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Joystiq presents

Spectrobes trailer is hot

These Interplanetary Patrol officers, Rallen and Jeena, are ready to train ancient creatures (Spectrobes) to battle against the evil forces known as the Krawl. The Krawl want to (take a guess) destroy the galaxy but Rallen and Jeena aren't going to let that happen.

In the game players can train up to 500 Pokemon Spectrobes who each have unique powers. We can hear you saying "Really? No way!" but yes, it is true. You train monsters to fight. May seem like a dream but it isn't, dear reader. It is a dream come true in the form of Pikachu.

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1. Was it just me or did one look almost exactly like Raikou.

Posted at 3:57PM on Aug 26th 2006 by Crazylink 1 star

2. Amazing.

Well, actually, for a Buena Vista Game, it looks pretty cool. May be for the people who think Pokemon's only for kids.

Posted at 5:04PM on Aug 26th 2006 by Ryoji 0 stars

3. All I could think when I saw that trailer was.. "I hope its for a Nintendo system!" And it turns out its for DS! Which.. kinda brings down my expectations some.. but if it gets released soon it won't have to compete against a real pokemon game..

Posted at 5:37PM on Aug 26th 2006 by Mabui 0 stars

4. Oh God! Pokemon has mutated!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!

Posted at 7:39PM on Aug 26th 2006 by Diahrrea Man 0 stars

5. Wow, you mean there are still 500 possible permutations of little battle monsters that haven't become pokemon yet?

Posted at 8:07AM on Aug 27th 2006 by Kefka 0 stars

6. You know, I'm getting really tired and mildly irritated at your strikethrough humour. It was funny-ish the first couple of times but since then it has been played out too much and you've all taken it too far. Why not say "In the game players can train up to 500 Spectrobes who each have unique powers. It sort of reminds us of a little game called Pokemon, you guys might have heard of it." That way you can still be rude, sarcastic and what-not, but you can be less annoying and more respected. Best of all, people won't be irritated!

Posted at 11:20AM on Aug 27th 2006 by thehstandsfor 0 stars

7. Isn't this trailer really old? I remember seeing it months ago, like at E3 or something.

Anyway, this is obviously an attempt to copy Pokémon, but it looks like a really bad one. The character designs are bad, but not as bad as the humans in the Pokémon GameCube games, especially XD (WTF is up with the main character's design in that game, anyway?), but the creatures don't look too original, either.

I really don't think this game can grab the people who already play Pokémon, but I think it has a chance at kids who are even younger(!!!).

Posted at 1:43PM on Aug 27th 2006 by Josh 0 stars

8. Copying pokemon is a good idea for two reasons:

1) It's popular as shit, especially in Japan.
2) I don't care what anyone else thinks about me or my sexual orientation after I say this, but pokemon games are *gasp!* fun. Fun as hell.

HOWEVER, this game looks to have no potential at all, because the monsters LOOK like pokemon, except they all have chinese dragon faces. WTF is up with that?

For an example of a good pokemon knockoff, dig into the gbc archives and get yourself a copy of robopon sun version.

Posted at 3:27PM on Aug 27th 2006 by Mr. Scolex 0 stars

9. For the record, I've seen gameplay vids too, and it looks more like Kingdom Hearts with a monstery twist than a pure Pokeclone. And having only seen three or so of the monsters, I don't think it's entirely fair to judge them all yet. After all, going back to Pokemon, Venonat doesn't look like Houndoom doesn't look like Latias, now do they?

Posted at 5:52PM on Aug 27th 2006 by Freezair 0 stars

10. For some reason I thought it was amusing that the guy gets these big knee high boots and full on gauntlets, but the girl just gets a single biking glove sort of thing.

Vid looks cool, even if it does seem like riding on the coat tails of Pokemon. Still looks fun.

Posted at 7:24AM on Aug 28th 2006 by PodMonkeys 0 stars

11. Almost sounds more Monster Rancher than Pokemon to me from the dsfanboy description, but admittedly i know nothing more about this game than what was in this little blurb.

And forget the pokemon comparison, that one little dude looked more like Stitch (of Disney fame) than any pokemon.

Posted at 1:49PM on Aug 28th 2006 by Ravage 0 stars

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