Pokémon Alpha Sapphire
During your adventure, you will battle Team Magma in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Team Aqua in Pokémon Alpha Sapphire. Team Magma seeks to increase the land, while Team Aqua wishes to increase the seas. In order to…
Pokémon Alpha Sapphire is an adventure developed by Game Freak, released 21 November 2014 on Nintendo 3DS. The main story takes about 26.5 hrs to finish.
What Pokémon Alpha Sapphire is
Pokémon Alpha Sapphire is an adventure game developed by Game Freak and released in 2014. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire are 2014 remakes of the 2002 Game Boy Advance role-playing video games Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, also including some features from Pokémon Emerald. The games are part of the sixth generation of the Pokémon video game series, developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. Announced in May 2014, the games were released in Japan, North America and Australia on 21 November 2014, exactly twelve years after the original release date of Ruby and Sapphire, while the European release was the following week.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It supports multiplayer for up to 4 players online. Local play supports 1 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Pokémon series
Pokémon Alpha Sapphire is the 198th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Super Smash Bros. for Wii U in 2014. Its critic score of 88 is 14 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Pokémon Alpha Sapphire holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 230 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 26.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 38.5 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Pokémon Alpha Sapphire launched on 21 November 2014, within three weeks of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth and Tales from the Borderlands. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, Tales from the Borderlands.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pokémon Alpha Sapphire yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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