Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version return players to the scenic Johto region first introduced in the beloved original Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver games nearly a decade ago.

The richly detailed adventure of Pokémon Gold and Pokémon Silver is now enhanced for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi systems with updated graphics and sound, as well as new touch-screen features and a host of surprises. Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version bring dozens of Pokémon characters back into the limelight for a new Pokémon generation - and longtime fans - to catch, train and battle.

If you’ve played any of the previous generations of Pokémon, you’ll be immediately familiar with the format: starting out in a leafy village, you discover your destiny is to be a mighty Pokémon trainer and explore the world, capturing monsters left, right and centre whilst accumulating gym badges and generally sweeping all before you. The structure hasn’t changed much over the past ten years for good reason: it’s brilliantly laid-out, with enough freedom to allow you to explore and constantly capture new monsters, but also the right amount of direction to prevent you getting stuck and losing interest.
A mixed bag of features then, but the ones you’re likely to use most work well: the Global Trade Station is still an ingenious idea, and the Poképlaza – a gathering place for Pokémon trainers – is a lot of fun, with surveys, toys, minigames and a rudimentary chat function. There are no all-new features you could say are truly essential, but simply bringing Gold and Silver into the DS age will likely be enough for most gamers.


8/10

this game was fun i beat it really fast but i couldn't find the pokemon league so i gave up XD