Platform: Nintendo Wii U and 3DS
Genre: Racing/Action-Adventure
Story:
This is not your typical racing game. There are many features including an actual storyline that coalesces casual gaming and serious gaming. On a lighter note, like the handheld games, your character is a trainer that seeks to reach the top of the pack of trainers, except you are a race kart trainer. Likewise, you will have to obtain 8 badges from the derby kings and derby queens in order to challenge the elite fleet, and claim the title of speedway champion.
However, you will experience some bumps on your journey.
Team Nitro:
The baddies of Pokekart, Team Nitro is an organization that works to inhibit drivers from obtaining success and supercharging the members within their own ranks in order to fix races for lucrative pursuits. Like other evil teams, it is not beneath Team Nitro to cheat, steal pokemon, and take hostages. Aside from other trainers, including the derby queens and kings, in the conventional competitions, Team Flash is determined to set some roadblocks in your plans to become speedway champion once you begin to garner more esteem as a trainer. The leader of team Nitro, Diesel Rhodes, has plans that far exceed the lucrative ones his minions are aware of.
Characters
You: There are customization features that will enable you the power to craft your own character. You may even customize your Pokemon with some accessories to form a cohesive team.
Diesel Rhodes: The CEO of Rhodes Corporation, an oil company, and, covertly, the leader of Team Flash.
Team: Steelix, Muk, Crobat, Darkrai
Areana: Underworld Arena
Before you can combat against him, you must complete a race against other Team Nitro henchmen whom are corrupted derby kings and queens. You can compete against them in a relay race after obtaining the championship title
1)
Nasia - Poison - Arbok - Eve's Garden
2)
Carson - Fire - Houndoom - Brimstone Canyon
3)
Ebony - Dark - Liepard - Witch Hazel Forest
4)
Core - Ground - Groudon - Perdition Gate
Derby Kings and Queens:
Each tournament will ask the trainer to compete in 4 races with the derby royalty as well as several other trainers whom specialize in the same type. You must receive the top cumulative score in order to contend in the one-on-one arena battle with the derby queen or king in order to obtain a badge (each of which named after the tournament title). The list of pokemon and courses follow accordingly to the four races. In the arena, each trainer uses the four pokemon that were used in the races; you may only use a single pokemon for one of the four races.
Mary
Frolic Tournament
Town: Pleasant Valley
Type: Normal
Team: Lillipup, Lopunny, Delcatty, Miltank
Course: Pet Park, Garden Patch, Yarn Room, Sweet Creme Meadow
Arena: Playground
Carson
Ignition Tournament
Town: Auburn City
Type: Fire
Team: Numel, Houndoom, Arcanine, Rapidash
Courses: Desert Oasis, Brimstone Canyon, Sun Burst Mountain, Wildfire Forest
Arena: Volcano Core
Fantasia
Afterlife Tournament
Town: Cadaverse Town
Type: Ghost
Courses: Haunted House, Witch Hazel Forest, Pitch-black Cemetary, Forbidden Peak
Team: Haunter, Misdreavus, Spiritomb, Froslass
Arena: Misty Labyrinth
Colton
Industrial Tournament
Town: Minerstown
Type: Steel
Course: Jet Stream, Convetor Belt, Toy Factory, Silver Mineshaft
Team: Skarmory, Magneton, Klingklang, Excadrill
Arena: The Construction Zone
Beatrice
Drone Tournament
Town: Pollenbloom Village
Type: Bug Pokemon
Team: Surskit, Volcarona, Scyther, Vespiquen
Courses: Skipstone Pond, Desert Volcano, Glass Glade Meadow, Honeytree Forest
Arena: The Beehive
And more!...
The Elite Fleet Relay Race:
Aspen, Robin, Elle, Vernon
Member/type/pokemon/course
1) Elle: Electric - Lanturn - Dark Glow Ocean
2) Robin: Flying - Altaria - Heaven Gate Passage
3) Aspen: Psychic - Starmie - Star-Blind Raceway
4) Vernon: Dragon - Dialga - The Celestial Expanse
The trainer must place first in each race consecutively in order to face the speedway champion in the arena. After defeating him, the trainer will obtain the world championship title.
Gameplay
Controls:
D-pad - Steer
A - Accelerate
B - Break
Z - Item/Move
Shake controller - Ramp boost
Stats:
Stats will be similar to Pokealthelon, where the base stats will be loosely based off the handheld games. Each score will be out of five.
For instance,
Starmie:
HP ☆☆
At ☆☆
Df ☆☆☆
S.A ☆☆☆☆
S.D ☆☆☆
Spd ☆☆☆☆
Additional Stats:
Handling
Weight
HP - Each race and arena battle, pokemon will have an HP bar. In a race, if you hit several traps and other pokemon use attacks on your pokemon you will lose HP. Once HP is fully depleted, there will be a re-spawn period, which allows for the trainer to make repairs to the kart and heal the pokemon, but costs the trainer a good deal of time. In the arena battle, once HP depletes, the pokemon faints. The arena battle ends when one trainer's entire team faints.
Both defense stats mark how vulnerable the pokemon is to either physical or special attacks. This also coordinates with the environmental traps. Zapped by lightening, then damage is calculated using the special defense stat. Hit by a gemstone, then the damage is calculated using the defense stat. Same goes for attack and special attack, if you use fire blast, the damage will be calculated by your pokemon's special attack stat.
Speed. Just because a pokemon has double the speed of the other, it doesn't mean that the stats in this game will be accordingly. Simply, if a pokemon has a one star and another has a two star stat. The acceleration and top speed will be slightly better in the latter rather than double the rate.
Evolution:
Like the handheld games, Pokemon can gain experience and evolve from winning races and battles. This will allow the player to increase stats and diversify the pokemon's moveset.
Movesets:
Each pokemon will have a moveset of four different moves. Each item may be used once obtaining an pokeball, that serves as the equivelent to the item blocks in Mario Kart, which will randomly select a move for the pokemon to use from his moveset.
Pokeballs:
These itemblocks don't just include one of the pokemon's four moves. They may also contain potions, berries, temporary stat modifiers, and even, yes, actual pokeballs.
Capturing Pokemon:
The pokeballs may be thrown at wild pokemon that are present in most race courses. Given that most of the courses are lapped, you may also attack wild pokemon, lower their HP, and save a pokeball to capture them the next lap around. Note: you may only keep captured pokemon if you place in the top three of that particular race.
Typing:
Attacks from each pokemon's arsenal will also very in effectiveness depending upon the opponent's typing whether it is X4 damage or non-effective.
Purchasable Upgrades:
- TM's
- Evolutionary Stones
- Some Pokemon
- Held Items
- Pokemon Accessories
- Character Accessories
Kart Types:
Cars
Motor Bikes
Cycling Bikes
Hover Crafts
Planes
Space Crafts