Even with just 16 playable Pokémon, there's some weird variety going on. Gengar is a ghost, while Chandelure is a ghost chandelier. Pikachu is a quick, balanced electric fighter, while the masked wrestler Pikachu Libre favors a faster, rushdown style (though they're technically the same type of Pokémon, and play similarly). The pure fighting Pokémon Machamp is a four-armed bruiser. The fire, fighting Pokémon Blaziken is a kickboxing bird with shades of Eddy Gordo from Tekken. You can choose from 16 different Pokémon across a wide variety of elemental types and fighting styles. Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. ( Read our editorial mission.) The premise didn't need to be tweaked at all. You're a trainer and your Pokémon are fighting other Pokémon in stadiums.

It's a rare example of ludonarrative dissonance in reverse the distinction between real-time combat and turn-based moves is purely mechanical to begin with, so there's no actual need for the story to justify the genre change. Pokkén Tournament takes place in the Ferrum region, where instead of carrying out conventional Pokémon battles, trainers use 'synergy devices' on their ears to directly guide and encourage their Pokémon in fights.

It's very name implies a combination of Pokémon and Tekken (producer Katsuhiro Harada is also the producer of the Tekken series), and ultimately that's exactly what Pokkén Tournament is-a Pokémon fighting game. This $59.99 Wii U ($56.95 at Amazon) game takes Pokémon out of the turn-based JRPG conventions of the main handheld series (and the coliseum-style, home-console side games) and puts them in a real-time tournament fighter. Bandai Namco's Pokkén Tournament simply shifts the genre a bit. Pokémon has always been about getting cute creatures to fight.

Three fire-type starters and relatively few fighting-type Pokémon.

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