While I only spent an hour or so playing Pokkén at the arcade, I have to say it grew on me. At first, I found the fighting to be almost painfully simple; but once I took the game online and realized I didn’t have to worry about if I could pull off the correct input for a shoryuken at a split second’s notice, I really started to enjoy it—especially against people who were clearly button mashing.
Pokkén is, at its heart, a fighting game for fans of Pokémon—and one designed to be accessible to the franchise’s fans, gamers or no.