I was actually kind of looking forward to playing this one after so long. I was putting it off until Chuggaaconroy, one of my favorite content creators, did a video on it. So I did play it and subsequently started a replay of White 2.
But... boy, this game was painful. The general gameplay of holding the console up, swinging it around, and pressing the A button so much wasn't any more fun than I would expect from a Mario Party minigame, which stinks for a full standalone experience. And then there was the fact I kept getting items or just repeat Pokémon over and over. But the worst part is what I had to do just to finish the main game and get what I want. Hours of just shaking the 3DS, changing the date, shaking the 3DS, changing the date until I had sufficient play coins to take a whack at Dream Radar again. And even then you can only use the play coins in-game three times in a day, so I'd have to change the date again; thank god they didn't decide to bar you from doing so.
After too long of shaking and playing, I got what I came for: Smoochum and Spiritomb. They've been fun to use, and I plan on going back to get a Rotom, but I don't think I could recommend going through this for anyone. Funny that one silly little eShop game, entirely meant to show off one aspect of the console, changed the metagame of Pokémon for a decade, though, it was the funniest outcome.
EDIT: THIS WAS BEFORE THE CHUGGA ALLEGATIONS!! I NO LONGER FOLLOW HIM
But... boy, this game was painful. The general gameplay of holding the console up, swinging it around, and pressing the A button so much wasn't any more fun than I would expect from a Mario Party minigame, which stinks for a full standalone experience. And then there was the fact I kept getting items or just repeat Pokémon over and over. But the worst part is what I had to do just to finish the main game and get what I want. Hours of just shaking the 3DS, changing the date, shaking the 3DS, changing the date until I had sufficient play coins to take a whack at Dream Radar again. And even then you can only use the play coins in-game three times in a day, so I'd have to change the date again; thank god they didn't decide to bar you from doing so.
After too long of shaking and playing, I got what I came for: Smoochum and Spiritomb. They've been fun to use, and I plan on going back to get a Rotom, but I don't think I could recommend going through this for anyone. Funny that one silly little eShop game, entirely meant to show off one aspect of the console, changed the metagame of Pokémon for a decade, though, it was the funniest outcome.
EDIT: THIS WAS BEFORE THE CHUGGA ALLEGATIONS!! I NO LONGER FOLLOW HIM