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Save your money.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 27 / 44
Date: November 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are great, however, it take almost an hours worth of playing before your past the instructional stage.

I did not like it because the character is not independent and the whole game seems tightly structured so far. I love how in the older games you got to walk around wherever you pleased. In this game, that does not happen.

Structured, but fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 41 / 50
Date: November 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is more structured than the pokemon RPGs, but it is still quite fun. Capturing pokemon is fairly easy, and I really like how much you can use the ds stylus. I would recommend this game to any pokemon fan, and if you have never played a pokemon game, I would recommend this as a good introduction to the franchise because it is (so far - I am not finished yet) a simpler game and doesn't require as much patience to build up a collection of pokemon.

AWESOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 23
Date: November 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I LOVE POKEMON AND I ALWAYS WILL! I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT ONE PERSON GAVE THIS GAME ONE STAR!!! THEY AREN'T A TRUE POKEMON FAN!!!! POKEMON 4EVA!!!

Not Fantastic...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 91 / 102
Date: November 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Pokemon Ranger is another spinoff for the Pokemon Franchise. This might be good for hardcore Pokemon fans but for many gamers, spin offs are usually not a good thing (as we saw with the Mystery Dungeon games) but every now and then they do turn out to be pretty well done (as we saw with Final Fantasy Tactics). Pokemon Ranger falls somewhere in between. The gameplay is certainly interesting, but it feels as though its missing something.

The story involves you becoming a Pokemon Ranger and going up against Team Go-Go. As usual for every Pokemon Game the story is simple, and in many ways very charming. This is something that as a whole I've always admired about Pokemon's kid friendly approach. There's nothing about the story so complex a kid couldn't understand it. It's simple, and that's how the story of a Pokemon game should be.

Pokemon Ranger puts a different spin on Pokemon alright. No big trainer battles, or catching pokemon in the wild (at least by traditional means). Instead, your character, whether you chose male or female, has something called a Styler which is used to capture Pokemon and utilize their abilities. You'll use your stylus in battle to draw circles around the Pokemon in questin. The stronger the pokemon, the longer it'll take for you to capture it. When you do you'll have access to their unique abilities. Once you've used a Pokemon however, that's it. They're released back into the wild. At first this wasn't so bad, but it made the game become repetative. Almost to the point of boredom.

Mostly, though, there are puzzles you'll have to solve by capturing a certain Pokemon and then making him do a certain task. Most puzzles are no challenge at all, and in most cases, the Pokemon is right there for you to capture. A lot of the puzzles are overly simplistic with obvious solutions, however. So don't expect a vast amount of challenge to these puzzles.

What hurts the game the most however is that it's entirely too linear. You just about can't stray off the beaten path at all. There's little or no time to do so in most spots. The game also isn't very long. It'll definitely take you less than 20 hours to complete. Also to the games demise is how long the intro takes. The tutorial is just too long. It'll take a couple of hours just to get through the tutorial alone.

As far as the game looks, it's not up to DS standards at all. Much like Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, it looks like a late generation GBA game. It's really colorful, though, but it just doesn't look all that great when stacked up against other DS games out there. The music and sound effects are worse. The music isn't all that great, and the sound effects are all straight from the original Gameboy Pokemon Red and Blue that were released years ago.

Pokemon Ranger isn't bad, it just feels incomplete. The gameplay mechanics are interesting, but they wear thin all too soon. Huge Pokemon fans might love this game, but it could've been so much better.

The Good

+The simple charming storyline that Pokemon has been known for
+Gameplay is very interesting

The Bad

-The story is really linear
-Long LONG Introduction
-The game becomes repetative... fast

my review

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: November 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a great pokemon game! i am a hardcore pkmn fan,but i think they can do better. it is alittle too easy except for closer to the end and on ranger net. i beat the game in 2 days! i heart psycic and fighting poke assists. i use them alot. raquaza and deoxis are hard.

What I Think

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: November 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

trust me,i love pokemon. but this pokemon game,i dont like it that much. the game is really short. on the other hand it is fun. but i think u should not buy it, it's a waste of money to me.

The point?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 26
Date: November 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I do not own the game, but I have read several reviews, so I can only give the game three stars since I've never played it. So whats it about? You capture pokemon with a new device thing, woo hoo. I am a true pokemon fan, I have been playing games and trading cards since I was 3. I am now ten, but I'd like to know what the games actually about before I buy it.

Did the classics just vanish

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 15
Date: November 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It seems to me that these creators are to obsessed with long introductions. This isnt 7th grade writing class. Who cares about the past. You never get any freedom to move around. I always imagined pokemon to have the luxury to go back and wander aimlessly. If you think this is good because it is a pokemon game i have to say that if i had a choice of playing pokemon silver or pokemon ranger i would go with silver any day. But it depends what your looking for. Are you looking for a book or a game! My opinion is that they started to go over board in blue rescue team with the introduction i practically skipped the whole thing and was totally confused. The thing is it is to short. You need a game you get into and keep playine but this was BORING with the introduction and SHORT with the game. Even though I have never played this it reminds me of blue rescue team and i didnt like the long introduction and quotes. My advice borrow someones or get it off half.com because its better to try it then to get it full price

Exculde the Game!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 20
Date: November 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My friend got this game for her birthday and she wouldn't stop playing it!!! I had saw it on tv and thought it looked really cool. But next week at school, she said you could save in only certain spots and that she just finished the intro! I imedentily took it off my christmas list. So this game I think is a WASTE OF MONEY! Use it on a better game like Mario Kart DS.

What I think..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 14
Date: November 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Well, I'm getting this game, and I think it is going to be a blast. I'm a true pokemon fan. The reason to me why gamefreak made this is because of the Manaphy egg. Manaphy is one of those new pokemon in the soon upcoming game, Diamond and Pearl. Only some, or a lot, of people know about this, its been rumored that you have to put a special code to get the Manaphy egg. Note, you have to transfer the Manaphy egg to Diamond or Pearl to make it hatch.

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