The Official D/P thread...

[Teh EkwEE]

I guess I am missing something....

Or maybe I don't get out much, haha I have not even heard of diamond yet?

But a game where your not done in 40 hours, is amazing, seeming as it is a Pokemon, and a gameboy game... very interesting, I might have to look it up.

I've known about the game for five months... 0.o; Having joined Serebii not a week or two before the game launched I had many oppurtunities to learn about it.

I have waited so long. There is so much to explore and so much to do. Just caught Dialga, the Steel/Dragon legendary last night, I'd say I've only explored about 60% of the total game, and out of that may explored indepth maybe about 50%. This is excluding things like the Pal Park and Battle tower.

I've only got four Pokemon in my team right now: Lucario, Rampardos, Torterra, and Luxray. And they're in the forty-fifty level range. Haven't reached the eighth Gym yet. The leader looks a hell of a lot like the Fourth Hokage from Naruto.

The battle speed at first is a little slow, but you get used to it. Most of the animations for all the moves have been redone and most are amazing to look at.

Over all it is the BEST game in the series: very difficult like G/S but harder, team choice is important, cool new TM's ect.

I really like how having a balanced team in this game is ESSENTIAL, if you suffer a major type weakness, the NPC's will exploit it, and most of the gym leaders have pokemon that fit their move type for their gyms but not necessarily pokemon of that corresponding type. For example, Rampardos is a rock type but learns a physical Psychic type attack called Zen Headbutt. He is weak to fighting, and if a gym leader has Rampardos will use that move to hit a fighting type you send out against them. So the battles are actually fun.

Overall this game is hella' excellent, it's a little slow progressing at first, and the starters are well balanced. I chose Turtwig, and as a Torterra he is probably the most satisfying starter to play with I've ever had.