One of them is the fact you can get many Pokemon from Johto that were originally only obtainable in the GBA era by breeding Colosseum/XD Pokemon. There are plenty of 100% new additions to Emerald that weren’t in R/S at all. You can simply switch Battle Scene in the options menu from “ON” to “OFF,” and you won’t see the animations in battle. But if you can’t stand the animations, don’t worry. Some, like Combusken, are rather bad, since Combusken suddenly moves it’s head by a lot in it’s animation, so it can’t go too well with only two sprites. Some of these manage to go rather well, such as Ditto or Minun in the case of Minun, it actually looks like it’s saying it’s cry. However, the animations vary in quality, as there are only two different sprites in reality for the animations: the rest of the animation is just modified from one of those two sprites. In a battle, the text changed, and more notably, the Pokemon in battle now have animations seen when they are first seen in a battle. However, Emerald keeps the fact that you can see miniature images of the object you’re checking from FR/LG. The design of the bag, where you store items to help you in the game, has improved from R/S, and looks more like FR/LG, with the exception of the fact that there’s a specific bag for berries like it was in R/S, while berries were stored in a Berry Pouch in FR/LG. The overworld manages to look better than it was in Ruby and Sapphire, as it looks more like a cross between R/S and Fire Red/Leaf Green. The design, while still similar to Ruby and Sapphire, has managed to improve. When you beat them, you and the Pokemon in your team get put in the hall of fame.
Then you can get PokeBalls, and you can catch more Pokemon, and challenge Gym Leaders, who will give you badges if you beat them, your rival, many other trainers, and finally, the Elite 4, a group of 5 trainers who all train high level Pokemon. But since neighter Pokemon know attacks of their own type, it isn’t too hard. He/she, depending on the gender you picked for yourself, will have the Pokemon with the type advantage over yours. You then can journey to battle your rival, who is rather friendly compared to the previous rivals of the Pokemon games. After that, Birch lets you keep the Pokemon as a thanks. You have to pick one of three Pokemon – Treecko, a grass-type gecko-like Pokemon Torchic, a fire-type chick-like Pokemon or Mudkip, a water-type mud fish-like Pokemon to defeat the Zigzagoon in battle. The gameplay is rather simple and easy to catch on – you first have to rescue the Professor at your hometown, Littleroot Town, from a Zigzagoon chasing him, which was a Poochyena in Ruby and Sapphire. These additions are covered in later paragraphs. However, Emerald manages to add plenty of new things to make it considerably different from Ruby and Sapphire, from design, to new add ons. Out of these, this review is for the game Emerald.Įmerald, being the third edition of Ruby and Sapphire, you would expect to be very similar to said games. It has ranged from Pokemon Red and Blue(which also got remakes, Fire Red and Leaf Green), the games that started Pokemon, as well as their third edition game, Yellow, followed by Gold and Silver with their third edition game, Crystal, and most recently, Ruby and Sapphire, with their third edition, Emerald. Play Pokemon Emerald Gameboy Advance GBA Online Emulator in Browser