Reviews from

in the past


The physical special split was the biggest thing this game brought.
Everything else, meh, it's the more in the middle pokemon game ever.

Really liked how they emphasized double battles in this. However it felt to me that they were leaning more kid friendly in this one and it felt not as grity. Still great game with good balance and tons of fun pokemon.

fire pokemon game. peak shaking head emoji

If you're playing this today, go play Platinum instead as the definitive edition. I remember Sinnoh very fondly for its mixture of older and new Pokemon (and unfortunately lack of fire types) and never felt that its gameplay was unusually slow, although I didn't have a clear point of comparison as I hadn't spent as much time with earlier (or later) generations.

Pokemon Platinum makes this look like a prototype.


childhood first pokemon game i love it so much

i loved running around with my R4 card walk through walls cheat infinite rare candy cheat, just vibes, i was never more of a pokemon trainer

First game I ever played and it taught me how to read so good nostalgia here

It's old Pokemon so its guaranteed an average rating sorry not sorry.

Even as someone who started with these games, while they are charming they are very archaic by todays standards for a pokemon game. Its third version is easily superior to the debut games, but i have some attachment to these since this and halo 2 started my love for videogames.

Compared to platinum which I have now switched to. There were things that weren’t liked about Pearl that platinum answered, such as the quality of life aspects in the game. Still enjoyed it. But getting back into Pokemon I can see where some of the games have lost their quality because the remakes or the next games fixed things wrong with it.

The first game I ever got excited for pre-release. I went to buy it in store and I didn't realise it wasn't out yet. I had to wait like 4 months before it came out. I cried and my dad had to buy me a milkshake to make me feel better. What was I talking about again?

Mesmo problema de pokemon ruby, sapphire, gold, silver.

Não vale a pena ser jogado pois já existe uma versão que é uma melhoria das duas

7/10 Bom.

Wonderful for its time. It was nice that the touch screen got use, and I really had a ton of fun exploring all the corners of Sinnoh when it originally came out. The pace of gameplay and such is super slow by today's standards, but this'll always be one of the most nostalgic Pokémon titles for me!

Ahh, my first Pokemon game. I didn't comprehend how fucking SLOW it was then, but I sure do now!

Platinum is better than both Diamond and Pearl, I just never got the chance to get my hands on it for myself. Therefore, I'll just be talking about the game I owned.

Winter 2007, on a snowy night in the biggest Toys' R' Us in Times Square-- I got my first Nintendo DS. A black DS lite. Along with it, I got Pokémon Pearl.

"Ew, the pink one?" the nine year old me said. "Pink is a girl's color. Blue is a boy's color.."

Nevertheless, I still played the game halfway through. I didn't know anything about Pokémon. I picked Piplup and grinded ONLY him to Empoleon. No one else. The experience of ACTUALLY playing Pokémon was lost on me. All I know was that my cousin couldn't play with me because all his Pokémon were higher than me.

Until I became a "rival" with my cousin on this game.

Once I heard he was at the Snowpoint Gym, I remember staying up 'till six am to get to the Elite Four. To not get left in the dust so I can be able to battle him! I started to take pride in the fact that I owned Pearl, and not some loser copy of Pokémon Diamond.

My Piplup was cooler than his Chimchar! He would come over to my house, we would go underground and decorate our caves-- then battle. Battle and battle and battle and battle. He would win most of the time, as his team was better than mine (Infernape and Gengar were just too much for my team. I should have gone with Turtwig..)

My Pokémon Pearl review isn't a review on how the music sounds or how the gameplay is-- or even the story. It's a review about my experience with the game. From this game alone (just like anything in life), an experience can make or break a game.

Pokémon Pearl was one of my best experiences with gaming, period.


Probably my second favorite Pokémon-game after Soul Silver.

I remember having ok memories with it, but forgot everything about it. Pretty sure I'd get bored nowadays as much as I did with Pokémon X.