Learn while having fun. This is a guideline as old as the world of video games that Learn with Pokémon tries to apply to the Conquest of the Keyboard. With its solid and rather ergonomic bluetooth tool for little minions, Nintendo hopes to train a new generation of typist-trainers who are tired of hunting Pokémon with devastating attacks and turn-based battles. You will have understood that the very essence of the license has not changed one iota, only the means has changed. Players are always invited to catch as many creatures as possible, under the tutelage of Professor Alphonse Zerty wishing to unearth the terrible Zekrom and Reshiram. Of course, reaching the two legendaries is not easy and it is therefore necessary to train for a long time by catching many Pocket Monsters beforehand to reach their lair afterwards. The universe in which we evolve takes the form of our keyboard, each key hosting a different world containing specific Pokémon. It is in the first person and in a straight line that we progress within colorful and varied environments, made up of muddy caves, spring roads or dark corridors of a haunted house, which we unfortunately quickly discover. turn in less than a minute. This quick trip is no picnic, though, as vile Pokémon will constantly try to get in your way.
An AZERTY keyboard is worth two
As soon as the creatures appear on the screen, players must type their names as quickly as possible to lock them into a Pokéball. The title will not confront you directly with preposterous names, the difficulty being progressive. If the first levels will ask you to type only the first letters of their blase, in the last straight line of the game, all of the names of Pokémon will have to be typed correctly. The difficulty is all the more pronounced at the end of the game as it is also imperative to hit additional letters that appear randomly on the screen in order to destroy certain elements (meteors, balloons) likely to scare away your future conquests. It will also be necessary to count on the presence of imitation bosses, in the form of rare Pokémon, thus varying the pleasures by inviting you to counter their attacks using your keyboard. Finally, a few challenge levels, such as Tap-Mole with Mole Hunters, will try to put your skills as a "keyboardist" to the test. In short, using typing as a gameplay concept is really original. The title therefore allows you to work on both your manual dexterity and your memory with the need to quickly recognize the Pokémon that appear on the screen to type the letters before they appear and make combos, useful for increasing your scores. and collect medals.
Clap your hands, clap your feet, clap your keyboard!
Unfortunately, despite some out-of-the-ordinary ideas, the title fails to conceal some major shortcomings. Thus, the life of the title will not exceed more than three hours, even taking into account the compulsory learning time to master the positioning of the fingers on the keyboard. It is also regrettable that in the game, nothing is concretely explained on how to place your hands on the machine. So, of course, recovering all the medals, useful for unlocking new areas and therefore new Pokémon, slightly lengthens the lifespan. But the excessively repetitive character of the game sequences will ultimately get the better of the lesser collectors who will not find the desire sufficient to redo the first levels and recover the gold. The artistic realization also fishes, Learn with Pokémon at the Conquest of the Keyboard not being what the DS has done best within the license. The Pokémon are easily recognizable but we regret that the animation of the monsters is far too generic and rigid, the latter simply jumping on the spot without any movement of their legs. The little ones (no, I didn't say "the most gullible") will eventually marvel at the plurality of decorations. In other words, Learn with Pokémon at the Conquest of the Keyboard is reserved for the youngest players who wish to wait for the release of the new Black and White versions of Pokémon.
