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Nintendo DS : Pokemon Pearl Reviews

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Gas Gauge 80
Below are user reviews of Pokemon Pearl and on the right are links to professionally written reviews. The summary of review scores shows the distribution of scores given by the professional reviewers for Pokemon Pearl. Column height indicates the number of reviews with a score within the range shown at the bottom of the column. Higher scores (columns further towards the right) are better.

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Fun For Anyone

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you like RPG's, it does not matter how young or old you are, this is a fun game.

My kids love this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Pearl is a time consuming and addictive game. It appears to involve considerable strategy and requires high level thinking to play well. It is not a simple motor skills game.

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.


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