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	Pokemon Pearl-DS From game to game the pokemon series has continued to be the same story again and again except slightly different, but the strange thing it, the more games you play, the more engrossed you become in the game. Although there doesn’t seem to be anything much new for the players that have played the old pokemon games, for people that haven’t played them before though there is a lot to do and to discover. The overall theme of this game is to find and capture over 150 different types of battling monsters and then fight against other trainers until you become the champion of the region. But this is just scratching the surface, with over 150 before you complete the main story and over 450 after you complete it there is little chance that you will complete it no matter how much of your time you dedicate to it. This is the point though, to gain all of these types of pokemon without using Wi-Fi you would need another of the games (FireRed or LeafGreen) which were on the GameBoy Advance to gain all of them. The complexity of the game at face value is very small but as you get deeper and deeper into this never-ending abyss of a game you realise that there is actually a lot of tactical decisions that you will have to make in this game to outwit and outplay your opposition. Only the real hardcore players (like me) understand the real depth that the makers at Nintendo have gone through to make this game as detailed as possible. All of the pokemon games have the same kind of story line which consists of you catching pokemon, defeating eight gyms and defeating the Elite Four + Champion but after you have achieved this in each of the games there was always a new feature that meant that the game lasted even longer, and this game there is … the Multiplayer Underground Playground, which I will explain later on. This pokemon game along with its brother game Pokemon Diamond has the emphasis on the multiplayer aspect of the game with this one with tons more features than the older games. In the GameBoy Advance versions of the pokemon games you needed a link cable to battle with you friends which would be sitting around a meter from you, but thanks to the Nintendo DS’s Wireless Connection and the DS’s ability to connect to WiFi you are enabled to play and battle with people on the other side of the world (or the room) without needing a wire for the console. This means that more and more people have risen and are now competing in global tournaments to see who the best player in the world is. There are more things than Battling to do with your friends in this game though. Another of the things that you can do wirelessly is cooking, not proper cooking but stirring a mixture the direction of the arrow quickly to create tasty poffins for your pokemon. Pokemon eating Poffins are like you eating a sweet, except pokemon gain from eating these and the five flavours of poffins correspond with one of the five attributes that a pokemon has and is judged on in pokemon contests. You can cook poffins on your own or with a friend and they are better when you cook them with the help of a friend encouraging you to play multiplayer again. Pokemon contests which I touched upon earlier are like the pokemon version of Britain’s got Talent, in the old game there was just one thing you had to do which was to do your moves to one of the judges and then you would gain hearts depending on how good you were. Now though, Nintendo have added a whole new level to these contests where there are three things that you need to do to impress the judges. The first one is the Visual Contest where you dress up your pokemon according to a given theme and then show them to an audience where the audience judges them on how good they look. The second one is the Dancing Contest where you have to tap the touch screen on the correct button in timing with how it was set by the lead pokemon; everyone gets to be the lead for 2 turns and then it swaps to the next one. The final of the three is the Acting Contest which is the same as the one that I explained above from the previous games, the combined scores will then be compared against each other and then a winner will be the one with the most. You never know your score in each of the contests until the end so it makes you perform in all of the stages but you are told after the second round which of you is in the lead. The last of the multiplayer features is the Underground; the Underground is the place where you can dig up spheres (like gems), treasures and fossils. The Underground is like a vast maze with treasure in almost every wall but where there is treasure, there is also danger, there are traps on the floor sometimes near to where the treasure is which you can disarm and keep or utilise to defend your Secret Base. By using a digger drill on a wall you can create a secret base which can be decorated with items that can be bought for spheres which you dig up. At the start there are many large immovable stones that block your path and stop you from placing items in those places, useful when you want to stop people from getting to your flag but not useful when you want your base to look good. Your flag is your bases prize possession, sat next to your computer (how you got a computer underground and got electricity to under the ground I’ll never know) your flag can be captured by other people and taken back to their base where it will be recorded on their computer. When you have enough flag captures your flag receives an upgrade and some of the annoying rocks can be deleted and when you reach the highest flag you also gain a star on your trainer case. Fossils are the main reason for coming underground though and while you are digging for treasure with either your Pickaxe or your Hammer, sometimes you will come across one. Once it has been dug up then it can be taken to one of the cities and resurrected so you get a free pokemon without having to battle it. So although training all of your pokemon to the highest level may be difficult and boring at times, it all seems to pay off with the incredible amount of multiplayer features that there are to play with your friends. Overall the single player experience is much the same as other pokemon games but the multiplayer makes this game stand out as a good one, with future updates to the game though with the new game to this series Pokemon Platinum being announced for release later on this year, I would recommend waiting for that instead of buying this or Pokemon Diamond. I would give it a 9/10, I just think that it could be slightly better and as soon as you get over level 60 there is only one thing that could challenge you. 9/10 By Rude Pineapple

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Pokemon Pearl-DS

From game to game the pokemon series has continued to be the same story again and again except slightly different, but the strange thing it, the more games you play, the more engrossed you become in the game. Although there doesn’t seem to be anything much new for the players that have played the old pokemon games, for people that haven’t played them before though there is a lot to do and to discover.

The overall theme of this game is to find and capture over 150 different types of battling monsters and then fight against other trainers until you become the champion of the region. But this is just scratching the surface, with over 150 before you complete the main story and over 450 after you complete it there is little chance that you will complete it no matter how much of your time you dedicate to it. This is the point though, to gain all of these types of pokemon without using Wi-Fi you would need another of the games (FireRed or LeafGreen) which were on the GameBoy Advance to gain all of them.

The complexity of the game at face value is very small but as you get deeper and deeper into this never-ending abyss of a game you realise that there is actually a lot of tactical decisions that you will have to make in this game to outwit and outplay your opposition. Only the real hardcore players (like me) understand the real depth that the makers at Nintendo have gone through to make this game as detailed as possible. All of the pokemon games have the same kind of story line which consists of you catching pokemon, defeating eight gyms and defeating the Elite Four + Champion but after you have achieved this in each of the games there was always a new feature that meant that the game lasted even longer, and this game there is … the Multiplayer Underground Playground, which I will explain later on.

This pokemon game along with its brother game Pokemon Diamond has the emphasis on the multiplayer aspect of the game with this one with tons more features than the older games. In the GameBoy Advance versions of the pokemon games you needed a link cable to battle with you friends which would be sitting around a meter from you, but thanks to the Nintendo DS’s Wireless Connection and the DS’s ability to connect to WiFi you are enabled to play and battle with people on the other side of the world (or the room) without needing a wire for the console. This means that more and more people have risen and are now competing in global tournaments to see who the best player in the world is. There are more things than Battling to do with your friends in this game though.

Another of the things that you can do wirelessly is cooking, not proper cooking but stirring a mixture the direction of the arrow quickly to create tasty poffins for your pokemon. Pokemon eating Poffins are like you eating a sweet, except pokemon gain from eating these and the five flavours of poffins correspond with one of the five attributes that a pokemon has and is judged on in pokemon contests. You can cook poffins on your own or with a friend and they are better when you cook them with the help of a friend encouraging you to play multiplayer again.

Pokemon contests which I touched upon earlier are like the pokemon version of Britain’s got Talent, in the old game there was just one thing you had to do which was to do your moves to one of the judges and then you would gain hearts depending on how good you were. Now though, Nintendo have added a whole new level to these contests where there are three things that you need to do to impress the judges. The first one is the Visual Contest where you dress up your pokemon according to a given theme and then show them to an audience where the audience judges them on how good they look. The second one is the Dancing Contest where you have to tap the touch screen on the correct button in timing with how it was set by the lead pokemon; everyone gets to be the lead for 2 turns and then it swaps to the next one. The final of the three is the Acting Contest which is the same as the one that I explained above from the previous games, the combined scores will then be compared against each other and then a winner will be the one with the most. You never know your score in each of the contests until the end so it makes you perform in all of the stages but you are told after the second round which of you is in the lead.

The last of the multiplayer features is the Underground; the Underground is the place where you can dig up spheres (like gems), treasures and fossils. The Underground is like a vast maze with treasure in almost every wall but where there is treasure, there is also danger, there are traps on the floor sometimes near to where the treasure is which you can disarm and keep or utilise to defend your Secret Base. By using a digger drill on a wall you can create a secret base which can be decorated with items that can be bought for spheres which you dig up. At the start there are many large immovable stones that block your path and stop you from placing items in those places, useful when you want to stop people from getting to your flag but not useful when you want your base to look good. Your flag is your bases prize possession, sat next to your computer (how you got a computer underground and got electricity to under the ground I’ll never know) your flag can be captured by other people and taken back to their base where it will be recorded on their computer. When you have enough flag captures your flag receives an upgrade and some of the annoying rocks can be deleted and when you reach the highest flag you also gain a star on your trainer case. Fossils are the main reason for coming underground though and while you are digging for treasure with either your Pickaxe or your Hammer, sometimes you will come across one. Once it has been dug up then it can be taken to one of the cities and resurrected so you get a free pokemon without having to battle it.

So although training all of your pokemon to the highest level may be difficult and boring at times, it all seems to pay off with the incredible amount of multiplayer features that there are to play with your friends. Overall the single player experience is much the same as other pokemon games but the multiplayer makes this game stand out as a good one, with future updates to the game though with the new game to this series Pokemon Platinum being announced for release later on this year, I would recommend waiting for that instead of buying this or Pokemon Diamond. I would give it a 9/10, I just think that it could be slightly better and as soon as you get over level 60 there is only one thing that could challenge you.

9/10

By Rude Pineapple

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