Customer Reviews

Pokemon™ Champion Island DVD Board Game

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4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This game is so awesome! It is our first board game with a DVD, and it is fun, challeging, funny, interesting, and a blast to play. My boys 11, 6, and 5 have played alone and together for hours. They are real pokemon fans, and they finally have a use for thier encyclopedic knowledge of the show. My 5 year old isn't quite able to use the dvd easily, but you don't even need to know how to read to play - yet my 11 year old loves it too. Really, this is the best pokemon item we have ever had - and I think we have them all :)

I bought this game on sale and was a little concerned after reading the reviews. My 6 1/2 year old boys LOVE this game. They have been playing it since they woke up today. The games have been averaging 40 minutes with two players. Entertaining fun game for Pokemon lovers. Its less loud than when they play with their pokemon figures or plush toys.

I purchased this game knowing about the problem of its restarting at Team Rocket stops. However, I e-mailed snaptvgames.com customer service describing the problem. I got an immediate response apologizing for the problem, saying it had been addressed and they were sending me the new good DVD. It came in several days and my 7 year old grandson and friends are very happy to now be able to use Team Rocket.

Today I had a pokemon and pizza party. 3 of my frends came over for pizza and then we played the Pokemon(tm) Champion Island DVD Board Game. We had a lot of fun playing the game. I am 8 years old and my friends are 6,8,9 years old. This game really puts Pokemon knowledge to good use. My favorite thing is to watch the Pokemon battle in academies. There are 3 academies ; the academy types are Fire,Water,and Grass. If you have it good luck in your quest to beat all 3.

My son (9) loves Pokemon and this was a great buy for him! If you do not know a lot about Pokemon this game will not be that easy, but it is still fun. My son knows a lot about this game so the trivia in it is a bit easier, but his friend who did not know a lot of the answers still liked playing it too.

The game is very interactive and your child learns trivia and reading while playing. My son likes the game so much, he sometimes plays it alone.

I highly recommend this game if your child likes Pokemon!

My son, like most 9yr olds, is a Pokemon addict. I only wish he would learn his math tables, spelling and etc. with such enthusiasm as he knows his Pokemon!
I am able to keep up with him for this game as I have helped him with his Diamond and other games on his DS. So I knew a little bit about each and etc. You are asked questions about the Pokemon and if you do well, you advance and collect Pokemon along the way. If not, back to the PC for you to start over.
There are 3 'badges' to obtain- Grass, Water and Fire so hopefully you have the right Pokemon team to win!
Games avg. about 20min. so I wish it was longer!

I got this game a while back. The disk does restart occasionally, but it seems to do so when the game is played multiple times at once, if that makes sense. The trivia is too easy for me and about 80-90% of all Pokemon-playing people I know. Children younger than 9 or people who haven't played Pokemon very much might find this a challenge, but, instead of questions like "Which Pokemon is resistant to fire type attacks?", a harder question would be "At what level does Flygon learn Hyper Beam?" To compromise, I would suggest that the game have varying levels of difficulty. Otherwise, this game is great, if a bit too short. However, the game's length could be adjusted depending on how long you want to play if you could choose how many bosses you want to fight for the current game. Another thing, the bosses shouldn't be Professors, but instead Gym Leaders, as they would most likely have stronger Pokemon. I would also like it if your Pokemon Evolving was incorporated into the game. Plus, they could have you fight a legendary Pokemon in a best-three-out-of-five trivia challenge once you have obtained all of the badges to beat the game completely. The animations for battles are cool and make the game more realistic. All in all, with a bit of tweaking, this game could have been legendary! As it is, it's a nice game to play once in a while.

Ben 10 Alien Force Web Cardz Game Starter Set with Figure SwampfireI bought this game for my 10 year old son for Christmas. He's a big Pokemon fan and really liked the DVD aspect of the game. One disappointment was you have to play as Dawn to get Piplup as your pokemon - that's his favorite. But Piplup is Dawn's starter pokemon on the cartoon, so it makes sense. We did have trouble with the DVD, as other reviewers have stated. I e-mailed the manufacturer to get a replacement. I did have to contact them a second time, but they were so apologetic that they included a free toy with the replacement DVD. they even offered my son a choice of free toy! We thought that was great and smart customer service. The toy they sent along is anew Ben10 webcardz game that you can play in person or online. My son really likes that game too and is encouraging his friends to buy it so they can play together. So, I think they are a good company featuring innovative toys that feature some of my son's favorite characters!

We have had no problems with this game or the DVD. All three of my boys play this game together and have great fun...for as many hours as we let them. It is perfect for the Pokemon addict...which mine are.

Warning though...I purchased mine as "new" directly from Amazon and they sent me a used game that had been re-shrink wrapped. All of the pieces were lose and a couple had been chewed on. The DVD also looked scratched but it played fine. Since it all worked, I have not bothered to return it.

This game is a lot of fun for little pokemon experts. There are also lots of fun and educational logic and memory problems. I highly recomend it. The only problem is, my copy will, as one person already stated, skip back to the begining and completely restart the game about half of the time we go to the Team Rocket Challenge on the disc. We've overcome this by simply treating all the Team Rocket Challenges as Wild Pokemon squares. (You'll understand that when/if you get the game.) This works out well anyway because the kids like to collect the wild pokemon more than anything else. I expect with all the good reviews that don't mention this problem it's a small percentage of discs that do this. If yours does, exchange it for another one and chances are you'll be good to go. We've had our too long to exchange I think. LOL