A great addition to great franchise but it needs updating

User Rating: 9 | Pocket Monsters Pearl DS
I'm not going to go into too many details about the game as we all know the jist of how Pokemon works. What I will say is that I would recommend it to anyone that wants a deep, addictive, time consuming and overall great game. I have just hit something like 155 hours and i'm still playing it. The visuals are really nice. It doesn't really matter at all about the fact that it has a similar appearence to the previous games. It still works. Maybe adding a fainting animation to the pokemon would have given it a little more realism. Instead they still just drop through the floor when beaten!

The music is excellent as always. I cant say a bad word about it. Pop some earphones in and turn the volume up on the standard Pokemon trainer battle music. Wow!

The touch screen faetures are very basic but that is all it needs. It's just used for selecting attack moves and when making poffin.

This game will last you well upto a month to finish properly. Even playing very often, it will feel like it will never end. Great stuff.

Overall I would just say to buy this game. You will not regret it. You may notice the odd bit that could do with improvement but you wont notice them much as you will be having way too much fun!