Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Overall, I was really excited to get this game. I had played all of the gameboy pokemon games throughout my childhood and only dreamed about playing the pokemon game on my TV or on the go with such a big vibrant screen. After playing it for two days now, I am pretty disappointed by it. The wild pokemon encounters don't actually let you battle the pokemon. Instead, you just spend the next 2 minutes of your life flicking your wrist repeatedly until you catch the dumb pokemon. While I was annoyed with this, I thought that it may be fun for my 5-year-old to try out. After about 10 minutes, however, he was bored with the game mechanics of repeatedly catching pokemon as well. How hard is it to just provide the ability to battle wild pokemon as well as catch them? Its also extremely easy to level up your pokemon. If you catch a wild pokemon all of your pokemon get a decent amount of XP. Within about an hour of playing, I had a bunch of random pokemon caught and all of the main pokemon in my party were around lvl 12. Very little battling occurred to get me to that point, though, and instead, I just had 8 different metapods and other duplicate random pokemon caught and stored. So dumb. Overall, if you enjoy wasting your time on a game that requires no skill at all and very little fun, buy this game. As for me, I am probably going to return it as it was expensive at launch with very little fun to be had. Instead of having an emphasis on training your pokemon and leveling up, you can now pet your Pikachu. Its fun for about 2 seconds and then you will probably never do it again. you also get to put dumb clothes on your Pikachu. Fun for about 2 seconds, and then you stop caring altogether. Also, you can't even use the pro controller with this, another annoyance as sometimes trees and things will get your way but due to the controller limitations, you cannot swivel the camera around. What a giant mistake and miss Nintendo has with this game. There was so much potential to have the perfect pokemon game due to the rich console screen, nice hardware, etc. Instead, we have a game that feels to be trying really hard to be terrible and does not deliver at all. No one wants to catch 10 of the same pokemon. No one really cares that they can pet their pokemon. No one really cares that they can dress up their pokemon. Whoever was overseeing this project/game literally did their best to ruin such a promising game on such a promising platform. I will be looking to return the game as it simply is not fun. What a waste of my life, time, and money.