Got my copy today! And I decided to review it.

This game is a graphical remake of the original Red/Green. Everything is all nice and colorful and the music has been remixed brilliantly. The basic menus seem to have disappeared and the game starts you off with a controls tutorial before Oak this his Pokemon Introduction. Ok, got into the game now, and walked around for a bit. Everything is still the same, except for the graphics. They probably talk more here too, the text seems to drag on for a bit.

Done the basics and went and chose my Pokemon. Note that Red [Ash] and Blue [Gary] look way cooler than before, the detail on them is amazing. I picked Charmander [heehee] and Blue picked ... of course, Squirtle.

Battle commenced

The music is VERY good here. It's very upbeat and it gets you in the mood for things. A heavy remix of the original theme. Shame though that the sprites of the Pokemon are STILL static, and they don't move or anything when performing attacks, quite sad really. At this point in technology I would've expected something Golden Sun style, but then again, I can't complain, as there would be a lot of stuff to fit in one cartridge. Done my first attack, and a load of other text came up, probably stating the damage and experience, PP/Moves and stuff, and the same happened when I got hit. Well, this is a first battle, and I guess they wanted to get everything down to the player, all nice and clear.

On my 3rd turn, just for fun, I went and tried to view my Charmander's stats. When I did, I actually got a bit of a shock. The layout of the area where you choose/change Pokemon is exactly the same as R/S. Quite annoyed, I decided to mash B until I got out of the menu, as there was more text there, probably explaining how the system works. One neat thing also to note is that the japanese version of the game supports English characters. I renamed the Japanese Charmander to English, it was selectable on the re-name menu. Kinda neat!

Defeated Gary [I thought about losing, then I wanted to Level up], talked a bit more, and we were out.

Went out, went to Vivridian, got the stuff, went back, picked up Pokedex. It's much better than before and it allows you to display Pokemon in different "areas" I guess. Land, Water, or numeral, cave, sky, grass, stuff, you know ^_^!

Went to catch a Pigey [no, I didn't bump into Ho-Oh] , same interface as before, same sound effects too. Nothing new there.

EDIT: hit POST by accident

To continue, this game is very promising, but it's all the same again. It feels like as if Nintendo has been using us to just test Ruby/Sapphire to fish out our likes and dislikes, as if it was a Prototype Pokemon Game. And now us consumers by the "complete" product. Just feels like that to me anyway ...