Pokémon Diamond and Pearl are traditional Pokémon RPGs that takes place in a region called Sinnoh. When you set off on your travels, you’ll be able to play as either a boy or girl Trainer. Pokémon fans have caught glimpses of Lucario, Munchlax and Weavile in Pokémon movies, and these Pokémon will are debuting in this adventure. Diamond and Pearl utilize the DS’s dual slots to transfer Pokémon from the GBA Pokémon games. Also, you can link up with Pokémon Ranger to access more special content.

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Unlockables

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Earning Stars and Colours for your Trainer’s Card

The following tasks can be completed in any order, and are not linked to any particular trainer card colour. You gain one star for completing any single task, up to a cumulative total of five stars for completing all of the following tasks:

- Beat the Elite Four.
- Win any one Master Rank Super Contest
- Win 100 consecutive battles in Battle Tower
- Earn a Platinum flag in the Underground (Capture 50 flags)
- Capture all 493 Pokemon (excluding event-only Pokemon)
Unlockable How to Unlock
Black Card Earn 5 stars
Blue Card Earn 1 star
Bronze Card Earn 2 stars
Gold Card Earn 4 stars
Red Card You start with this card
Silver Card Earn 3 stars

Get the National Dex

Unlockable How to Unlock
National Dex Complete your Sinnoh Pokedex by seeing all 150 Sinnoh region Pokemon, go to Prof. Rowan’s lab and talk to him. Prof Oak will dash in and upgrade it.

Easter Eggs

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Diamond Dust

On January 12th (Junichi Masuda Director of GameFreaks Birthday) Fly up to Snowpoint City and instead of your usual flurry snow storm, there will be glittery diamond snow.

Happy Birthday

If you set your calendar on your DS to your registered birthday and talk to Dawn, she will wish you a happy birthday! This is only possible after you beat the elite four

As the story unfolds, players will encounter the mysterious new Distortion World, an area unlike any seen in a Pokemon video game before. The Battle Frontier area (first introduced in Pokemon Emerald) has been added to Sinnoh, containing five new Battle Facilities for Trainers to challenge, each with its own special rules. Players can explore the new Wi-Fi Plaza a virtual Pokemon amusement park filled with activities, including three new mini-games where up to 4 players can compete at once.

Unlockables

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Acquiring Stars and Colors for your Trainer Card

The following tasks may be completed in any order, with no regard to a specific event relating to a particular color. Stars are added by the completion of each event.

- Defeat the Elite Four.
- Win any one Master Rank Super Contest
- Win 100 consecutive battles in Battle Tower
- Earn a Platinum flag in the Underground (capture 50 flags)
- Capture all 493 Pokemon (not including event-only Pokemon)
Unlockable How to Unlock
Black Card Earn Five Stars
Blue Card Earn One Star
Bronze Card Earn Two Stars
Gold Card Earn Four Stars
Silver Card Earn Three Stars

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Extra Villa furniture

Unlockable How to Unlock
Chandelier Walk a total of 300,000 steps
Great Painting hatch 30 eggs
Guest Set Defeat a total of 50 trainers in the trainer cafe
Music Box Purchase Racks
Piano Defeat the Elite Four 10 times
Pokemon Bust #1 Obtain one silver print from the Battle Frontier
Pokemon bust #2 Obtain 5 silver prints from the Battle Frontier
Tea Set Purchase the Guest Set
Wall Clock Plant 50 berries

National Pokédex

Unlockable How to Unlock
National Pokédex Complete the Sinnoh Pokédex by seeing all 210 regional Pokémon, then talk to Professor Rowan in his lab.

Easter Eggs

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Diamond Dust will fall at Snow point city

Go to Snow Point City during the 12th of January and you will see Diamond Dusts falling on the town. It is because of the birthday of Junichi Masuda, Gamefreaks Director and Composer of Pokemon Music.

Happy Birthday Message from Dawn/Lucas

After beating Elite 4, if you play the game on your birthday, or if you set the DS clock to your birthday, and talk to Dawn/Lucas, she/he will wish you a Happy Birthday

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days revolves around Roxas, the “other” hero from Kingdom Hearts II. Players follow Roxas through his days among Organization XIII’s ranks, unraveling the events that took place during the year that Sora was asleep, and ultimately revealing one of the Kingdom Hearts saga’s most shocking secrets. Players and their friends will join Roxas, his friend Axel and the mysterious fourteenth member of Organization XIII on a journey across charming, vibrant worlds full of Square Enix’s and Disney’s beloved characters.

Theater Mode *new*

Beat the game once, and Theater Mode will become available to you. You’ll be able to watch every cutscene in the game.
Unlockable How to Unlock
Theater Mode Beat the game

Unlocking Characters in Mission Mode *new*

Unlockable How to Unlock
Donald Play story mode to day 244
Goofy Play story mode to day 277
King Mickey Beat the game and purchase the item Return of the King from the moogle shop
Riku Play story mode to day 171
Sora Beat the game and purchase the item Soul of Sora from the moogle shop
Xion Play story mode to day 96

Designing games around a system’s strengths is always a good idea — and Skate It strives to strike a balance between understanding the DS’ limitations while making the most of its strengths. Solid controls, multiplayer options, and creation tools stand out, though some jagged textures and their frustrating side effects hamper an otherwise solid execution.

Bland textures cause the most problems with Skate It, as they tend to smear parts of the environment together, making it hard to determine when a curb turns into a sidewalk before it’s too late to avoid a wipeout (even brushing against small objects in the game results in the same undesirable effect). When compared to other skateboarding games that give the player a more forgiving margin of error, Skate It misses the mark. But despite being more difficult and unforgiving than it needs to be, Skate It’s controls do a good job of making up for some of those frustrations.

Click the image above to check out all the Skate It screens.

You control your skater — displayed on the top screen — by drawing lines across the skateboard deck on the bottom screen, which elicits different effects depending on where and how you swipe the stylus. You push off the skateboard by pressing your stylus to the right of the deck and turn your skater by using the directional pad with your left hand (left-handed players can flip this around), and you execute grabs by holding down the left bumper. Once you get the hang of those basics, more complicated stylus strokes result in increasingly fancier tricks, which are essential to completing events in the game’s career mode.

Single-player progression is similar to other skateboarding games: build your reputation by participating in events against other skaters in the world, eventually attain sponsorship, then go back through said events to boost your score…and that’s about it. It helps that most of the skate parks are well designed, but it’s the multiplayer features that keep the game from falling into monotony thanks to solid single- and multicard play. Additionally, any skate parks you create with the MySpot creation tools are shareable in either multiplayer mode, along with a logo-creation tool to customize your skater.

Skate It on the DS is a decent choice for patient skateboarding fans, but casual players may want to hold out for a potentially more refined future installment.