27th February 2003, 9:50 PM
It's not that I'm bored of the series, but there's really not much to be excited about this time. This is the one series that I think Nintendo can still drastically improve on, but they won't even try. They've already done so much with Mario, Zelda, and Metroid that it's hard to imagine them pushing those series to some higher plane of existence, but even so they still continue to improve those games. Pokémon is such a fantastic concept that has so much room for growth, but now that they have the technological capabilites, such as online play or the GBA-GCN link, they release a dated rehash. It looks like they will do some sort of link to the GameCube, but only in the most obvious and least exciting way possible. It's just really frustrating. Normally I would give developers tons of grace, but this really is just a small improvement on GS. It took them 2 years to make this and we aren't getting the game for free.