Pokemon Stadium 2

"Pokemon fans will love this"

After FINALLY getting my N64(along with the original Pokemon Stadium), I decied to rent this wonder, and boy did I love it.

Storyline:N/A
Pokemon Stadium 2 has no storyline. However, I will not put that agianst it.

Graphics:10/10
Pokemon Stadium 2 has wonderful graphics, but it's a shame nobody bothered to redo the graphics of a few of the original Pokemon(all of the graphics for the original 151 pokeon are from Pokemon Stadium 1) that looked kinda bad.

Sound:7/10
The music's good,but unfortunetly all of the cries of the Pokemon are nothing more than souped-up remakes of the sounds they make in the game. Except for the Pikachu from Yellow, he says ''Pika!'' and ''PikaCHU!''. Wheee.

Difficulty:10/10
Pokemon Stadium 2 can be rather hard in some of the Cups,while others are somewhat easy but if you're not careful you'll still lose. THe ''you can't have more than one of the same Pokemon in your team'' rules makes things harder for thsoe who attempt the destroy the competion with 6 Mewtwos. One's OK,in fact you should put one in if the rules for the cup allow it(let's see, that narrows it down to Free Battle,the Gym Leader Castle, Rival Cup, and Prime Cup). There's an even harder R2 mode for those who beat it the first time around, and there you can use Mew and Celebi as rentals in the Prime Cup!

Control:10/10
It doesn't get much simpler than this, the only controls that are even remotely ''difficult to use''(feel the sarcasm) are the ones for the mini-games, and the controls for those are told to you anyways.

Fun:10/10,less if you despise Pokemon
All Pokemon Fans will enjoy this, and for the younger games the mini-games are fun too. If you don't like Pokemon, you might find a little less enjoyment from his,but if you don't like Pokemon then why are you playing this anyways?!

Replayablitiy:10/10
The strength of EVERY Pokemon game is that you can play them over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over until you get bored with them, well maybe not Snap. Anyways, like every other Pokemon game on earth, Pokemon Stadium 2 can be played forever, unless your cartridge screws up.

Overall:9/10
It's good, but it needs...something

Buy or Rent?
Buy if you're a Pokemon fanatic, rent if you don't like Pokemon too much, stay away if you hate Pokemon(but then why are you even considering this if you hate Pokemon?)

Reviewer's Score: 9/10, Originally Posted: 09/02/02, Updated 09/02/02