Overview
- Also Known As
- Pokémon Diamond, Pokémon Pearl
- Number of Players
- 8
- Genre
- Release Date
DS
22nd Apr 2007
27th Jul 2007
28th Sep 2006
- Series
- Tags
- Feature Support
- Official Site
- pokemon.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Reviews
Review Pokemon Diamond & Pearl (DS)
Was it worth the long wait? (Yes!)
Pokémon fans have received three lackluster Pokémon Games since the Nintendo DS launch over two years ago. Pokémon Dash, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team, and Pokémon Ranger were poor offerings, almost as if Nintendo had simply slapped Pokémon on some generic games. Finally, four years after Ruby and...
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Pokémon Diamond & Pearl Guides
Guide Best Pokémon Games Of All Time
Gotta rank 'em all
Ranking the best Pokémon games is no easy feat given that many of them are considered among the best games of their particular hardware generation. Then you have to consider just how many spin-off Pokémon games have come out over the last 30 years or so, too! To make things a little simpler for everyone, we're going to focus on...
Guide Best Pokémon Spin-Off Games Of All Time
Ranked by you
If there's any franchise that's no stranger to a spin-off or two, it's Pokémon. The inherent appeal of the little Pocket Monsters makes the series ripe for all kinds of genres and video games. Name a genre, and Pokémon has most likely done it. But, dear readers, what's the very best Pokémon spin-off? That's where you come in. We...
Guide Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl Pokétch - All The Apps And Where To Find Them
Gotta tap 'em all
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl for Nintendo Switch are a pair of remakes of the original DS games. One of the new features that the games added back in the day was the Pokétch — and that came back in the remake, of course. For those who didn't play the original, the Pokétch was a device on the bottom screen of...
Pokémon Diamond & Pearl News
News This Adorable Pokémon Gets Its First Trading Card In More Than 15 Years This Month
Chingle bells
With the Pokémon Trading Card Game being at the height of popularity right now, you'd think that most Pocket Monsters regularly get new cards. Well, that's not been the case for a certain baby Pokémon first introduced in Pokémon Diamond & Pearl. But that's about to change in the next expansion, coming later this month (thanks...
Soapbox 15 Years Ago, The Action Replay Ruined Pokémon For Me
Infinite Master Balls. Maxed out stats. Walking through walls.
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, Ethan remembers a time when he flew too close to the sun... This is the power fantasy eight-year-old me dreamed of when I slotted an...
Soapbox Lavender Town Isn’t Pokémon’s Scariest Location, It’s Someplace Far More Sinister
Trainers beware, you’re in for a scare
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, Ethan chateaus himself in the creepiest place in the Pokémon world... Ah, Lavender Town — the place where the journeys of old Pokémon end and the...
Soapbox The Shame Of Revisiting My Abandoned Pokémon Ranch
See you, PokéCowboy
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they've been chewing over. Today, on the 15th anniversary of the game's release, Ethan heads back to the ranch... It’s a guilty feeling that Animal Crossing fans know all too well — the shame that comes...
Random Explore A Pokémon Overworld Created By Neural Network
Or, what Pokémon would look like if Ditto copied it
Ever wondered how a Pokémon game might turn out if it were created using a neural network? No, we can't say we have, either. But, we kind of have answer thanks to Ollin Boer Bohan, a Deep Learning Scientist at NVIDIA, who has created a playable Pokémon overworld using a neural network. Spoilers:...
Soapbox For A Jaded Pokémon Fan, Scarlet And Violet Is Exactly What I Need
Just when I thought I was out... They pull me back in
For many years now, I've been buying the mainline Pokémon games primarily out of some twisted sense of obligation. Back in 1999, Pokémon Red and Blue launched at the perfect time for me; I was ten at the time of its release and had already gotten a good sense of what Pokémon was all about...
Random Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Characters Reimagined As Previous Gen Sprites
Pixels are back in fashion!
We're going to be honest with you for a moment: we really miss the 2D art style of the older Pokémon games. There's just something timeless about it, right? Not to mention there was a distinct lack of discourse around the graphics back in the day (okay, perhaps a slight resentment from fans at the slow evolution of the...
Random Let Psyduck Spray Your Tea For You With This Adorable Pokémon Teapot
Let's hope it doesn't give you amnesia
Pokémon merchandise is some of the most adorable and eclectic video game-based swag you can buy, with Pikachu and the gang turning up in imaginative forms across a huge range of products. We might just have one of the very best examples, though: Ensky, known for selling lots of unique official Pokémon...
News Official Pokémon DP Sound Library Shares Entire Diamond And Pearl Soundtrack
Create playlists, download or just listen
Amid the recent news around Nintendo targeting and taking down soundtracks on YouTube, today brings a slightly cheerier outcome for game music fans. The Pokémon Company has not only uploaded the official soundtrack for the original Pokémon Diamond & Pearl to YouTube, but has created an excellent...
Random Piplup's Time In The Spotlight Continues With His Own Pokémon Music Video
Pochama!
Piplup, the tiny penguin starter introduced in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, is having what we in the biz call "A Moment". Over the past month, we've had Piplup ASMR, Piplup fitness training, and most recently, Piplups given to Japanese players of both
About The Game
In the Sinnoh region, there are two Pokémon that symbolize the region.
They appear in the Sinnoh region's myths and old folklore. One is called Dialga, and is said to have the power to control time. The other is called Palkia, who is said to have the ability to distort space. The sinister organization called Team Galactic is trying to rule the region by using the power of these two Pokémon. During the adventure to complete the Pokédex and become the Pokémon League Champion, these two Pokémon, and Team Galactic, will intertwine into the story and lead players on a fantastic journey across the Sinnoh region.
Characters: More than 100 new Pokémon make their debut in Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl. Many are new, and some are even evolutions and pre-evolutions of characters from past games. The player can choose to be a boy or girl trainer. There are eight new Gym Leaders, as well as a new Professor and a new rival. Team Galactic takes the role of the new villains this time around.
How to progress through the game: Players start out as an aspiring Pokémon Trainer (either a boy or a girl) and aim to become the Pokémon Champion. They choose from one of the three starter Pokémon. As they journey through the Sinnoh region, they will catch and level up Pokémon and battle with other Trainers and Gym Leaders to make their way to the top. The story unfolds as the player goes from town to town, across towering mountains, through muddy swamps and deep into caves beneath the earth.
- Collect, Train and Battle with More Than 100 New Pokémon: For the first time, players have the chance to catch new Pokémon Munchlax™, Weavile™, Lucario™, Mime Jr.™, Bonsly™ and many others.
- New Region: Set in an entirely new region called Sinnoh, the Sinnoh Pokédex has 151 Pokémon total - some old and more than 80 new. This means the National Pokédex could now have more than 480 Pokémon. Overall there are over 100 new Pokémon, even some that aren't in the Sinnoh Pokédex! How do you find them all?
- 3-D World: The game now has a 3-D look to the environments, making the world of Pokémon jump off the screen like never before.
- Worldwide Battles/Trading Using Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection: Once Friend Codes have been registered, two players can then battle and trade while talking.
- Night and Day: Using the DS clock function, the game transitions from morning, day and night in real time.
- Intense Battles: Many new dual-type Pokémon, new and refined moves and new special Abilities add to the already deep strategy of Pokémon battling.
- Bring Pokémon from GBA: Players can bring Pokémon from their Game Boy® Advance Pokémon games to Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl using the GBA game slot on their Nintendo DS.
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Pokemon Diamond Was The First Pokemon Game I Played. And I Have Loved It Ever Since I Got It.
I really like this game and the fact that there is contest hall, but it feels to short. I had done the elite four in a week and now I moved on from the battle tower and It's boring now. I pretty much only get on it to check the swarms from the girls in sandgem and the guy who likes to see pokemon of certain levels. Im excited for heartgold/soulsilver but are they going to be the same? Their needs to be one big pokemon game My Pokemon Advneture With all regions and stuff.
Yes! Defeated Cynthia & Elite 4. I Thank My Manaphy For All He Did.
Manaphy: Man Man Manaphy!!
this is the only pkmn I have, and the only one I will have for atleast 2 more months.
10:10 love it best game for ds and it was my first pokemon game
I used to be an EXPERT at this game until I left it at my great aunt's house. I got really far. I never got passed that (I think..) Grass Gym or was it Dark/Phycic Gym.. I don't remember. :-S
i remember playing this i tricked other people into trading me their starter
but i gave one of them my lucario
This is a guide to Catch Arceus first trade lots on GTS then go in the pokemart u will see a man in green talk to him he will give u the arzurus flute or whatever its called now go up to spear pillar wear u got dialga or palkia u use the flute and some steps will appear walk or run up them then u will see Arceus talk to him when the battle screen comes up it will say A wild ARCEUS appeared! it will be around lv 70 or 80 use ur master ball if u used it on somethin else keep throwing pokeballs about 50 times then damage it then thro a timer ball and that will maybe catch him have fun with arceus
This game is still the best DS pokemon game there is, but I don't like it as much anymore cuz the internet service for them has ended...
Absolutely amazing. One of my favorite to be honest. It's kind of a bummer that they shut down the servers and turned off events which makes catching certain Pokemon impossible, but still, I had a lot of fun.
Although my Pokemon journey had officially began in the Kanto Region via Pokemon Leaf Green Version. It was these games that got me interested in it to begin with, and I'm glad it was the Sinnoh Region that I started. I will always be a Sinnohian with my partner Infernape.
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