First Impressions: Pokemon Platinum

Well, like I said before with the Pokemon Platinum motivational picture, or you’ve been keeping up on my twitter, then you’d know that I’m having a pretty good time with Pokemon Platinum. Well, here are my first impressions of the game after investing about 4 hours or so into the game.

Okay, so upon starting the game, you pretty much go through the same bullshit that you have for the last 10 million games, you are introduced to the professor in this region, which is Professor Rowan. So after contemplating whether I’m a boy or a girl, making the wrong decision, and naming my guy, I am thrown into my hometown (that I can’t remember the name of).

So after being tossed into my hometown, I talk to my best friend who I named, ADHD freak-boy, we go, do some shit, and get our first pokemon. Woopdy doo. Okay, so everything in the game is a lot like that of Pokemon Diamond or Pearl on the DS, and I can’t remember, but I think that the games take place in the same region, as everything seems pretty fucking similar. So there are a few tweaks this time, not too many though. You can go through everything like battles and through the menu’s and everything on the touch-screen, or you can be boring and use the buttons (I use the buttons). You move around, talk to people, and all of that stuff with the d-pad, and the x/y/a/b buttons.

So pretty much, I’ve come to the conclusion that I can only pick up 1 out of every 3 pokemon games that come out on any given console. I think that it’s hard for me to stay enthralled in the same world like this, without too much change in scenery or variety, no matter what the difference is in the storyline.

I also think that it’s sort of a phase. I mean, I went from my first Pokemon game, Pokemon Yellow on the original Gameboy, to Pokemon Gold on the Gameboy advance, and then to Pokemon Saphire, and eventually Pokemon Diamond. So there’s a little bit of spacing in-between each of those games to let me “rest”. In my last pokemon adventure in Diamond, I think I beat the game in like 30 hours, and spent another 10 hours dicking around, leveling up every pokemon I had to 100, and just chillin.

All in all, I like the game, it’s fun, but I wish the environment was bigger, or a little more different. I can’t judge it too much thusfar, because like I said before, I’ve only put 4 hours into the game, and only bought it yesterday. So I’ll probably try to beat the game, or put at least 20 hours into it before I get a review up, but you better be sure that I’ll be twittering whenever I level up my Pokemon, or one of them evolves.