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I have nothing to put here, or rather, I didn't.
Thanks to Legends (one of my friends, great guy), I now have ideas for journals I'd otherwise have nothing to write.
This journal focuses on the next DS games in the UK set to bring a franchise long since left to the likes of five year olds. Pokemon Diamond and Pearl.
The offical UK release is 28 days away, the UK being the very last country to get these games (its no wonder only Americans and Japanese do well in video game tournaments for these games, by the time it gets the UK, either everyone in those countries has pokemon at level 100, or the games are no longer being played there)
So what makes me itching to grab a copy of one of these games?
Simply put, I've always liked pokemon, even though how a creature of ten meters tall can fit into a container of three-six centimeters in height has never made logical sense to me.
When Red and Blue (Green in Japan) first game out, I was given one for christmas. I played that game and caught them all, including Mew.
Then Yellow came out. I got that, but never finished it.
The next was Gold and Silver. I had to get an advance on my allowance to get Gold version, but I was overjoyed. Day and Night? Pokemon that only show up at certain times? Truely, Gold and Silver revived the Pokemon series, adding a realistic touch to the series.
I missed Crystal, they were always sold out in backdoor sellings, such a shame...
And then came Ruby and Sapphire. I was hyper over their release, thinking there'd be the same features as in Gold. But I was slightly let down. Sure there was time based evolutions, but it seemed as though the Hoenn region was somewhere where the sun was forever up, there was no offical day and night.
But I didn't let it get to me much, time was a small thing in the games, but it was there, as were berries. Then I begun looking for how to transfere my pokemon from Gold to Ruby. That is where I became upset. Ruby version had no backwards transfere like Gold had before it. All my hard work on a dark type team, trapped forever in the Jhoto region.
When Emerald came out, along with Fire Red and Leaf Green, I was elated. Emerald and Fire Red brought back long lost Jhoto pokemon. Suduwoodo, Sneasil, Houndoom, I could get at least a good majority of the pokemon trapped in Gold.
And now, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl are coming. At first, it didn't generate too much intrest, my inital thoughts 'Oh, two more. Another 2-D top down view, and another flat and boring area to explore.'
To put it simply, I couldn't have been further from the truth.
The games no longer stuck to a 2-D view, everything was 3-D. I literally drooled over the first screens I saw online. Sure the battles remained 2-D, but everyone would have had a year longer to wait for 3-D battles.
The things I've heard on it, and how it plays, simply makes me want to play it.
Its possible that it could be better than any game before it. 3-D graphics, backward ability through the Palpark, and pokemon that turn up depending which GBA game is in the DS' GBA slot. Truely, Diamond and Pearl are the new Gold and Silver for the Pokemon series.
 Aceyjj · Fri Jun 29, 2007 @ 10:17am · 1 Comments |
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