Excessively frustrating in the controls, the difficulty, and even just the concept, this game completely falls flat on its face. This was marketed as a Pokemon racing game, which sounds like an incredibly fun idea, take venues from other Pokemon games, be able to select some of the fastest Pokemon available at the time, and you now have a Pokemon version of Mario Kart.

Instead, you have a game where you can only play as Pikachu, on levels that look the same as one another, except for the different coloured rings you need to travel through to win the race, with faulty and borderline destructive controls on the DS. Get this, to move around the field you are required to continually swipe on the DS touchscreen. Looking back now I am shocked that I didn't ruin the bottom screen at the time while playing it, but it is scratched up thanks in no small part to this game.

Not only should you skip this, you should forget it ever existed. It is a stain on the franchise and doesn't deserve recognition.