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Platform: Nintendo Ds
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Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
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UPC: 045496738518
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Release Date: April 22, 2007
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 The best Pokemon games yet. December 8, 2007
While some may have dismissed the Pokemon craze as just a fad, it's still around and going strong after over a decade. Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl represent the most recent additions to the RPG line, and are the first non-spinoff addition to the game line for the Nintendo DS.
The game plays very much the same as it does in any other Pokemon game. As a rookie trainer setting out of a small town, you've got a trio of goals: capture as many pokemon as possible, become the Pokemon League champion, and defeat an evil team who seeks to take over the world using Pokemon (in this case, Team Galactic). The game provides a number of different outlets for potentially limitless gameplay. Even after you finish the main plot, you can catch more pokemon, rematch people you fought before, and enter your pokemon in a variety of different contests. In addition, as with the other games, you can trade or do battle with friends. The features of the DS give a few additional options. First, you can import pokemon from your old games. Second, for the first time in franchise history, you can go online to trade and battle with people across the world. Those features alone, as well as the delicious improved graphics and mini-games, make Diamond and Pearl the best of the Pokemon games to date.
Just the main plot of the game can easily provide a person with 30-40 hours of fun. The Sinnoh region is the largest area of the franchise so far, and provides a lot of different options. Unfortunately, it can also provide some redundancy. When you've caught a good number of pokemon, random battles become somewhat redundant. Especially in caves, wild pokemon will attack every few feet, and they aren't worth the time it takes for the battle animations to play out. Additionally, the proliferation of other trainers can make the game feel like a grind when you've got a large area to cross before getting to the next town. Nonetheless, these are standard drawbacks of any Pokemon game, and they're easily ignored in favor of the fun the game offers.
If you're a fan of Pokemon, buying this game is a no-brainer. It has everything that made the Gameboy franchise great, and improves on the formula with more options and online play. If you're new to the franchise, start here. The game is an excellent hand-held role-playing game, whether or not you're familiar with the rest of the franchise. It's easy to get addicted, and soon you'll find out why so many people have gotten into the world of Pokemon.
New Pokemon New Quests and more! ! ! ! November 23, 2007
I'll try to be short and sweet in my review.
The Pros:
Very long game, even after defeating the Elite4 and the Champion the game does not end, 4 different features or side quests open to keep exploring and catching new species of Pokemon.
The WiFi feature enable to trade pokemon worldwide, there is also an undergound game where you dig for pokemon fossils, and special stones and crystals also via WiFi where you ccan set fun traps to other online players.
Intresting and long story, many areas to cover and do and see more things more than before.
Double battles with in-game trainers as your partners.
Pokemon Contests: where you perform for audiences and judges, these have advanced and become more challenging than in Pokemon Sapphire and Pokemon Ruby. Should you win as grand master in all categories you'll have exclusive access to a new area.
You don't have to catch them all to complete the Sinnoh region Pokedex. (Finally!!!)(I mean NOT all players are nice and want to trade!).
More strategic on contests and some battles.
New evolutions for the normal Pokemon Eevee into ice and grass types!
The Cons:
Certain pokemon can only be caught at certain times of the day or on a weekday, a feature that was used in GameBoy Color Pokemon Silver and Pokemon Gold.
The Game Freak developers didn't take full advantage of the DS 3 dimensional capabilities for graphics, all Pokemon still look 2 dimensional and flat as well as the player.
When exploring wild pokemon appear excesively, often after just taking no more than 4 steps, all the time on all wild areas including water.
You cannot trade caught from Pokemon games Fire Red, Green Grass, Sapphire, Emerald and Ruby until you beat the Elite4 and the Champion.
At some point one might HAVE to refer to a players'guide when you get stuck.
Overall: Colorful graphics, highly entertaining, funny scenes with your rival (who is more of a comtetive friend this time). Bouncy adecuate music, tons of new pokemon to catch.A must have for newbie and veteran Pokemon players young, and old like me!
 Can you really catch them all?! October 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My teenager & I are both Pokeholics. We have done our best in this newest version to "catch them all" and thank heavens we have all the poke games that came before with the exception of one (Pokemon Rangers). This game has been very flexible and fun to play. It really can be fun for all ages. My only wish is that there would be more special events by Nintendo/Pokemon in order to catch pokemon like Manaphy, since a lot of people can't make it to New York City or missed the 3 hour event they sponsored at a toy store (and those are the only other ways other than completing Pokemon Ranger that you will be able to get Manaphy).
This game provides many hours of entertainment for those who enjoy playing and the added GTS, and underground playtime are unique great fun touches as well.
Pokemon Pearl: Awesome :) October 14, 2007
this game is great, because there are more things to do than the other games. So far my favorite thing to do is go under ground and search for stuff, and set traps for other people. And Wi-Fi connection for the game is cool cause you can battle people all over the world, and trade for pokemon you don't have. I give it two thumbs up! b^-^d
 its good, but the worst of the series imo October 13, 2007
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
I'm sorry to say, but this has got to be the least fun pokemon game i've ever played. After I get through the bad stuff tho, I will list some good stuff. So don't skip this review.
The game is fun, but, personally I think the online aspect ruins it. You can get all sorts of stuff through trading that you usually won't be able to get too easily, and I find that a tad annoying. Plus, The dialogue is terrible. It's gotten extremely cheesy and at points i was shocked at how bad it is. The bad guy team in this game was also really annoying, and the fact that half the members of it didn't seem to have a clue what was going on didn't help. Theres also many new terrain types which are no fun at all, such as snow, fog, and swamps. Fog you can't see a darn thing when you're walking around, and the only way to clear it is to use an HM move. I don't like to have to remove my good attacks to put really weak HM attacks on my pokemon just to get further in the game, and this game seems to really emphasize HM's.
The pokemon gyms have also turned into giant puzzles which take quite some time to figure out at times. While this is probably welcome for most people as it adds a new level of gameplay, I personally prefer the walk in the room and beat up the leader approach of older games gyms.
But what really killed it for me is the lack of stuff to do after you beat the game. I love being able to continue playing a game after I beat it, and most pokemon games (especially gold and silver) have stuff to do afterwards. Pokemon Diamond and Pearl do have stuff, but it is incredibly boring. I continued playing for about 3 days after I beat it, and got bored and stopped. I managed to get over 100 hours of gameplay out of pokemon ruby after i beat the elite 4. (i had about 180 hours of gameplay before I started over, and it probably took 50 or less to beat the story mode)
If you don't mind this lack of fun after you beat the game, then by all means get it. And if the ability to get almost anything in the game online appeals to you, then, you should probably already have this game. But I found those parts to be annoying, so, It is my least favorite in the series.
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