Pokémon Battle Trozei

Pokémon Battle Trozei (ポケモンバトルトローゼ, Pokemon Batoru Torōze), released as Pokémon Link: Battle! in Europe and Australia, is a Pokémon-themed puzzle video game for the Nintendo 3DS and is the sequel to the 2005 Nintendo DS title Pokémon Trozei!.[1] It was released in the Nintendo eShop in Japan on 12 March 2014, in Europe on 13 March 2014, in Australia on 14 March 2014, and in North America on 20 March 2014.[1] The game includes all 718 Pokémon that were known at the time.[1]

Pokémon Battle Trozei
European marketing artwork
Developer(s)Genius Sonority
Publisher(s)The Pokémon Company
Director(s)Manabu Yamana
Producer(s)Shusaku Egami
Takato Utsunomiya
Hitoshi Yamagami
Artist(s)Yoshinori Obishaku
Composer(s)Tsukasa Tawada
SeriesPokémon
Platform(s)Nintendo 3DS
Release
  • JP: 12 March 2014
  • EU: 13 March 2014
  • AU: 14 March 2014
  • NA: 20 March 2014
Genre(s)Puzzle
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay
The player battles a water-type Pokémon using grass-type ones.

The gameplay of Pokémon Battle Trozei is similar to the Japanese mobile game Puzzle & Dragons.[1] In the game, players engage in a Pokémon battle depicted on the top screen of the handheld device.[2] To battle the enemy Pokémon, players create groups of three or more identical Pokémon icons on the grid in the bottom screen.[2] The battles are fought using a rock-paper-scissors style system where each Pokémon has different elemental types assigned to it, and the outcome is based on the strengths and weaknesses that these types have on each other.[2] This mechanic of elemental strengths and weaknesses borrows from the main Pokémon role-playing games.[1] This is the first Pokémon puzzle game to borrow rules from the main series.[2] In addition to the matching mechanic, the game requires strategy when considering which Pokémon types to use in battle.[2] This strategy element puts players that are unfamiliar with the Pokémon series at a disadvantage because they may not know the element types of each of the game's 718[1] Pokémon.[2]

The game supports cooperative multiplayer for up to four players.[1]

The game features the same Pokémon from Pokémon Trozei! but also features Pokémon from Sinnoh, Unova and Kalos, except Diancie, Hoopa and Volcanion.

Development

The game was revealed on 13 February 2014 in a Nintendo Direct, and was released in the Nintendo eShop in Japan on 12 March 2014, in Europe on 13 March 2014, in Australia on 14 March 2014, and in North America on 20 March 2014.[1] The game includes all 718 Pokémon that were known at the time.[1] A Nintendo 3DS XL game system with a decorative Pokémon Battle Trozei theme was released in Japan, but the special edition handheld was only given to winners of competitions held by the Pokémon Daisuki Club, a Japanese club for Pokémon fans.[3] Upon the game's release, customers in Japan could also purchase a set of kuji cards which came with a chance to win a Trozei themed cushion, mug, pencil case, or other item. The Japanese Pokémon Center also had Trozei merchandise for sale including stickers, jigsaw puzzles, and notebooks.[4]

Reception
Reception
Aggregate scores
AggregatorScore
GameRankings68%[5]
Metacritic70/100[6]
Review scores
PublicationScore
Destructoid6.5/10[7]
Game Informer6/10[8]
IGN7/10[2]
Nintendo World Report7/10[9]
WeGotThisCovered[10]

The game received average reviews upon release, garnering a score of 70 out of 100 on the review aggregation website Metacritic.[6] IGN reviewer Scott Thompson commended the game for using the strategic combat system from the Pokémon RPG series rather than simply creating a puzzle game with a Pokémon theme. He praised the game's local cooperative multiplayer as well; however, he did note that the user interface for the game lacked sufficient details for players not familiar with every Pokémon type.[2] Kinja.com criticized the game's lack of online multiplayer and its ho-hum music, but praised its solid gameplay mechanics and art style.[11]

gollark: It is available from my github random-stuff repository, if you have a Rust compiler.
gollark: ↓ art
gollark: I agree. Although the performance is not great, even in moderately optimized Rust.
gollark: It moves outward from an initial starting location in concentric square "rings", filling each pixel with a randomly chosen adjacent one with some random variation.
gollark: No idea. The original project was called "fractalart", so I kept the name. It generates them using a process which sounds slightly fractal, at least.

References
  1. Goldfarb, Andrew (13 February 2014). "Pokemon: Battle Trozei Announced". IGN. News Corporation. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  2. Thompson, Scott (24 March 2014). "Pokemon Battle Trozei Review". IGN. News Corporation. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  3. Schulenberg, Thomas (16 March 2014). "Persona Q, Pokemon Trozei 3DS XLs revealed for Japan". Engadget. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  4. Eugene (15 March 2014). "Pokémon Battle Trozei Is Out in Japan, And of Course There's Merchandise For It". Siliconera. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  5. "Pokemon Battle Trozei". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  6. "Pokemon Battle Trozei 3DS reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  7. Carter, Chris (21 March 2014). "Review: Pokemon Battle Trozei". Destructoid. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  8. Cork, Jeff (31 March 2014). "Pokemon Battle Trozei review". Game Informer. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  9. Ronaghan, Neal (28 March 2014). "Pokémon Battle Trozei Review". Nintendo World Report. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  10. Vacheron, Griffin. "Pokémon Battle Trozei Review". Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  11. "Pokémon Battle Trozei: The TAY Review". Kinja.com. 24 March 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
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