Pokemon Diamond and Pearl

nyone else waiting for these games? They should be released on the 22nd of April in America and 1st of June in Europe for those who didn't know. I suggest you import them as the DS is handily region free.

I've been waiting for these games for about a year now, and i've been a huge pokemon fan since Red and Blue (the good ole days). You know pokemon first came out in 1997... that's 10 years now... scary isn't it? It makes me feel old.

Most people are prolly thinking D+P will be just like the other games... and well that's prolly true, but there is one difference that stands out. You will now be able to battle and trade online with anyone in the world, even if their game is in another language. Also, this is the first game were all 493 (yes, there are new pokemon for this version too) will be available one way or another. You can do this by using the GTS (Global Trading System) or plugging your GBA games into the GBA DS port so you can transfere from Ruby/Sapphire and Fire red/Leaf green. Plugging your GBA games in also makes some pokemon appear in the wild in D+P for the duration of the game being plugged in.

Some features from previous games will also make a welcome return. Some of these include:

• *The time of day. This has been improved and now has morning, day, afternoon, evening and night.
• *Pokemon Contests. These have also been improved in various ways. You can now equip items to your pokemon in new rounds, and apparently, there is also a dance round
• *Swarms of pokemon. If you played gold and silver you will remember that on certain days pokemon would swarm on certain routes.
• *The battle tower.
• *Breeding
• *Double battles
• *The safari zone

And most likely many more that i have missed. There are also many new features, some of which are these:

• *Pokeball seals. You can now customise your own pokeball designs.
• *Sweet honey. If you played gold and silver, you might remember that you could headbutt trees to make pokemon appear. Well sweet honey does the same thing, except you smear on the tree hehe
• *Sinnoh underground. An underground place were you can have a secret base, find fossils, battle trainers and have capture the flag matches with wi fi.

I know i've missed a ton of stuff but i can't remember them all atm. Either way, it sounds like a good game and it's about time nintendo did something really special for pokemon. I'd really love to battle with anyone, so if you plan on getting one of the games please let me know

Thanks for reading and feel free to discuss the topic

By McKnee - 13th Apr 2007 @ 15:05:43 - [3] Comments