This is my favourite pokemon game ever. I am biased with it being one of the first pokemon games I ever owned but I've replayed it for over a decade and I still have fun. The character designs are very cute. The music isn't completely memorable but it isn't annoying at all.
Easily one of the best pokémon spin offs.
A fun story accompanied by amazing pixel art, good music, and a fun "combat" system that makes use of the DS touch screen to its fullest.
While older audience might find the plot and story (especially the dialogue) to be overly simplistic, predictable and childish; a younger audience will thoroughly enjoy the mystery involved.
Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia feels like an expansion to the previous game. Its graphics and audio haven't changed, still immersing the player in a bland Pokemon universe.
Shadows of Almia is longer than the first Pokemon Ranger game, and there’s still a lot of charm here. It’s just that the game backing up that charm is too simple and too familiar for us to recommend to any but the youngest, more easily pleased of pokemaniacs.
this game makes me pog so hard. i cannot believe how gamer and poggers this game is. imagine not playing pokemon ranger shadows of almia for the nintendo ds
Shadows of Almia is a simple story and gameplay can be hard at times but this game is special it's a new look at the pokemon world and is all-around fun with some good characters. not much to be said about this one but it is fun to replay 7/10 good game.
I definitely preferred Pokemon mystery dungeon to Pokemon ranger, but this was still a game that I put tons of hours into, and one of the few pokemon games that I've ever 100 percent-ed.
Jeu pokemon assez excentrique par rapport au autre mais reste malgré tout un très bon concept et très bonne utilisation de la ds. Cependant le jeu si on enlève l'histoire est vide les graphisme sont sympa sans plus et le niveau est élevé surtout sur un écran aussi petit que la ds
Like many people in the Pokémon fandom, I have been fooled and utterly bamboozled by this game's charming and delightful art style, playful and comedic tone and, of course, its supposedly well-thought-out and implemented quest system. For this game is not delightful. It is not playful, nor comedic. And certainly, it is not, I repeat, not, well thought out. This is a game about murder. This is a game about betrayal. Not in its story, but in the expectations it gives to the players about the relationship and friendship that you have as ranger, and Pokemon. This game gives you the hopes and dreams of a fledgling adventurer, bonding with your allies and making friends, only to rip it away at the very end. And the villain of this game? Not the buffoonery and chicanery of the secondary Team Dim Sun, oh no. The true villain of this game. Murph. Murph, and his horrendous, insatiable, inhumane, deplorable and downright criminal love for eevelutions.
You see, when I took on this game's wide and open world, handling missions and quests as a growing ranger, there was a pokemon who never left my side. Not the partner pokemon the game tries to force upon you, to manipulate and steer your emotions away from those who truly matter - the master of gaslighting this game aims to be. No, the pokemon by my side . . . A graveler, named Rollston Royce. A sturdy, heroic little boulder who, no matter where we went or what we did, came with us every step of the way. Be it the perilous depths of a volcanic cave, the frozen wildlands of the highlands, or even the ancient traps of a desert temple - Rollston Royce never abandoned our side. Even at the climactic battle, when all was dark; we had Rollston. He was, quite literally, our rock.
And then came Murph. Murph. The loathsome, treacherous and despicable mastermind behind the true maliciousness this game had to display. Murph, having been there the whole time we ventured and surely knew of the kindhearted and heroic nature of Rollston, demanded that we bring him eevelutions in exchange for a false, deceitful notion of ****. Not 1, nor 2 or 3, not even 4 or 5. Not even 6. But 7. 7 god damn eevelutions. And for what reason?? For what cause did he see this request as just??? FOR WHAT TRIFE, ENTROPIC, RATIONALE DID MURPH FORCE OUR HAND TO RELINQUISH OUR BELOVED HERO? OUR TRUE, IRREPLACEABLE BOY SAVIOUR. For petty bloodshed. For meaningless, unfeeling bloodshed. He had nothing to give us, nothing really. ****? Hah! All I was left to wallow in was the emptiness of cold space. A void, ripped open into my chest and filled with grief as I watched our boy, Rollston, roll away into a world where he was not appreciated. Not cherished. All for Murph's sick, sick, need for validation. How could we have ever trusted such a heinous reprobate who requests to see all 7 eevelutions at once, knowing full well the reputation of . . . Vaporeon.
Rollston Royce. My boy. I have not forgotten you, and I doubt I ever will. How could I? Your smug, confident smile. Your strong, sturdy arms always held me steady when I needed comfort. From when we first met, back in the cave by Vientown, I knew we would make history. And we did. For while you were not cherished as a hero by the world Rollston Royce, you will always be cherished in my heart. Your passing was needless, cruel and unsavoury. And I am sorry that we were forced to make it so. You deserved better. You. Deserved. Better.
Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia is a game that lures you in on the premise **** time, friends and even . . . True love. And, showing its insidious nature, the venomous serviper that is is, strikes you down at the near end and makes you give all that you hold near and dear. If you want to play this game, I'm sorry. The greatest sacrifices require the strongest of wills, and the cruellest of Murphs. It twas not Guardian Signs which killed the franchise, but the gall of the creators who fashioned such a narrative. Who fashioned such a torturous experience. Who fashions Rollston Royce, the hero. Not just a hero, the hero.
Don't play this game, don't make Rollston Royce suffer any more than he needs to. He wouldn't want the same for you; and yet, he would shoulder all the pain in the world just for you. He shouldered it for us.
That's why, Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia, I turn my back on you giving you a 0 out of 10. 0, just like the number of Rollston Royces we finished the game with. I cannot be as good as soul as Rollston Royce, who would give you a 10 for the memories you gave to us . . . But unlike him, I cannot Rollston with the punches. All I can do is live in a grave-ler world. A Rollston Royceless world.
SummaryIn Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia, you once again play as a Pokemon Ranger, working to help people, Pokemon and nature in a new area called the Almia Region. Starting out as a Student Ranger, you quickly earn the title of a full-fledged Pokemon Ranger. As you succeed in more and more missions, you will aspire to become the highest Rang...