Expanded Game

Pokémon Platinum Version

2008 · Nintendo DS · Role-playing (RPG) · Turn-based strategy (TBS) · Adventure

81IGDB player score
436 ratings

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An 81 average that undersells it — ask the 436 people who rated it. A proper RPG: big systems, bigger choices, and fantasy, kids all the way down. Come for the campaign, stay because your friends won't let you leave the lobby.

About this game

Pokemon Platinum is a role-playing game with adventure elements and an enhanced version of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. Played from a top-down perspective, it has the player explore the Sinnoh region across towns, routes, and caves, catching and training Pokemon and battling them in turn-based combat. The core goals involve building a team, challenging Gym Leaders, and completing the Pokedex. This version adds new areas, expanded online features for trading and battling, and gives the Legendary Pokemon Giratina and its Distortion World a central role. It connects with other games in the generation to trade and transfer Pokemon.

In Pokemon Platinum, the player is a young Trainer in the Sinnoh region who receives a first partner Pokemon from Professor Rowan and sets out to explore the land, catching and training Pokemon while challenging its Gym Leaders. As the journey progresses, the player is drawn into the schemes of Team Galactic, an organization led by the cold and ambitious Cyrus, who intends to harness the power of Legendary Pokemon to reshape the world. The Legendary Pokemon Giratina and a strange realm known as the Distortion World lie at the heart of the conflict. Alongside allies encountered along the way, the player must confront Team Galactic while making their own way toward becoming a top Trainer.