Yet another DS dungeon crawler.
This game is hard to describe. Its plot is okay, it's sounds get repeatitive, the graphics are mediocre compared to your average DS game, the gameplay is similar to Children of Mana. A painfully repeatitive dungeon crawler that gets increasinly longer as the levels progress. The scenery is pretty repeatitive too. The gameplay can sometimes be more frusterating than fun. The battle system can also be annoying. And if you fail the 29th of 30th level, you get the joy of having to start all over again. Its got plenty of pokemon, though they've all been toned down and the game refuses to let your pokemon evolve until after the story finishes... Why? Your charmander will be level 50 and still a charmander... What the hell?
I found this game to be more painful than fun. Maybe you're different. Maybe you find repeating the same level over and over with slightly harder monsters each time with a small variety of different moves and a lousy control scheme that hurts your hands, "fun." Personally, it drives me mad.
I do not recommend this game to your average gamer. Unless you're a real die-hard pokemon fan, you probably won't get much joy out of this game. I suggest others wait until the next decent Pokemon RPG comes out. That is, if we ever see that day again.