Worst Pokemon Game EVER!
Pokemon spin offs are hit and miss in my opinion. I liked the pinball and stadium games, colloseum was pretty cool, didn't like mystery dungeon or battle revolution. But Pokemon Dash is the worst game in the Pokemon franchise and one of the worst games I have ever played.
Pokemon Dash is an on foot racer, which sounds like a good idea. However in practice it's just plain awful. So you start up the game to find that your only playable character is Pikachu, the cute 'n cool but somewhat overrated electric mouse. A bigger selection of characters would have benefited the game in my opinion...
So anyway you select a cup consisting of five tracks to learn that you control Pikachu by scraping your DS stylus across your screen - what a great game! If you want to break your DS play Pokemon Dash. Anyway you have to go over checkpoint panels in a certain order. Arrows on screen will guide you to the next one, however it's not always clear where you're meant to be going. hough since the Artificial Intelligence is so bad, even if you get lost coming first shouldn't be too difficult.
The game tries to add variety by having different terrain slow you down, making you surf on Lapras across small rivers and sky dive from balloons. Whilst it is amusing to make Pikachu drown or splat after falling 100s of feet on the floor, there really is nothing fun about this game what so ever.
The graphics are boring and just unappealing. The game is played in a top down perspective so you don't really get a good view of scenery. The Pokemon sprites look ugly. The music is boring and Pikachu yells every time you hit a checkpoint of whatever so I always ended up muting this piece of rubbish when I played it.
Pokemon Dash, in conclusion is a piece of rubbish. I can't stop you buying this, but a word of advice is just don't. If you are a die hard Pokemon fan go ahead... but you have been warned!
On a positive note this game gets a 2.5 as opposed to a 1 because an on foot poke' racer is a half decent idea and it is amusing to make Pikachu fall to his doom whilst diving out of balloons only to SPLAT on the floor.