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Great game for DS.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My son love this game, it is like a memory game featuring his favorite Pokemon Characters!

Trozei

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great service. Arrived in great shape and in great time.
I haven't played the game yet. It's a present for my grandson. He's played it, loved it and wanted it for Christmas so I assume 4 stars are a good rating. He's 10.

Not impressed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is our first experience with handheld games. The Nintendo DS Lite is fabulous; the Pokemon Trozei is not. My son is 6 1/2 years old. He quickly mastered the game (getting 4 pokemons in a row) and became quite bored. While I was looking for an "easy" game for beginners, this one was too easy...too much money for such a simple game.

Not the best for Pokemon, but a fun Puzzle Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: November 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is entertaining enough. However, it doesn't have the best playback value and gets old pretty quickly. First of all, I don't like the new graphic style of the game. When I turned it on the first thing I thought of was Dexter's Laboratory. It has a very cartoonish (American-style cartoon) look to it and doesn't feel like a Pokemon game at all. Second, what's with that story? You play as some girl who is a secret agent out to get people who are trying to steal Pokemon...probably the dumbest thing Pokemon has done since...well since forever. Since when does the world of Pokemon have secret agents? It just doesn't seem to go well.

The gameplay is pretty fun. I love puzzle games, and this one is challenging and it makes you think. You control rows and colums of Pokemon that fall from the top of the screen one by one (entire rows don't fall at once, Pokemon do) and try to match them up. This is a lot like Tetris Attack in some respects, except you move the entire row or column instead of switching individual places. You have to try to clear the screen of all Pokemon. You control the Pokemon from the touch screen, but the top screen is also part of the level. If the top screen fills all the way up, you lose. Dittos are wild, and there are rare Pokemon that only appear in the levels every so often, some of which disappear quickly if you don't combo them right away. Since you have a Pokedex, the rare ones go into that collection.

I'm not really a fan of the new-school Pokemon - I liked it better when there were 151 of them and they were more creative (come on, what the heck is PINECO??). That gives me a bias against the new games to begin with. However, as a puzzle game this game is really not all that creative. It's fun for a few days and then it gets boring. You fight different "Bosses" and collect Pokemon for your Pokedex. It's fun, but this is nothing new. Check it out if you find it for a good price, but otherwise, there are much better DS games out there.

Pokemon Trozei

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: August 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I picked this up on a whim, I originally had no intent of getting it until the price went down quite a bit. However it was pretty fun when I first got it. Once you get the hang of it, it's not a bad game. There's no shooting people or bombing enemy armies, but it's fun all the same, in a different way.

However, while I have fun trying to get those last few Pokemon for my Trozei list, it was more fun before I beat the game, TWICE. Once you beat it once,it's quite simple to beat it again. It's a good puzzle game, although it takes some strategy and perseverance to beat a few bosses.

For people who jump at the chance to buy any Pokemon game that comes out on the market, be warned, this is not your average game. You don't catch or train Pokemon, you don't adventure all over whatever region the game is set in, you don't encounter trainers who want to prove how strong their Pokemon are, and you don't challenge gym leaders for badges.

No challenge

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: July 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love Pokemon. I love puzzle games. I loved Pokemon Puzzle League. I don't love Pokemon Trozei.

The graphics in this game are very cute and enjoyable. The music is also my kind of thing (techno and pop sounds). The controls are new (at least to me) so it was fun in the beginning learning them. However, once you get used to the controls, the fun is over.

The story mode is okay. It just throws you into a story and you start clearing levels while improving your skills. Fine.

On the other hand, the endless mode is unbearable. Like a previous reviewer said, you can do very well by making random moves. My one and only endless mode lasted 3 hours. I was hoping the speeds would pick up but it didn't. I would literally wait for the screen to fill up almost completely and with a couple strokes, I could clear it down to one row. I started making random strokes and I still couldn't lose. Maybe I've been playing too much Brain Age because this game is not challenging enough which is part of what makes a puzzle game good.

boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: June 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i was looking for something like jewel quest that i could play on a handheld system. this is not it. playing thoughtfully, i can get a score just slightly better than playing by squiggling the stylus all over the screen.
what a waste of money.

Pokemon Returns to the Puzzle Genre

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Pokemon Trozei! is quite an interesting puzzlar game. Pokemon isn't really a stranger to puzzle games. Pokemon Puzzle League was a fantastic game for the Gameboy Color. Pokemon Trozei! however, isn't nearly as good as Puzzle League was. There is something to garner from the gameplay, but there's a severe lack of it here.

Playing the game isn't so bad. It's fairly easy. All the Pokemon are laid out for you in a grid-like fashion. Using the stylus, you can move the Pokemon up, down, left or right. The objective is to stack up for of the same Pokemon. Once this happens they disappear from the grid. You might even score a Trozei! Chance, in which instead of having to line up four pokemon, you'll only have to line up three. It's simplistic, but much like other puzzle games, can be fun and addictive.

There are not a whole lot of gamemodes to play. There's a single player Adventure Mode and an Endless mode. That's virtually all you've got. Adventure Mode pits you up with trying to catch a pokemon that has been stolen or something like that. It's not really important. The Adventure Mode consists of a multitude of levels. You'll be forced to clear out icons for you to advance, and they get harder as time goes on. There are also a few boss fights here and there. There are also a few puzzle levels in there where the set up is planned out for you, and you have to solve it. This could've been a mode all on its own instead of being inserted into the adventure mode. Other than those two modes, Single Player doesn't give you anything.

Multiplayer mode isn't much better. You can challenge anyone who has a Nintendo DS. Through the download play only one person needs to have a copy of the game. You'll then battle each other in the puzzle like fashion. There's also a mode where the game will search for people to play. If it finds someone, you've found a partner to play with.

Unfortunately, in terms of gameplay that's all Pokemon Trozei! gives you. It's severely limited, and the game just all out doesn't give you a whole lot to deal with. It's not nearly as addictive as other puzzle games which precede it. It gets boring really fast.

The game does also include the "Catch 'em All" lingo to it. Pokemon is famous for that. "Catching" a pokemon is easy. All you have to do is make a match and you've caught one. You can also exchange information with other players and acquire their pokemon without any penalty to you or the other person (in other words, you both get credit for having it). There's nothing to catching pokemon though. No reward. Nothing. The only thing you get is to rub it in your friends face, and that's not a whole lot to be excited about unless you're eight years old.

So Pokemon's next step into the puzzle genre isn't a particularly satisfying one. There aren't enough gameplay modes, and it isn't really addictive, either. Had there been more to this game in terms of gameplay modes, this could've been a worthwhile investment. It might be worth a peak, but certainly not worth the money to buy.

I play the game more than my 7 year old

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: April 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Although my son knew it was going to be something different, he thought there might be more variety, or at some point the typical Pokemon story line would begin...But that just doesn't happen in Pokemon Trozei.

When he's in the mood, he'll play Pokemon Tozei, and he gets a real kick out of it. However, he doesn't play it as much as the other traditional Pokemon games.

I on the other hand, really like it. I really enjoy using the stylus and prefer the simple game format--it's easy to start/stop without worry of losing data.

So before purchasing for your child, let s/he know that it's not a typical Pokemon game, and no where is it going to change into one. It will however provide them a good eye-hand coordination a work out!

Needs more depth

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: April 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I just wish this game had more depth. The puzzles are fun but it made me wish there were more to it. The different levels and challanges were harder and looked different but the game style was the same, meaning you used the same strategy. Once you figure out how to best line up 4-5 in a row you start to find the auto pairing to be anoying because it clears out your perfect row before you can drag the 4th or 5th one to its destination. I purchased a used game and so when i played all the warehouses were open to me. I do not know if this is normal or not but perhaps the previous owner already passed and unlocked them all for me. This was a bonus for me if he did because I do not plan on playing this game for very long even as a puzzle game. This is ofcourse because I do not like these types of puzzles, most of the scoring happens because the right combo falls into the right slot and takes no effort on my end to plan out.

In summary, borrow from a friend or rent it. The first hour that you spend playing this game will determine if you like it or not because it will be the same from beginning to the end. If you must own a copy, then buy it for cheap and not at full price. Puzzles games in my opinion go down in price very quickly so you should find this game in the bargin bin very soon.

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