After all, their attempt is enough to make me wish Game Freak would let them have another shot sometime soon, if simply out of curiosity. The game suffers from a few missteps, but even in this mixed bag, I appreciate the way they departed from a predictable approach to make something different nonetheless. When Game Freak needed to make up for only a fraction of all Pokémon being obtainable within RSE, it only made sense to go for a traditional method of access.īecause the studio was more comfortable developing 2D games, however, Colosseum was handled by a Genius Sonority, a company most noteworthy to me for their work here. Rather than recreating pinball, making a photography simulator, or filling some other genre with the titular but superficial creatures, Colosseum is another role-playing game with turn-based combat in true Pokémon fashion, and one with its own full-fledged setting and story unlike the earlier 3D series Pokémon Stadium. The game is notable for being regarded as a spinoff while retaining a large portion of mechanics from the main series, à la the way Shin Megami Tensei handles its branding. Less often mentioned than that, there is another game that’s a total departure from a number of conventions of the mainline series: Pokémon Colosseum. What’s thought of slightly less, being a part of it but not the symbol of it, is the “return to form” in FireRed/ LeafGreen Version, a remake of the first set of games in the series. When Gen III is mentioned, what comes to the minds of most is Ruby/ Sapphire/ Emerald Version, the game that kicked things off and continues to receive the same mixed reception that it did the first time around. I and a few others, on the flip side, saw the fresh start Generation III took as an opportunity to better the series through experimentation. Many fans from before Pokémon Ruby/ Sapphire Version released saw it as an awkward transitioning stage for the series, expressing disappointment that comparatively amateur studio Game Freak simply had no way of making up for hardware incompatibility, thus leaving everyone’s precious level-100 Charizards trapped on their Gameboy Colors. ![]() ![]() The unique circumstance surrounding the third generation of Pokémon makes it an era that probably won’t see any likening in future iterations. Game titles: Pokémon Colosseum/Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
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