I'm not sure how they've made so many Pokemon games. Sure, Pokemon Platinum is like a standard turn based RPG, except it sucks all the fun out of the genre. You can walk around and talk to people (who only really talk about pokemon anyway) but half the time the people are trainers who challenge you to battles without your say so. One word: annoying. Why can't I say if I want to fight the battle or not? Being attacked by wild pokemon is different, their wild! But a fellow person just throwing a monster at me? Come on!
The controls in Pokemon Platinum are mostly button oriented with movement controlled via d-pad and everything else is in the hands of the X,Y,A, and B buttons. It works, I guess.
The battles in Pokemon Platinum, which are supposed to be what pokemon games are about, are painfully slow and boring. It is some of the worst turn based combat I've ever experienced. It takes way too long for each attack to take place and once it does it is the same thing over and over (since pokemon can only store 4 moves). I dreaded every person I saw and every area of high grass for fear of another time consuming battle.
In order to catch more pokemon you have to buy pokeballs (at 200 whatever a piece!) but you can only use them once. If you fail to catch the pokemon, the pokeball disintegrates or catches on fire or something. Why can't I just pick it up and use it again? It makes no sense.
