Pokemon Platinum for Nintendo DS Reviews by Gamers

Pokemon Platinum is certainly the best game in the 4th generation of Pokemon games. It corrected a couple of serious flaws with the previous entries, such as slow battle animations, and limited access to fire Pokemon, and added even more to an already great generation of games, including the best post-elite-four experience I've seen in the series, outside of adding a whole region.

As typical in one of the non-spin-off entries in the Pokemon series, you can expect a great RPG experience. There are tons of "Pocket Monsters" to catch, all with different strengths, weaknesses, attacks, and abilities, and most with the ability to evolve into even larger and stronger versions of that monster. Create your team of up to 6 Pokemon of your choice to participate in battles in a 1 vs 1 or 2 vs 2 format. There are also a ton of items to find and unearth, with a wide variety of uses, from simply restoring health, to even evolving your Pokemon or teaching them attacks. Formulate your perfect team to take on other in-game Pokemon masters, unique legendary Pokemon, and even real life trainers with the use of Wifi Connection.

There's a whole plot with plenty of trainers and masters to face, plus the excellent post-game with more Pokemon to catch, trainers to re-battle at much higher levels, and a special area where you can battle with special rules to obtain points for items! But there's more to find here than battling. Along with the side-goal of catching all of the nearly 400 different types of Pokemon that can be obtained in this game, there are also some mini-games to be played. My favorite of which is using the 'underground' feature to dig for useful items, as well as decorative to decorate your 'hideout' that you can show off through local Wifi.

The big downside to this and almost all Pokemon games, is that the story is lackluster, and lacks any real maturity to it... and overall the game is too easy. However these setbacks are easily outweighed by the games great qualities.