What You Get: +Game Cartridge +Game Case +Custom Cover Art (Exclusive Cover Only Sold by Me) Game Description: This is the complete English fan. Play the Japanese exclusive sequel to the popular Pokemon TCG. Collect new cards in Pokemon Trading Card Game 2 - The Invasion of Team GR!
Pokemon Trading Card Game 2 (english translation) Review by: - 7.5/10 The last Pokemon TCG video game. Sadly In the late 90s, the craze for the Trading Card Games started, with Yu-Gi-Oh! And Magic The Gathering leading the revolution that not long after would sweep the world. A ton of animes, mangas and collectible card games were released in the following years, as well as video games inspired in them or creating their own new concept.
Even famous sagas like Dragon Ball have attempted to create a TCG of their own, demonstrating the big potential these games have. Seeing this great potential, Nintendo boarded the ship of the TCGs. Their bet was a TCG revolving around Pokemon, in a time where the first generation was still fresh and the anime started airing. Even though it had these two hard competitors, the TCG managed to become a strong bet in the Pokemon merchandising even to this day, with an ever expanding car pool as new generations of Pokemon land. Rimage software suite v 86 downloads. This second version, however, never saw the light outside Japan. What you have here is the best attempt at an English translation of said game. GRAPHICS: 7 Nothing to be surprised about.
It keeps the level of graphics seen in the main games of the time, and the in-battle animations are very developed for its time. The only flaw is that the cards are missing a little bit of details. If Nintendo bothers to give the cards different colors according to their type, why does the game ignore said colors? The rating could have been much higher without this error. SOUND: 5 Probably the worst aspect in the game.
I’ve played other games even in the preceding Game Boy that had a better quality sound. The music sounds canned, and the in-game sounds could be of a better quality too. Even then, the rating has to be positive for the huge pool of sounds the game offers and the varied soundtrack.
Wouldn’t be fair if I ignored these two facts. ADDICTIVENESS: 9 Has someone ever played a TCG that isn’t addictive?
Be it opening up to try all available strategies, to collect all cards or whatever goal you have in mind, you keep playing over and over to achieve it. STORY: 6 Much like in the main games, an evil group plans on taking over the world by using Pokemon. You must travel around the “region”, or I shall better say the island, and defeat the “Gym Leaders” to get stronger and reinforce your deck to fight and defeat said evil group. In my opinion, a little tweak to it could have been done to make the story somewhat unique and different from other games. For example, in Digimon Digital Card Battle, a new boss was created to make the game’s storyline unique while at the same time repeating many things from the first two anime series.