zanthess

The main reason I bought Pokemon Ranger is probably the same reason that 99.5% of everyone else got it, to get Manaphy. Unfortunately, I wasn't too thrilled to buy a game and slave away at it for one purpose, and reading the reviews didn't help much either. Play a crappy game for hours just to get one Pokemon? Psssh, I'll wait for an event.

But time went on, I got a job at Nintendo, and I was itching for a new game to keep me busy.

Last Thursday I bought Ranger and brought it home, ripping it out of the box and turning on my DS gearing up for torment beyond measure to get an effin' Manaphy.

Once I started on the missions, I was quite surprised. The game is actually pretty good! I got totally hooked on it. Even though it only took me 10 hours to beat it (compared to the main Pokemon titles), I was somewhat sad to see that I had beaten it. I played through the Manaphy egg rescue, and now I'm tempted to play all of the other special missions.

Fun gameplay, requiring little strategy, combined with area puzzles not unlike the main series kept me quite busy. The only complaint I have is that I never really had the incentive to play the minigames.

I think I'll keep playing this game even after I transfer Manaphy, which will be tomorrow! Wooo!!!

'Ta