"I consider myself a fan of the Pokémon franchise, but this doesn’t mean the same to me as it does to others. I have friends who have dedicated hundreds of hours over the last decade or so to catching them all in the handheld role-playing games, whereas to me, Pokémon fandom has only ever meant watching the television show at 10:00 every Saturday morning while I was in high school. Sure, I played Pokémon Stadium on the Nintendo 64, but not having had a Game Boy in my youth, I really missed ou..."

Dark Arcanine via www.gamervision.com »

"I don't know about you guys, but I can't wait until Spring 2010 to get my hands on Pokemon HeartGold and Pokemon SoulSilver. In fact, I went ahead and imported a Japanese copy, just so I could get a head start. The Pokemon games are massive, so it'll be weeks before I could speak definitively on the experience, but I've got some early impressions to pass off.

My inability to read Japanese makes it hard to talk about the story, but luckily I remember how the original Gold and Silver played..."

McClubbin via ds.ign.com »

"I’d go out on a limb and claim that HeartGold and SoulSilver represent the biggest sprucing up of any title to date. No other remake for any title has ever actually added so much to the original game, not even the DS version of Final Fantasy IV, which added full 3D graphics, CGI cutscenes, orchestral sound score and voice acting to an SNES game. For their part, Game Freak went all guns blazing on this one. And the result is the most thorough, loaded and deep Pokemon game ever, and considering..."

psxmeup via www.gameobserver.com »