Pokemon Stadium is one of those rare instances where I had a ton of fun with the game back then, but would never recommend anyone trying now.
It was a huge deal for us back then to be able to play and battle with our pokemon direct from our game boy games in 3D, when you remove that magic it really diminishes the impact a smidgen especially when the main series has now been 3D for 3 (soon 4) generations. I will say a ton of the animations here are better than the ones being currently used, I still have no idea what Gamefreak has against Charizard or Dragonite being able to stand on their feet instead of awkwardly flying in place.
Without a team from a game boy transfer pack you're left with the absolutely woeful rental pokemon. Not only are these pokemon not yours, but they sometimes have these really bad move sets. How would you like a Blastoise with fucking Bide and Strength? An Alakazam with only Confusion for STAB? It's actually worse in Stadium 2 apparently, lmao a fucking Venusaur with Tackle/Growl. If you play competitively in any capacity you're gonna have a fucking aneurysm looking at some of these things.
If there is one thing I recommend playing it's the mini-games! They're a good time and even support four players! My favorite's probably the Lickitung game, I want the soundbyte for when they eat too much spicy food and go ""EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGH".
It was a huge deal for us back then to be able to play and battle with our pokemon direct from our game boy games in 3D, when you remove that magic it really diminishes the impact a smidgen especially when the main series has now been 3D for 3 (soon 4) generations. I will say a ton of the animations here are better than the ones being currently used, I still have no idea what Gamefreak has against Charizard or Dragonite being able to stand on their feet instead of awkwardly flying in place.
Without a team from a game boy transfer pack you're left with the absolutely woeful rental pokemon. Not only are these pokemon not yours, but they sometimes have these really bad move sets. How would you like a Blastoise with fucking Bide and Strength? An Alakazam with only Confusion for STAB? It's actually worse in Stadium 2 apparently, lmao a fucking Venusaur with Tackle/Growl. If you play competitively in any capacity you're gonna have a fucking aneurysm looking at some of these things.
If there is one thing I recommend playing it's the mini-games! They're a good time and even support four players! My favorite's probably the Lickitung game, I want the soundbyte for when they eat too much spicy food and go ""EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGH".
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Yeah, and the CPU opponents are awful to fight at least in the round 2 versions. I recall at least one surfing Raichu in gym leader castle which completely fucked up the team my strategy guide was recommending. lmao.
Weatherby
1 year ago