Full Review

I have played pokemon's GBA games long long time ago, since the version of red/blue and then yellow followed by crystal/gold and now it's sapphire/ruby. All of them are kind of RPG games-role playing games, begin with main character, can be a boy or a girl. Main character is named by you and you will control him/ her through our the game. In this version-Ruby/Sapphire, after chosing your character, you will then be introduced all the instructions about the game and introduction about the game's world( It's different from our world though^^) by a professor a called Birch who is studying about Pokemon(pocket monster). Afterward, you'll have to face a difficult situation, chosing one of three Pokemon in three Pokeball to rescue the professor from wild-dog Pokemon named Poochyena.Those three are Treeko, Mudkip, Torchic which comes from three elements: wood, water and fire.After beating the dog and rescue Birch, you'll then be given one of three that you chose to take care of and carry out the most important mission: to collect all the information about pokemons on Hoenn region(Pokemon's world) and put it on the Pokedex-pokemon's dictionary....and the story begins.

With an important mission on your shoulder, you'd better leave your town soon( Litteroot town-really nice name , isn't it). After saying goodbye to your mom, you'll start going out of your town, travel all around Hoenn with a friend-named May if a girl or Brendan as a boy, try to figure out everything about pokemon. You will run through every single bush, bump on some pokemons. Firstly you have to fight them cause they are wild, uncontralable, just like when you meet some strange creatures.With a normal fight, you be on the down side of the screen, throwing your Pokeball in order to release your pokemon.Then your pokemon appear with several statistic: Life point, EXperience point,Skill, and info. Your pokemon's life point is very important, if they run out of life point, they'll die and you'll have to either coming back home or to the hospital to heal them.You can use berry or portion to recover the life point during the battle or use medicine to improve it.
The life point will not only go down when your enemy attack but also when your pokemons are poison or burned as well, you have to use another kind of berry to cured, of course.Experience point is also special, as your fighting, your pokemon get more experience, it depends on how good of your enemy is-can find out through their level.Everytime they have enough experience, they will automatically level up, their life point, attack, defend, speed, will all increase.Not only that, when your pokemon is level up, at particular level, they will learn new moves to fight, normally stronger and more effective.The thing is they only got 4 spaces so try to hesitate which move should be used or replaced, otherwise you may regret afterward.Moves are divided into types: Physical/psychic, or elements.Firstly, talk about element, there are several elements in the game such as: Fire, wood, water, ice, poison, dragon, fly, fighting, ghost, electric, ground,psychic...and even normal( which is th most). Each pokemon can have one two or even three elements in them. Therefore, it affects their moves. For example:
Pikachu is an electric pokemon, therefore, its move are thunderbolt, thunder storm, 10.000 volt. Pikachu's moves can cause paralysation somtimes and especialy affective against water-element pokemon like Mudkip but not very affective against wood-pokemon like Treeko.
Actually, on the battlefield, the game is turn-base strategy type,each turn you can force your pokemon to use their particular move, heal them by herb or change the pokemon during the battle( this is very important when it's about element-fight).Pokemon with higher speed will make their move first.Pokemon's level is limited from 1 to 100, after reaching limit, they won't receive experience point from battle anymore. You can bring at most 6 pokemon with you when traveling, all the other have to stay at home, in Prof. Birch's lab. You can only change them through the machine in hospital.Most of the pokemon you have will come from catching-which means they are wild, the other will be given to you by other people.Moreover, you can change your pokemon with other'spokemon as well, then the exchanged pokemon will receive 1.5 exp. point.

As well as this, in the game, you cannot just walk through everywhere, the wild pokemon will become stronger and stronger so after visit each town, you will have to fight that town's gym owner.If you win you can go through to other region.There are 8 gyms overall, each gym has its particular pokemon type and its own gyms leader-which is the strongest. When you win against him/ her, you will have permission to get on and will receive a gym badge as a record/ certificate.Also, you be given a special move to teach your pokemon and increase your ability to control them.That's just obvious when pokemon get stronger, they don't want a nooby trainer anymore.One funny thing about the gyms is the 5th gym, where the main character has to fight their own father in order to move on. You have to go all the back to meet him(second town) which make players sometimes get lost. In addition, in the game, there are some quests like that and millions of small trick which you have to solve on the way go,actually very lively and interresting.

Also , in the begining, you receive PokeNav from Prof.Birch( pokemon navigator).This small litte thing can help you a lot. It can be a guide which you can see world map and store the FAQ about the game, can be used to record your result, your money, can be used to call your mom and your friend as well.With trainer that you have fought, whenever you want a rematch, just give them a call and they will be very please. Another incedibly helpful thing is your bag. I really don't know how he/she can store that many of things in such a small tiny little bag. Many many things such as berries, medicine, learning disks, tickets and a whole lot of Items: watering can, bicycle, fishing rod. Watering-can is used to water the berry tree after you take the berry, they will grow and you can have it again just after a short time. Along with Running shoe, Bicycle is also used to increase your speed, as well as get through some difficult place like desert or some kind of bridges.There are two kind of bike Mach an Arco which can only be changed by the guy in the bike shop.Mach is really fast just as you ride, Arco is for jumping between spaces.Fishing rod is for meeting those pokemon deep down in the water that cannot be see.Alltogether, they make the game just like a real world-what I like most about this game! Game's graphic is much better than last version(crystal), objects are sharpen and the Hoenn world look more colorful with green field, dark blue sea, desert, caves. You make a tree-house, use your pokemon to fly in the sky , surfing on the water or dive in it, discover the underwater world...game's graphic makes everything look perfect, create some wonderful moments although it's only a game on GBA, incredible, terrific!!!

As well as this, game's mono sound/music can make you impressed.Various of songs and pokemon voice, make the pokemon's world become very lively. It's different when fighting, when going around, looking for pokemon, when taking your time fishing or surfing on the water... It just like our beautiful world, a small little version of world!Therefore, it bring up your imagination, creativity and espeacialy good for children at all age(from 4).You can get on with it forever to catch all the pokemon, to grow all the berry trees, to make some more tree-house, to discover the blue sea and to rasie your own lovely pokemons.

I love this game very much and used to played every single version of it on GBA.Hope you'll like it!