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Category: Video Games
List Price: $34.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 196
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
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Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
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MPN: ntr p apae
UPC: 045496738518
EAN: 0045496738518
ASIN: B000MJB1WU
Release Date: April 22, 2007
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 Pokemon Pearl Is Great! March 29, 2008
Well, I don't own Pokemon Pearl. But don't avoid this review! I've played it before at my friend's house. It is fun! Catch Pokemon and train them. In order to beat the game you beat the Elite Four.
Fun: 5 out of 5. It is fun! Battle trainers to get badges!
Graphics: Er um... 3 out of 5. Don't get me wrong! The game's great but the graphics aren't great... But, hey when you battle the Pokemon are somewhat 3D!
If you liked Pearl or Pokemon try Diamond or the good old GBA versions.
 Lives up to most of the hype March 27, 2008
For starters, this game is definitely worth buying, there is no doubt about that. However, I can't help but compare it to Pokemon Emerald because that was my first Pokemon game, and because of that I am only giving it 4 stars (not that that's bad). I also haven't FULLY beaten this game in the sense that I'm sure there are extra things to do after you've defeated the elite 4 (which i just did). So I guess I've completed the storyline aspect of it, but there are some extra things I need to experience.
PROS:
* I really loved the new set of Pokemon due to it's variety. There were plenty of "cute" Pokemon, as well as "cool" ones and "tough" ones, etc. They also had some of the old classics that most of us love to see again.
* The graphics were amazing and I honestly can't think of a way to improve them. It most certainly put the old games to shame in this regard.
* Wireless connection. omg... I despise cords with a passion and being able to just jump into the union room and having all my friends appear in there made my life SO much easier.
* Had a lot of new features that were very fun and creative. Like creating poffins for example. I found this to be much more enjoyable then Pokeblocks from the Sapphire / Ruby set. I also really enjoyed the underground area where you can make a secret base and find / plant spheres.
* Aside from the Ice Gym, the little puzzles you had to complete before you could fight the actual Leader were all very fun, and at the perfect difficulty level. They weren't hard but they weren't outright easy either. They were set up so that you could complete it in a few minutes without much stress, and I feel that's the way it should be.
CONS:
* Not enough fire Pokemon! It just seem very ridiculous to me that unless you pick the fire starting Pokemon (Chimchar), the ONLY fire Pokemon you can get is Ponyta. Now, there may be more fire options after you've defeated the elite 4 that I don't know of, but if this is the case then it just seems a bit stupid to have all your fire Pokemon open up after you've completed most of the game.
* Although the underground is very fun, I found it a bit annoying that your secret base starts out filled with rocks and you have to spend a bunch of unwanted time getting flags to destroy them.
* Overall storyline. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it was bad. It just didn't compare in the slightest to the storyline from Emerald. Team Galactic, though a cool team in itself, didn't have the kind of personality I felt from team Magma and Aqua. I really liked that in a sense, they weren't completely bad guys. They just had a skewed idea on what would help the planet, and realized their mistake in the end. The Galactic leader however was just a very cliche bad guy overall, and honestly a bit boring. Also, all the issues that were presented to me were easily overcome and never seemed to stay very serious. So I was pretty disappointed in this aspect.
* The game just seemed to be really short. I played Emerald non stop for months and am STILL playing it, and after only a few weeks I'm pretty much done with Pearl.
* Once you beat a random trainer on the road, that's pretty much it. You CAN re-fight them, but you have to take like 1,000 steps or some crap before you can fight only ONE over again. That is just REALLY lame and far more trouble then it should be.
OVERALL REVIEW:
This game was very enjoyable and I am really glad I bought it. It was well worth the money! However, because of my natural inclination to compare newer versions of a game with the older ones, this game was not as enjoyable as it could have been. There were many things that I loved from Emerald that Pearl was lacking, and it disappointed me greatly. Although there were also many new features that were quite fun, I didn't feel they completely made up for the losses. So because of that, I give this game 4 stars.
best game ever March 25, 2008
Its a great game that is so fun i won almost the whole game so buy pearl instead of dimond cause the legendary in pearl is so much stronger and better than the one in dimond so get this ds game and have as much fun as i did and yeah i almost forgot if i were you i would pick the leaf pokemon i know at the beginig it is not good but later on it will be the most powerful pokemon and will be unstopable so please take this fantastic advice and please do so to win the game ok!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is okay... February 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Its a great game really, but inorder to acully win, you must buy an Action Replay to catch the legendaries like Shaymin, Darakri, or Arcues. I did like it, but having to buy a thirty dollar prduct for a game with not even a majority of the pokemon in it was not to my likeing.
 A teen's review: for shame pokemon, surely we can do better... February 21, 2008
I've played Pokemon since the games first appeared in America starting out with the old school, but still awesome, red version. And since then I have played most games, or at least one version of that generation of Pokemon. I've loved every single one, and have never gotten bored with them.
And naive as I was I thought, perhaps, this game would be just as enjoyable as the others. I was mistaken.
Though it did bring back memories of the older games, it lacked in many areas. I was most vexed when it came to the Pokemon themselves. They were either horribly grotesque, new models of the older species or one's that appeared as though a three year old had conceived them. There were a few cute or interesting one's spread through out, but they were very few in number.
But there's more. It almost seemed like the game was more focused on all the new things you can do and the spiffy new gadgets. Trading with people across the world, Pokemon contests (which I will note has been altered since the last game, and now features dancing as part of the rotuine. Why yes, yes I did say dancing as absurd as it sounds.), you can now go underground where you can not only build a secret base, but also dig for evolutions stones, jewels and fossils (it's rather annoying if you ask me, having to find the evolution stones. There's no other way to do it unless you've beat the game and can get them from your other game boy advanced games.)
I'm sorry, but what happened to the old game where all you worried about was raising you Pokemon and beating both the gym leaders and elite four?
However, I will admit that the game did have some pluses. The gyms were more than just running in a beating the gym leader and some of his lackeys. They were puzzles that in some cases you had to think about. I've seen some reviewers stating that they disliked the new feature. However I did not. Also, I like the fact that you're not limited to which Pokemon you can get because you chose one game over another. Being able to trade worldwide is quite handy. As is being able to battle people around the globe once you defeat the elite four.
And so I give this game a solid three. It was o.k. But seriously, the creators of Pokemon could have done so much better.
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