Heart Gold/Soul Silver

Guest review by Jack Campbell

Pokemon has returned well in a way. For those of you who have been playing Pokemon for many years you will remember gold and silver. Well they are back as  Pokemon: Heart Gold/Soul Silver. You the gamer will return to the Jojto region to catch, train and battle your way through the Pokemon you remember so well. The enhancements from the original which has been brought over from the previous Pokemon outing on the DS, Heart Gold/Soul Silver for Nintendo DS adds several additional boosts to the already familiar style of gameplay which seemingly take away many of the little niggles that have plagued the series since its inception.

The most pertinent of these changes is the fact that you can now finally toggle run which is great for any of you which have played the old Pokemon games. Not having to hold down the B key the whole time is a nice perk. A player can do this by tapping on  the stylus  running shoe icon. The DS versions have been set up so that the gamer can do  each command with a stylus click. Another perk to the game is that you can set more than one item to your quick-use list. Finally, as previously seen in Pokemon Yellow a player will be able to see his or her lead Pokemon walking along with him or her in the game. While this feature doesn't inherently add anything to the title, it's nice extra to be able to interact a little more closely with one of the animals that you dedicate so much time and effort into.

Another cool extra which comes with the game is the Pokemon walker called well the Pokewalker .The Pokewalker allows a player to beam one of his or her Pokemon from the game into a small Pokeball shaped device. A player can take the Pokewalker any where he or she wants to. When walking with the Pokewalker every step the gamer takes is called a Watt this helps with leveling up your Pokemon and helps unlock cool extras like routes which will allow a player to find more items or battle and catch Pokemon.

The Pokewalker also allows a gamer to play against other players. What cool is that the Pokéwalker stems from the fact that players can be greatly rewarded just by walking. Maybe it's more of Nintendo ability to get us up and do something rather than play their games all day. Either way it's a lot of fun.