History YMMV / HeyYouPikachu

* BrutalBonusLevel: In addition to the "shadow" version of the Pokemon Quiz minigame in your room, you can also unlock an even harder variant. The game will only show you the Pokemon's shadow for a split second (though you thankfully get a countdown beforehand to ready yourself), and you have to correctly guess what shadow you just saw.

** The pinata. Trying to navigate Pikachu around the banana peels to the pinata is borderline impossible, since you can only tell him simple directions with no magnitude (i.e. you can only tell him things like "left" or "right", not "slightly left" or "hard right"). Making matters worse is the fact that all it takes is one slip on a peel to get Pikachu to RageQuit. In the Japanese version you had to break watermelons, which was just as hard.

* ReadTheFreakingManual: What most players don't realize is that Pikachu will ''only'' react to words that are marked in red. It doesn't necessarily make the game easier, but it helps streamline the experience tremendously.

* ReadTheFreakingManual: What most players don't realize is that Pikachu will ''only'' react to words that are marked in red. It doesn't necessarily make the game easier at times, but it helps streamline the experience tremendously.

* CriticProof: ''Hey You, Pikachu!'' didn't do so well with the critics, having a paltry 57 aggregate score on Metacritic, and it's a common target to riff on and bash nowadays. However, it sold nearly 2 million copies anyway due to being a game that released near the height of the Pokémon craze and having a genuinely appealing concept.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: Besides the severe voice recognition and Pikachu AI issues, the other big criticism of this game is that there just really isn't a whole lot to do, with there being only a handful of different mission types and only a handful of locations, while the environments of the various locations are very limited in scope with not much in them and there is a very limited selection of pokemon you'll see in the game for Pikachu to interact with (not counting the pokemon you can catch when fishing, there is only ''20 pokemon'' in this game of the 151 + Togepi that existed at the time). Then for what is available, the fishing has decent replayability as you try to break your records and achieve the world records, but for the rest it can get repetitive fast.

* CriticProof: ''Hey You, Pikachu!'' didn't do so well with the critics, having a paltry 57 aggregate score on Metacritic, and it's a common target to riff on and bash nowadays, but being a game that released near the height of the Gen 1 Pokemon craze and having a genuinely appealling concept, it sold nearly 2 million copies anyway.

* CriticProof: ''Hey You, Pikachu!'' didn't do so well with the critics, having a paltry 57 aggregate score on Metacritic, but it sold nearly 2 million copies anyway.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: Besides the severe voice recognition and Pikachu AI issues, the other big criticism of this game is that there just really isn't a whole lot to do, with there being only a handful of different mission types and only a handful of locations, while there isn't much to find in the various locations and there is a very limited selection of pokemon you'll see in the game for Pikachu to interact with (not counting the pokemon you can catch when fishing, there is only ''20 pokemon'' in this game of the 151 + Togepi that existed at the time). Then for what is available, the fishing has decent replayability as you try to break your records and achieve the world records, but for the rest it can get repetitive fast.

** Not to mention that one of the answers for the quiz is “Jigglypuff from above”, referencing an episode from the animation. Cue stunned silence and rage when thinking it’s a Voltorb or Electrode.

* LoveItOrHateIt: Voice recognition and content issues aside, the game's whole premise is a big turn off for many people and it has gotten its share of harsh critiques, but there are also many other people who liked the idea of a game centered around just interacting with Pikachu and other pokemon in various laidback activities, enjoying it in spite of the issues. It's not an uncommon opinion that ''Hey You, Pikachu!'' was just a bad and blatant cash grab released to capitalize on the Gen 1 Pokemon craze, yet it's also not uncommon to find people wanting a modern remake or true sequel to it, especially given that the game is impossible to play in an emulator without having the actual VRU and an adapter to connect it to your computer.

* LoveItOrHateIt: Voice recognition and content issues aside, the game's whole premise is a big turn off for many people and it has gotten its share of harsh critiques, but there are also many other people who liked the idea of a game centered around just interacting with Pikachu and other pokemon in various laidback activities, enjoying it in spite of the issues. It's not an uncommon opinion that ''Hey You, Pikachu!'' was just a bad and blatant cash grab released to capitalize on the Gen 1 Pokemon craze, yet it's also not uncommon to find people wanting a modern remake or true sequel to it, especially given that the game is impossible to emulate.