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Pok�mon Diamond (Pirate): Reviews

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Game Score: 7/10

For Pokemon fans, this game will be a big disappointment if you are expecting an amusing prequel to the classics or a Pokemon-ish game. This game is actually a home-made one, as anyone who has ever owned the cartridge will tell you. (The cartridge reads "GAME" in the little indention at the top instead of "GAME BOY" or "NINTENDO" as all standard Nintendo-manufactured cartridges do).
For gamers in general, this is a very well-done game for being home-made, and if you enjoy Pokemon-style battling at all, you should definitely play it. It is interesting playing a Pokemon game that doesn't involve Pokemon...

Pokemon Diamond revolves around a place called e-world, where e-monsters live. E-monsters in this world are the equivalent of Pokemon, but the system is totally different. Instead of keeping "captured" creatures inside a pokeball, you become "friends" with the e-monsters and are given their phone number to call in need of help before a battle. One e-monster also travels with you constantly, so you always have help right at hand. The game menu is a cell phone (referred to in the game as D-shoot) and I think it's pretty neat.

Battling is a bit awkward, with all the terms badly translated from (I'm guessing) Japanese into English, but once you've played a while, you can figure it all out. Any hard-core Pokemon master will also quickly discover the six creature types and their battle chart, which is relatively simple. Most types are one to one damage-wise, but each type is strong against one other type and weak against one other type, with no overlaps. This is a refreshing change from the mine field of a chart used in Pokemon. The types are Lake, Hill, Land, Wood, Sand, and Sky. The creatures are all completely original, and even evolve in certain ways similar to Pokemon. However, the evolution system (and the item system) are both VERY confusing, even to hard-core gamers like me. I eventually gave up and realized that I could beat the game without evolving anyone, mainly because you can befriend (catch) all the evolutions at a later point in the game.

Ratings (out of 10)

Music: 8
Graphics: 9
User-Friendliness: 2
Pokemon (E-monster) System: 10
Item System: 3
Evolution System: 1
Battle System: 6
Battle Graphics: 5
Originality: 10

Overall: 7

Note: If you own the actual cartridge to this game, you are VERY LUCKY INDEED. It took me forever to find mine, and I did so by accident. However, I wouldn't reccommend playing it on GB but rather on your computer, as I played mine too much and its save function no longer, well, functions.