An awful game with zero story.

A very good game it has 493 pokemon in it and new starters and badges and stuff. There is a new group of criminals called team galactic in the game and try to make a new world depending on what version you're playing they either awake palkia or dialga with the use of uxie,mesprit and azelf. There are new legendary pokemon in the game and there is much you can do after you finished the game. You can also migrate pokemon from gba cartridges into the game by simply going to pal park after you completed the game that is.… Expand

It's much nicer than the other pokemon games. Most of all the graphics. the new pokemon are awesome and i don't know if they can make a better pokemon game.

Since picking it up in Japan this past summer, I've already put about 175 hours of pretty solid gameplay into this cartridge. After you finish the main in-game element with the gym leaders, your rival, Team Galaxy, and the Elite Four, there's still a ton more to do, and the online competitive play is addicting, difficult, and extremely rewarding. Nothing feels more awesome than tearing up an opponent with a team of carefully picked, bred, and trained Pokemon exactly as you planned. This was the first Pokemon game I'd picked up since Gold and Silver back on the Game Boy Color, and it feels just as amazingly fresh and innovative to me as Blue version did back on my old Game Boy back years ago.… Expand

This game is the furthest one yet with every pokemon that you can try and get. i have this game and it really was a new experience cause i like pokemon. i even watched the video's in japanese, (Didn't care if i didn't understand the language) i perferably chose pearl over diamond and it was a good choice the music and moves are really great and separating physical from special attacks for all types was a smart idea, using nintendo wi-fi was a special bounus indeed especially if it can all cover the Globe(worldwide) i'll be waitng for PBR so i can use this game even further.… Expand

This game may be like the others, but some of the new features are awesome. This game is one of the Pokemon greats.

It was a very good game cool sounds and cool movements and cool looks it"s not a wast of money.

Being a loyal fan of Pokemon, I have very much enjoyed playing this. The mini-game additions are entertaining, but sometimes I feel they should just cool it with the amount of Pokemon in existence. I shall always remain a true fan to the original Red and Blue.

Great game, battles, contest, poke'tech are all fun. Its the same pokemon style, but using the DS and touch control makes the flow seem new.

What can anyone say? If you hate pocket monsters, then this gets a 1. But if you are a fan, then it gets 10. It's definitely an improvement over the previous games, with extra connectivity, more monsters, and a longer gameplay time.

I have diamond and pearl and have only played diamond but if pearl is basically the same than this is one hell of a game.

Ok so i love the pokemon games.I didnt even have a ds till pokemon pearl came out.I bought the ds and pearl the first day it came out and its way awsome.The new gameplay modes excell it past all other pokemon games. Its deffinatly a smart buy.You might need to invest in the book tho u might need it.

Just a perfect game. Good gameplay, too much hours of game, and so many pkmns. Outstanding.

I haven't played a Pokemon game since I got Blue for Christmas many many years ago: now I'm in college and was given Pearl as a gift. This game is awesome. The touch screen functionality is superb and injects a great deal of ease into the UI. I have logged 40 hours thus far and have very few gripes with the gameplay. The only thing I have to complain about is a sidequest: the Pokemon Contests. These comprise perhaps the most retarded feature ever to appear in a video game, ever. Unless you're six years old and like dressing up your Pichu.… Expand

Absolutely brilliant game. Extremely addictive as always, trying to get all four hundred something pokemon is one hell of a task and thankfully its actually possible this time since the game has pretty much all of them in one cart and the rest can be traded for on Wi-Fi

It's a great game. The Fourth Generation comes with two great games, but those also show that the series is becoming obsolete. The goal is always the same: start as a rookie, win Gym Badges, find some bad guys, defeat those bad guys, go to the League, win the League and then what?... Train your Pokémon until Lv. 100? Nobody has pacience to train at least one without stopping from a day from a week, or even months... The Pokémon Company needs new ideas for the series, or create new series...… Expand

Simply brilliant. I've spent over 450 hours on this game and still only have 4/5 stars. Online is also very competitive and popular.

Whoa, whoa!! What's the difference of selling the same game with different titles? You disappointed me, nintendo...

A Super Game With An Intense plot. You See, in this game, you are a trainer who goes on a journey over a region. there is a new villain group called team galactic who want to wake up either dialga or palkia with the use of uxie mesprit and azelf. So go on this great journey and find yourself in it.

Pokemon has continued to dominate handheld gaming since its debut and this is no exception.

Pokemon--the series--evolves. But old little problems remain unsolved. The Good: Wi-Fi! Night and day! Poke Radar! X-Scissor, U-Turn, Bug Buzz! Poffins! Underground! Slathering honey! Shellos! Munchlax! The Bad: Lazy touch screen... 2D-GBA-like monsters... Poketch... Dressing, dancing... "Saving a lot of data..." The much awaited 4th generation of Pokemon games has arrived. And everything fans expected is here, like trading Pokemon and battling through Wi-Fi connection with real people all around the world, seeing day turn into night and so on with a real-time clock working just like in the GBC, around 100 brand new monsters (including new babies), new ways for the Pokemon to evolve (some of them unpredictable), and all that stuff we already know (you may like it or not). But little problems still make the game experience a little tiring. As always you start the game in a small town receiving your first pokemon from a professor and your adventure goes on as you become a trainer. You must search for new Pokemon species intending to fulfill the Pokedex and also capturing and raising them through battling other trainers to challenge the Gym Leaders and the Elite Four. This storyline is still the same since the 1st generation of the series ten years ago (and it really has no need for a change); but things evolve, and some little problems were left aside because the developers fear major changes--or just because they are lazy. What is better in this new generation? Wi-Fi is awesome, but it was almost an obligation; day turning into night is great (and beautiful), but Game Freak is just apologizing for not including this in the 3rd generation games; splitting all kind of moves in special type or physical type is an important change, and it's a good improvement in battling strategies; good new moves--especially the bug-type ones since bugs always needed stronger moves; Poke Radar (for Pokemon searching) is cool; digging and seeking other trainers in the Underground is funny; slathering honey in the barks to attract wild Pokemon is great; making Poffins using the touch-screen is a fair step ahead PKBlocks; new interesting berries effects; and East Sea/West Sea Shellos rocks. Almost there? There are little things that were supposed to make the game better, but... They just don't work that fine. The graphics in the towns are great, beautiful 3D buildings, etc. but what about the monsters? Why they look just a little better than in the GBA? The Poketch is a good idea, but most of the apps are useless or buggy. When you're battling other trainer you can just touch the move you want your Pokemon to use; but when you need to know the power or accuracy of a move during the battle you need to enter the Pokemon screen, and then select the "moves" page. Come on, they have an entire screen to display that info! (At least they should put a little "info" button beside the "move" button just like Nintendo did in Brain Age's training menu.) And why managing items is still annoying when you have a touch screen? I would like to exchange items between my Pokemon by just dragging the item here and there, but I need to select "Pokemon", "item", "take", then select other "Pokemon", "item", "give", and search for the item I want to give (it will be in the last position in the list since it was the last item that entered the bag... and I must roll all the scrollbar over until I can get there). Shouldn't it be more simple? And some other... tiring things. Crossing Mt. Coronet through cave and blizzard is unnecessarily unforgiving... Contests are much less technical than it used to be... Dressing? Dancing? I bet girls like it. Not me. :P "Saving a lot of data..."? Are they kidding me??? And why they need to ask "There is already a save file. It is OK to overwrite it?" all the time? There is just one save slot! And (last one) it should bring more options to accelerate the battles, just like in the Advance Wars series, for instance. I don't like to play a game for about 150 hours and see that 50 hours were spent slowly reading "The sandstorm rages.", "Roselia is bufetted by the sandstorm!", mumble, mumble. (My suggestion: a system with arrows poping up and down quickly for poison, hail, leech seed, swift swim, etc. At least as an animation option.) Kinda sad for me to say I think it was my last new Pokemon game. The series needs a serious update regarding pace before it starts to feel hopelessly dated.… Expand