I know any Pokémon player anywhere, has pictured intense battles in their minds, even back when we were playing Red and Blue/Green, but with Pokkén Tournament, we no longer had to picture it as intense battles would play out before our very eyes, with certain Pokémon looking their utmost finest thanks to HD visuals and now 18 months after it came to Wii U after originally releasing in 2015, Pokkén Tournament is back once more and instead of it being a sequel, it’s a full on enhanced port of the Wii U game. Developed by Bandai Namco, Pokkén Tournament felt a lot like the love child of Mewtwo and Ryu, which was then raised by Chuck Norris, with a couple of Dragon Ball elements thrown in for good measure and in my mind, it was the game that gave fans a true taste of what a Pokémon battle is really like.
It has this unnatural way of drawing me in and making me fall in love with its worlds and monsters all over again, even when it’s a simple case of me playing a Pokémon game I hadn’t played in year and Pokkén Tournament DX, really is no exception.Īs a game that is already available to play as an arcade title in Japan or an awesome alternative fighting game to Smash Bros on Wii U, Pokkén Tournament was a Pokémon game like players had never seen before. While there are many great franchises and video game series’ out there that are great at pulling people back in, no matter hard they try to grow out of it, for me, Pokémon is that series. When it comes to revisiting games I’ve already reviewed before, no one comes more seasoned to that task than me, as I’ve done quite a bit of it this last year, but since this time around the game in question is Pokkén Tournament DX, of course I had to get stuck into it once again. Release Date: 22 nd of September, 2017 (Worldwide)
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The Pokémon Company CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara, Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada, and Soulcalibur producer Masaaki Hoshino attended the event.
Magikarp Festival's similarities to Bountiful Sea Trivia Some stages are also direct references to stages in Tekken games this includes Dragon's Nest (an adaptation of the Dragon's Nest stage from Tekken 5 and Tekken 7) and Magikarp Festival (an adaptation of Bountiful Sea from Tekken Tag Tournament 2). A number of other playable Pokémon have attack animations drawing clear inspiration from iconic Tekken attacks. Pikachu's moveset is largely inspired by Heihachi Mishima, including attacks reminiscent of the Electric Wind Godfist, Spinning Demon sweeps, and Hell Axle. Pokkén Tournament, while not a Tekken game as such, contains many references to Tekken, primarily in Pokémon movesets and stages. In either case, blocking is performed with a block button, and unlike Tekken or many traditional fighting games, there is no notion of standing versus crouching block - thus, low/overhead mixups are not possible in Pokkén Tournament. Certain attacks will close the distance and shift into "duel phase", which is more like a traditional 2D fighting game, with combat happening in a 2D plane. The first, called "field phase" is an over-the-shoulder arena-brawler style of gameplay, focusing on fighting with projectile attacks. Battles in Pokkén Tournament shift quickly between two distinct modes (called phases) of gameplay.