Overall 8.8 Graphics 8.7 Sound 7.7 Addictive 6.7 Story 8.3 Depth 6.7 Difficulty 4.7
9.5
Pokemon Aquamarine zanderlex
What do I think of Pokemon Aquamarine? I think the game is nothing more than an exact replica of another Pokemon game with a few added features. However, isn't that what every Pokemon game is? Each Pokemon game is really just a copy of a previous game with a few new features such as new Pokemon, areas, and graphics, and that is what makes the franchise so popular. It is also why I would gladly take Pokemon Aquamarine over Pokemon Emerald at any time.
The first change to the game is the addition of new Pokemon such as Eevee and Dratini, and the ability to use Generation one starters. This is a plus for those who used to play the old games and want to use Charmander, Squirtle, or Bulbasuar. The next notable change can be found within the marts, where all items can be purchased at half off their regular price.
In addition to the new prices, items that normally can't be bought, are now available in the game. These items include Masterballs, Rare Candies, various stones, and more. True, the ability to purchase some of these items may take away from the difficulty of the game and make it less of a challenge, but some aspects of the game can now be enhance. (No more having to save before you battle a legendary!)
GRAPHICS The graphics found in Pokemon Emerald are nowhere near what they are in today's games, but they are still one of the best. Then, those graphics are enhanced for Aquamarine to make for an amazing gameplay experience. The graphics are very simple, yet they are strong enough to bring the game to a whole new level with new Pokemon move animations and other small, but significant changes. Therefore, I must give the graphics a healthy 9.
SOUNDThe sound is like any other Pokemon game, fun to listen to and catchy.. The battle music in Emerald has to be one of the best songs in the franchise which makes it a plus that the songs were not taken out of the remake. Here and there lie a few bugs when it comes to the sounds of the game, but none of them are significant enough to make a user turn the volume down. The music adds to the games addictiveness and sense of nostalgia and earns an 8.
ADDICTIVENESS Right away, before going into detail, I will give this aspect of the game a clean 10. The original game, Pokemon Emerald would easily earn a 9 because it offers dozens of hours of fierce gameplay followed by many more hours. Emerald is the kind of game where you would beat the game and then decide to start over. Now you have Aquamarine, an exact replica of Emerald with a few great features. These features will make you want to play the game even more. If you beat Aquamarine, the odds are that you won't want to start the game over when you have ten or so Masterballs, I would not. The ability to have all these Masterballs, Rare Candies, and new pokemon will keep you glued to your screen simply because there is so much more to do in Aquamarine then in Emerald.
STORYNext we have the story, which will also recieve a 10 because no matter how long a Pokemon storyline is, the user will always be hooked to the game, watching all the plot twists and trying to keep up. Aquamarine begins like Emerald (Which begins like every other Pokemon game.) You start in your home town, you meet the professor, your rival, and you get your first pokemon. The game then continues with the Player Character travelling through the Hoen region, gathering all of the badges, catching various pokemon, battling the most evil of villains, and catching legendary pokemon. The story for Aquamarine has nothing too new, but as long as it has anything to do with pokemon, the story will be A+.
DEPTHAh the depth. Pokemon is built around depth, nobody would really play it anymore if the game ended twenty or thirty hours sooner. The pokemon games are this long for a reason, not only to get you to stick with the massive storyline, but to keep you addicted well beyond the point where you become the Pokemon Champion. Like I had mentioned before, a user can spend well over a hundred hours on Emerald, but the new changes that can be found in Aquamarine extend the gameplay experience to a point where you will not want to stop after a hundred hours, you will keep playing until you catch every pokemon, battled every trainer, and completed every little task that you could, and that could take you well beyond a hundred hours. Who knows, one of these days we might see somebody become the Pokemon Champion with more than two hundred hours under their belt. Clearly at least a 9.
DIFFICULTYThe difficulty of this game varies. For the first part of the game, I give the the game a 7 for difficulty, the game has a few more challenges than games that were released before this game, but still, Pokemon fans have had experience and can easily adapt to these changes. Once you get to the point where you can buy the Masterballs and Rare Candies, the game will become much easier because depending on how much money you have, you could have your Charizard gain twenty levels before you even leave the mart. You won't even have to buy a regular Pokeball and worry about the outcome ever again, all you have to do is buy some masterballs and go catch your pokemon. Therefore, once you get to this point, the difficulty will drop to a four. Overall, for the entire duration of the game, it is slightly less challenging than others and gets a difficulty rating of 6.
OVERALLIf you were to give me two Pokemon games, one was Emerald and one was Aquamarine, I would gladly choose Aquamarine over the original. You can always go out and play an original game, but it is uncommon to go out and play a slightly
updated original. Overall, Pokemon Aquamarine gets a healthy 9.5 or A+ and will right away claim the title of second best Pokemon game I have ever played. The game has been made with quality in mind, and I personally believe that Aquamarine should live on for years, and should be played by everyone.
Graphics 9 Sound 8 Addictive 10 Story 10 Depth 9 Difficulty 6
Review Rating: 4.5/5
Submitted: 10-07-13
Updated: 10-07-13
Review Replies: 5
9.7
An enchanced remake of pokemon emerald. RedHotToddy
First of all, before I start this review, I want to give a big shout-out to my friend tgags123 for telling me all about this game in it's enitirety! It is quite a pleasure for me to review another Pokemon game and that is great! But anyways, what we are looking at here is what appears to be a remake of Pokemon emerald, and so it begins, This is Pokemon aquamarine for the Game boy advance.
Story-7/10
Like most pokemon games, the main story behind this one is that you have just moved into the busy town of littleroot, so then your mom is telling you to get ready and make new friends and find new pokemon to capture, the adventure has so much pokemon that is really hard to keep track of them! But yeah, that is pretty much the story, so then you begin your quest to have fun in littleroot and get as much stuff as you could possibly can.
Gameplay-8/10
Gameplay in pokemon aquamarine is much like other pokemon titles in the past, you start the whole game off by choosing a boy or a girl, and then you pick a name for them, then the fun starts. Your mom then has you meeting professor birch, you then have your first battle with a trainer, and this is really where it kicks in! After all of this you can finally start capturing pokemon and using them for battle! At the beginning of the game you can either pick between squirtle, bulbasaur, or charmimander. The controls are pretty simple for a pokemon game, you use the D-pad to move, you press the A button to perform certain actions, And once your mom gives you the running shoes, then the game will let you press B in order to dash at high-blazing speeds. Oh yeah, after you beat may, you can finally start capturing pokemon! In order to capture them, you will have to dig through the bushes in the town then you will be confronted by them, then you will have to fight them! To capture them you must
select poke-balls from your backpack then you can keep them! Leveling up your pokemon is pretty easy, everytime you engage in battle you must pick out any of your pokemon then once you defeat the stray pokemon, then you will earn experience points! After a certain level, then your pokemon will grow stronger and stronger and stronger until they can defeat all the other pokemon in about one or two hits! The game has a bunch of special badges that you can get for completing certain good deeds, each locale also has it's own Pokemon p.c or poke-mart, at pokemon p.c you can let your pokemon rest thus letting them all get full health, and at the poke-mart you can buy stuff like potions, poke-balls, etc. Anyways, that is it for the gameplay!
Graphics-9/10
For a remake of an already good game, this looks even better! As you should know, the town of littleroot is very big, busy, and packed with other places to explore, making up for a pretty big town! But anyways, all the levels you will be exploring are big, colorful, and bursting with atmosphere! As for the characters, they look pretty good as well! Your boy/girl that you pick at the start of the game looks good, and the game is packed and I say PACKED with a tons of different pokemon, legendary pokemon, and other stuff to keep you busy! The HUD in each battle is pretty self explanatory, your pokemon is on the bottom, your rival is in the front, and next to you and your opponent is you and your opponent's amount of health, once your health is gone, you are dead, or vice versa, if your opponent's health is gone, then they are dead and thus you win the match! This has got to be the best looking pokemon game yet!
Sound-8/10
The soundtrack in this game is marvelous, This is once again another good job from Junichi masuda, the main guy behind the pokemon soundtrack! But anyways, all of the songs in each level really fit the mood well and sound very bright happy and cartoony, happy to say that most of these songs have actually made it into smash bros brawl! But let's hope that some more of them are put into the next smash bros for 3DS/Wii U! The sound effects are your typical pokemon fare, you get beeps, sparkles, boings, and a bunch of other pokemon stuff. I hope junchi doesn't abandon nintendo! Cause he is doing great as the main composer for the games!
Addictiveness-9/10
Is this game fun? Is this game worth playing over and over again? Is this game worth all your life and time? Well the answer is, YES YES AND YES! The game offers so much pokemon, so much replay value, so many badges that is really hard to explain in words how much there is to do in this game! Man this is one of those games where you wonder to yourself, how did they manage to put all of this into package? I really adore this game.
Depth-9/10
Like I said, the game offers alot of stuff to collect and do, badges, pokemon, and a bunch of other stuff to collect! The game is a pretty long one as well, It will probably take you 8 hours to get through the whole game! And that is alot of time if you ask me. Well you know, every pokemon game has a bunch of stuff to do!
Difficulty-7/10
This game is not really that hard if you ask me, I mean some pokemon trainers can really cream me easily, but that is for the sake of it! The game is made by nintendo, so the game is supposed to be challenging or else this game would just be a game for little kids! And I am pretty sure people of all ages enjoy pokemon.
Overall-9.7/10
First of all, I want to give a bigshout to tgags123 for making this amazing game and requesting me to play it! I mean whoever thought that a remake of an already amazing game could be so good! I gave this game a 9.7 because how much it offers for you to do and collect! Anyways, this has been RedHotToddy, and I am out!
Graphics 9 Sound 8 Addictive 9 Story 7 Depth 9 Difficulty 7
Review Rating: 4.1/5
Submitted: 08-12-13
Review Replies: 2
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Could have been better... Much better! Rayman85
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Graphics 8 Sound 7 Addictive 1 Story 8 Depth 2 Difficulty 1
Review Rating: 3/5
Submitted: 11-29-17
Updated: 12-02-17
Review Replies: 1
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