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Lead Review · From: Pokemon
Seated on the General's Prized VMAX, I Declare Victory
Our critic forgoes all tactical swiping in favour of occupying the enemy's command unit, finding the entire exercise useful mainly as a demonstration of superior feline battlefield authority.

My human, in their infinite and often baffling wisdom, has procured not a toy, but a series of small, crinkly packets filled with glossy paperboard squares. They call them "Pokemon cards," and the primary activity seems to involve carefully tearing the foil and then staring intently at pictures of cartoon animals, none of which look nearly as majestic or so…

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Fig. 1 — the subject
Pete's Verdict
★★★☆☆
Worthy only as a battlefield to conquer.
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