Standard Edition
StandardIn the box
- Nintendo DS game card
- Case with cover art
- Instruction booklet
- Pokéwalker
Nintendo DS
Pokémon HeartGold
Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version are 2009 remakes of the 1999 Game Boy Color role-playing video games Pokémon Gold and Silver, also including features from Pokémon Crystal. The games are part of the fourth generation of the Pokémon video game series, developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS.
Role-playing (RPG)Turn-based strategy (TBS)Adventure
- Update patch
- No patch
- Time to beat
- about 24 hours
- Plays offline
- Partly
Overview
Pokémon HeartGold Version and Pokémon SoulSilver Version are 2009 remakes of the 1999 Game Boy Color role-playing video games Pokémon Gold and Silver, also including features from Pokémon Crystal. The games are part of the fourth generation of the Pokémon video game series, developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Gold and Silver, the games were released in Japan on September 12, 2009, and were later released in other regions during March 2010.
HeartGold and SoulSilver take place in the Johto and Kanto Regions of the franchise's fictional universe, which features special creatures called Pokémon. The basic goal of the game is to become the best Pokémon Trainer in both the Johto and Kanto Regions, which is done by raising and cataloging Pokémon and defeating other trainers.
Game director Shigeki Morimoto aimed to respect the feelings of those who played the previous games, while also ensuring that it felt like a new game to those that were introduced to the series in more recent years. The games received positive reviews from critics, and as of March 2014, the games' combined sales have reached 12.72 million, making the two games combined the eighth best-selling DS video games of all time.
Official trailer
Game intro. Watch on YouTube
Gameplay
Nintendo DS Longplay [114] Pokemon HeartGold, World-of-Longplays. Watch on YouTube
Screenshots
Game details
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG), Turn-based strategy (TBS), Adventure
- Developer
- Game Freak
- Publisher
- Nintendo, The Pokémon Company
- Series
- Pokémon
- Platforms
- Nintendo DS
- Age rating
- ESRB E
- Modes
- Single player
- Yes
- Co op
- No
- Age ratings
- PEGI
- 3
- ESRB
- E
- CLASS IND
- L
- CERO
- A
- GRAC
- ALL
- USK
- 0
- ACB
- G
Release dates
| Platform | Region | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Nintendo DS | Japan | 2009-09-12 |
| Nintendo DS | North America | 2010-03-14 |
| Nintendo DS | Europe / PAL | 2010-03-26 |
Editions
Space and patches
Update patchNo patch
Playable today
Playable offline todayPartly
The story and local battles and trades still play; online play is gone.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ever released on disc | Yes, on Nintendo DS game card |
| Ever released in the store | No Never sold digitally. |
| In the store to buy today | No Never sold digitally. |
| Can be downloaded again if you already bought it | Does not exist Never sold digitally. |
| Disc runs with no patch | Yes |
| Disc runs with the final patch | Does not exist No patch was ever released. |
| Has online features | Yes Online battles and trades with HeartGold, SoulSilver, Diamond, Pearl and Platinum over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. |
| Online servers running today | Shut down Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection closed on 20 May 2014. |
| Playable offline today: campaign | Yes |
| Playable offline today: local multiplayer | Yes Battles and trades over local wireless; the Pokéwalker connects by infrared. |
| Playable offline today: online multiplayer | No Online play ended on 20 May 2014. |
Online
Plays offlinePartly
Reception
- Aggregates
Outlet Platform Score Scale Metacritic DS 87 100 - Critics
Outlet Score Scale Eurogamer 9 10 Famitsu 37 40 Game Informer 8.5 10 GamePro 4.5 5 GameSpot 8 10 GameZone 9 10 IGN 8.5 10 Nintendo Power 9.5 10 Official Nintendo Magazine 94 100 VideoGamer.com 9 10
Staff and cast
- Staff
Role Name Developer Game Freak Publisher Nintendo (outside Japan), The Pokémon Company (Japan) Director Shigeki Morimoto Producers Junichi Masuda, Shusaku Egami, Hitoshi Yamagami, Hiroaki Tsuru Artist Takao Unno Writers Akihito Tomisawa, Kenji Matsushima, Toshinobu Matsumiya Composers Go Ichinose, Shota Kageyama, Hitomi Sato, Junichi Masuda, Takuto Kitsuta
Notes for collectors
- Remakes of the 1999 Game Boy Color games Pokémon Gold and Silver, released alongside SoulSilver.
- The first Pokémon in the party follows the player around.
- Every copy came with a Pokéwalker, a pedometer that carries a Pokémon and earns watts; it talks to the game by infrared.
- A copy is only complete with the Pokéwalker.
- 12.72 million copies of the pair sold by March 2014.
Credits
- Publisher
- Nintendo, The Pokémon Company
- Developer
- Game Freak
- Director
- Shigeki Morimoto
- Released
- 2010-03-14
- Age rating
- ESRB E
- Region
- US
- Time to beat
- about 24 hours
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