Pokémon Rumble World Rated By the Australian Classification Board

Just looking forward to a new Nintendo Direct in general now. Slow gaming news these last couple weeks pretty much sucks. If this comes out I pray they don't go Amiibo with Pokemon because there's no chance I'm going to buy 671 or however many Pokemon there are now.

I forgot this was a game.

Played the 3DS Rumble Blast and it didn't suit me. I like the Mystery Dungeon games but this is most likely a miss.

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@ikki5 With you on that one! I even have the 3DS version, but it must've left so little of an impression on me that I forgot it existed!

This will see the launch of an evergreen number Pokemon amiibo without a doubt. I would be surprised if the first run of figures was supported, actually.

I got Pokemon Rumble U on Wii U, spent many hours completing it. Still tempted to go back and try and 100% it.

I remember getting Rumble U, then stopped playing after I couldn't find any of the real-life figures. Unless this one gets good reviews I'll probably avoid it.

I just hope you can level up and evolve Pokémon. Using your favs is the main draw to Pokémon for me.

Really, Rumble is one of the most successful Pokémon spinoffs? I think it's easily the worst one alongside Pokémon Dash and maybe Pokémon Channel out of the ones I played. TCG and TCG2 are amazing, Pinball and Pinball R/S are really fun, just like Snap, the Mystery Dungeon games are great, especially Time/Darkness/Sky, Puzzle Challenge/League are really addicting, Ranger games are fun... so I'm not sure what this is about.

To be honest, I only got the Pokemon Rumble games because, well... Pokemon. But the fact that you can only use two moves and the fact that they're toys hasn't really been all that pleasing. I love the Mystery Dungeon series but, I never was happy about the turn-based gameplay in them. Or the dungeon crawling.

If they could somehow mix and match the best qualities of both these games into a spiritual successor, then I'd be happy.

@Krisi Pokemon Dash was an abomination. The controls were bad and the fact you could only play as Pikachu was awful. I'm not sure you could count Pokemon Rumble anywhere close to that. And I'm not really sure you could count Pokemon channel as a game.

PR.U was more tech demo than game. The Wiiware version was significantly better as was the 3DS version (or so the boys tell me).

If they sre putying "world" in the title then yes online is a posdibility, that or an MMO. Either way it would be much better than PRU and worth keeping an eye on.

Also, if this is NFC compatible it will be w/ the cards they mentioned once but not since.

Me, Im still waiting for Pokepark 3.

The "online interactivity" portion of the rating is not necessarily indicative of the presence of an online multiplayer mode. The most recent Cooking Mama and Gardening Mama games on 3DS were rated G with the consumer advice "Caution: Online interactivity" and to my knowledge, the only online functionality in these games is SpotPass related, and I strongly doubt that the publishers/developers are going to distribute content that is going to exceed the parameters of the G rating anyway (which makes the conspicuousness of the warning even more baffling).

Similarly, Pokémon Shuffle was rated G for "Very mild violence, online interactivity" simply due to the presence of future updates that cannot be issued a rating (such as the Mew, Meowth, Lucario challenges). Pokémon Shuffle contains no multiplayer modes whatsoever (unless you count the week-long Lucario challenge).

I wouldn't expect a MMORPG Pokémon Rumble game to come out of this… yet. Games that take place entirely online usually receive the consumer advice "Online content variable", as was the case with the World of Warcraft games, among other MMORPGs that do not immediately spring to mind.

I like the Pokemon Rumble games, particularly the first one, but I didn't buy the third one because of the toy aspect. I can't imagine this one would abandon them.

I hope this one is more similar to the first than the third because Rumble U felt short and it was really limited as you couldn't even buy new moves for your Pokemon unless you had the NFC figures. (Canada didn't get any )

@sillygostly Online interaction in Pokemon Shuffle includes online high scores in the ongoing Lucario event stage. This allows you to read the names of other players, some of which could be offensive.

I wanted to love these games so much, but they are hardly even games. I probably would have liked them when I was ten though, same as Pokemon Snap which I played for months as a kid and as an adult I beat it in one sitting and never touched it again.

We need a Nintendo Direct but it sadly doesn't seem likely as Nintendo probably figures they've released enough news this month. We might have to wait until April.

I think it is a bit of a stretch to call it a "successful spinoff" of the Pokemon series. Both the Ranger and Explorers have been more of a hit.i even think that even the Conquest one on the DS was rather successful.