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If one runs into your capture line/circle, it will be broken. The Pokémon obviously aren’t too enthusiastic about being caught and so will do whatever is in their abilities to avoid it. This isn’t as easy as it sounds, though, thankfully, otherwise there would be no fun at all to be had. To do this, you literally spin around it, drawing circles around the monster repeatedly until it has been circled enough to become your temporal lap dog, then quickly removing the stylus from the screen once the last circle is completed as you might expect, a low ranking beast such as a Wurmple will only take a circle or two, whereas a hefty Charizard will take far more. Once you have made contact, the battle begins, with your sole task being to take the Pokémon/s into your custody. To enter a ‘battle’ (though they are more tests of capturing ability than anything else), you simply walk into one of the Pokémon hopping about quite happily – or running away for the more timid creatures - on screen. How does all this work, though? Well, when Nintendo asked HAL to make them a Pokémon spin-off, it seems Satoru Iwata’s former-development home took the phrasing a little too literally. To get around the world, it’s essential that you gather up wild creatures on a strictly temporary basis to get you around obstacles – you can capture a number of these at a time depending upon your level, and they can each have a skill used once before they are released back into their habitat.

Of course, you can’t do this without a little help from your friends, and so rather quickly you’re assigned a ‘partner Pokémon’ who will follow you about no matter what to do whatever you tell it – a mischievous Minun or a playful Plusle depending on the gender of your character. Starting out as a rookie who has only been employed because the Ranger Leaders have gotten so sick of his begging letters turning up in the post every ten minutes, your task is to take your boy (or girl) to the top, thwarting the plans of the dastardly Go Rock Squad as you rise.Ī Ranger’s aim is, as said, to aid, and this can range from gathering up lost Pokémon to calming down a raging wild creature, to rescuing beasts from the hands of unsuitable people, all with the help of a little tool called a Styler which is flung around Pokémon like a spinning top to capture them. What this means is that you’re still a human character, but rather than running about cramming beasts into improbable balls and letting them out only to savage each other, your job is to look after the people, Pokémon and environment in whatever area you are in. Rather than putting you in the role of a trainer, or an arbitrary role as a Pokémon of some description, you’re put in all-new one: that of a Pokémon Ranger (if you guessed that from the title, you get a gold star). In addition, it has been placed in the more-than-capable hands of HAL Laboratory.

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See, this game appears to have actually had some time devoted to it and is filled with sparks of originality unseen in other non-main series games. However, despite all this it’s pleasing to see the emergence of Pokémon Ranger even though it is, without a doubt, yet another off-shoot of the franchise. The DS spin-offs mentioned above, for example, would be unlikely to make anybody’s lists of greatest games of all time by a fairly wide margin. The popularity of Pokémon is overwhelming even now, leading to sales of beneficial figures to Nintendo – but of course, this does not always equate to a good game.

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