Excellent game with a couple flaws
User Rating: 9 | Pocket Monsters Diamond DS
This is definitely an excellent game. If you enjoy Pokemon at all, you will enjoy Pokemon Diamond (and Pearl). My main reason for not giving a higher score, and really the only drawback it has, in my opinion, is some of the flow of the game. Everything seems to be slowed down so much from the previous Pokemon games. At times I found myself bored in battles because it will take 5 seconds for my Turtwig to tackle. The same thing can be said with the experience bar filling up. Another issue I had was with some of the pokemon calls. I mean cmon, some of them are getting kind of ridiculous in both length (Starly) and sound (Bidoof). Although they can be slightly annoying at times, neither of these are huge drawbacks to make you change your mind about picking the game up. 
