

You can see silhouettes of a few Pokemon in the current area and they’ll be filled out once you catch it. The DexNav is kind of like a tracking device for Pokemon in the wild. The other new feature is a lot more useful though the DexNav. The first of which is the BuzzNav where you can watch the Hoenn News Network, a little news network where you can get some info on the Hoenn region. You still have the functionality you had in X and Y such as Super Training to raise a Pokemon’s individual stats and the PSS function for online activity, but you have a couple of new features. Since this is a 3DS game the touch screen gets a lot of use, even more so than in X and Y. Still, partway through the game you’ll gain a mega bracelet and a couple of mega stones, including one for your starter, so it makes blasting through the Hoenn region a bit easier with Mega Sceptile. I guess it all comes down to how the timelines of the games work and when exactly in the timeline that mega evolutions were actually first discovered. That’s because I don’t mind retconning in games and comics where it makes sense, but I kind of question it here. This I’m kind of on the fence about, however it doesn’t affect my overall thoughts for this review. Finally, the biggest carry-over from X and Y are the mega evolutions. There is also the occasional NPC that will reference regions in future games such as the Unova and Kalos regions. For instance, Fairy-types are pesent though there aren’t that many throughout the first three generations of Pokemon. This carries over to Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire and it does make the game go a lot faster, though it also makes the game a lot easier.Įven though these games are ports of games from Generation III, elements of Generations IV – VI are present. I won’t get into the math about how it works, but in X and Y all participating Pokemon get the same amount of experience as if they participated on their own, and you also get experience when catching a Pokemon. In the past games all experience points you gained when defeating an opposing Pokemon were split between all participating Pokemon, and split even more so if you have the Exp. If you haven’t played X or Y yet, the big change to how the game works was in getting experience points in battle.

The first thing I noticed (other than the updated graphics and animation) is that the mechanics and gameplay elements are the same as in Pokemon X and Y, which I don’t mind. Also insert random plot from some evil team here that you seem to get involved with somehow (Team Aqua for Sapphire and Team Magma for Ruby). Afterwards the professor lets you keep whichever Pokemon you chose back when you “saved” him and you begin your Pokemon adventure, travel the region, capture Pokemon, collect gym badges, blah blah blah the usual schtick. After arriving in Littleroot you begin to wander around and end up saving Professor Birch from a cute little Pokemon that’s chasing him. Sounds dangerous but this is Pokemon so I won’t judge. The game begins with you moving into your new home in the town of Littleroot…and for whatever reason your Mom has you riding in the back of the moving truck. Well it’s time for Generation III to get the remake treatment with Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire on the 3DS.
#Pokemon alpha sapphire series
Several years ago Nintendo began to re-release the older games in the series with Pokemon Fire Red, Leaf Green, Heart Gold, and Soul Silver on the Game Boy Advance. Like every region in every game, the Hoenn region has its own specific Pokédex which contains all the Pokémon available within the region.As the Pokemon franchise continues to grow and I’m sure Nintendo is running out of ideas for the little critters (then again, there are over 1,100 species of Digimon so Nintendo has some catching up to do), younger fans who may have started with the DS series may not be too familiar with the games that introduced some of the older Pokemon they encounter. Black: Victini & ReshiramWhite: Victini & Zekrom.

Pokémon Ranger & The Temple of the Sea!.Mystery Dungeon - Explorers of Time & Darkness.Mystery Dungeon: Blazing, Stormy & Light Adventure Squad.Pokémon Battle TrozeiPokémon Link: Battle.
