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I Don't Understand ...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 15 / 32
Date: June 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It was bound to happen, and it's happening now.

Maybe it's a little unfair to give Pokemon the same score as Full Metal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy, but I'm grading Diamond on a comparative scale to the general populus, whereas FMA had a sparse 3 or 4 reviews.

It's hard to disagre with the general public as to which games are good and which ones aren't. But there are few games, which by personal preference, just doesn't rub the right way for the user. Pokemon has been one of those games for me. Believe me, had this been a review for the very first Pokemon game that ever came out, it'd be the same score and the same thing.

Sure there are several things different with this Pokemon game. There better be, after the long awaited anticipation of its release. But the premise is the same, touch screen capabilty is limited, and not much is different. As a Pokemon hater (I'll explain in a bit), I had initially decided against buying this. I bought this game for two reasons:
1. Selling my DS collection in bulk in the future would have a gaping hole if one of the two Pokemons were missing.
2. I actually thought that maybe I could get into it and it could put my DS to good long use.

An hour after I bought it, I realized why I hated the game so much.

It's too simple, monsters (of which you could only carry 6 at a time) with a whopping 4 moves... I dunno, but it gets really annoying seeing poor graphic moves over and over and over and over and over and over again. Maybe it's just me, because everyone in this universe seems to absolutely love Pokemon.

I credit the Pokemon franchise with absolutely nailing the RPG with the much younger audience. They've done a fantastic job of creating this never ending RPG that can capture a child's attention for hours at a time. How it can hold the attention of an audience even slightly older? That boggles my mind.

I really didn't want to write this, and I was actually considering leaving Pokemon out of my reviews, because I want my reviews to be helpful to the prospective buyers. But I guess anyone buying Pokemon knows what they're getting themselves into, and a review of the game would simply be for amusement. I guess I'll just have to take the 0/50 helpful votes on this review...

What drove me to wrote this was that the Pokemon duo released for the near maximum DS price of $34.99, and it seemed to me that it wasn't worth it. But that's not all... Some genius found a way to max out every single monster and stat and item in the game, and started selling copies of these on Ebay for a whopping 135 bucks a pop.

People, people, people ... WHY!? I don't understand, I never thought I'd see the day when a DS game broke the $39.99 maximum (only two games have hit that price ceiling so far, Final Fantasy III, and the Star Trek Game, with a third one coming soon, Zelda: Phantom Hourglass). Not only have you wasted money on the game, you defeated the whole purpose of purchasing the game in the first place... TO COLLECT THE MONSTERS MAYBE?

The only thing that kept me droning on and on for that one hour I played the game was the faint desire to level up my Pokemon. I can't imagine how dull it must be to play a brand new game, completely demolishing every Pokemon and Gym Leader that comes your way with your Level 100 monsters. It makes no sense.

And what, wireless play? How ridiculous is this, a bunch of maxed out Pokemon fighting each other with a maxed out number of items to replenish health so that the battle goes on into infinity.

My hate for Pokemon had grown immensely after seeing that nonsense.

It's not a very good game, the story is lame, and it costs too much. Everything about the game is drab, graphics are dull, the SoundFX suck, and still! GameFaqs top 2, DS bestseller, and it ACTUALLY beefs up my collection. That's so depressing to me...

Only in America.

Thanks for reading. I'm putting my flame suit on...

a kid's review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you liked pokemon before, you better get this one! the story line is more cmplex than the previous versions and you're constantly being reminded of it with all the battles against team galactic and conversations with the proffesor and your friends.That's right your friends! In this game you have friends instead of a rival, which to me makes the game more enjoyable.your friends have the other two starters, so no starter pokemon is left out. some of the pokemon look like the people designing pokemon ran out of ideas...But some of them are really cool like dialga.the graphics have been updated, so unlike the other versions that when you walk, everything would stay 2D, in this one, you see in 3D, so everything flows.the pokemon contests are more complex:dance competition and dressing your pokemon are added.Even the part where you perform moves for judges has been improved. There's a park where you could walk around with a cute pokemon following you, and will pick up items for you to dress your pokemon in the competitions. Then, you could transfer pokemon from your gba version to your ds version after you get the national pokedex. You get that by seeing all pokemon listed in the sinnoh region,so you have to beat the game. and... i can't explain it but how frequently trainers appear, the levels of their pokemon, where they are put is just better. So basically, GET THIS GAME!!!

I've owned all the pokemon games and this is the best ever!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ever since pokemon red I have played these games and this one is the best. Pokemon diamond has pretty good 3D graphics but they aren't as good as the ones in vale of darkness for the gamecube. If your looking for a game that you can play for almost a year than buy this. You can't get sick of it. This is a great game for all ages and I think that you should get it.

The good:

The Wi-Fi connection lets you trade and battle people from the other side of the world.

Hundreds of knew pokemon make this game intresting even if you have already played the gameboy versions.

The story line is brand knew and will take up a lot of time.

Night and day in the game are according to the real time and enable you to catch different pokemon and do different things at different times of day.

There are knew moves (There are two knew HM's), knew pokemon, knew places, and knew functions.

I have played for hours and I haven't found any gliches.

You can have secret bases with cool stuff like TV's, fridges, and furniture.

If you do certain things you can move all the rocks out of your base and get a nice clean floor to work with that has no obstacles.

You get something that tells you how your pokemon with the breeder are doing and if there are any ripe berrys around.

Knew form of pokeblocks called poffin are more fun to make.

You can put one of your pokemon on offer and someone can do the trade even when the DS is off.
The bad:

You can only trade for things on the Wi-Fi that you have at least seen on your pokedex.

You have to buy certain GBA games to be able to catch certain pokemon.

This game is incredibly good and I suggest that anyone who is at least interested in a non-violent game to buy it. Plus, some people on the Wi-Fi are stupid and will give you great deals in trades. BUY THIS!!!!!!!!!!!

Pokemon Diamond- A Dream Come True

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In the world of Sinnoh, you are a boy or girl starting out in the Land of Sinnoh. As soon as you start the game, you and your friend decide to check out lake Verity for the shiny Gyrados sighting. As you go there, you see no Gyrados, but an old Man and his assistant Dawn or Lucas(depends on what gender you chose). As they leave, you realized they dropped a briefcase. As you guys are approaching it, you get attacked by a couple of Starly(Mukuru in japanese)and you open up the breifcase nd find...pokeballs. Within the pokeballs are the Fire Type Chimchar(Hikozaru), the Water Type Piplup(Pochama, Picked him in Diamond), and the Grass type Turtwig(Naeteru, Picked him in pearl). At this point is where your adventure starts. You have to take your newfound partner, catch other amigos and make a team to battle against other trainers.

Graphics-5/5 The graphics are definately an update from the old GBA games. Some places, and even a cutscene or two have 3D effects that were impossible to do on the GBA. THey could've probably been better, but I'm happy with it.

Sound-5/5 It has some of the old revamped sounds, along with a bunch of new songs. All of the songs are intereting to listen to, you might even end up liking a few.

Gameplay- There is many things to do in this game. You can battle, as usual, and you can also do contest again, a feature once introduced in Ruby and Sapphire, and again in Emerald. However, they added two other parts to the contests, a Visual contest and a Dance contest. You can dress up your Pokemon with clothes you obtain for your Fashion case, while the Dancing game is a rhythm game. You can also go into the underground to play games with friends or get fossils spheres and stones. Online you can battle with friends, or trade with them directly, judging on if you have their friend codes or vise versa. However, there is a way to trade online without those darn codes. The GTS is a server based system in which you can trade with peopleall over the world, and it is also one of my favorite features.

Overall, there is a lot to do in this game and Pearl. IF you are a pokemon fan, you're probably going to get this game anyways. But if you are looking for a great RPG, a PokeNOOb, or a casual gamer, you should still try this game out. Overall, I give this game a 5 out of 5(lol, it sounds like Xplay)

pretty much awesome

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game so far(7th gym)is pretty cool.

the new moves look really cool

pros:
new pokemon
new moves
cool new features
touch screen

cons:
still only 1 save file
the graphics are OK
can get a tiny bit boring sometimes
a tiny bit too easy

Good Pokemon Game (:

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Certainly "upgraded" from the previous Pokemon games, endless hours of fun.

Cost is steep for myself, but well worth the hours just there to burn.

New features are pretty awesome (double battles, super contests, poffins, the new generation of pokemon, so much more) but certain old handy features remain (bike, old pokemon, yeah you get it).

Overall a great RPG game, and one of the best pokemon games yet. Nintendo has yet to fail us on the Pokemon series ;)

Pokemon Diamond

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My grandson is a true Pokemon fan. He would play this game from morning until night if we let him..

Expected better, but still a good game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: October 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've always been a pokémon fan, so I got Pokémon Diamond without hesitation. I have to admit I was disappointed; I'm a big RPG fan, and D's storyline was pretty boring. I think it wasn't different enough from the previous game, Emerald.

Pros:
- 3D graphics
- Amity Square
- big world
- super contests
- time of day
- weather
- the underground

Cons:
- boring plot
- the pokemon of the sinnoh dex are useless
- no fire types
- Team Galactic is rather tedious, and couldn't they have a more realistic purpose than world domination?
- you can't trade your pokemon from your older versions until you've beaten the Elite Four
- Happiny
- the master rank of the super contests are almost impossible
- the versus seeker is really annoying; the match call was a lot better because you knew who wanted to battle you and you didn't waste your time looking everywhere

I think the best of the pokémon games so far was Crystal. You could travel between Johto and Canto and the game lasted a lot longer.
D is still a good game, but could have been a lot better. It deserves 4 stars, but I had high expectations for D and it didn't quite live up to them.

Ausome. GET IT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best game ever made for the ds besides Metroid prime hunters. GET IT!!! It is a very fun game and Its gameplay is really smooth. Instant Classic. Get either one because their isn't much difference.

Awesome Games!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: April 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got Diamond and Pearl on Friday the 20th and the games are AMAZING!! Higly recommended to anyone who enjoys pokemon or has ever even been slightly interested in the franchise. The graphics are new and fresh, the touch screen features ensure easier gameplay (selecting menu during battle, step counter, etc) and the game features plenty of new evolutions of older pokemon to keep the older pokemon very much alive. For example, if you have the 3 Regis, you can get a pokemon called Regigigas. Overall, the feel of the game is similar, yet superior to any pokemon game released to date due to improved graphics, improved controlls, and a new and exciting region to explore!! Get them now!!

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