Difficulty:

Very Easy

Time Spent:

40 to 100 Hours

The Bottom Line:

"Pretentious"

In every place I've ever heard of, animal cruelty is against the law or frowned upon. Here, you put many sizes of animal into a ball and force them to fight each other. In fact, it's become the favorite sport of the entire planet to force these otherwise friendly animals that don't have blood to beat each other until they are just about to die, only to put them back into the ball, fully heal them, and forces them to do it again, and again, and again. This has been the idea of every single pokemon game ever. (some are a little different, but that's the gyst). I'm talking about now in 2010, not back then. This review doesn't go just for blue, it goes for every single pokemon game ever as not a single one of them has changed even a little besides graphics and animals to beat down.

The idea of pokemon alone is probably the dumbest idea for a game I've ever heard. Capture things and fight them. Yeah... Anyway, the general staples of rpgs and strategy games are here. Different allies, bosses, different kinds of attacks, elemental moves, finding secret items, and leveling up are all here. Problem with pokemon is THAT'S ALL IT DOES. In every single game you already know what's going to happen, even the names of everything have been predicted. You start in a town right across from your rival. This town has a pokemon professor in it named after a kind of wood. He has 3 different pokemon for you to choose from. You pick one, the rival picks the other. Now you will venture to all the cities which all happen to be named after colors to get each badge. 8 badges in all, you must collect them to get to the Elite Four while battling against Team Something. Team Something has no logical reason to be the way they are, they just do these things becomes they are evil by definition and need no reason to try this over and over again masquerading as different team every time, they just do. You will collect pokemon of all kinds along the way. Some are common, others rare, and few legendary. Eventually you will reach the Elite Four after collecting all the badges and you will defeat them like any other enemy except these four you will fight consecutively. You have beaten the game. Woo.

I know every game is slightly different. Some of the first were glitchy, some are longer( although you do the exact same thing for the other part of the game ) , some are choppier, slower, or faster tan others. However, there is no reason to review a each individual game if it hasn't changed. Besides the fact that the gameplay hasn't changed, you can actually predict nearly every step of the game.
On to the gameplay. The gameplay is fairly simple. You run around and fight enemies in tall grass and caves at random and fight trainers. The combat is even more deceptively simple. You select an attack, enemy selects an attack. You pick one of 4 moves each turn all of which can be used enough times so they can longer be used until you have healed. Every move has a different number of times it can be used, it's own damage and accuracy rates, and an element. Average so far, right? Well, no. Most moves can take down an enemy in one hit, especially if it was the right element. I admit there is some strategy in what moves to teach a certain type of pokemon, but it's easy to win almost no matter what. The only real strategy comes around when you find a trainer that has all pokemon 10 levels over yours. At this point, you just need to plan ahead what pokemon to use so you can win. During combat, you have items to use that heal and cure your pokemon's health and status problems. Really, all combat is is a judgement call on what move will kill your enemy in one hit. Every now and then a tough one comes along where you actually need to think, but they are several levels more powerful than you. They aren't well programmed or anything. As far as the enemy CPU goes, they are the deadest fish in the shark's belly. Unless they have been programmed to use moves in a certain order, they attack at random. Considering you can think and they can't, you will almost always win.
There isn't much else to say about pokemon without going into the nitty gritty details. Honestly though, there isn't anything else worth telling. All pokemon games are congruent. Pokemon is the biggest rip off ever considering they've been selling the same retarded idea for so long. Too bad so many fools have been sucked in to the addiction expecting change. The game isn't broken, but the people who make it are a broken record with infinite electricity. Although it's stupid, it's still slightly under average. 6.5 out of 10.