokePark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure Reviews

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1. Ralph Brown says:

   July 10, 2011 at 3:39 pm

   43 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

   
   Fun Adventure, November 7, 2010

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   Ralph Brown (Suffern, New York) –

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   This review is from: PokePark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure (Video Game)

   My daughter is 10, and she adored this video game for the Wii system. She thought the graphics were terrific and liked being able to play as Pikachu. She couldn’t pull herself away from the game and finished the main story in about 10 hours, but as the show says, you gotta catch ‘em all, and who knows how long it will take her to collect all 190-plus Pokemon in the game.

   As for the game, the player primarily plays as Pikachu who seeks to collect a bunch of crystals to keep an island from breaking apart. The island is broken up into various areas (e.g., a beach section, an ice mountain, a not-very-frightening haunted house, caverns) where one collects friends by defeating other Pokemon in games like tag or simplified battle and competes in various mini-games. A player also collects berries to power up their speed, health, or battle skills. Yes, the action gets repetitive but less so than any of the DS battle games.

   Also, as one reviewer writes, there is a lot of text. The Pokemon “speak” in their usual cartoon voices, but the meaning is written in full text. If the player is not a good reader, there may be problems. Also, this isn’t for novices. Often, a player is instructed to see this or that specific Pokemon to complete a task, and if you don’t know you Pokemon well, good luck. However, if your child is a Pokemon fan and anything like my daughter, this is a great purchase.

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2. GlennF "Glennf" says:

   July 10, 2011 at 4:16 pm

   12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

   
   Easy, repetative, lots of reading, November 21, 2010

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   GlennF “Glennf” –

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   This review is from: PokePark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure (Video Game)

   My 7 year old son just had a b-day and thought I should get this out before the holidays. My sis bought from Amazon. PokePark is an adventure-action game, Zelda-like. If Zelda is a 10 on difficulty, this is a 1 or 2. There is no problem solving, just simple tasks to do. You must collect the prism pieces and challenge/win each Pokemon for them to become your friend. Thus far when battling, my son dodges L/R, runs behind or to the side, and rams into the Pokemon a few times to defeat them. Uses the thunderbolt sometimes, no surprises during battles. Has yet to lose other than not having 1 power for 1 Pokemon thus far. He has yet to fail on any of the challenges, passes 1st time. The game will tell you “don’t go that way” when playing hide and seek, so no challenge. The Pokemon is hiding and the game pretty much guides you on where to go. When a Pokemon asks for an item, you turn around and it’s usually right there. My 9 year old daughter has played some and thinks it is easy. Ditto for my 7 yr old. At least they get good reading practice. I have them read out loud and my 7 yr old needs some help. A few words my daughter needs help on. My kids don’t play a lot of video games, and consider their gaming-skill average at best for their age. I question other reviewers on the age recommendation. They seem to have fun as of now, but it’s getting repeatative. I recommend go to a game-stop and trial it, also read reviews. I would also recommend to wait for the price to drop if this is not holiday-urgent. It’s a long journey, so the game consumes a lot of time. It’s only been a few days and can follow up, but the difficulty of the game has not changed. I thought a rating of 3 was too high and more like a 2.5 versus the 2 I gave it.

   UPDATE: My kids cleared the game in 3 playing days. Admittedly, a couple of those days were 5 hr sessions. The feedback from the kids, pretty fun, but easy. They have some interest to go back in. I’d trade this for DK Backcountry if I could.

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