Reviews from

in the past


Looks mediocre, friendship saving you or landing critical hits sucks as a mechanic, carries over the worst of D/P and learns very little from the successes of Platinum (or they didn't care). At least the soundtrack is good.

Absolute disgrace to the originals. The animation is so fucking bad and that literally brings everything else down with it. How am I supposed to enjoy this amazing music when I don't want to look at my screen. For some reason this game just hits terribly and has such a bad place in my heart and I truly believe its all due to the animation.

Basically the same game as the original with only worse additions like the underground. Terrible post-game when Pokemon has been setting precedent for great post-games before that. SMH


A bad remake of the worst mainline game.

Got to Elite Four and never continued

I hated this game. It was so annoying to get through.

I'll admit I'm not a big Pokemon fan. I've tried multiple times to get into it, but the gameplay loop has never grabbed me.

But holy shit, even I can tell this is insulting. I don't even mind the graphical style, but there was basically zero effort put in to remake this game. There's no content from Platinum, no Pokemon that weren't in the originals, and it plays like ass. I feel awful for all the Gen 4 fans who waited years for their remakes and had to settle for this.