Pokémon Alpha Sapphire - Nintendo 3DS

Usually I am not a huge fan of remakes, but I did not buy a 3DS for a very long time and I missed out on a lot of the new games. Long ago, I had a copy of ruby for my gameboy SP and I lost it somewhere when I was just 3 away from catching them all. I got this on a whim because I read online that between the new Ruby/Sapphire and X/Y you can catch everything with only one generations worth of games. That and the addition of the online trading made this the perfect game to finally fulfill my childhood fantasy of catching them all. It only took me 15 years to do it!

This is just a really enjoyable game, and a fantastic remake. It has all the nostalgia you could ask for while still looking great in 3D. Its still very similar to the original games but puts cool twists, and the new features are so much fun, especially the PokeNav Plus and the Super Secret Bases. I love that this game allows you to collect every single Pokemon in the National Pokedex within a single generation of games. While the middle of the game lulls a bit, the beginning and towards the end are so immersive i couldnt put the game down for weeks.

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Got Pokemon: Alpha Sapphire for my hubby since he has been bugging out to play my copy of Pokemon: Omega Ruby and I dont want him accidentally saving progress when hes done something stupid. LOL! He loves it. Very fun games, all kind of similar with minor twists and turns to the stories, ive loved Pokemon ever since I was maybe 10? Im 26 now. Still playing the games. I remember when they were on the Nintendo Gameboy series. Graphics have evolved a lot since then. Now were on the 3ds and I can say the Pokemon series is still just as fun to play, with more internal light source than a Gameboy so you can actually play at night or in bed. I refuse to mess up the story line for you but this game is suitable for kids, adults, and anyone who likes collecting/fighting/breeding cute monsters. (If you dont know what Pokemon is to begin with...) Definitely excited for the new ones (Sun & Moon) coming out at the end of this year!!!

I havent played a Pokemon title since Pokemon Yellow so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but this game is AWESOME so far. Literally everything I wanted Pokemon to look like when I was a kid. I never played Sapphire, so the whole game is new to me. It has so many familiar kinks from generation 1, but has improved in so many ways. For people that played X and Y, you know what to expect. My only gripes with the series is that its hard to Catch Them All when your inventory is stuck at 6. I understand they only want you to have 6 available pokemon when out in battle, and once you can Fly it becomes much easier, but Id like to a see an on-the-fly inventory storing system thats NOT worse than Borderlands 2 so I can actually collect more at a time when Im out and about. Also, no difficulty settings. I like to slow-pace myself through games, and I have to keep myself from over-leveling too many of my pokemon. Overall, 9.5/10.

Seller didn’t bother to delete the saved data which caused a lot of consternation and upset on Christmas morning while I google searched how to fix it. Otherwise is fine.

I loved it! I owned the original Pokemon Sapphire as well, so I recognized that the opening credits was a revamp of the original opening, and it was done beautifully! I admit, I have not progressed very far in the game, but so far this remake of the Hoenn region has only improved on the many things that I loved about the original, especially the graphics. Wow! It was crazy to finally see everyones faces outside of battles! Pokemon has really changed in the past years, but Im glad that they have.

Great game, but Im sort of bummed that they did away with a lot of the qualities that made X/Y such a strong and revolutionary generation for Pokemon. I havent found myself nearly as sucked into the story in this one as I expected that I would be, which is weird because Emerald was my favorite Pokemon game prior to this. Anyway. Still a good game. Kinda wish I wouldve gone with Omega Ruby now that Im sufficiently sick of Archies face, but thats not really a complaint.

I have played Pokémon since red and blue were released in the US and this is now the 6th generation in the main series, a reiteration of the 3rd generation of games, the 23rd or 24th individual title, and somehow I still find myself enjoying this game. Its just like with Heart Gold and Soul Silver; the same basic game with upgraded graphics and all the new Pokémon plus some extra tweaks. The balloon bots are back along with poke-puffs and the P.S.S from X and Y. The map can tell you if youve caught everything on the route youre on and what youve already gotten. Im not a huge fan of the contests so really no opinions on that, from what I have read elsewhere theyre awesome... but I still remember trying to get Milotic... anyone who played the original and got one legitimately should know what I mean. For the TL:DR- Either new to the series or have played Sapphire before, if you like Pokémon its a great game. And its just in time for Chrismahanukwanzicah, or Festivus, or whatever holiday! (And despite what Amazon says, Pichu isnt one of the choices for a starter as far as I could tell)

From being one who had played Pokemon Emerald almost daily as a child, I couldnt wait for this to come out when I first heard about the remakes. When the package came yesterday, I think i was more excited to play this game than how excited I was to play Emerald for the first time when I was a child. I already have played Alpha Sapphire for 7 hours and I think I am in love. So far, the game is a lot of the same, but there are also so many added features that make it feel like I am playing Emerald for the first time all over again. I highly recommend it for fans from the beginning, and for anyone who has never played a Pokemon game.