Gengar is perfect for technical players looking for mix-up and fake-out opportunities. Machamp wants to get up in your personal space, break your defense and deal big melee damage. Further, obvious care has been put into building these characters so that they perform and behave the way long-time fans would expect them to. The 16 monster-deep roster does provide a nice cross-section, however. Given the immense number of Pokémon in the series now, it would be ridiculous to expect everyone’s favourite monsters to appear. While some of the newer monsters were unfamiliar to me, they’re all extremely interesting in the way they handle themselves in a fight. I spent a lot of time with the Gen 1 and Gen 2 Pokémon games and so seeing characters from those eras, like Machamp, included made me feel immediately welcome. Pokémon appearing in the game have been pulled from just about every generation of the series. The idea is that this moving in an out of the fray gives you time to strategise, planning your next move and how you can successfully counter your opponent. If you manage to carry a huge combo all the way through to the end, the game may then switch back to Field Phase allowing your fighters to sidestep and dance around their opponents. Landing an especially brutal hit in the Field Phase will see you switch to Duel Phase, and there you should be focused on landing damage in contained spurts. Each fight will move between what’s called the Field Phase - which is essentially a 3D-arena which requires careful positioning and enthusiastic projectile deployment –and the Duel Phase, which is much more traditional in style to regular fighting games. The first thing that’s going to raise eyebrows among fighting game fans in Pokkén Tournament is the ability to shift the battlefield. It’s a Frankenstein’s monster of a fighting game and somehow, miraculously, it works. It pulls from Bandai Namco’s ongoing Naruto and Dragonball Z fighting game franchises, and there aer blink-and-you’ll miss it nods to Street Fighter and even Marvel vs. It’s trying to please a lot of people at once, Pokémon and Tekken fans chief among them. It stitches together many of the genre’s more traditional elements with a number of more modern design philosophies. Pokkén Tournament has got to be one of the strangest fighting games I’ve ever played.
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