YMMV / Power Pro-kun Pocket 1

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• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: The R remake is criticized for just giving the GBA version of the first two games a HD coat of paint. There are no new scenes, some of the basic-looking minigames feel out of place on the Nintendo Switch and the teammates in Gokuaku High remain without epilogue illustrations.
• Player Punch: There's a trend across the series of having some characters, especially the love interests, be doomed to die if the protagonist fails important tasks or never meets them. The sequels usually never address their fate.
  "In order to enjoy the happy ending, the bad ending must be that bad."
  —Naoki Nishikawa, scenario writer for the Pawapoke series
• Narm: The illustrations in the R remake are by the series' creator, but the art style often comes off as much stiffer than how it was in either the GBC or GBA versions. In the opening for Gokuaku High, for example, the protagonist is missing any sort of flame effects (red-hot speed lines in the GBC version and a blazing flame over him in the GBA one) as he gives a Hot-Blooded speech about the school's baseball team. This makes the now drab purple background reflect the mood of the worried Kameda behind him.
• Porting Disaster: Defied; the developers found they couldn't design a detailed baseball simulator on the then current Power Pros installment for the Game Boy Color, so they took pains to make the story mode the focus and give it all sorts of details even the console entries in the franchise wouldn't give them, leading to the Darker and Edgier tone with actual Continuity, the many Multiple Endings and the practically unrelated RPG modes the series became known for. The GBA remake has improved gameplay, though, and the Switch remake just uses the baseball engine from the main series.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The whole series was rated for all ages, or "CERO A", despite their mature content. This became a meme among fans and a topic of speculation for the 2021 R remake of the first two installments until it was revealed the rating was indeed raised to B (12-year-olds and above) due to CERO growing more strict over the years.

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