Hello. I’m back. Today I will be reviewing Pokémon Omega Ruby. As always I will be splitting this review up into 5 segments: story, gameplay, graphics, notes and rating. I hope you like this review and agree with my opinion.

The story of this game revolves around the evil Team Magma trying to awaken the ancient Pokémon, Groudon. This Pokémon has the power to raise new land with every step it takes and is in fact a third of a trio of Pokémon known as the weather trio. The reason team Magma is after this Pokémon is that they wish to expand the land, thus creating a larger stage for mankind to stand on. Of course everything goes sour and our hero must face Groudon in battle. This is all alongside the protagonist’s main goal of defeating the 9 most powerful Pokémon trainers in the land to then become the champion of the Hoen region.

As this is a remake of the original Pokémon Ruby it uses a lot of the same mechanics: one on one Pokémon battles, secret bases and so on. But for those of you who have never played a Pokémon game before, here’s how the battle system works. Each Pokémon has an element associated with them, such as fire, electric, water, grass.  This element gives them a set of strengths and weaknesses. For example fire takes double damage from water and gives half damage to water. For those of you who hate fighting, there is the contest spectacular, where you pit your Pokémon against others in a competition to see who is the cleverest, toughest, most beautiful, cutest, or coolest Pokémon. These contests are mainly there to give you good items for winning them and are not affiliated with the main story.

This game has some limitations when it comes to graphics because of its platform being the 3DS. Though it does look quite nice most of the time, it can be quite pixilated at times. The graphics for the various moves, while they aren’t very flashy, do get their point across. And the character designs are fairly decent. All in all this has some pretty good graphics.

The notes section this time about will mainly be about difficulty and tips.

This game can be hard at times. Take for instance the electric type gym. Since electric only has one weakness, if you didn’t pick up a ground type, you’re going to have a bit of a bad time. A good place to pick up a ground type is the granite cave near Dewford town. This will save you the trouble of having all your Pokémon faint and having to start the gym all over again. Other important things to note about type weaknesses is that flying type Pokémon or Pokémon with the ability levitate do not take damage from ground type attacks.

My final rating of this game is 8/10 mainly because of the massive difficulty spike.

 

This is the Red King signing off, hope to talk to all of you again soon