Punctual as every Tuesday we return with a new issue of GameScope, our weekly column aimed at making you discover titles interesting and value but at the time they did not have the success they deserved. This week we will analyze a title that is very different from the genres treated so far, turning on the puzzle game. Our protagonist today is indeed Pokémon Link: Battle! Title arrived on Nintendo 3DS in 2014, including both single and multiplayer modes. As you can already guess simply from the videos and images proposed, the game is very similar to the much better known mobile game Candy Crush Saga (impossible not to know it).
It is the successor of the first Pokémon Link !, game where you have to concentrate your skill in moving the various Pokemon in such a way as to match them and make them "explode". That's right, nothing more and nothing less than the classic basis of the vertical puzzle game of pieces.
If it is so similar to so many other titles, some even free and less demanding to take with you, why are we advising you to recover this title? In fact, the reasons are many. Primarily Pokémon Link: Battle! Combine the classic "game of moves" with the need to complete the level, to be able to capture the pokémon (catch them all! Ed.) That you will find in the upper screen. Some of the mechanics that we will also encounter in the game concern the type of our creatures: for example, "removing" Pokémon with a "super effective" element against the type of the pokémon we are fighting, the damage we will inflict will be greater! What about Ditto then? There could be a better little monster to act as Jolly?
What this title manages to do, even if it has been unfairly mistreated, is to combine the classic puzzle game with all the basic features related to the world of Pokémon, infinite potential also linked to the number of creatures available (over 700) including up to now a bit dated Pokèmon of generation X and Y. Of course, time has passed and there are countless titles for portable consoles that we have brought with us, but given that to brush up on this little rare candy it would only take € 7.99 on the Nintendo eShop, it shouldn't be so difficult to find a small space for him!
