Pokédex for iOS

Pokédex for iOS is the counterpart to Pokédex 3D Pro released for Apple devices, iPod Touch, iPad and the iPhone. It contains data on all the Pokémon including moves, stats and showcases them in 3D, much like the 3DS game.

This app starts off with just the Unova Pokémon, but allows you to purchase the other Pokémon for 500 yen each. As such, all the search engines are updated with the other Pokémon, allowing for full interactivity to be discovered.

Pokémon Card Game: How To Play DS

Pokémon Card Game: How To Play DS is a small tutorial game which comes with the Starter Kit + set of cards in Japan. This set allows for gameplay of the Trading Card Game and teaches how to play the game.

This game allows you to pick one of three decks of cards, based upon the Beginning Set and shows you all the aspects of gameplay for the Pokémon TCG. In addition to teaching the aspects, you can play against up to six computer opponents and there is also a quiz to test your knowledge of the rules.

The game is also useful as it has a rule dictionary for reference when you do play the game and you have the ability of sending the tutorial to friends through use of DS Download Play.

Learn With Pokémon: Typing Adventure

Learn With Pokémon: Typing Adventure is the first of the spin-off games released within the fifth generation. This game is a Typing Action game due for release on the Nintendo DS in Japan in 2011.

In this game, you play the part of a trainer travelling through various routes and areas discovering Pokémon. As you find Pokémon, you need to type in their names, in the case of the Japanese version, the English transliterations of the Japanese names. As you type the names, you capture the Pokémon and get coins. The faster you do it, the higher you score.

This game comes packaged with the Nintendo Wireless Keyboard peripheral which can sync with the Nintendo DS, DSi and 3DS. However, the game can be played without this peripheral through a makeshift keyboard made on the bottom screen.

In the game, you have been enlisted by Elite Club Professor Quentin Werty and his assistant, Paige Down, to investigate the various areas and capture the Pokémon. Your task is to find and awaken the legendary Pokémon and capture them.

There are over 60 Courses which contain the 403 Pokémon available in the games. Each course has its own quirks and targets in order to complete them. Each level has three different requirements for medals such as achieveing certain point scores, capturing certain Pokémon and not making any typing mistakes. As such, this game can prove to be a challenge for the most expert typists.

There are many in-game unlockables for you to discover throughout the game so you can personalise your playthrough and gives you something to strive for.

Pokédex 3D Pro

Pokédex 3D Pro is a paid download for the Nintendo 3DS eShop. This download follows on from the free download of Pokédex 3D and features all of the Pokémon to exist.

While the game features all Pokémon, it contains data for Pokémon Black 2 & White 2, showcasing the Pokémon in 3D and providing moveset data for all. It also has Augmented Reality features. It also has a special Pokémon Challenge mode as well as an album for all your screenshots in the AR Viewer

Unlike the previous game, you will receive all the Pokémon immediately out of the box, without the need to use the system's SpotPass feature to obtain 3 each day. This includes all forms counting up to 727 different entries within the Pokédex. This does not include Genesect or Meloetta

The Pokémon Challenge aspect provides a variety of quizzes of varying difficulty to test Pokémon knowledge. These range from identifying Pokémon by appearance, by moves, by stats and even by their cry

While the game only has Bulbasaur to Keldeo within it when you begin, you have the ability to access Meloetta, and presumably Genesect at a later point, via a password added in Pokémon Challenge

Pokédex 3D

Pokédex 3D is a free download for the Nintendo eShop on the Nintendo 3DS. This game is more of a resource for players to utilise in order to aid in the training of Pokémon in Pokémon Black & White.

The Pokédex 3D provides details on the Pokémon including stats, abilities, level up moves and more. In addition to the standard details, you can view the Pokémon in 3D with the Nintendo 3DS's abilities. Pokémon are gained via a variety of methods in this game. You can obtain them via QR codes, downloaded via SpotPass or by receiving them through friends.

In addition to these standard features, the game also has Augmented Reality features allowing you to play with the Pokémon on your desk using the Nintendo 3DS's camera.

This game encourages transfer between friends by having various Pokémon, forms and genders unobtainable in a single savefile, requiring you to transfer to get them all.

Pokémon Rumble Blast / Super Pokémon Rumble

Pokémon Rumble Blast, also known as Super Pokémon Rumble in Europe, is a sequel to the 2009 WiiWare game, Pokémon Rumble. It's a fully-fledged 3DS game and features you controlling a toy Pokémon through a variety of stages, taking out the Pokémon you encounter as you go through.

This game introduces the Pokémon from Pokémon Black & White into the toy-Pokémon fold and will have you controlling and unlocking them. It has a single player mode, as well as a two player local multiplayer as well as Street Pass capabilities for obtaining Pokémon.

Pokémon Rumble Blast has numerous different Game Modes including the standard gameplay mode where yo go through levels, the Battle Royale mode and the brand new Charge Battle which has you control a massive army of toy Pokémon.

Unlike the first game, this one has a storyline. In it, you quickly find that all the Light Springs are drying up in all the towns in Toyland. As such, you have to investigate into the cause of this and soon find Cobalion is behind it. Your task is to stop Cobalion and his minions and return the Light Springs to the fountains in the towns.

Also unlike the previous game, there are more than six different stages here. There are five worlds, each with at least threes in which house two or more standard levels as well as a Battle Royale, Team Battle or Charge Battle. These all have different Pokémon in, allowing you to obtain all 646 Pokémon.

Mechanically, the game functions identical to the previous one, where you collect a toy through battling in the level, using one of two moves to damage the opponent. The toys are not able to increase their strength, but you can get stronger ones as you go through and increase the World Rank. Some of the Pokémon you find will have special abilities that can enhance their strengths and you can teach the Pokémon toys various new moves through vending machines allowing you to customise.

PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond

PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond is the sequel to the original Wii game PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure. This game follows the same mechanics as the previous game and has you play as Pikachu as you travel around, encountering Pokémon and partaking in attractions. This includes battling the Pokémon and various other features

Unlike the previous game, you don't play as just Pikachu, instead being capable of playing through the areas as Pikachu, Snivy, Tepig or Oshawott. In the game, there are two main areas with several subareas; The standard PokéPark where the Pokémon dwell, and a new world called Wish Park, which is seemingly made out of cookies and cakes and has an odd aura around it causing Pokémon to act strangely.

In the game, Pikachu and Piplup learn of the Wish Park, and visit there, only to find the Pokémon getting attacked and Piplup getting left behind. Pikachu then has to team up with Oshawott, Snivy and Tepig to try and bring calm to PokéPark and to stop the evil that is afflicting the Wish Park.

This game is less focused upon the attractions and focuses more on the exploration and befriending of Pokémon. When you befriend a Pokémon, you can now use them in battle against other Pokémon. it also has a special Battle Tournament which allows you to go through 10 rounds of battles, in realtime, to show your true strengths

There are also numerous items to collect, many of which you can trade with other Pokémon to obtain. This allows you to continue going to many areas so you can find every one of the 40 items in the game.

The attractions however, have been enhanced greatly and now include functionality for four-player multiplayer but tend to have you controlling either Pikachu, Snivy, Tepig and Oshawott. There are only four attractions in the game, varying in point grabbing games to races