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Pokemon Pearl

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game is great if you liked the other pokemon games. new gadgets and pokemon make this game different and exciting!

Bought Diamond and Pearl

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Both games are great. My grandson plays them side by side as he has two DS and he says playing against each other is fun.

Pipulp is Great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

From M. Sutton, 8 years, Lancaster, CA

Pearl version features a large quantity of Pokemon. I think the Pokemon Pipulp is the best to start with. Of course, Turwig is a good choice to battle the gym leaders. Also Chimchar is the most popular. I think it is a hard choice between Pipulp, Turwig, and Chimchar.

The reason I gave the game only four stars is because the game pretty hard. In the game you lose lots of money, when you lose a battle. And it takes a long time to get the Pokemon you want. Otherwise I would give this game five stars.

Written by M. Sutton's Dad

Pearl/Diamond the best Pokemon yet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Not much has changed over the various releases of Pokemon over the years... fight animations, backgrounds, color, etc.. This latest release brings dual screen support, WiFi play and some subtitle 3d animations, but as they say - "if it ain't broke..."

Diamond and Pearl does everything that is Pokemon right.

If you are absolutely sick of these games or never liked them to begin with, stay away -- there's no drastic changes to the formula. But if you are itching to play a new version on the great DS, or never put any time into a Pokemon game... what are you waiting for??? Grab one of these games now!

New Pokemon New Quests and more! ! ! !

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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!

The best Pokemon games yet.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

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.

Pokemon Pearl

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a fast paced fun adventure. I like it better than the previous Pokemon games.

Pokemon Pearl Rules!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I gave my kid this game as a present on Christmas time and he just went nuts when he received it. It has given my son many hours of pleasure and fun. Very well recommended to kids under 12.

Pokemon Pearl........

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Other than playing a few Pokemon games years agos, I've never really been into Pokemon. Not because it never interested me(as I'm a level grinding fanatic), it's just I've always had a problem with buying two games just to 'catch 'em all'. It seems wrong to me when the other game has very little to no changes in it that would warrant me getting it when one game would suffice. At any rate, I was compelled to get the new Pokemon game for the DS. I think it was more out of curiosity to see what Game Freak would produce on the DS. For the most part, I was pleased with the game. Pearl offers more of the same deep and addictive gameplay we've played in Pokemon all these years with just enough new monsters and things to do to keep me interested. It's easily the best Pokemon game yet. A game any DS owner should add to their library. However, even so, there were a few things I found fault in with the game. Due to technical limitations of the GameBoy, GameBoy Color & the GameBoy Advance; I could understand why they resorted to keeping the game 2-D with odd yelps and grunts for your Pokemon yet we now have a handheld that can produce full 3-D and great audio so why have only the overworld map in 3-D & not the battles and why keep the same odd yelps and grunts? It's been proven a game like this can be done in 3-D...just take a look at Dragon Quest Monsters-Joker. It would have been cool to see battles in a more Pokemon Stadium/Colosseum vein. 3-D is the natural evolution of games like these. It wouldn't have to have been done quite like DQM-Joker to have its' own unique style but 3-D would've been nice. Second, why not add a little more story to the game to give me more incentive to play the game? I love games with a good story. Thirdly, like I mentioned earlier- why two games when only one will work??

At any rate, Pokemon Pearl is a solid game worthy of your hard-earned buck if you can get past those minor quibbles. I did, at least. Maybe Game Freak will take the hint and make a good change with the next round of Pokemon games. You've got to keep things fresh to keep people interested... ;)

A teen's review: for shame pokemon, surely we can do better...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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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