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Introduction

To begin pokemon platinum you’ve first got to obtain the game. When loading it you will come to familiar logo, and the usual game freak information etc. After waiting a couple of minutes you will see the Pokemon Platinum Welcome Screen. This customized screen is red, when ready press start to begin your journey.

If you have every played a pokemon game before than you are familiar with what comes next. Basically you will be greeted by this games pokemon professor (Rowan). Rowan will introduce you to the DS style game play, and allow you to familiarize yourself with the controls. He tell you about the pokemon universe, why we use pokemon in battle, how some have them as pets, and etc. You also get the chance to test out the touch screen features of the DS wich are pretty well needed for this game.

The Professor will ask you whether you are a boy or a girl, you have the liberty of choosing wichever you like. A key difference from Pokemon Diamond and platinum in this particular area of the game is that the choosable characters are in newer outfits. The clothes they are wearing have more a winter feel to them than the previous games. Next comes the part where you get to pick your name. You used to be able to choose from several of the preprogrammed names but now you have to manually write your own.

The Game Starts

Twinleaf

After listening to Rowan tell you more and more about the game you finally shruken into game sprite mode and the game officially begins.

You start by viewing the ending of a Pokemon television show that is giving information about the red gyrados and mentions professor Rowans return from the Kanto region back to the Sinnoh region. After that momment you proceed to move and your Rival appears. He is excited as usual and wants you and him to go find Professor Rowan so you can get pokemon. He wants you to meet him outside. After talking to your mon head outside of the house and experience twinleaf. If you go to the left of your house and go up you will be at your rivals home. He will bump into you. After listening to him chatter on go up to his room, and proceed to leave twinleaf.

Route 201

As you head out of town to begin your search for professor Rowan, you see your rival and you proceed to head for Sandgem town foolishly without pokemon you.. you are stopped by no one other than profesor rowan. He reminds that going out into the wilderness without pokemon is a bad idea. And suggest that you and your rival need pokemon companions. He thinks that you both don’t deserve his pokemon as you were foolish enough to go out in the wild without any. Inlight of the situation you meet dawn, and she brings the professors briefcase.

Within it are the pokemon that you will be choosing from.

The starter pokemon in this game are:
Turtwig: Grass Pokemon
Chimchar: Fire Pokemon
Piplup: Water Pokemon

Each of theme has their own strengths and weaknesses. Whichever pokemon you decide to choose your rival will the pokemon that’s strong against it. And Dawn will have the last one.

After choosing your Pokemon Professor Rowan and Dawn will head back the Sandgem town. Basically leaving you and your rival alone. Your rival will suggest it’s time for a battle, and the first pokemon battle in Pokemon Platinum will begin.

Whether you win or lose this battle the story will continue. Normally if you loose a battle you will be sent to a pokemon center. After the battle is finished both you and your rival go home. The next day you see yourself in your mothers kitchen, she tell you that you should go thank professor rowan. And that it is ok to go into the grass now that you have your very own pokemon. To make the job of getting to sandgem town easier your mother gives you the running shoes. As you proceed to leave town you happen to run into your rival again, and this time he tells you he is going to see rowan.

It just so happends that before you decide to go to sandgem your rival says that you all should go to lakeview front to capture a rare pokemon and show it off to Rowan.

Verity Lakefront

You can access Lake Verity by going to left where route 201 branches into two directions. Your rival is following you, if you you just follow the available path it will lead you directly to the lake enterance. There should be an opening, just follow through it.

When you arive at the lake you notice a strange fellow talking about taking control. It is Cyrus, he will become more important as the story continues. He leaves the lake, after that your rival hears a sound. He thinks it’s the legendary pokemon and realizes that neither of you have any Pokeballs. So your current task is to get to sandgem town….