Hhhmm. I don't know, so I love a little Easter Egg cameo. Having the Pikmin statue in the first film was great! Have a shot in this one where an Arwing flies past or is sat in a hangar or whatever, great! But smashing them all together (no pun intended) into the same universe where they interact as part of the story?...I don't know.
Smash Bros is awesome, I love it, but it's not canon for these characters and it has it's own narrative that makes it it's own separate entity again. I guess I need to wait and see, I'll admit, hypocritically I was excited for Pikmin, because they're often little background things that don't talk or engage. Fox feels like he'll be a lot more involved, especially as he's getting his own poster.
I guess I jsut don't want another multiverse where everything gets smashed together into one homogenised grey lump of consumerism.
The Midnight Walk, South of Midnight and Kena are all fantastic games and assuming they're ported well, well worth your time. If I had to recommend only one though, it'd be The Midnight Walk!
Beautiful graphics, all hand made puppets and scenery and scanned in which really gives a lovely tactile quality. A really great atmosphere, not unlike Little Nightmares in the type of spooky and creepy scares. And a great story, quite deftly flipping between absolutely absurd and quite poetically tragic without feeling jarring or out of place. A really special game!
@rjejr having played Pokopia I get why it’s Switch 2 only. But that’s a good point on Tomodatchi, it’ll fill the gap for those who aren’t upgrading yet.
Used to be working for a big company like Epic meant job security, they could weather the storms of a big flop or an industry lull. But it's the opposite now, earn 10 billion this month instead of 11 billion? There goes your job to make the shareholders happy.
They're all quite terrible. Appreciate trying to do something different for Europe, but the rendering and more importantly the lighting is not quite there.
@kkslider5552000 @Bolt_Strike The two are doing very different things and I think ultimately you can't really rank them against each other in that way, they both achieve what they set out to really well it's purely a case of what do you prefer. For me that's Ocarina, I too didn't like the timer stopping me exploring and making me start of over if I took too long for whatever reason. I also didn't super care for the darker tone, it felt at odds with the original overall to me. That being said, I 100% get why those very reasons would make MM the favourite for others.
Anyway Pokemon! I never played this one....don't know if it'll be worth going back to but I might if my backlog thins out a bit.
But...Monopoly itself is a satire of the villain's side.
Aesthetically pleasing for the most part at least, but please Monopoly, if you're going to do there crossovers let them change things like the 'go to jail' graphics to be in keeping. They always stick out like a sore thumb.
My partner has an old Hello Kitty collab Grind reusable cup and that thing is so well insulated it's kind of insane. I'm hoping they'll do another one for this so I can get one too but the last collab was Snoopy and they did a camping set instead.
A lot of them are quite abstract, especially before you know how the proceeding UI works, and the vertical stack of three horizontal lines could be confusing to any Xbox owners as they have their own equivalent. I see why they didn’t pick them.
The speech bubble works but it’s also commonly used for chat-bot assistants on websites so maybe not the best either. Nintendo has a wide audience and I think some might make actually that mistake and be frustrated.
I don’t know about the final ‘C’ choice. When you have ‘A’ and ‘B’ it feels like ‘C’ should be with them, as it was on the old Sega Megadrive, especially if you’re not as entrenched in gaming as many of us here are. The GameCube used to have a ‘C stick’ and I guess it’s in a similar position which was maybe another layer as to why they chose it?
Ultimately I don’t think there was a perfect solution and whatever is on it people are gonna press it and find out anyway!
I liked them in Wonder, they were quite funny and occasioanlly a bit meta and weird. Sure if you had to restart a section a few times they could be annoying but generally they were fun.
Makes sense to me to have them take the commentator role in the Mario Sports games. I'd rather than then suddenly a Goomba has a voice. Those other characters talking is great for the RPGs but not in regular Mario.
Lets just hope they keep an option in for muting them for those who dont like them.
@N00BiSH I think they were good fits, but the point was they all did good jobs. Pratt is really the standout as a bad choice, which sucks given he's Mario himself.
I will say Glover as Yoshi does feel like it could be a bit like when they cast Jackie Chan as Master Monkey in Kung Fu Panda, in that they have barely any actual lines (I hope Yoshi doesn't talk!) and are just there for the name on the poster.
@N00BiSH Pratt can get in the bin but I thought Charlie Day was great as Luigi and Anya Taylor-Joy was a good Peach. And Jack Black was a great take on Bowser. Toad...wasn't bad VA just a bad direction, shoulda kept the original Toad voice.
@N64-ROX ah there’s a whole page on it. Sounds like they had a nightmare getting passed around manufacturers and the cost just kept rising. Sad thing is that was mainly for the Bluetooth speaker part which, personally, was not a part I cared about. The charger, the clock and even the pen were of more interest to me. Hopefully one day they’ll return to it.
@Supaguy hhmm, this might sound a little wishy-washy as a response but I think if you vibed with it when you saw it, you'll probably enjoy it.
The machine itself is well made, and if you were going to carry it around the cover case is lovely too and probably needed. The battery life isn't bad but it's not the best, the main issue is if it runs flat it can take hours to come back again, I thought mine had died the first time it happened. So you'll likely be needing to take it out your bag and charge it after carrying it around a few days, depending how much you play.
The games that come with it are really mixed so there will be some you enjoy and some you don't. But they're all well made and interesting and I think they still deliver two new ones to you every fortnight after activating the console, which was an absolute delight. The library made by the community is actually much bigger than I ever thought it would get! There's a lot of 'famous arcade game but with the crank' (which I actually kinda like) and some really interesting experiments. It's not a place where you're going to find the next big indie game hit, but if you want some arcadey fun or some curios it's got lots of that! and they're usually skewed for short bursts of play or 1-2hr sessions. If you like the homebrew community aspect you'll be quite well served. I've not tried to make anything myself but the tools are all free and people do amazing things on it.
But yeah, ultimately I think if you saw the bright little yellow box with the crank and that alone made you smile, you're probably going to enjoy what it's doing.
I enjoyed this one, nice to see if getting a Switch 2 port! Only thing I will say is some of the boss fights were insane difficulty peaks, especially compared to the easy-breezy rest of the game. I don't know if they've since balanced that though.
Yeah honestly this is why I liked Black and White so much! It put everyone on a much more level playing field. Sure if you knew the type advantages/disadvantages and existing moves you still had a slight head start, but you didn’t know what each new ‘mon was or what they could learn. Regional variants should make this even easier too. Like oh it’s a Cubone again but I know it’s going to evolve different here.
I remember fighting my friend online and he’d just caught a Frillish, obviously part Water but I had no Electric or Grass left on my team so I sent my Fighting type out. I had no idea it was part Ghost! It was so much fun and I’ve not had that since the first games. I wish it had become the standard, after all you could catch the rest after the story for competitive play if you wanted. I just can’t get excited for catching a Caterpie or even a Cubone again. It just feels like filler tasks now and I think things like levelling Pokémon has had to be watered down as a result which takes away the sense of achievement there a little.
But maybe WinWav will fix that in a different way somehow?
@UltimateOtaku91 could be due to the exclusive Pokemon? I get it with Scarlet and Violet, the prehistoric paradox Pokemon were much better than the robot future ones. Maybe people preferred Dragalge and Aromatisse to Clawitzer and Slurpuff?
Very excited for Denshattack! Pleased to see The Midnight Walk make it's way over, I love it on PS5. Toem 2 was an awesome surprise! Woodo finally getting a date and seeing more Ratatan.
Honestly the only thing I wasn't interested in is Blue Prince but only because I played it elsewhere and couldn't get into it.
Yeah, cool but not one I'll bother with upgrading. I don't need 60fps and mouse mode. I can't see rubbing a joy-con on my leg any easier than tapping the d-pad or touching the screen.
Great game though! I say this as someone whop doesn't enjoy poker or rouge-likes, this game is a solid 10/10 and well worth the entry price.
Looks very sportswear to me? But I'm not a super fashion person so I don't know. I like the Mew hoodie and Mewtwo jacket, but outside of Electabuzz I agree the Pokemon picked are quite predictable choices.
I know these guys sell, but lets add a few curveballs into the mix, show me what you can do with Lotad or Nymble, give Quilfish or Elgyem some love for a change for example. There's literally over a thousand of these guys now do we need to to always be the same 4-5 gen1 every time?
Easily my least favourite gen sadly. But Greavard and Clodsire are undeniable.
Most start alright and just have the worst evolutions, or none at all which is equally frustrating.
I remember a friend brought his original Virtual Boy in to work one day for us to have a play with and I loved it, so I do want this. But I really just can't get past having to have an upgraded subscription to use a peripheral. If these were just with regular online or better yet a software bundle I could just purchase I'd have this day one. The lack of controller is a shame too but I appreciate the price is already very high.
I guess I might just have to crack out my old Switch 1 and Labo VR set, and upgrade for a year.
This gen was far too small, but it's actually got a bunch I really like. I voted for Noibat in the end, but honest Froakie, Honedge, Goomy, Bergmite and Hawlucha are all top tier designs for me.
Ok now I love Lego and I love Pokemon... I'm not a fan of any of these sets. I don't know why Pikachu isn't to scale with Eevee to give extra 'play' factor.
The tiny Pokecentre is cool, but I'd much rather a full size one with some trainer minifigs and Pokemon pieces.
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Re: Fox McCloud Blasts Into The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Hhhmm. I don't know, so I love a little Easter Egg cameo. Having the Pikmin statue in the first film was great! Have a shot in this one where an Arwing flies past or is sat in a hangar or whatever, great! But smashing them all together (no pun intended) into the same universe where they interact as part of the story?...I don't know.
Smash Bros is awesome, I love it, but it's not canon for these characters and it has it's own narrative that makes it it's own separate entity again. I guess I need to wait and see, I'll admit, hypocritically I was excited for Pikmin, because they're often little background things that don't talk or engage. Fox feels like he'll be a lot more involved, especially as he's getting his own poster.
I guess I jsut don't want another multiverse where everything gets smashed together into one homogenised grey lump of consumerism.
Re: Nintendo Download: 26th March (North America)
The Midnight Walk, South of Midnight and Kena are all fantastic games and assuming they're ported well, well worth your time. If I had to recommend only one though, it'd be The Midnight Walk!
Beautiful graphics, all hand made puppets and scenery and scanned in which really gives a lovely tactile quality. A really great atmosphere, not unlike Little Nightmares in the type of spooky and creepy scares. And a great story, quite deftly flipping between absolutely absurd and quite poetically tragic without feeling jarring or out of place. A really special game!
Re: Round Up: The Final Previews Are In For Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream
@rjejr having played Pokopia I get why it’s Switch 2 only. But that’s a good point on Tomodatchi, it’ll fill the gap for those who aren’t upgrading yet.
Re: Round Up: The Final Previews Are In For Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream
It is unfortunately quite close to Pokopia, but I am excited to play this at some point
Re: Epic Games Cuts Over 1,000 Jobs Weeks After Raising Fortnite V-Bucks Prices
Used to be working for a big company like Epic meant job security, they could weather the storms of a big flop or an industry lull. But it's the opposite now, earn 10 billion this month instead of 11 billion? There goes your job to make the shareholders happy.
Re: "New Players Won't Feel Alone" - Square Enix Partners With Google For AI-Powered Dragon Quest Companion
So once again AI being used to do a thing that was already being done quite easily.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl - Resident Evil: Code Veronica X (GameCube)
They're all quite terrible. Appreciate trying to do something different for Europe, but the rendering and more importantly the lighting is not quite there.
Re: Rumour: Minifigure Scale Pokémon Lego Appears Online In New Leak
Well I better get saving!
Re: Nintendo Expands Switch 2's GameCube Library This Week
@kkslider5552000 @Bolt_Strike The two are doing very different things and I think ultimately you can't really rank them against each other in that way, they both achieve what they set out to really well it's purely a case of what do you prefer. For me that's Ocarina, I too didn't like the timer stopping me exploring and making me start of over if I took too long for whatever reason. I also didn't super care for the darker tone, it felt at odds with the original overall to me. That being said, I 100% get why those very reasons would make MM the favourite for others.
Anyway Pokemon! I never played this one....don't know if it'll be worth going back to but I might if my backlog thins out a bit.
Re: Monopoly: Star Wars Heroes Vs. Villains Brings A Galactic Showdown To Switch 1 & 2 This June
But...Monopoly itself is a satire of the villain's side.
Aesthetically pleasing for the most part at least, but please Monopoly, if you're going to do there crossovers let them change things like the 'go to jail' graphics to be in keeping. They always stick out like a sore thumb.
Re: Beloved Machine-Building Puzzler 'Opus Magnum' Finally Arrives On Switch
Oh I'm going to be so bad at this but it looks awesome!
Re: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Just Teased Some Tiny Creatures You Might Not Have Expected To See
More Pikmin is more good in the world!
Re: Random: New Pokémon Collab Is For Anyone Who Hoped 'Minccino' Was A Type Of Coffee
My partner has an old Hello Kitty collab Grind reusable cup and that thing is so well insulated it's kind of insane. I'm hoping they'll do another one for this so I can get one too but the last collab was Snoopy and they did a camping set instead.
Re: Nintendo Shows Off Icon Design Proposals For Switch 2's 'C' Button
That’s a pleasing sheet of icons to look at.
A lot of them are quite abstract, especially before you know how the proceeding UI works, and the vertical stack of three horizontal lines could be confusing to any Xbox owners as they have their own equivalent. I see why they didn’t pick them.
The speech bubble works but it’s also commonly used for chat-bot assistants on websites so maybe not the best either. Nintendo has a wide audience and I think some might make actually that mistake and be frustrated.
I don’t know about the final ‘C’ choice. When you have ‘A’ and ‘B’ it feels like ‘C’ should be with them, as it was on the old Sega Megadrive, especially if you’re not as entrenched in gaming as many of us here are. The GameCube used to have a ‘C stick’ and I guess it’s in a similar position which was maybe another layer as to why they chose it?
Ultimately I don’t think there was a perfect solution and whatever is on it people are gonna press it and find out anyway!
Re: Nintendo Shows Off Icon Design Proposals For Switch 2's 'C' Button
Should have been a talking flower
Re: Talking Point: Are You Tired Of The Talking Flower Yet?
I liked them in Wonder, they were quite funny and occasioanlly a bit meta and weird. Sure if you had to restart a section a few times they could be annoying but generally they were fun.
Makes sense to me to have them take the commentator role in the Mario Sports games. I'd rather than then suddenly a Goomba has a voice. Those other characters talking is great for the RPGs but not in regular Mario.
Lets just hope they keep an option in for muting them for those who dont like them.
Re: Random: Mario Wonder's New Switch 2 Trailer Is Hiding A Crossover Cameo
More Pikmin = more good in the world.
Re: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Introduces The Voices Of Yoshi, Wart, And The Honey Queen
@N00BiSH I think they were good fits, but the point was they all did good jobs. Pratt is really the standout as a bad choice, which sucks given he's Mario himself.
I will say Glover as Yoshi does feel like it could be a bit like when they cast Jackie Chan as Master Monkey in Kung Fu Panda, in that they have barely any actual lines (I hope Yoshi doesn't talk!) and are just there for the name on the poster.
Re: New Survival Game 'Pickmon' Is Just Asking To Be Sued Into Oblivion
I hear an alarm ringing…”AI AI AI”. Definitely used generative AI to “design” most of these creatures.
This is so creatively void it makes Palworld look like a bastion of originality.
Re: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Introduces The Voices Of Yoshi, Wart, And The Honey Queen
@N00BiSH Pratt can get in the bin but I thought Charlie Day was great as Luigi and Anya Taylor-Joy was a good Peach. And Jack Black was a great take on Bowser. Toad...wasn't bad VA just a bad direction, shoulda kept the original Toad voice.
Re: Yoshi Popcorn Bucket Announced For The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Probably in the minority here but I wish it was just the egg. Then it feels like a prop from the film and it would hold more popcorn.
Re: Review: Ratcheteer DX (Switch) - A Bite-Sized Zelda-Like That Feels Right At Home On Nintendo
@N64-ROX ah there’s a whole page on it. Sounds like they had a nightmare getting passed around manufacturers and the cost just kept rising. Sad thing is that was mainly for the Bluetooth speaker part which, personally, was not a part I cared about. The charger, the clock and even the pen were of more interest to me. Hopefully one day they’ll return to it.
Re: Review: Ratcheteer DX (Switch) - A Bite-Sized Zelda-Like That Feels Right At Home On Nintendo
@Supaguy hhmm, this might sound a little wishy-washy as a response but I think if you vibed with it when you saw it, you'll probably enjoy it.
The machine itself is well made, and if you were going to carry it around the cover case is lovely too and probably needed. The battery life isn't bad but it's not the best, the main issue is if it runs flat it can take hours to come back again, I thought mine had died the first time it happened. So you'll likely be needing to take it out your bag and charge it after carrying it around a few days, depending how much you play.
The games that come with it are really mixed so there will be some you enjoy and some you don't. But they're all well made and interesting and I think they still deliver two new ones to you every fortnight after activating the console, which was an absolute delight. The library made by the community is actually much bigger than I ever thought it would get! There's a lot of 'famous arcade game but with the crank' (which I actually kinda like) and some really interesting experiments. It's not a place where you're going to find the next big indie game hit, but if you want some arcadey fun or some curios it's got lots of that! and they're usually skewed for short bursts of play or 1-2hr sessions. If you like the homebrew community aspect you'll be quite well served. I've not tried to make anything myself but the tools are all free and people do amazing things on it.
But yeah, ultimately I think if you saw the bright little yellow box with the crank and that alone made you smile, you're probably going to enjoy what it's doing.
Re: Review: Ratcheteer DX (Switch) - A Bite-Sized Zelda-Like That Feels Right At Home On Nintendo
@BigRed40 me too! Love that silly lil' yellow box!
Re: Review: Ratcheteer DX (Switch) - A Bite-Sized Zelda-Like That Feels Right At Home On Nintendo
It's weird seeing PlayDate games on Switch, weird but very cool!
Re: PlayStation Indie Hit 'Kena: Bridge Of Spirits' Is Headed To Switch 2 Soon
I enjoyed this one, nice to see if getting a Switch 2 port! Only thing I will say is some of the boss fights were insane difficulty peaks, especially compared to the easy-breezy rest of the game. I don't know if they've since balanced that though.
Re: Talking Point: After 30 Years, Is It Time To Reset The Pokédex?
Yeah honestly this is why I liked Black and White so much! It put everyone on a much more level playing field. Sure if you knew the type advantages/disadvantages and existing moves you still had a slight head start, but you didn’t know what each new ‘mon was or what they could learn. Regional variants should make this even easier too. Like oh it’s a Cubone again but I know it’s going to evolve different here.
I remember fighting my friend online and he’d just caught a Frillish, obviously part Water but I had no Electric or Grass left on my team so I sent my Fighting type out. I had no idea it was part Ghost! It was so much fun and I’ve not had that since the first games. I wish it had become the standard, after all you could catch the rest after the story for competitive play if you wanted. I just can’t get excited for catching a Caterpie or even a Cubone again. It just feels like filler tasks now and I think things like levelling Pokémon has had to be watered down as a result which takes away the sense of achievement there a little.
But maybe WinWav will fix that in a different way somehow?
Re: Pokopia Joins A 3DS Entry As The Highest-Rated Pokémon Game On Metacritic
@UltimateOtaku91 could be due to the exclusive Pokemon?
I get it with Scarlet and Violet, the prehistoric paradox Pokemon were much better than the robot future ones. Maybe people preferred Dragalge and Aromatisse to Clawitzer and Slurpuff?
Re: Nintendo Indie World Showcase March 2026: Every Announcement, Game Reveal, Trailer
One of the better indie directs in a long time!
Very excited for Denshattack! Pleased to see The Midnight Walk make it's way over, I love it on PS5. Toem 2 was an awesome surprise! Woodo finally getting a date and seeing more Ratatan.
Honestly the only thing I wasn't interested in is Blue Prince but only because I played it elsewhere and couldn't get into it.
Re: Poll: Box Art Brawl: Pokémon 30th Anniversary Edition
No prizes for guessing who will win this one.
There’s not a lot in it tbf. They’re largely the same format it’s just what rendering style you like best or Pokémon you have the fondest memories of.
Re: Quiz: Can You Name That Pokémon?
25/25, only one I delayed on was 8. Couldn't remember which was which for a moment!
Re: Poll: So, Which Starter Will You Choose In Pokémon Winds & Waves?
Browt! I love that little angry boy!
Need to see their final evolutions though.
Re: Pokémon Winds & Waves Announced For Switch 2, Launching Next Year
I'm so glad they're taking another year with it!
New starters look great too! Absolutely love Browt! Really hoping they evolve good this time.
Re: Balatro's Back To Steal All Your Spare Time In New Switch 2 Version
Yeah, cool but not one I'll bother with upgrading. I don't need 60fps and mouse mode. I can't see rubbing a joy-con on my leg any easier than tapping the d-pad or touching the screen.
Great game though! I say this as someone whop doesn't enjoy poker or rouge-likes, this game is a solid 10/10 and well worth the entry price.
Re: Pokémon's Swanky New High Fashion Collaboration Is Now Available
Looks very sportswear to me? But I'm not a super fashion person so I don't know. I like the Mew hoodie and Mewtwo jacket, but outside of Electabuzz I agree the Pokemon picked are quite predictable choices.
I know these guys sell, but lets add a few curveballs into the mix, show me what you can do with Lotad or Nymble, give Quilfish or Elgyem some love for a change for example. There's literally over a thousand of these guys now do we need to to always be the same 4-5 gen1 every time?
Re: Poll: What's Your Favourite Gen 9 Pokémon?
Easily my least favourite gen sadly. But Greavard and Clodsire are undeniable.
Most start alright and just have the worst evolutions, or none at all which is equally frustrating.
Re: Poll: What's Your Favourite Gen 8 Pokémon?
Loved this gen! SirFetch'd is my favourite, I have a little one on my desk. The leek become a sword and shield is genius!
Some great designs though, Hatterene, Dreepy, Centiskorch, Applin, Orbeetle, Perrserker, Snom, Overquill, Wyrdeer are all top tier for me.
Sorry Alana, I'm a big Sneasel fan and really like the Hisuian variant but Sneasler is one of my least favourites. Glad they have a fan though!
Re: Review: Virtual Boy For Switch 1 & 2 - Is It Really Worth Revisting Nintendo's Greatest Folly?
I remember a friend brought his original Virtual Boy in to work one day for us to have a play with and I loved it, so I do want this. But I really just can't get past having to have an upgraded subscription to use a peripheral. If these were just with regular online or better yet a software bundle I could just purchase I'd have this day one. The lack of controller is a shame too but I appreciate the price is already very high.
I guess I might just have to crack out my old Switch 1 and Labo VR set, and upgrade for a year.
Re: Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen Is Getting A Stunning 'Special Edition' Release In Japan
I just want the Bulbasaur ball.
Re: Poll: What's Your Favourite Gen 6 Pokémon?
This gen was far too small, but it's actually got a bunch I really like. I voted for Noibat in the end, but honest Froakie, Honedge, Goomy, Bergmite and Hawlucha are all top tier designs for me.
Re: Poll: What's Your Favourite Gen 3 Pokémon?
I love this gen! Mudkip is the winner for me!
I feel the need to give Lotad props too though.
Re: Poll: What's Your Favourite Gen 4 Pokémon?
Tangrowth and Drifblim for me.
I’m struggling to pick just one on any of these!
Re: Poll: What's Your Favourite Gen 5 Pokémon?
Litwick & Trubbish all the way!
Re: Ren & Stimpy Are Getting A 7-Game Retro Collection, Courtesy Of Limited Run
I don't think the original creator will be getting compensation for this, I've read that he isn't for the planned reboot of the series.
But still...feels gross to be enjoying his works.
Re: Gallery: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Official Character Posters Have Been Revealed
We need a Luigi's Mansion or WarioLand movie next!
Re: Forget The Talking Flower, This Is The Cutest Upcoming Mario Toy
I would have loved this as a kid, as an adult I'm just grossed out by so much packaging waste (Hatchimals are insanely bad for it).
Yoshi himself is cute I guess, he's no Furby though.
Re: Poll: What's Your Favourite Gen 2 Pokémon?
Cyndaquil, their whole evo line is awesome!
Re: Poll: What's Your Favourite Gen 1 Pokémon?
Ivysaur but Jigglypuff comes a close second.
Re: Want To Play MGS As An Octopus? Darwin's Paradox's Free Demo Can Help
Been waiting a while for this one, it looks great!
Re: Video: Lego Pokémon Review Gives Us Our Best Look Yet
Ok now I love Lego and I love Pokemon... I'm not a fan of any of these sets. I don't know why Pikachu isn't to scale with Eevee to give extra 'play' factor.
The tiny Pokecentre is cool, but I'd much rather a full size one with some trainer minifigs and Pokemon pieces.