Pokémon Diamond Version
Pokémon Diamond Version and Pearl Version are role-playing games (RPGs) developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. With the enhanced remake Pokémon Platinum, the games comprise the…
Pokémon Diamond Version is an adventure developed by Game Freak, released 28 September 2006 on Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 40 hrs to finish.
What Pokémon Diamond Version is
Pokémon Diamond Version is an adventure game developed by Game Freak and released in 2006. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The games chronicle the adventures of a new Pokémon trainer who strives to become the Pokémon League Champion by collecting and training Pokémon. Like most games in the series, Diamond and Pearl feature eight Pokémon gyms led by Gym Leaders, professional trainers whose expertise lies in a particular Pokémon type. Gym Leaders (Roark, Gardenia, Maylene, Wake, Fantina, Byron, Candace, and Volkner) serve as bosses and reward skilled trainers with Gym badges, key to the advancement of the plot. As in Ruby and Sapphire, the protagonist must also thwart the schemes of a crime syndicate (and here, it is Team Galactic), who plans to use Pokémon to restructure the region into a utopia. Like all other…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, kids and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Pokémon series
Pokémon Diamond Version is the 134th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Pearl Version in 2006. Its critic score of 83 is 9 points above the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Pokémon Diamond Version holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 338 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 40 hrs.
What it launched against
Pokémon Diamond Version launched on 28 September 2006, within three weeks of Company of Heroes, Bully, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Company of Heroes, Bully, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pokémon Diamond Version yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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