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Best Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 26
Date: November 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When i first heard about this game i had my doubts. Until i finally rented it, and it rocked!!!!!!!! It has extraordinary replay value, and the new pokemon are sick. Including Frusk and Pikablue, this game has the whole package. I beat it in a grand total of 14 hours. Which i did in one sitting!!!!!! Then i went to my local video store and sold it for a whopping total of $4.50. That night i couldnt sleep, i missed my game!!!!!! So next morning i went back to the store and re-bought it for 26 big ones. All in all a great buy. Jesse from Petaluma over and out.

Interesting.............

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is definitely something different than the regular pokemon games. You get to adventure into the TV-watching habits of Pikachu, instead of battle-your-brains-out. Should be cool. I'm excited about it.

on yes baby oh yes this game rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 21
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Hey it you friendly neighborhood jesse. Oh yes im back to write a second review. This game rocks
oh yes baby. this is the best game in the world. Whats thats you say this game isnt out yet so how do he know its so good. well i have a friend in the vidieo game buisness.and i got it from him for 30 dollar. the vidieo game store bought it from me so they could play it. I have beaten this game a grand total of 9 times! Here are some games you shouldnt waste your money on. Splinter Cell. This game sucks. heh people say im crazy but no
pokemon channel is way better. i would spend 80 bucks on this. The best part of the game is the hidden secrets. like trailers of all pokemon games that are going to be realeased in the next year. Oh yes. and you can also play online. Whats that you say can it get any better.well yes it can.. You can....wait it dosent get any better. Well i am even playing it right now as we speak Its better than Drawing pokemon. What that you say nothing can be funner than drawing pokemon. WELL THIS IS. HAA HA HHHAAAAAAA.Mabey you think im crazy.But o no. if you play this game you will know. Even though ive never eaten pasta, hot dogs, corn dogs, pizza, olives, cheese, burritos, and milk (as long as i can remember) that dosent mean im crazy. Well im going a little off track.sorry. But this game is awsome. Jesse from Petaluma Over and oUt

Pokemon Channel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome! I have read lots of reviews on it and it looks really great. You are trying to get more things for your room as you go through 3d worlds and get news about whats happening! This game looks really challenging. You also can go on gameshows as you collect items for your room. You can also travel to different places for new information! This is a must get! It will be worth the money!

POKEMON CHANNEL

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: December 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS WHERE YOU GO ON A QUSTE TO FIND TV CILPS FOR THE NEW TV SHOW POKEMON WITH PIKACHE AND 3 OF THE R&S GAMES THE NEW HIDDEN POKEMON MIGHT MAKE AN APPERENCE...

P.S. COMES WITH 3 E-READER CARDS

Get it with the Pokemon mini.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 19
Date: December 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have yet to play this game, but I am really looking foward to it. I orderderd it with the free Pokemon Mini. They have that deal as a seperate item. I suggest ordering that combo instead of just the game by itself.

THIS GAME ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: December 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the Ultimate Pokemon game! Those of you who enjoyed Hey You Pikachu!, Pokemon Channel is 50 times better!!! Watching TV with Pikachu, collecting Nice Cards, and interacting with all your fav pokemon. if u think it sounds boring, u r wrong! Every day since i got this game (the day it came out) I wake up a half hour early just to play it. I beat the main part of the game, but there's still much more to do. Maybe I don't make it sound so great, but it's an awesome game, especially for only $30. What a bargain.
Downsides:
-The main part of the game is easy to beat.
-Pikachu can be a pain when watching Shop 'N Squirtle
Other than that, this is a 5-star game, definitely buy it!

POKEMON CHANNEL=COOL

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: December 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ok so it looks dumb blah blah blah... but hey its Pokemon right?it's gotta be cool!!!! Well... IT IS COOL I reccomend to people who like pokemon its sweet... so are the extras!!!

This ones more of a service to pokemon loving kids.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: December 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The Gamecube has been out for two years and now we finally have a Pokemon game for it. Unfortunately this might not really be a game. Lets start with some details and what this game does right first. Apparently Prof. Oak has been hard at work on a television network for Pokemon (does the man have a life?). Now you've been chosen to test this network and see if it's any good. Right when the television is delivered guess who suddenly breaks into your house? If you said Pikachu you're unfortunately correct (more on that later). So now you and Pikachu (who is apparently allowed to break the law) are now tasked to watch this network and see how it works. Each channel has different Pokemon themed shows such as PNF (Pokemon News Flash), Shop n Squirtle, Pichu Bros Party Panic Anime, and Slowpokes weather report. There are more but they're neither interesting nor fun to watch. Let's start with the good. The graphics are okay, not heavily detailed, but they get the job done with the exception of some of the Pokemon models looking like they came from the N64 games. You can occasionally go outside and see different Pokemon, which is pretty cool. The shopping channel even sells bus passes which can take you to different areas to see different Pokemon. Now the bad and there are more of these than the good. If you hate Pikachu this WILL increase your hatred ten fold at least. He always wants to watch TV! It usually takes an act of congress to get him to go outside and see the different Pokemon, which is arguably the best part of this game. Now some of the shows are okay but noo he wants to watch all of them including crap like Smoochum exercising for five minutes. It's like babysitting some annoying child. After a few days of this you will try to get him run over by the bus (sadly you cannot). Now my biggest gripe: lack of interactivity to the point you question whether you have a DVD or a game. Everything here has you watching. Sure you get to click on things but after that you only get to see what Pikachu does with them (which if you don't like him anyway you won't want to see him roll around with a ball for example). As an interesting side note (and this is neither good nor bad) this game runs on real time like Animal Crossing. So if you're Gamecube's clock is set correctly and you turn this on at three PM it will be the same in the game. At first this intrigued me but it soon became clear that this feature is very limited here. For example there are no exact time specific events such as "Charmander only comes out from three to four in the afternoon". Instead it seems as though things are divided into three time sections each day: playing before noon, playing from noon to seven PM, and playing from seven PM to seven AM when the first section starts again. While simplistic it does keep the game from ending too quickly unless you mess with the clock. Each day when you save it unlocks things that when turned on in the proper time section the next day you can access. As stated before it isn't complex in the least but it does serve to stretch out what would be an otherwise short game. I know you're thinking I'm being too harsh on a game that's geared towards children right? Well it's because I know that tons of older Pokemon fans will pick this up and be disappointed. I almost did but thankfully I rented it first. Even at thirty dollars it's too much for what an older person would get out of it. However if you're a parent looking for good game for your pokemon-loving child this is actually a good choice. I could see a child enjoying it. Anyone over ten would be wise to wait until this can be picked up for at most half the price, I know I'm going to.

An interesting diversion, especially if you're bored.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: December 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Having played Pokemon games for the past several years and continuing to do so despite my advanced age of 23, I found this interesting little game when I was bored and frustrated because I could find no other games to try my new Gamecube out on. I have played Hey, You Pikachu in the past (bought it some years back) and while it was childish and charming, it was indeed for younger children.

This, too, while technically geared for younger children, is much more complex and would even keep older people captivated for awhile. It runs in real time, and there's no confusing microphone technology to contend with (you can interact with Pikachu just as much without the darned thing!)

There's much more to do, also. Instead of other pokemon not really interacting with Pikachu, he can do so with them freely. There are many pokemon here, well over a hundred. Have Pikachu talk to them and the first time, they'll give him a "nice card" (a sort of trading card) for answering a quiz question correctly. Talk to them again, and you'll get pika points instead.

The game starts out with a bunch of Magnemite delivering a TV to your house. Your name is taken, and Professor Oak comes on and tells you that you've been selected to be his first test audience for the brand new Pokemon Channel System. A wild Pikachu promptly shows up at your door and wants to join you in watching TV, making the good 'ol Professor exclaim that this is incredibly rare! He wishes you luck, and leaves you to explore your TV and your game world.

There's lots of channels to choose from, and as long as you watch each new program through at least once, more will appear the next day promptly at five am. There's a pokemon news channel run by an often-sleepy Psyduck and his on-the-scene reporter Meowth (this is often amusing), a Wobuffet quiz show where you can earn more pika points to blow, a Squirtle shopping program where you can burn your pika points on cool stuff like TV's, passes, pokemon dolls, and Pokemon Mini games, and more.

Then there's the anime! A whole new Pichu Brothers exclusive to the game alone. Each day a new part of the anime is aired, five parts in all. Day 6 you will even get to see the whole thing in the Japanese version, hosted by Kansumi, the Japanese version of Misty! It's a rare opprotunity to see pokemon in their original Japanese formats.

It's not just the TV thats interesting. There's many places for Pikachu to explore--your yard, the bus stop, Greenleaf Field, Mt. Snowfall, Viridian Forest, and Cobalt Coast, each with bonus sub-areas. Depending on the time of day or night AND the weather, different pokemon will appear, including some incredibly rare legends! And Pikachu can do much more than simply go and talk to the pokemon--fishing, concerts, and lots of other activities.

Oh, yeah, don't forget the Pokemon Mini system included in the game (each obtained by purchase in the Squirtle shopping channel). Finally, you can play the games that previously were only avalible in the Pokemon Center in New York.

There's much more to this game, but I won't give it all away. It makes Hey You Pikachu seem simple and 1-D by compairson.

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