https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXuFU3k3GdIEnergetic foggy castle music, not a phrase I thought I'd make.
Silly question, can you really only buy one of each item from the coupon shop for your DS save, or is it based on wonder cards and I have to delete them?
The Stadium games were both more complete packages (Storage, mini-games, near complete roster of rentals, etc.) and brimming with fan service, which gives more and immediate appeal beyond the actual battle gauntlets. PBR has neither, limits your rentals to a dozen or so presets, and makes using your DS Pokemon (who are more important than ever) needlessly obtuse. We don't even need to mention its being a $50 Friend Code bypasser at that point, it is an immediate downgrade on several fronts. That we now officially know the game was quite rushed, along with some of those features being set aside for other games, certainly explains most of that but doesn't make the end product better.
Which is a shame because Genius had good ideas here. Poketopia ditching the sports complex idea for a full fat theme park was the natural next step, and all the different backgrounds let Tawada go different places with the music in turn, reminds of a more lavish virtual board game. The gimmicky battle modes were good if you were of the mind for them, as was the Stargazer Colosseum for traditional Round 2 Stadium brawl. It did feel like it had fewer battles if you really wanted to skip the gimmicks, since it basically spread what would have been the gym castle and Poke/Primes tiers across more modes.
Ah, and the custom trainers, almost forget.
