Pokemon Diamond for DS

Pros: Come On It's Pokemon, and now It's Online!
Cons: Friend Codes Required to Trade/Battle, Lackluster Graphics, Not Very Different From Other Pokemon Games

Surpassing the 'fad' syndrome years ago, Nintendo's Pokemon series has gone on to become one of the most popular worldwide phenomena of all time. It's rare to find a serious gamer that hasn't played at least one of these titles, and it's equally rare to ...

Pros: GTS, more moves, more pokemon, same tried and true mechanics
Cons: not much has changed including mechanics, friend code system

So after 200+ hours of gameplay and after successfully endorsing the game to both my wife and daughter, I'm finally ready to review Pokemon Diamond. Pokemon Diamond is the latest major Pokemon installment in its storied franchise this time for the ...

Pros: cool new pokemon, awesome gameplay, nice graphics
Cons: none really

As soon as I heard about Pokemon Diamond coming out for Nintendo DS I was so excited that they were actually making a Pokemon game for DS. I had a real hard time waiting until it finally came out because they started to advertise for it a long while ...

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Pokémon :o) As a younger child I used to love playing Pokémon on my fatty Game Boy and Game Boy Advance! And at 19 (shh!) I still do! So almost everyone has played Pokémon before or even seen the cartoon that was ...

Pros: Great 3D Graphical Worlds, New Trainers, New Pokemon
Cons: Pokemon are still 2d sprites while everything else is in 3d.

I have almost every pokemon game that has come out for the nintendo handheld consoles, from the orginal gameboy all the way to the ds lite. I have never been dissatisfied with a pokemon game except for maybe the cyrstal version for the gameboy color. i ...

Pros: New Pokemon, Underground, World-Wide trading was perfected, great graphics, good audio.
Cons: boring story, bad search feature for online battle, nothing in terms of gameplay amazed me.

Overview: I have bee a fan of the pokemon game franchise since pokemon red and blue came out. So naturally, I had to get Diamond and Pearl. The graphics were amazing! But other than that and the new touch screen abilities, this installment has nothing ...

Pros: It's pokemon on the DS and it is wifi enabled.
Cons: It's pokemon. If you don't like it, you won't.

Nintendo DS Pokemon Diamond Gripe #1 - How do kids have the attention span to play it? The text drags on forever and I'm hitting the a/b button over and over again to get past all the slow text. I even put it to fast but they need a skip ...

Pros: Another Pokemon game, with all of the requisite characters and contests.
Cons: Yet another game for parents to spend money on

I resisted buying a handheld game system for my son for many years. I see too many small children walking around with their DS, Gameboy, PSP, etc, bumping into walls, totally oblivious to the world around them. I feel children should experience the real ...