That TCG Blogger

The Pokemon franchise has always been known for its ability to slap a Pikachu onto anything and have it sell like wildfire. Thus, why wouldn’t they dip their characters into the miniature gaming franchise world to make even more money? With that, the Pokemon Trading Figure Game was a born. The game was based on a base that players spin in order to deal attacks, dodge, or miss. A player wins by reaching their opponent’s side of the board or taking out their trainer figure. All in all, the game-play is very basic and was designed to bring children into the table-top gaming, such as with Duel Masters. As said in the other FotW about Duel Masters, games designed to dumb down the concepts for children are doomed to fail as they insult the intelligence of all the other players.

The whole idea of a Pokemon Miniature Game could’ve have been pulled off a lot better than in this spinning figure game that Nintendo chose to release. At the time of its release, the game Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon had been released. With that new game (which is a very popular spin-off to the series), they could’ve created a miniature game in which players control armies of these creatures and battling it out for superiority. Sure the concept has been done before, but its worked over the years. Besides, who wouldn’t want to see their favorite Pokemon battle it out in mass?

The Pokemon Trading Figure Game was doomed to fail at its release, being centered towards one audience and no one else truly caused this to be a disaster. Gamers today want to see something new and innovative, but also something challenging to boot. The only assumption that I can come up with is that the game was rushed in order for Nintendo to make a quick buck off of the name. It only goes to prove that something truly great cannot be created overnight, it takes a lot of time and hard work in order to construct a hit game and the Pokemon Trading Figure Game obviously didn’t do that.

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