Product DescriptionPokemon 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
Amazon.com Pokémon Sapphire's updated graphics with weather effects, amazing sound, more than 200 Pokémon with over 100 new species--as well as its faithful adherence to the existing series of Pokémon games--makes for a welcome evolution in the series.
First, the game has a lot in common with 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. You're main goal is still to beat all the Gym Trainers and become the Pokémon Master. If you've played the old games, you will 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 game 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 candy 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.
And let us not forget that Pokémon Sapphire has a kickin' multiplayer system, too. You can trade Pokémon, and 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
Pros:
- You can control two Pokémon in battle
- Much needed graphic and sound facelift
- Nice multiplayer feature (requires link cable and extra game cartridge)
Cons: - Can't trade Pokémon with Game Boy Color
Customer Reviews
Sapphires really are something beautiful arent they? (2009-02-25)
Hello, im twelve years old. Pokemon sapphire was my first game by pokemon, so im here to help you out since my only knoweledge of the game was that i got by looking over my best friends shouldurs. Yet, i became really good at the game. The game starts where your moving too a new town, and you have to go help a proffessor in danger by using one of his three pokemon. There is Treeco, a grass pokemon, who is for expierinced players, torchic, a fire pokemon, for fiery hearted battlers, and mudkip, for begginers. After the battle, proffesor birch realizes that the pokemon likes you and sends you off on a journey to find alot of pokemon.
The plot unfolds itself as you go from town to town. You must beat other pokemon trainers to get expeirnce and your pokemon will evolve. After a while you meet team aqua, the bad guys of this story. They want to flood the world and have more water pokemon. Then theres team magma, good guys who want to help you out. After you have seven gym badges, the heart of the story arrives when you face off with team aquas leader Archie, and follow an enraged kyogre to the heart of a cave called Orgin cave, in soottopolis city. Then you face off with Kyogre, the legendary pokemon on the front of the box, and you must either catch it or defeat it. Soon you will become pokemon leauge champion.
Quests which appear after you are champion include more legendary pokemon, multiplayer fun, and becoming the champion of the battle tower, a new place to battle at. Some other feautures are: the choice of two bikes and a cycling road competition, secret bases in the right areas which you can totaly decorate with furniture, and wireless communication. Hope you like it!
Got Bored (2009-02-23)
I have played Pokemon Red, Yellow, and Gold (along with all of the side-game like Stadium, Dash, etc). Compared to R, Y, and G, this one (though graphically advanced) falls short for me. The added graphics are great and the colors are vibrant, so are the side-quests, but eventually it all comes down to a Pokemon game is a Pokemon game is a Pokemon formatted game. Unfortunately, this time, there are so many things to do that pokemon suddenly "biting" you in the grass or water is a quick annoyance. Unfortunately again, it becomes a choice between training your pokemon and doing the quests you're so eager to do. Maybe I'm just impatient? There are a lot of new things to do, like Pokemon contests (you may have seen these on D&P in season 11), and Poke blocks. The Poke block mini game is quite fun, but repetitive after a time. You start to get annoyed that the old man playing with you keeps missing so much even though you're perfect and therefore makes the quality of your blocks sub-par. You also never really know where to go in the game. I spent who knows how long wandering around before I happened to chance upon that I had to go back to Lavaridge to complete a quest before I could continue. Mind, I was halfway across the "world" from Lavaridge at that point, having just naturally defeated the gym leader that the game had led me to. That's just one of the places I got stuck in. I got stuck about 8 times a day (playing about 6 hours a day on and off), not exaggerating. The game gives you no hints in this regard. I played up until Shoal cave (after Mossdeep city) and put the game down. I may pick it up later, but right now, I've had enough. I wouldn't suggest this for someone playing Pokemon for the first time. This is more for someone who wants to play Pokemon because they like the genre and want to play another Pokemon game after having several under their belt. Some people say that this is their favorite Pokemon game of all, so everyone's experience is different. Don't let my review keep you from playing this game. You may find you like it and go, "hey...that reviewer is an idiot XD"
has a glitch in it (2009-02-22)
Something seems to be wrong with the game. I bought it for my nephew and he says he cannot save any games he is in the process of. Other than that it works fine
Pokemon Sapphire (2009-02-10)
This product was a waste of my money as it did not work properly. It deleted my saved data all on its own. I am not happy about it.
Just OK game (2009-01-12)
This game was OK. Nothing exciting, but just alright. There are better Pokemon games out there. Would not recommend if you are an avid Pokemon fan.
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