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POKEMON'S attack continues... It's super effective!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You know, when I played Pokemon Red and Blue for the first time on the Gameboy, I admit that I kind of got into it. A hundred and fifty unique monsters, each with strengths and skills of a unique and oftentimes supernatural nature, and you had the responsibility of bringing them all together and training them like RPG characters. There's something about the concept that I find appealing, and while Pokemon is an RPG with very little plot (the main reason I like RPGs is that they tend to have pretty good plots,) it does have one other thing that attracted me, at least during its initial release; Pokemon gives you the chance and mission to collect and assemble data to form an encyclopedia on something that is arguably a very interesting form of life. This emphasis on collection is more obvious in Pokemon than in any other franchise, with "Gotta Catch 'em all!" being rammed down our throats from a hundred directions.
In the first game, there was a secret pokemon than couldn't be gotten (except through a game enhancer, or a nintendo event that may as well have been a lottery,) but it was the last in the pokemon encyclopedia, so if you missed out on it, there wasn't a hole in your pokedex or anything.
Fortunately, back then, video game enhancers were simpler and more reliable than they are today, and I managed to get hold of Mew, although it wasn't easy, fun or fair, in my opinion, of Nintendo to put a pokemon in the game they didn't intend to let the gamer catch for themselves.
This factor of Pokemon games has always infuriated me, particularly since the genre of catching and training strange animals is woefully small. Pokemon seems to be the only one of its kind that's made it to America.
When I played Gold and Silver, the same sort of thing happened. Once again, Nintendo gave us a huge number of monsters to find and train, this time closer to 250, and once again, Nintendo stiffed the gamers, both on the chance to fill in Mew's slot legitimately and reliably, and on a new Pokemon as well; Celebi.
Ruby and Sapphire was even worse, since they actually subtracted from the total number of pokemon available since the previous games, but then I heard news of two new pokemon games that promised to make it possible to complete the Pokedex, while returning the gamer to Kanto; the region I was most able to tolerate, of all the Pokemon games.
Well, I had a feeling I was about to be suckered again, but I gave this game a shot. I don't have a working Action Replay, but I do have a reasonable-quality gameshark that works on Ruby and Sapphire, so I played through this game once. I got the first 150 and aquired the gemstones to enable trade with Ruby and Sapphire (a nice touch,) only to find that I couldn't get Mew. My gameshark worked on R&S, but not on FR&LG, and I thought I'd be able to just catch Mew in Ruby and trade it to Firered.
Problem is, for whatever reason, Nintendo made Mew untradable. Once I found that out, the game was ruined for me. If Nintendo wanted to give gamers the chance to 'catch 'em all,' they could at least have had the courtesy to do the thing all the way. This makes me sad and disappointed with Nintendo and with the world of video games for failing to offer what I was hoping against hope for, but to be honest, I'm not terribly surprised. This is something like the hundred and twenty seventh time Nintendo has gipped gamers and fans they could easily have satisfied and I'm sick of it. As I said, the genre and layout of this game, and of all pokemon games are enticing at first, but unless they can permit the gamer to complete the mission set for them, I'm just not interested in them anymore.

more Pokemon

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

People just can't get enough of Pokemon. Now, we have another Pokemon video game.

As you battle enemies, Pokemon becomes stronger and learns new abilities. As you become stronger, you can evolve. You'd think this would be a formula that would get old, but apparently not, as many Pokemon games have been released and seen as a successful series.

With that said, those Bug Catchers are pretty annoying. I don't like dealing with them at all. That's the only complaint I can find with this game.

Very Realistic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You'd be hard pressed to find a more lifelike representation of the world that is Pokemon in the realm of handheld devices. You can almost taste the trees, the wind, and the muffins. Buy this if you love freedom and all that it offers, except for the taxes, which I'm sure we can all agree are quite inconvenient.

this game is awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: August 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

you should get this game the graphics are really good, better than the other games.this game is so much fun buy it its worth the money.

Pokemon Fire Red

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My granddaughter has played this game more than any other since I gave it to her for Christmas. She definitely gives it a thumbs-up.

A classic returns

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Pokemon started with two games in Japan - Red and Green. Those were back in the days when the Game Boy had black and white dot matrix graphics, and where there were only 151 of the critters to catch. The series has grown remarkably since then. Now, it returns to its roots with Pokemon Fire Red.

Fire Red is a mostly faithful recreation of the original Pokemon game. It features the original region, the classic Team Rocket, and the quest to defeat the Elite Four and become the Pokemon League champion. Admittedly, the plot is pretty one-dimensional and has been repeated ad nasuem by other Pokemon games. This is the game in its original form.

In addition to the return to the original, Fire Red features travel to several other new islands, where Pokemon from later versions appear. Furthermore, there are new moves and a few other additions that build on the original adventure. The graphics are all greatly improved, and the game comes with a wireless connector that allows for easier trades and combat with other players.

Pokemon always has a few weaknesses, and Nintendo hasn't dared mess with a formula that is working. Specifically, the plot is pretty linear, and doesn't have some of the options that have worked their way into later editions of the game (contests, for instance). Also, the number of random battles in certain areas becomes tiring and repetitive after a while. However, these flaws are easily ignored in the face of the larger game. Because of the variety of pokemon, the excellent graphics and music, and the light-hearted nature of the game, Pokemon Fire Red is a great source for hours of fun.

excellent product

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

very good attention of the supplier and the quality of the product is excellent.

An coimpletly awsome game!BUY IT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: March 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I dont have to say any caus its all in the title of this reivew.

Pokemon Fire Red Version

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: February 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

it is a very fun game, however, the other pokemon game (leafgreen) has a better selection of pokemon. it would have been 5 stars if the pokemon on the game not be so weak compared to the other version.

Better graphics

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Remember the old Red Version? This is it but with better graphics. All They did was remake the very first Pokemon games. To me that is just a waste of money but my boys wanted it and so I got it. They have now beat it within a few weeks of playing because they already had beat the red blue and yellow versions of Pokemon years ago. So if you really liked thoses games and wanted to see them with better graphics get this game but if you are looking for a new Pokemon game to beat I wouldn't get this one its just a remake.

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