If it feels like you’ve played “Pokémon: Dream Radar†before, it’s because you have. A spin-off of “Face Raiders,†one of the games that game with the 3DS at launch, Dream Radar is at times a nifty little mini-game that helps you add three legendary Pokémon to your team in Pokémon Black and White 2.
Aside from that, there’s little fun to be had.
The lather, rinse, repeat gameplay will get stale quickly. Shooting orbs and catching Pokémon is interesting in the beginning, but even after weapon upgrades, nothing changes. Ultimately, it proves to be a nuisance.
Shooting orbs gets you experience needed to power-up your weapons, which makes it easier to catch Pokémon. The process of catching your favorite critters feels robbed out of a “Ghostbusters†cartoon. By tapping the shoot button, you essentially lock on to the enemy and cut down its power. Once its energy is gone, the tug of war is over and that Pokémon joins your team. It’s a fun and hectic experience, but the process never changes. While the Pokémon are fast and require energy on your part to catch, you never see them. Instead, they are just “glowing balls.†This is probably the biggest problem with the game, aside from the fact that the first 15 minutes expose every ounce of playability the app has.
With the ability to trade Pokémon and the Poke-transfer tool, Dream Radar is essentially useless for anyone who’s already earned their stripes in the series and caught the rare Pokémon featured in the game, Tornadus, Thundurus, and Landorus. With an older version of the game in your 3DS, legendary Pokémon from Diamond and Platinum, such as Giratina, Diagla, Palkia, Lugia and Ho-Oh also become available, but this seems to be little reason to force yourself into misery for hours.
If you have a few minutes to kill that have to be spent on the 3DS, there are so many better options than Dream Radar. If Pokémon is your preferred poison, the plethora of titles available on the DS and even the mediocre Pokémon Rumble Blast 3D will prove to satisfy your needs better than this repetitive chore of an App.
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