Pokemon Stadium

"I try to get fun out of this game, but the amount of cheating involved makes it Impossible."

This must be one of the most famous and overrated game. I find it strange, because of many things. First, there is NO catching. You just choose tree pokemon and fight against a player. Second you can't... Wait! I don't want to spoil my review. Just read on, please. NOTE: I love pokemon. I even drew my own comics where I was a trainer that tried to beat Ash... Well, back to the review!

Graphics:8/10
Nice!! I finally get to see my favorite pokemon in 3D!! I love you cuddly Alakazam!!! Lots of people find that graphics make a game. If it was true (It really isn't, though) This would have been a good game.

Pros
Pokemon in 3d!
The animations may be funny
Cool effects

Cons
Nothing looks real, It all seems boring to me...

Story:N/A
I would give it a zero if I could, but I'm not allowed to bash a game. What a pity. ''Get out, win the trophies, beat the hell out of the opponents, repeat,repeat,repeat,repeat.......

Controls:8/10
Better than I thought, because they are responsive and nicely ordered. I have rarely got messed up. The minus points are the anger you will feel when you play this game and both your Dragonite and your Zapdos get beaten by a Horsea. ''Captain!!!! I see N64s and severely damaged controllers flying out the window!!!!!'' I bet you'll do it just like me: ''What the hell!!!!!!'' *SMASH* Hopefully my controller still works now, So I can play with my friends.

Pros
Nice responsiveness

Cons
You have to use the D-Pad instead of the control stick.

Sound:1/10
The only thing that saves this score from a scary round 0 is a song that plays when you Fight a minion of a Gym leader. Nice organ tunes! well, enough of that. As it seems, The pokémon voices sound like mice getting trodden on!! You expect mewtwo to laugh, but instead of ''Mwahahahaha'', its some sort of ''Mrwkrrtzrverqryrgh!'' The same for Pikachu: ''Prchurghgllighturyzz!'' instead of a cute little ''Pika Pika!!!'' You'll notice once you see the movie or the animated series and compare the voices with them. The Music? Too bad you can't raise the music volume, because It's nearly impossible to hear it. Too bad, Nintendo!

Pros
Some parts of the nearly nonexistent music.

Cons
The voices. AAAAARGH!!!!
The god-forsaken ANNOUNCER!!!

And Now, the most important part of a game:
THE GAMEPLAY!!!!!:3/10!!!!
You'll be asking, ''What the hell are you talking about, Giordano???? You fight with your pokemon, and it's cooler than Your stupid Tomb raider games!'' I'll answer like this:''SO?!?! Tomb raider is WAY better than this pile of overrated piece of plastic, but let's not compare the perfect with the Flawed. The fact is that IN THIS GAME, THE POKEMON DON'T EVEN TOUCH EACH OTHER OR GET A FOOT NEARER!!!!!!!! A perfect example is the fact that when jigglypuff does Bodyslam, he jumps up, lands on his rear end on the same spot, and my pokémon (In this case, a beloved Gengar) magically gets damage.(Oh, and I forgot to mention that the cheating involved in this game makes my Gengar Critically damaged AND paralyzed. On another match, I do it to his pokemon, and I get a stupid message: ''The attack MISSED!!!!!!'' The only thing that saved this score are the MINI-GAMES!!! Have you heard me??? The CPU CHEATS A BIG FAT LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'' So, That's my answer. Well, the fact that... Oh, I've already explained it all above. Maybe I'm a bit careless...

Pros
''Mommy, how do you spell the word none?''
The mini-games are solid and fun!

Cons
The *CHEATING* CPU
The fact that the little creatures do stupid poses and the enemy magically gets damage!!!

''Let's go on business. For how many pennies would you sell this?''
Buy or Rent:See next paragraph.
Rent if you're interested in seeing how crappy video-games can be. Be careful, because your mom or dad will get angry at you for wasting money only to get displeasure out of games like this. For the rest of the world, stay away from pieces of plastic with POKEMON STADIUM written on them. If you get it for Christmas, either sell it secretly, or give it back to the store. Keeping it is like flushing down 70$ Down a public toilet that no-one seems to clean. (Seems that everybody's getting scared of wasting money...MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! The toilet will get You! The toilet will get You!!!! Um... sorry!

Final Word: I still like this game, but not like those other poké-freaks who give a game 99/10 just because there's a stupid Pikachu face sticking on it. Boy, Ignorance is ruling the word. I'd better get an Encyclopedia before I get stupid too! AAAH!!!!

This review is only my opinion, so forget the hate-mail you want to send at me. You all have the right to Ignore me.(Don't pay attention to the previous sentence!)

Reviewer's Score: 4/10, Originally Posted: 09/01/03