The original was by no means a masterpiece but this game might just make it look like one, the budget on this game must have been ridiculously low, the models look worse than on the 3DS and animate like mafia city ads, and the voice acting... Oh god the voice acting... You'd get better voice work hiring on fiver, even Tim and Pikachu sound worse than in the original so I know they're capable of better so who knows what happened there.

The plot is also pretty nonsensical, villains use these all-powerful Deus ex machina cubes that let them completely control pokemon at will, they also try to act like they're not gonna go the same route with Pikachu as the movie did, but guess what? They did. A very odd fake out that I don't see much purpose to. The only thing that redeems this game from getting a much lower score was the ending, the main bad guy converting himself into Deoxys' body and throwing down with Mewtwo was pretty cool, still wish the rest of the game could have been at least on the level of the first game.