Pokémon Dash fails to live up to its name. The difficulty is quite the opposite from balanced.

User Rating: 4.5 | Pokemon Dash DS
If you play just once, it is fun, "cute", and has an innovative gameplay. Now, play it for about two hours and you'll have your wrists hurting due to repetitive effort, and your DS' Touch Screen all scratched. The graphics just fail to achieve the DS' true potential. At the very beginning, you can race with your eyes closed and your hands tied up. Just a little further, you'll want a game enhancer to race through those levels. Loads of bugs, especially when Pikachu flies with the balloons. Also, you should rather listen to music instead of the annoying soundtrack of this game. If this was the best Nintendo and GameFreak could do, Pokémon would not have got so popular and so many sales. This game is an overall lack of effort, and a waste of money and time. If you want to play it too badly, rent it or get lend from someone. It's not worth buying at all.