So I know a lot of people are gonna hate me for my opinion of this game. Personally I don't like emerald or sapphire or ruby. They are all just weird to me. I don't get the same vibe while playing these like I get in other pokemon games. Something about this game doesn't get me in the pokemon mood. So here's the review, sorry if my opinion is stupid to you.

GRAPHICS: 10/10


There is no problem here. The graphics are good and clear. The buildings are much better and easier to see then in the previous generations. The animations for the pokemon are also a huge improvement. I was able to clearly make out what all of them were supposed to look like. I had some problems with seeing pokemon animations wrong in the previous generations.

SOUND: 8/10


This might just be me but i personally didn't like the music as much as in the other games. Once again the music failed to capture me and make me want to play more. Otherwise the sounds are all good.

ADDICTIVENESS: 8/10


I know a lot of people absolutely love this game so i can't be sure about my opinion of this. I wasn't very addicted. Nothing really captured me and kept me wanting more. I did like however the pokemon in this game. One of the only reasons I played on was because i knew bagon was somewhere in the game. One of my favorite pokemon that I'm always exited to get is makuhita. It's a fighting type and is always good to have on your team.

STORY: 9/10


The story is average. Pretty simple but so are all the other stories in all the other pokemon games. Your a kid who moves to a new town and saves the professor. In return the professor gives you a choice between three good pokemon. Once you have your pokemon you start your adventure. Run into team aqua and magma stop team aqua from completing their evil plan. then you beat the elite 4 and defeat the champion. The end.

DEPTH: 8/10


This game doesn't really have more ore less to offer then any of the other pokemon games. Once cool thing about this game is there are secret areas you can access through a TM that opens the way to a base. You can decorate your base however you want. There is actually quite a bit of play time. I think i spent more time on this game then fire red or any of the others.

DIFFICULTY: 6/10


Basically you need to build a even and powerful team. After that the rest is easy. It's pretty strait forward the whole way through. The battles aren't hard when you have a team that can match up with any pokemon with super effective hits.

OVERALL: 8.5/10


I didn't really like this game for myself but that is no reason to mark it down. This game does have a lot to offer and i do recommend this game to any pokemon fan if they haven't played it already. Thanks for reading!

jaws123 : Great review, Jaws! You used good grammar and put good-sized depth in there too! (obviously)

Great review dude! It doesn't really matter if you like the game or not, the important thing about writing a review is what you liked about it and if you honestly liked it or not which you did so job well done there. I like emerald the best out of all of them mostly because it just looks better and the Pokémon are better as well, I like catching rayquaza in this game. I am glad you were descriptive about all of your topics as well which is also very important if you want your review to be good. Maybe just say why you gave your score for that topic, like in mine I explain why I gave that score and I also say what would make it better or I give a comparison to another Pokémon game in this case. But other than that excellent work. Keep it up!

So, don't take this the wrong way, but I find your ratings to be a little off compared to your explanations. When I read your first sentence, I thought you were going to be rating this game pretty low, but then I look through the rest of your review, and it wasn't even that bad. In fact, your overall rating (8.5) is only 1 point lower than the average rating of the game, which isn't that bad. If we look at your individual category scores, most of them are either around or even above the average category scores by other users. I don't think people will have a problem with that.

I'll show you what I have an issue with by using this example: You said that the story of this game was average, and yet you still gave it a 9/10. This kinda makes me wonder what you would say if you gave the story a 1/10, cuz I wouldn't necessarily call 9 an average score. And I would say the same about checking the other scores.

play4fun : I figured i couldn't rate the game by my own opinion. I rated it for the gameplay. For that example i see your point and i was off on the rating. Thanks for reading the whole thing though!