2007/12/30: Nintendo 64: Hey You, Pikachu!

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2007/12/30: Nintendo 64: Hey You, Pikachu!

Postby VideoGameCritic » December 30th, 2007, 11:31 am

This is the cutest game you've ever hated.  Feel free to leave comments.

Koopa W.

2007/12/30: Nintendo 64: Hey You, Pikachu!

Postby Koopa W. » December 30th, 2007, 12:05 pm

Don't diss Pikachu, man! I love that cute little guy! If Pikachu saw your review, he'd go all thunder shock on your ass!


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2007/12/30: Nintendo 64: Hey You, Pikachu!

Postby Cheesy » December 30th, 2007, 12:10 pm

I hated it to, you did absolutely NOTHING in that game!


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2007/12/30: Nintendo 64: Hey You, Pikachu!

Postby Adamant1 » December 30th, 2007, 1:48 pm

Aw, Pikachu is cute.

Never played this thing, though (wasn't released in Europe), but I've heard enough horror stories about how impossible it is to control that I certainly believe the F to be justified.

Michael D

2007/12/30: Nintendo 64: Hey You, Pikachu!

Postby Michael D » December 30th, 2007, 5:31 pm

Pikachu is indeed the man, but this game is most certainly not. I rented it a couple of years ago and it's not that it's impossible to control, it's just that you never really feel as if you're having an impact on what's going on on-screen which, when you consider that this is a voice recognition game, is not good (especially for an $80 game, a steep price considering that Seaman on the Dreamcast was $50, and it came with a microphone, too). 

I think that Hey You Pikachu, much like Konami's Lifeline (PS2), was a cool concept that just didn't work, and in the case of this game, there really wasn't much of a game there and it seemed a bit overbearing, even for its young target audience.

In terms of the review, I don't exactly get the watermelon seed crack. Is it supposed to be just a watermelon (and thus indicating that our Critic friend is not of a fan of that particular fruit)?  Also, this is the the most worthless game in your entire collection? As far as your N64 collection, maybe (although to be fair, Hey You Pikachu is a far better game than Superman), but of everything you have?  What else would go alongside this one in that respect? 



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2007/12/30: Nintendo 64: Hey You, Pikachu!

Postby andrew » December 30th, 2007, 5:57 pm

The last game I thought you would review is this one. I figured this game was garbage but wasn't sure. Nintendo Power gave it a 7.0 Nintendo Power staff were such cowards in those days, they never gave a review score under 5.5 and most were mid 6 and higher for poor games.

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2007/12/30: Nintendo 64: Hey You, Pikachu!

Postby gleebergloben1 » December 30th, 2007, 6:12 pm

there aren't many things better than reading a review of a game that VGC hates.  and i really liked the analogy of the watermelon seed...good stuff. this was a solid review and made me laugh out loud. 

happy new year all!


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2007/12/30: Nintendo 64: Hey You, Pikachu!

Postby chrisbid1 » December 30th, 2007, 8:23 pm

maybe around april fools day, you can put together a worst games of all time list

Koopa W.

2007/12/30: Nintendo 64: Hey You, Pikachu!

Postby Koopa W. » December 31st, 2007, 1:40 pm

Pokemon Channel is the same game, but with more to do, an actual story, and no voice recognition. It is one of the Gamecube's most underrated gems.


Michael D

2007/12/30: Nintendo 64: Hey You, Pikachu!

Postby Michael D » January 1st, 2008, 1:15 am

[QUOTE=andrew]. Nintendo Power gave it a 7.0 Nintendo Power staff were such cowards in those days, they never gave a review score under 5.5 and most were mid 6 and higher for poor games.
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Actually, that's only partially true.  They rarely gave low scores to games published by Nintendo (although they did give out a couple of 5.5-6 scores for Game Boy games published by Nintendo).  They didn't have too much of a problem giving bad scores to other games, like Carmageddon 64, Superman 64, Rugrats: Scavanger Hunt, and Mortal Kombat Mythologies, to name a few. 

Actually, after reading Critic's review of Hey You Pikachu, I went back and read the old Nintendo Power review of the game, and they actually gave some pretty big complaints about the game, some of which made the overall score of 7.0 seem a bit generous (although one reviewer himself said "it's more of a toy than a game").


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