Pokemon Masters EX

POKEMON MASTERS EX

Next up, we have Pokemon Masters EX. Pokemon Master Sex is basically a . . . "socializing" sim (I'd call it a dating sim, but not really), that lets you talk to and interact with the human characters from all throughout the Pokemon series, recruiting them to your team and then fighting three-on-three battles with them, each one having a Pokemon they're paired up with, normally their most iconic partner. The whole thing takes place on an island called Pasio, where everyone has come together for a tournament.

You play as Scottie or Bettie, two new player characters, and from there you can recruit practically everyone you can imagine. They include: Red, Leaf, Chase, Elaine, Brock, Misty, Lt. Surge, Erika, Koga, Sabrina, Blaine, Lorelei, Bruno, Agatha, Lance, Blue, Giovanni, Professor Oak, Ethan, Lyra, Kris, Silver, Falkner, Bugsy, Whitney, Morty, Chuck, Jasmine, Pryce, Clair, Janine, Will, Karen, Eusine, Archer, Ariana, Proton, Petrel, Brendan, May, Wally, Roxanne, Brawly, Flannery, Norman, Winona, Tate, Liza, Wallace, Sidney, Phoebe, Glacia, Drake, Steven, Noland, Lucy, Greta, Zinnia, Lisia, Maxie, Courtney, Archie, Lucas, Dawn, Barry, Roark, Gardenia, Maylene, Crasher Wake, Fantina, Candice, Volkner, Aaron, Bertha, Flint, Lucian, Cynthia, Thorton, Dahlia, Darach, Palmer, Argenta, Cheryl, Marley, Riley, Cyrus, Rei, Akari, Adaman, Arezu, Mai, Irida, Volo, Hilbert, Hilda, Cheren, Bianca, Nate, Rosa, Hugh, Cilan, Chili, Cress, Lenora, Burgh, Elesa, Clay, Skyla, Bricen, Iris, Roxie, Marlon, Shauntal, Grimsley, Caitlin, Alder, Ingo, Emmet, Benga, N, Ghetsis, Colress, Calem, Serena, Tierno, Shauna, Trevor, Sina, Dexio, Viola, Grant, Korrina, Ramos, Clemont, Valerie, Olympia, Wulfric, Malva, Siebold, Wikstrom, Drasna, Diantha, Evelyn, Nita, Dana, Morgan, Looker, Emma, Lysandre, Professor Sycamore, Elio, Selene, Hau, Lillie, Gladion, Ilima, Lana, Kiawe, Mallow, Sophocles, Mina, Acerola, Hala, Olivia, Nanu, Hapu, Kahili, Molayne, Anabel, Ryuki, Lusamine, Plumeria, Guzma, Kukui, Samson Oak, Victor, Gloria, Hop, Marnie, Bede, Milo, Nessa, Kabu, Bea, Allister, Gordy, Melony, Piers, Raihan, Klara, Avery, Leon, Ball Guy, Rose, Oleana, Sonia, Juliana, Florian, Nemona, Penny, Arven, Iono, Grusha, Larry, Brassius, Rika, Poppy, Hassel, Geeta, Clavell, Jacq, Miriam, Giacomo, Eri, Mela, Atticus, Ortega, Lacey, Carmine, Kieran, Perrin, Ash, Jesse, and James, with additional new characters in Lear, Rachel, Sawyer, Paulo, and Tina. Not a perfect roster, but they're still adding more, so . . .

Here's what we've got so far:

Characters:

All new Pokemon

Chase/Elaine: Go mechanic reps

Detective Pikachu (or Tim Goodman): Maybe they're echoes? Or a duo?

Magikarp Trainer?

Quest Trainer? MoBee VI, since the protagonist doesn't have a visible form?

Trainer System:

Elio

Selene

Chase

Elaine

Scottie

Bettie

Magikarp Trainer

Hop

Lillie

Gladion

Trace

Professor Kukui

Professor Burnet

Samson Oak

Ilima

Hala

Lana

Kiawe

Mallow

Olivia

Sophocles

Molayne

Acerola

Nanu

Mina

Hapu

Kahili

Ryuki

Guzma

Plumeria

Lusamine

Wicke

Faba

Dulse

Zossie

Phyco

Soliera

Lear

Rachel

Sawyer

Paulo

Tina

Stages:

Melemele Island locations

Akala Island locations

Ula'ula Island locations

Poni Island locations

Aether Paradise

Ultra Dimension

Hoppy Town

Megalo Tower

Festival Plaza

Rainbow Rocket Headquarters

Tahnti Park

Litwick Cave

Pokemon Comprehensive Laboratory

Cappucci Island

Fine Park

GNN Station

Ryme Wharf

S.S. Prime Treasure

Pokemon Carnival

Tumblecube Island

Pasio Hotel

Thanks for reading! Next up, let's cover all of the smaller games!

Pokemon Rumble Rush

POKEMON RUMBLE RUSH

And now for the most recent entry in the Pokemon Rumble series, this one a mobile game app with the same basic mechanics you might be used to in a Rumble game, playing as little toy versions of Pokemon that run around and fight other Pokemon mostly by bumping into them with a single basic attack each, with you able to catch and recruit new Pokemon after defeating them. That's pretty much it.

Here's everything we've got so far:

Characters:

All new Pokemon

Chase/Elaine: Go mechanic reps

Detective Pikachu (or Tim Goodman): Maybe they're echoes? Or a duo?

Magikarp Trainer?

Quest Trainer? MoBee VI, since the protagonist doesn't have a visible form?

Trainer System:

Elio

Selene

Chase

Elaine

Magikarp Trainer

Hop

Lillie

Gladion

Trace

Professor Kukui

Professor Burnet

Samson Oak

Ilima

Hala

Lana

Kiawe

Mallow

Olivia

Sophocles

Molayne

Acerola

Nanu

Mina

Hapu

Kahili

Ryuki

Guzma

Plumeria

Lusamine

Wicke

Faba

Dulse

Zossie

Phyco

Soliera

Stages:

Melemele Island locations

Akala Island locations

Ula'ula Island locations

Poni Island locations

Aether Paradise

Ultra Dimension

Hoppy Town

Megalo Tower

Festival Plaza

Rainbow Rocket Headquarters

Tahnti Park

Litwick Cave

Pokemon Comprehensive Laboratory

Cappucci Island

Fine Park

GNN Station

Ryme Wharf

S.S. Prime Treasure

Pokemon Carnival

Tumblecube Island

Thanks for reading! Next, so you wanna be a Master(s EX) of Pokemon?

Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu and Eevee!

POKEMON: LET'S GO, PIKACHU AND EEVEE!

Next up, we have Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, a sort of tie-in console game with Pokemon Go!, that let's you travel around the world of Kanto in a sort of quasi-remake of the Gen I games with Go mechanics. Most of the core cast of the original games reappear, with the same gym leaders, Elite Four, and Professor Oak in the same roles, and Red and Blue appearing as mentors at certain points in the game. As for your playable characters, you now play as Chase or Elaine, two new kids going on their adventures, with a new rival in Trace, who basically does everything Blue does in the original, including becoming the champion before you. Leaf's original cut Red and Blue design also appears in the game, but is strangely called Green. I . . . don't know if they were trying to make her a different character or not. I'm still going to treat her as Leaf, personally. And as the name might imply, your starters are Pikachu and Eevee, mirroring Red and Blue's starters from Pokemon Yellow.

Here's everything we've got so far:

Characters:

All new Pokemon

Chase/Elaine: Go mechanic reps

Detective Pikachu (or Tim Goodman): Maybe they're echoes? Or a duo?

Magikarp Trainer?

Quest Trainer? MoBee VI, since the protagonist doesn't have a visible form?

Trainer System:

Elio

Selene

Chase

Elaine

Magikarp Trainer

Hop

Lillie

Gladion

Trace

Professor Kukui

Professor Burnet

Samson Oak

Ilima

Hala

Lana

Kiawe

Mallow

Olivia

Sophocles

Molayne

Acerola

Nanu

Mina

Hapu

Kahili

Ryuki

Guzma

Plumeria

Lusamine

Wicke

Faba

Dulse

Zossie

Phyco

Soliera

Stages:

Melemele Island locations

Akala Island locations

Ula'ula Island locations

Poni Island locations

Aether Paradise

Ultra Dimension

Hoppy Town

Megalo Tower

Festival Plaza

Rainbow Rocket Headquarters

Tahnti Park

Litwick Cave

Pokemon Comprehensive Laboratory

Cappucci Island

Fine Park

GNN Station

Ryme Wharf

S.S. Prime Treasure

Pokemon Carnival

Tumblecube Island

Thanks for reading! Next up, I'll try not to Rush through the next game too much.

Pokemon Quest

POKEMON QUEST

Next up, we have Pokemon Quest, another mobile game that has more of an adventure format, with all the Pokemon represented in blocky "Minecraft-esque" form. You start out with a starter that mostly wanders on its own, attacking any NPC it encounters, while you can press a button for it to perform an attack. You can recruit more Pokemon after defeating them, and you can perform other actions to build up your Pokemon, like cooking meals for it. You can also set up a home base and decorate it with items you can collect. The whole game takes place on Tumblecube Island.

Here's what we've got so far:

Characters:

All new Pokemon

Detective Pikachu (or Tim Goodman): Maybe they're echoes? Or a duo?

Magikarp Trainer?

Quest Trainer? MoBee VI, since the protagonist doesn't have a visible form?

Trainer System:

Elio

Selene

Magikarp Trainer

Hop

Lillie

Gladion

Professor Kukui

Professor Burnet

Samson Oak

Ilima

Hala

Lana

Kiawe

Mallow

Olivia

Sophocles

Molayne

Acerola

Nanu

Mina

Hapu

Kahili

Ryuki

Guzma

Plumeria

Lusamine

Wicke

Faba

Dulse

Zossie

Phyco

Soliera

Stages:

Melemele Island locations

Akala Island locations

Ula'ula Island locations

Poni Island locations

Aether Paradise

Ultra Dimension

Hoppy Town

Megalo Tower

Festival Plaza

Rainbow Rocket Headquarters

Tahnti Park

Litwick Cave

Pokemon Comprehensive Laboratory

Cappucci Island

Fine Park

GNN Station

Ryme Wharf

S.S. Prime Treasure

Pokemon Carnival

Tumblecube Island

Thanks for reading! Next up, Let's Go cover the next game!

Detective Pikachu

DETECTIVE PIKACHU

Now we come to a really weird entry in the Pokemon series (made even weirder by the fact the Pokemon company felt this was the one to finally break into live action adaptation with, of all things). Detective Pikachu is a point-and-click detective adventure, starring a talking Pikachu and his partner Tim Goodman, as they look for clues surrounding the disappearance of Tim's father Harry.

While we have the same basic setup as the movie, the game is ultimately very much not the movie, with the plots going in completely different directions (though the sequel does ultimately end in the same place, but we'll get there). Tim and Detective Pikachu are our main characters, Pikachu unable to use any normal Pokemon moves, but instead uses his inherent detective skills to look for clues, Tim talking to humans and Pikachu talking to Pokemon.

Other major characters in the story include young reporter Emilia Christie (renamed Lucy in the movie, for some reason), her camerawoman Meiko Okamoto, their producer Roger Clifford, their boss Ethan Graham, Mike Baker, Frank Holiday, Amanda Blackstone, and Brad McMaster of the Ryme City police department, and Pablo Millan who runs a cafe. They investigate a drug ring distributing R, a drug that causes Pokemon to go berserk. In the end, Roger Clifford is revealed as the culprit.

The game takes place in Ryme City, a place where humans and Pokemon live together without either being owned or trained by either. Notable locations in the game include Tahnti Park, Litwick Cave, Pokemon Comprehensive Laboratory, Cappucci Island, Fine Park, GNN Station, Ryme Wharf, the S.S. Prime Treasure, and the Pokemon Carnival.

That's about all we need. Here's what we've got so far:

Characters:

All new Pokemon

Detective Pikachu (or Tim Goodman): Maybe they're echoes? Or a duo?

Magikarp Trainer?

Trainer System:

Elio

Selene

Magikarp Trainer

Hop

Lillie

Gladion

Professor Kukui

Professor Burnet

Samson Oak

Ilima

Hala

Lana

Kiawe

Mallow

Olivia

Sophocles

Molayne

Acerola

Nanu

Mina

Hapu

Kahili

Ryuki

Guzma

Plumeria

Lusamine

Wicke

Faba

Dulse

Zossie

Phyco

Soliera

Stages:

Melemele Island locations

Akala Island locations

Ula'ula Island locations

Poni Island locations

Aether Paradise

Ultra Dimension

Hoppy Town

Megalo Tower

Festival Plaza

Rainbow Rocket Headquarters

Tahnti Park

Litwick Cave

Pokemon Comprehensive Laboratory

Cappucci Island

Fine Park

GNN Station

Ryme Wharf

S.S. Prime Treasure

Pokemon Carnival

Thanks for reading! Next up, let's go on a Quest to find the next game!

Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon

 POKEMON ULTRA SUN AND ULTRA MOON

After Gen VI got no third game at all, Gen VII decided to follow Gen V's lead and have a duo of games as the third. This one is not a sequel, the way Black 2 and White 2 were, but the standard expanded remake just like Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, and so on.

The big changes this time include a more expanded look at the Ultra Dimension, going from basically a limited cave in the first two games to a full city in this version, with the Ultra Recon Squad appearing as supporting characters, agents from the Ultra Dimension who cam through the rifts to try and fix the problem. Ultra Sun has Dulce and Zossie, and Ultra Moon has Phyco and Soliera. We also expand a bit more on the story of Lusamine and her family, changing her motivation from simply power-hunger to a whole story about her husband Mohn getting lost in a rift and her becoming obsessed with trying to find him. We later find him with no memories living on a remote island.

We also have a whole bonus post-game story starring Team Rainbow Rocket, which brings together Giovanni, Archie, Maxie, Cyrus, Ghetsis, and Lysandre, the villains of previous games (technically these are alternate universe versions), and has you fight them all. Red and Blue also return briefly in the story. Also I forgot to mention, the post-game story of the first two featured Anabel, the old Gen III Frontier Brain, as the head of Looker's agency.

We also have a slight change in the Elite Four, as Molayne ends up as a member this time instead of Hala. We also meet Ryuki, a Dragon trainer from another region, who challenges you a few times, officially making this the first time all eighteen types have had a specialist in one game, with Sina and Dexio being Ice and Psychic type trainers.

Here's everything we've got so far:

Characters:

All new Pokemon

Magikarp Trainer?

Trainer System:

Elio

Selene

Magikarp Trainer

Hop

Lillie

Gladion

Professor Kukui

Professor Burnet

Samson Oak

Ilima

Hala

Lana

Kiawe

Mallow

Olivia

Sophocles

Molayne

Acerola

Nanu

Mina

Hapu

Kahili

Ryuki

Guzma

Plumeria

Lusamine

Wicke

Faba

Dulse

Zossie

Phyco

Soliera

Stages:

Melemele Island locations

Akala Island locations

Ula'ula Island locations

Poni Island locations

Aether Paradise

Ultra Dimension

Hoppy Town

Megalo Tower

Festival Plaza

Rainbow Rocket Headquarters

Thanks for reading! I wonder what the next game could be. Maybe I should hire a Detective to look for clues!

Pokemon: Magikarp Jump

POKEMON: MAGIKARP JUMP

It was around this generation that the Pokemon company really started putting out mobile game apps centered around Pokemon. One of the simplest and, funnily enough, one of the most popular of the whole bunch, is Magikarp Jump. The game is about what you'd expect. You catch Magikarp, put them through training exercises, and then have them compete in jumping competitions, where you see who can go the highest. That's about it really. It's fun. You have a player, plus a few NPCs like Mayor Karp, Roddy Tackle, the Man of Mystery, a ghost, and Dr. Splash, but they mostly exist for exposition reasons.

Here's everything we've got so far:

Characters:

All new Pokemon

Magikarp Trainer?

Trainer System:

Elio

Selene

Magikarp Trainer

Hop

Lillie

Gladion

Professor Kukui

Professor Burnet

Samson Oak

Ilima

Hala

Lana

Kiawe

Mallow

Olivia

Sophocles

Molayne

Acerola

Nanu

Mina

Hapu

Kahili

Guzma

Plumeria

Lusamine

Wicke

Faba

Stages:

Melemele Island locations

Akala Island locations

Ula'ula Island locations

Poni Island locations

Aether Paradise

Ultra Dimension

Hoppy Town

Thanks for reading! Next up, let's go to the next game! Plus Ultra!!