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Game Information
- Platform: Game Boy Advance
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
Product Features
- Card-based role-playing game
- 100 new Pokémon
- Play as either a boy or girl trainer
- Bring 2 Pokémon into battle
- For 1 or 2 players
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Pokémon Sapphire and Ruby's updated graphics, with weather effects, amazing sound and more than 200 Pokémon with over 100 new species, make for a welcome evolution in the series.
The game has a lot in common with previous Pokémon games Silver, Gold and Crystal. For example, players can choose to be a boy or a girl trainer, an internal clock sets events at certain times and the game's handy-dandy Pokédex helps players keep track of the many stats. Your main goal is still to beat all the Gym Trainers and become the Pokémon Master, and as before you can trade Pokémon via the Link Cable--both Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire include exclusive Pokémon, and you'll find that some species are common in one game and rare in the other. So if you've played the old games, you'll be right at home. But not all is the same.
The most obvious change is in the battles themselves. Now that two Pokémon can fight on your side at the same time, you can tag-team them against an enemy by taking advantage of the strengths of your Pokémons while covering their weaknesses. For example, you can now have a water Pokémon watch your fire Pokémon's back. You can also attack more than one Pokémon at a time.
A whole new element to the games focuses on how berries are used in battle. And if you collect enough berries, you can take them to a Berry Blender and make a PokéBlock, which is a little super-charged sweet that raises your Pokémon's "Condition" attributes. You can then groom your Pokémon for regional contests and compete for ribbons like "Best of Show", which will unlock additional contests. There's even strategy in how to best use your berries: pick too many and the berry tree will disappear; plant berries, though, and a tree will grow. You can also build a Secret Base in special areas of the game, which you can decorate just like you can your room.
Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire have a great multi-player system, too; you can link up to four players for incredible battles. The only downside is that you can't link up with the old Game Boy Color games. --Bryan Karsh
Product Description
Pokemon Sapphire takes you into an immersive and more exciting new adventure as you travel and train to become a Pokemon master! You`ll have to become a hero by helping Team Magma stop Team Aqua from flooding the world for control of the water Pokemon! Special features like connectivity with future GameCube games Link cable support for up to 4 players Supports e-Reader Only for Game Boy Advance
- Start out with just 3 Pokemon, and travel across Hoenn to earn badges in 8 different gyms
- Over 350 new Pokemon are here to battle with, collect and trade
- New battle system allows trainers to take two Pokmon into battle instead of just one at a time
- As you play you`ll open up fun and exciting mini-games that advance the storyline
- You`ll have to become a hero by helping Team Magma stop Team Aqua from flooding the world for control of the water Pokemon!
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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a great game!!!,
By a gamer (Yorkshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pokémon Sapphire (Video Game)
Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire are 2 great games that a big improvement on the previous Pokemon titles - the best improvements being the new Pokemon, Pokemon Contests and 2-on-2 trainer battles. There's hours of gameplay in it - I haven't even beaten the Elite Four on my copy of Pokemon Sapphire yet, and I've already spent over 40 hours playing!The only downside is the fact that you can't trade with older versions of the Pokemon games and that you can only actually catch 200 Pokemon because many of the older Pokemon can't be caught (they've been programmed into the games, but you can't catch them without using a Gameshark). This leaves a big question about how to catch these Pokemon though... perhaps they will be unlocked with a Gamecube game in the future??? I hope so! After saying this though, if you've enjoyed the other Pokemon titles, you won't be disappointed. This is well worth your money, and not to be missed by Pokemon fans.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This game is BRILL!!!,
By Vaporeon (England,UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pokémon Sapphire (Video Game)
When I got this game from america i thought that it would just be exactly te same as the old ones except with new pokémon.but it wasnt!!!it is so different!!i had no idea you were'nt playing the game in johto anymore,now its in a place called hoenn(i think thats how u spell it.)anyway i chose torchic as a starter and now i wish i hadnt becoz this is a really bad starter as it is useless against the first gym..im gonna buy pokémon ruby too so that i can do the adventure all over again! i would recommend this to anyone who is a true pokémon fan!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A GBA masterpiece,
By John Campbell (Leeds, England) - See all my reviews
= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
This review is from: Pokémon Sapphire (Video Game)
Pokemon Sapphire is a brilliant game. Great graphics, great story, great new pokemon, great new features! This game is my top GBA game as it is a pokemon game. You dont need cutting edge action scenes for a beautiful game, you just need a good storyline and good creations. The new starter pokemon aren't as good as the previous ones. I recommend mudkip for your first. I have had this game for nearly 4 years now and I still hum and whistle the fantastic music, the best out of all games. You should play this game on a DS with the backlit screens and you will LOVE the colour! I love all RPGs games and this is up with the best of them.
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