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Old April 25th, 2009 (8:36 PM).
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What are some pros and cons of Plat?
Pros
All new formes and legends.
Cons
Can't use some formes on wifi.
What else can you think of?
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Old April 25th, 2009 (8:48 PM).
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Pros
New Battle Frontier
You can buy Poffins at Veilstone
Wifi Plaza
You can make Poffins with friends via wifi
You get more Poffins when you make them with friends via wifi

Cons
Underground still isn't wifi. :(
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Old April 25th, 2009 (8:52 PM).
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Pros:

Spin Trade
Guests (Joanne, Jasmine, etc.) in Master Rank Contests
New Forms (Shaymin Giritina, Rotom, etc.)

Cons:
Some Pokemon removed from places.
No Underground Wi-Fi (Picture for a moment how much of a frenzy that would be, though.)
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Old April 26th, 2009 (6:35 AM).
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The way 'forme' is spelled. It's not even a word! D:
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Old April 26th, 2009 (6:51 AM). Edited April 26th, 2009 by Dunsparce.
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I have a con:

The way 'forme' is spelled. It's not even a word! D:
Yes it is. It's an alterative, and much older, way to spell "form", Like Old is Olde (Ye Olde Pub)

Anyways:

Pros:
-7 New Formes to play around with
-Level 50 Tournement-legal Heatran, Regigigas, and Giratina.
-Regi and Bird Trios obtainable.
-Bigger Regional Pokedex

Cons:
-The Localization. Like Diamond and Pearl before it, I refer to most things related to it by their Japanese Names (Giratina Another Forme, Pluto, Handsome, Rotom Cut Forme, Rotom Spin Forme, Platinum Orb, and Torn World)
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Old April 26th, 2009 (6:51 AM).
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Con: No GTS cloning glitch
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Old April 26th, 2009 (10:24 AM).
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Pros:

Spin Trade
Guests (Joanne, Jasmine, etc.) in Master Rank Contests
New Forms (Shaymin Giritina, Rotom, etc.)

Cons:
Some Pokemon removed from places.
No Underground Wi-Fi (Picture for a moment how much of a frenzy that would be, though.)
Imo, they should make alot of...how should I say this? Servers, I guess? Make it that each server can only hold like 15-20 people, otherwise you gotta choose another server to go onto. Doesn't seem like too bad of an idea, because Wi-Fi underground would be epic XD
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Old April 26th, 2009 (10:32 AM).
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Pros
-Faster game speed
-Variety before E4

Cons
-ROTOM FORMES NOT FOR WI-FI D:
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Old April 26th, 2009 (10:34 AM).
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PRO's:
You get to see several new sprites for PKMNs and enjoy new applications.

CON's:
If you already owned a Pearl or Diamond you'll need to pay 30 dollars for almost the same game.
Play the game again, which takes a lot freaky time.
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Old April 26th, 2009 (10:43 AM).
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I think every Pro I could think of has been listed.

The only con I see this game having is the increased "hax" factor, especially in the Battle Frontier.
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Old April 26th, 2009 (10:53 AM).
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-Pro - Surfing speed is greatly increased. XD Save speed is, too, but it's only noticeable if you hold a D/P game next to a Plat game and hit save at the same time.

-Con - Removed some of the best training spots in the game. :( I don't know why each game they make it harder and harder to raise pokemon to high levels. Whatever happened to the Unkown Dungeon with pokemon in the 60s and 70s?
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Old April 26th, 2009 (11:01 AM).
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Pros

-New Alternate Formes
-Battle Frontier
-Faster Speed
-Better Outfits
-Same Contest Sprites
-Slightly Better Graphics
-Hidden Power/Flash Cannon Animation
-Sinnoh Dex includes All Eevee Evolutions
-Wifi Terminal/Plaza/Club
-Battle Recorder

Cons
No Online Contests/Underground
Some Sprites were made Ugly
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Old April 26th, 2009 (12:10 PM).
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Pros:
More Pokemon available for the Sinnoh Pokedex,
Improved Sprites for many Pokemon,
Distortion World,
Battle Frontier, even though I haven't played it yet, and
A bit of an upgraded storyline

Cons:
Some Pokemon weren't available in areas that I thought that they would be.
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Old April 26th, 2009 (12:15 PM).
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PROS
New graphics
Updated dex
Battle Frontier
Super Speed!
Torn World
Second round for leaders and E4.

Cons
Damn hard
Too hyped
Too little in a number of changes. They said new gyms and only 3 changed. If they changed all 8 cool but that was plain wrong of them.
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Old April 26th, 2009 (12:21 PM).
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Pros:
-Better graphics
-New Sprites are pretty sick
-Watch/Upload battle vids online
-New clothes! :D
-DEF the new forms of Pokes [Rotom, Shaymin, Giratina, etc.]

Cons:
-No Wi-Fi underground :[
-GYM LAYOUTS ERKED MY SOUL. (i liked the whole idea of HEY NEW GYM LAYOUTS but these were simply ANNOYING.)
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Old April 26th, 2009 (12:27 PM).
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Pros:
-faster surfing
-not dismounting your bike every time you go into a new city through a building
-better sprites and quicker, cleaner animations
-battle frontier return!
-new forms
-upgraded GTS rocks

Cons:
-wish there was just a little more added to the game besides the distortion world and some flashy new animations
-harder to find new places to EV train
-no wifi underground (it's hard for us 19 year olds to find friends who play pokemon to go underground with and steal flags....)
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Old April 26th, 2009 (12:27 PM).
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Pro
-Surf Speed, that's it
-Better than D/P even though there are not that many changes, I preferred it over them
-Battle Videos are entertaining

Con
-Kept the slow storyline with nothing really interesting (Distortion World is overrated)
-Even more Pokemon added to a Dex that you need to do a few extra things before trading and restarting
-Wifi Plaza is annoying, in my opinion
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Old May 2nd, 2009 (11:02 AM).
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Pros:
-Surf speed is faster
-Pokemon sprites are better (for some of them)
-The Battle Frontier
-Much interesting storyline
-The Distortion World
-Rotom, Giratina and Shaymin's alternate forms

Cons:
-A lot more Pokemon on the Sinnoh Dex
-Some Pokemon from D/P can't be found in Platinum

There are a lot more pros than cons for Platinum, in my opinion.
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Old May 2nd, 2009 (11:12 AM).
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Pros: New Sprites
Excellent Storyline
Battle Frontier
New Rotom Forms (not Forme as that's only the term for Legendary Formes)

Cons: Can't use Rotom Forms over Wi-Fi.
GTS part of Global Terminal is garbage.
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Old May 2nd, 2009 (12:09 PM).
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Pros
New Battle Frontier
You can buy Poffins at Veilstone
Wifi Plaza
You can make Poffins with friends via wifi
You get more Poffins when you make them with friends via wifi

Cons
Underground still isn't wifi. :(

I want it to be Wi Fi too :(
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Old May 2nd, 2009 (2:33 PM). Edited May 2nd, 2009 by The Red Chain.
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Pros ;
  • Battle Frontier has expanded to more than the Battle Tower.
  • Wifi Plaza.
  • Alternate Forms. [Rotom, Shaymin, Giratina.]
  • Distortion World
  • Deeper and more interesting plot.
  • Surf speed is much better.
  • Graphics.
  • Back animations.
  • The layout changes to the Elite Four rooms and some of the gyms look wayy awesome.
  • Hypnosis went from an accuracy of 70% to 60%. [I don't use Hypnosis, it's used on me, so this is a good change imo.]
  • The three legendary Kanto birds can be caught now.
Cons ;
  • Weather Glitch
  • A lot of Pokemon that you find in DP can't be found on Platinum. [Murkrow, Glameow, Misdreavus ect]
  • They redesigned some Pokemon sprites, but it just made them look worse..
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Old May 2nd, 2009 (5:08 PM).
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Another pro: addition of Looker. Charon doesn't really do too much, but I think Looker is a cool character. He's definitely interesting.
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Old May 2nd, 2009 (5:11 PM).
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Pros:
Battle Frontier
Starters in Amity Square
Wifi Plaza
Distortion World

Cons:
Some of the formes can't be used on wifi or battle frontier.
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Old May 3rd, 2009 (8:54 AM).
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PROS:
Less lag (faster surf speed, wait between selecting and using attacks, save time etc)
new formes (it IS possible to use the formes on wifi, but you need an action replay)
distortion world
battle frontier
upgraded storyline
bigger pokedex
rebattle gym leaders/partners
cyrus' character got way more twisted, which is cool

CONS:
the screwed up the names! PLUTO > CHARON, TORN WORLD > DISTORTION WORLD etc
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