Review

this looks good but i will only download it if it's 800 points or less, also i hope it will give you unlockables for diamond or pearl the longer you play:)

I will pay anything to get this!

@ZIMlord
then you are a fool. this is nothing more than storage-literally, and it takes away storage (from your wii) AVOID.

still I want it, there is not much to spend
on, thought

i'll definatley get this game if u can take your pokemon back if u transfer them 2 the ranch, if not, then i probably won't get it

...Its never gonna come, is it??

Methinks you speaketh too soon.

Heh. Yeah really.

(Thinks of Hell march, from C&C, when he saws that image of the rows upon rows of Pikachu) @_@

I for one, not necessarily being a Pokémon fan, would think it fun to have a Pokémon for my Mii.

won't be getting this. i don't care for Pokemon.

@Stinssd
Despite my harsh comments toward thi sgame, so would I. A REAL Pokemon RPG, that is.

One question: would I be able to add Pokemon to the ranch if I don't own any other Pokemon games for DS, Wii, or GC? If not, then this is just more junk for little kids to interface with their Poke-games. Not a franchise I'd want to seriously invest in, although I did by Pokemon Snap, mostly out of curiosity, tsk, tsk...

I don't regret purchasing it, but I got stuck in the cave level and can't find the secret exit.

I only have 48 blocks left on my Wii memory after having downloaded Toki Tori last week. For a 2D puzzler/platformer with 70 or so levels (they all are made up of simple blocks) that game is one prime piece of real estate on my system, and I'm not in the mood right now for running the old "SD swap" routine, so what games I have on the menu will probably just sit comfortably for a while.

The graphics are quite terrible, look worse than N64.

While I don't like the graphics either, I think there's a few reasons for them to look like that:
1. It makes the Pokemon fit better with the Miis, so it could be a style choice.
2. The limited size of the Wiiware format, combined with the endless numbers of different Pokemon might necessitate simpler designs.
3. The huge (and frightening) hoards of moving Pokemon that you can have on screen at once could possibly eat up resources.

Not that I'll be buying this game.

Whats the point of this game? It just seems like a game where you can store all of your pokemon in a 3D enviorment. Sounds pointless.

I take back what I said about Critter Round-up, THIS is the most pointless game on Wiiware, or any platform for that matter. And they expect people to pay $10 for it...which people will, which is what makes this so outrageous! Words cannot express how much this game is a NO.

Well, if you store enough Pokemon, then you can get a Mew. Probably the #1 reason to get this game, legitimate Rare Pokemon

This is actually a somewhat decent game. I donloaded it as soon as I came home from school last week monday. I think the models of the pokemon look fine due to the limits of WiiWare (you think they could've fit 999 pokemon nice looking 3-D pokemon? Come on).

It has encouraged me to play Diamond again since It hasn't been touched for almost a year. If anything, they could've let be able t trade more pokemon with her, because the ones she gives basicaly suck . I would give it a solid 6/10.

If you ask me, a cheat machine is all you need to get Mew. They're more expensive than Pokemon Ranch, but at least they're less time consuming, and you can get other good pokemon like Deoxys. Too bad I'm done with pokemon, my brother sometimes hastles me to finish Pearl so we could finally make good use out of that Action Replay I got.

Or...Ninty could just put Mew in legit in one of the games but make it hella hard...but no, they have to make you pay $10 or more to sludge through this...

Apparently, there is a review for My Pokemon Ranch in the latest ONM out Friday, which could mean that as it's not out yet, it could be released in Europe on Friday

Stardust, it's funny that you mention Pokemon Snap. This game reminds me a lot of it, only much simpler. Pokemon Snap was entirely on rails, and your pictures were scored - so there was always the challenge of getting a good shot within the time and movement constraints. With the exception of the Pokemon Wanted BBS, there isn't anything to do here other than take pictures of your cute Pokemon and watch them interact with each other. The things they do are cute, and can keep anyone (who like Pokemon) delighted for at least an hour each time a new Pokemon or two are added.
The problem is, it doesn't justify the price tag. I think it'd be a solid buy at 800 points, since it is mildly entertaining. Once you deposit Pokemon for the first time, Haley puts up 3 of the ones she wants on the BBS. You get 10 days to get them, and every time 2 of them are easy to obtain and the last is a little more difficult. The BBS is even kind enough to point out where the Pokemon are, and if you'll need a fishing rod to get it (including what kind). In return, she'll offer to trade you with one of the ones she's brought over time or one she started with. The Pokemon Haley offers aren't mindblowingly awesome, but they all come with some kind of item - meaning that you get a decent Pokemon along with some items that may be hard to come by. The Wanted challenges really keep you pushing through D/P, and once you clear one, she immediately replaces it with another. I found it was particularly good at assigning challenges to me, as it never pushed me too far (since I just recently started Diamond), but it always had one Pokemon in the next area - meaning I'd have to defeat a Gym Leader or move through the story a little bit just to catch it.

Or you could just cheat to get them, as mr.niceguy suggested. I was lucky and had to only purchase the Wii game, as my sister donated her unused Diamond to me. But as I don't cheat in any of my other DS games, it's hard to buy a $30 cheat device I'll only use on one game. Though I guess I could use it on Advance Wars DS also, so I'll have all the CO's unlocked...

@Stardust: I realize your comment is a month old, but in case you do see this: Near the exit of the cave, you'll be approached by a Magnemite. You should see a Voltorb on your right, sitting quietly by a wall. Throw an apple at it to make it explode, and voila! Secret exit.

@Big=Sexy. Hey, thanks. I do sometimes go back and read over stuff again. I knew that the pictures on the cave walls are clues, and I saw the magnemite in the photo. I tried throwing tons of apples at the magnemites, but to no avail. That was a long while ago. I just deleted Snap earlier this evening (and several other seldom played VC games) to make room on my Wii system to download SPOGS. Now that you have told me this, I will find something else to delete off my Wii and recopy Snap from the SD card. The beauty of SNAP is that none of it's features require you to own or interface with any other Pokemon games and it has nothing to do with the rest of the series. As for Pokemon Farm, I decided to pass it up. It doesn't really deserve the #1 slot anyway.

I really do appreciate your thoughtfulness to reply. You seem a nice person

Why Nintendo Power said that this is, "Recomended!" is beyond me. My guess is that they just loOOove terrible Pokémon cash-ins/Nintendo published games/games that just don't give a darn about making the Pokémon look like the Pokémon themselves instead of wierd, somewhat disturbing jumbles of polygons that were lazily thrown together by a two-year old who was given a very vague description of what the Pokémon look like and was then set to work on creating the rather sloppy models within two minutes.

^ I couldn't have said it better myself! I'm so sick of having this "game" stare back at me from the "Recommended" bunch every time I access the Wii Shop Channel's main page - where it has TOP BILLING! Geez, Nintendo, you really hurt my feelings when you underestimate my intelligence like that.

I've been a Pokemon fan pretty much since the start, and I'm not gonna part with $10 to watch sub-first-generation-PS1-quality blobs that were probably each completely rendered in less than 10 seconds cavort around some empty field. OH LOOK!!!!! THE PASTED-TOGETHER DEFLATED SOCCER BALLS WITH STICK-ON ARMS AND EARS PAINTED TO LOOK LIKE PIKACHUS JUST STUMBLED AND FELL AFTER I STACKED THEM! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! SO KAWAII! LOOK AT ME, I'M A WHITE FEMALE BORN IN 1998 AND I'M SO AIRHEADED THAT I'D STICK MY HEAD IN A WOODCHIPPER IF PIKACHU TOLD ME TO IN A DREAM! TEE-HEE! I'LL GIVE MY MOM'S MONEY TO NINTENDO SO THAT MORE POORLY-MADE, BARE-BONES PILES OF FESTERING DOG SNOT LIKE THIS "GAME" GET RELEASED! I AM YOUR SELF-APPOINTED SLAVE, NINTENDO!

Just so you know, I'm actually an 18-year-old male.

^ LOL... Nintendo should have called it : Our New Pokémon Cash-In™ but i guess that would've been too obvious...

this is thr first pokemon game u can interac with them but hayley looks kinda strange looks like an awesome game

i want this game so bad i need to have my hook up to my comp first

I actully Kinda like this game