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Pokémon Platinum Version for Nintendo DS
Pokémon Platinum Version for Nintendo DS lets you build a team as you travel through Sinnoh. You choose Turtwig, Chimchar or Piplup as your first partner, catch wild Pokémon and challenge Trainers and Gym Leaders. In battles, you take turns choosing moves, switching team members and using items. Move types and your team's composition matter greatly. Outside the arena, you find towns, mountain paths and caves while Team Galactic carries out plans that threaten the entire region.
Giratina and the Distortion World give this version its own storyline. In that strange world, you follow paths along walls and floating pieces of land, making you look at your surroundings differently. After the main story, you can keep developing your battle team in the Battle Frontier. Its five facilities set different requirements: in the Battle Factory, for example, you use rental Pokémon rather than relying solely on your own collection. Meanwhile, the Pokétch on the lower screen provides small tools during your journey.
You can trade or have a battle locally with a friend. Each player needs their own DS and their own cartridge of Platinum, Diamond, Pearl, HeartGold or SoulSilver; some additional features are version-specific. You do not need an internet connection for this. The original online trading, internet battles and Wi-Fi Plaza using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection have ended. You play the single-player adventure independently.
Region and language
Our Nintendo DS games are European editions, unless stated otherwise. This product contains a loose cartridge for the European market. A box is only included if explicitly stated in the product details. We note any different region in the product details. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
With Pokémon Platinum Version for Nintendo DS, you receive a loose cartridge. A box and manual are not included unless we explicitly state otherwise in the product details. This is the standard way we supply this copy.
The history of Pokémon Platinum Version
Game Freak made Pokémon Platinum Version as an expanded follow-up to the structure of Diamond and Pearl. The game appeared in Japan on 13 September 2008 and reached Europe on 22 May 2009, once again for Nintendo DS. Sinnoh remained the setting, but the new version changed the story and added encounters and gameplay features. Giratina gained a much larger role than in the previous two versions, with the Distortion World as a striking new environment.
The expansion followed a tradition in which Pokémon reworked an earlier pair of games. Platinum did more than change which Pokémon were available. Looker, an International Police investigator, appeared as a new character, and Team Galactic gained an additional face. The Battle Frontier expanded the battle area into five facilities with their own rules. Training after the Pokémon League therefore gained more variety, for example through battling with rental teams or playing under special restrictions.
Recording and sharing battles also received attention. The Vs. Recorder could store one of your own Battle Videos, while the Global Terminal and Wi-Fi Plaza expanded the internet features of the time. These network components used Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, which closed on 20 May 2014. Platinum therefore now primarily remains an extensive Sinnoh journey with local communication. It is a standalone DS game on cartridge: you do not need Diamond or Pearl to begin the story.
Similar games for Nintendo DS
Pokémon Diamond Version for Nintendo DS introduced Sinnoh, its three starters and the struggle against Team Galactic. Platinum lets you travel through that region again, but gives Giratina and the Distortion World a different position in the story. Platinum also expands the Battle Tower into a Battle Frontier with five facilities. The familiar towns and turn-based battles remain recognisable, while new story moments and additional challenges change the progression.
Pokémon Pearl Version on Nintendo DS shares Platinum's badge collecting and building of a varied team in Sinnoh. Pearl forms a pair with Diamond and has its own available species, with Palkia as an important Legendary Pokémon. Platinum develops their shared foundation further with Looker, Giratina and new battle facilities. The difference is therefore greater than simply having another Pokémon on the front of the packaging.
Pokémon HeartGold Version for Nintendo DS uses the same kind of turn-based battles and local trading options, but takes you through Johto and later Kanto. A Pokémon from your team visibly follows you there. Platinum stays in Sinnoh and places the spatial puzzles of the Distortion World within its story. HeartGold rebuilds an earlier Game Boy Color journey; Platinum instead develops the region that debuted on Nintendo DS.
Pokémon Black Version on Nintendo DS begins a new generation in Unova, with different Pokémon and Team Plasma. Changing seasons make the environment variable, and the main story centres on a new group of creatures. Platinum lets you explore the earlier Sinnoh generation further and puts extra emphasis on Giratina and the Battle Frontier. Both reward carefully chosen moves, but their regions, enemies and available starting teams create different adventures.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky for Nintendo DS lets you become a Pokémon yourself and explore dungeons with a partner. Their layouts change on new visits, and movement and attacks take place in turns on the map. Platinum keeps exploration and individual battles more separate and lets you catch a team as a human Trainer. Team building matters in both, but dungeon positions, traps and food give Explorers of Sky its own rhythm.
