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Pokemon Light Platinum 12-01-13 10:08 AM
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Pokemon: Light Platinum Review
So I began playing this hack after reading a couple of reviews that held it in high esteem and described how great it was. I decided to check it out and started up a new game, ready to take on this new challenge. I was both disappointed and yet very pleased at what I saw.
GRAPHICS: I gave the graphics a nine because, personally, this is one of the nicest-looking hacks I have ever come across. There are custom-made sprites for the protagonist Trainers, and even for some of the gym leaders and main antagonists. Even the baddies, Team Steam, have their own custom design, which I thought was pretty interesting. The towns are pleasing and nice to look at, the cities are large and fun to explore, and they're all original and don't seem to share any traits with other towns, let alone the occasional familiar house or building, such as the lighthouse in Seanport resembling that of Olivine City's. Other than the minor slip-up where the graphics don't look nearly as nice as I would want them to -- which is pretty much perfect, at this point -- I'm pretty much nitpicking for a reason to name the graphics bad. These graphics are beautiful and original and catch your eye, and they're probably the best thing about this hack, and I'm very impressed by what was accomplished.
SOUND: To be perfectly honest, I played this game with the sound off. This isn't because the audio was bad or anything, no, it's simply a preference of mine, and I'd much rather listen to my own music. That aside, I listened to the audio for five minutes in the beginning, and the music was fine. It wasn't perfect, but it wasn't bad either. I gave this section an eight because there's really not much you can do with the sound in general, and if someone managed to make their own remixes of the Pokemon soundtracks, I'd be really pleasantly surprised. Let's move on to the bad parts. A few of the newer generation Pokemon -- I noted Starly and Bidoof, but there may be others I didn't pic... Read the rest of this Review
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