Pokemon Stadium 2 done.
Wow this game was tough, I would say it took 40-50 hours perhaps. There are two main modes of the game are Stadium and Gym Leader Castle.
The stadium has a number of cup battles, that vary in difficulty. You have 8 battles that you need to win in order to win the cup, if you survive a battle without any of you Pokemon fainting then you gain an extra continue should you lose.
Some of these cups are extremely hard, you often keep losing and have to start all over again from the beginning. The noticable hard ones were the Prime Cup (took me approx 8 hours), Challenge Cup Master Ball (approx 5 hours), Pokecup Master Ball (approx 4 hours).
I have a fairly good understanding of Pokemon and Pokemon types, but often found I had to keep looking up certain Pokemon, their weaknesses and strengths in order to select the right pokemon for the battle, without this the game would take alot longer.
I often used the faq for reference:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/n64/45203...
This is a very good guide, but in some places and battles it did not work for me, I had to watch youtube videos ocassionally and develop my own stratergies and teams.
Should it be desired I can make a post of {okemon teams I used to defeat some of the harder cups, I have made notes on them, should somebody else need advice in the future.
I would say defeating the cup took around 30 hours (I was playing 5 hours a day for about 2 weeks), following defeating the cups I moved onto the Gym Battle Castle.
The Gym Battle Castle was very easy and good fun. You climb the castle defeating gym leaders, then face off against the Elite Four. Following this there is another castle to defeat before facing off against the Rival at the very end of the game. I was quite suprised how easy the final battle of the game against Rival was. Following winning all the available cups, beating the gyms and rival at the very end the credits roll.
I found that certain Pokemon work great in this game. It is important to have a Pokemon with a high speed stat, such as Kadabra It is important to use moves such as attract, hypnosis etc to not allow your opponents Pokemon to move. Wobuffet is a great Pokemon to use, I have never heard of this Pokemon or used him before, he is strong in this game using counter to hit back agains special moves, mirror coat to hit back against special attact, he is essential for taking down Mew/Mewto. I recommend Corsola (attract), Kadabra (fast, Hypnosis, Thunderpunch), Electrabuzz (fast), Hitmonlee (fast, takes down normal Pokemon with high jump kick fighting move).
I learned alot of new things about Pokemon from this game, I highly rate this game. It's fun and the graphics are great. Its probably better as a pick up and play with friends. 1 player mode is good but probalby do not want to binge play like I did and take it slow, as it can be frustrating in some places. I recomend using a guide, doing some research. Without this, for a novice it may take over 100 hours. I used only rental Pokemon while playing this game, I did not have a transfer pack to use own Pokemon from original gameboy cartridges.
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