Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green Edition
| Pokémon Fire Red Edition / Pokémon Leaf Green Edition | |||
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| Original title | ポ ケ ッ ト モ ン ス タ ー フ ァ イ ア レ ッ ド ・ リ ー フ グ リ ー ン | ||
| transcription | Poketto Monsutā Faiareddo ・ Rīfugurīn | ||
| Studio | Game freak | ||
| Publisher |
Nintendo The Pokémon Company |
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| Senior Developer |
Satoshi Tajiri Junichi Masuda |
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
 January 29, 2004 September 7, 2004 September 23, 2004 October 1, 2004   |
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| platform | Game Boy Advance | ||
| genre | role playing game | ||
| medium | module | ||
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Pokémon Fire Red Edition and Pokémon Leaf Green Edition , also known as Pokémon Fire Red and Pokémon Leaf Green , are video games from the Pokémon series. The games are new editions of the Japanese Game Boy games Poketto Monsutā Aka and Midori , which were revised in Germany as Pokémon Red and Blue Edition . Fire Red and Leaf Green were developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance . The games first appeared in Japan on January 29, 2004, while in Europe the games did not appear until October 1, 2004. The games, together with Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald , are assigned to the 3rd generation of the Pokémon role-playing game series .
The two games received critical acclaim and sold over 10 million times.
Game mechanics
In Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green , the player controls the protagonist from a bird's eye view through the fictional region "Kanto", which is based on the Japanese region of Kantō . The player catches and trains the beings native to the world, called Pokémon, and uses them in the fight against other Pokémon. As usual with the Pokémon franchise, there are two main goals to be achieved: defeating the Pokémon League Champs, the region's strongest trainer, and completing the Pokédex by catching all of the Pokémon.
Fire red and leaf green take over the plot and game mechanics from their templates Pokémon Aka and Midori . They also play in the same region as their templates. However, fire red and leaf green have been technically adapted to their time of origin: The games are playable in color, and no longer in black and white, and in a higher resolution. The sound and features have also been revised. In addition, the plot goes beyond that of the templates and instead of the 151 Pokémon from the templates, 386 Pokémon can now be caught, as Pokémon from the games silver, gold, ruby, sapphire or emerald can also be caught or exchanged.
The main differences between the games are Pokémon, which can only be caught in one of the two games: of the 151 Pokémon from the Kanto region, only 139 can be caught in each of the games. The others must be swapped from the other game.
action
In fire red and leaf green , unlike in the templates, the player first has the choice of whether to control a boy or a girl as a character. Then he can give his character and his rival, the grandson of the Pokémon researcher Professor Oak, any name.
As in Pokémon Red and Blue , the story begins with the protagonist and his rival receiving a Pokémon from Professor Oak and filling the "Pokédex", a dictionary of all Pokémon, for the Professor by encountering and catching all Pokémon . The protagonist then sets off to catch all Pokémon and defeat the region's champion. On his journey he has to defeat the eight gym leaders in the region to gain access to the "Pokémon League", in which he can fight the "Top Four", four very strong trainers and the champ of the Pokémon League. He fights with his rival and fights the criminal organization "Team Rocket", which strive for world domination with the help of Pokémon.
If the player has defeated the champ, who turns out to be his rival, the story does not end yet , unlike in the templates Pokémon Red and Blue : After defeating the top 4 and receiving the Nationaldex, an improved Pokédex, the it also enables Pokémon to be caught from other games, the storyline continues with Team Rocket. On the Sevii Eilanden (nine islands, of which only seven are accessible without special events) one should find a ruby and a sapphire to put a machine into operation that allows one to talk to "Hoenn", the region in the to be able to swap the games Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald . While searching, you often meet Team Rocket. There are also many Pokémon here that are known from Pokémon Gold and Silver . In addition, as in the templates, the player may enter the Azuria cave, in which the legendary Pokémon Mewtwo can also be found, after successfully completing the tasks on the Sevii islets.
reception
Reviews
| German speaking | ||
|---|---|---|
| publication | Rating | version |
| Planet Gameboy.de | 83% | BG |
| Nintendofans.de | 8.5 / 10 | BG |
| GameZone | 9.1 / 10 | FR |
| International | ||
| publication | Rating | version |
| IGN | 9/10 | BG |
| Gamespot | 8.4 / 10 | Both |
Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green received mostly good feedback: The games on Metacritic achieved an aggregate rating of 81 out of 100.
Stefanie Mohr from Planet Gameboy.de wrote about Pokémon Leaf Green:
“All in all, Pokémon came as no surprise. But who would have expected that? [...] Why you couldn't at least bring the graphics up to date or maybe the music was designed a bit more newfangled remains in the dark. Ok, since I really don't belong to the graphics and sound junkies, I can actually put all of this on the back burner, because Pokémon is and will remain a successful game principle. "
Alex Kinnaz from Nintendofans.de praised the game for the graphical improvement and wrote:
“If you really don't know the first two editions, you should definitely buy it, thanks to the free wireless adapter, it's worth it. The graphics and the sound have been properly polished, even if the graphics are far from convincing. Old Pokémon Bunnies should be aware that the changes are very limited "
Sales
After the release of Fire Red and Leaf Green in Japan, the two games sold 885,039 times in the first three days. Even before they were released in North America, the games were pre-ordered over 150,000 times . When released in North America, the games sold over a million copies in less than a month.
Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green sold a total of 12 million times.
Web links
- Official site of Pokémon Fire Red Edition and Leaf Green Edition (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Stefanie Mohr: Pokemon : Blattgrün , In: PlanetGameboy.de ; dated October 26, 2004, accessed April 8, 2019.
- ↑ a b Pit Hermes: Pokémon: Feuerrote Edition - Remake of a classic , In: Gameszone.de ; dated January 11, 2011, accessed April 8, 2019.
- ↑ a b c Alex Kinnaz: Game test: Pokémon: Blattgrüne Edition , In: Nintendofans.de ; dated October 22, 2004, accessed April 7, 2019.
- ↑ Craig Harris: Pokemon LeafGreen Version , In: IGN.com ; dated September 3, 2004, accessed April 8, 2019.
- ↑ Greg Kasavin: Pokémon FireRed / LeafGreen Review , In: GameSpot.com ; dated September 7, 2004, accessed April 8, 2019.
- ↑ Pokemon LeafGreen Version , In: Metacritic.com ; accessed on April 8, 2019.
- ↑ Pokemon FireRed Version , In: Metacritic.com ; accessed on April 8, 2019.
- ↑ Pokemania , In: IGN.com ; dated February 2, 2004, accessed April 8, 2019.
- ↑ James B. Pringle: Pokemon Games Receive Huge Pre-Order Numbers , In: IGN.com ; dated August 20, 2004, accessed April 8, 2019.
- ↑ Craig Harris: GBA Game of the Month: September 2004 , In: IGN.com ; dated October 5, 2004, accessed April 8, 2019.
- ↑ Wladislav Sidorov: Pokémon - How often have the individual parts sold , In: PlayCentral.de ; dated May 23, 2016, accessed April 7, 2019.