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Pokémon Platinum Version (ポケットモンスター プラチナ Poketto Monsutā Purachina, "Pocket Monsters: Platinum [Platina]") is a director's cut version of Diamond and Pearl in the same vein as Pokémon Yellow, Crystal, and Emerald.[93][94] It was released for the Nintendo DS in Japan on September 13, 2008,[95] in North America on March 22, 2009,[96][97] and in Australia and Europe on May 14, 2009[98] and May 22, 2009[99] respectively.
The game features Giratina as its mascot and introduces its Origin Forme, a new form of the Pokémon as seen in the movie Giratina and the Sky Warrior.[100]. However, once the player comes out of the Distortion World, Giratina returns to its original "Altered Forme" as seen in Diamond and Pearl. With the use of a new item called the Griseous Orb found in the game, the player can decide which forme it uses. The game's storyline involves the awakening of Giratina, after which the Pokémon opens a portal to the "Distortion World", an alternate dimension in which the normal laws of physics do not apply.[96][101] Other added features include the Battle Frontier (first introduced in Pokémon Emerald), which in Platinum adds three new facilities: the Wi-Fi Plaza; an arcade area, in which the player can play minigames with other people over the Wi-Fi connection; and the Vs. Recorder which allows players to save and replay videos of battles between friends.[96][102][103]Shaymin, which was distributed in Japan as part of admittance to the aforementioned film and in America through a promotion via Toys "R" Us, also gained a new form in Platinum, the Sky Forme. When traded to Diamond or Pearl from Platinum, it will transform from its Sky Forme back to its regular form, the Land Forme.[104] With the use of a new item in Platinum, the Gracidea Flower (which can be unlocked after obtaining the event Shaymin), Shaymin can be changed between its two forms.[105] When the special Regigigas that is given out with a pre-order ticket for Giratina to Sora no Hanataba: Shaymin is traded from Diamond or Pearl to Platinum, it activates an event that makesRegirock, Regice, and Registeel available to catch in Platinum.[106][107] Like Shaymin, Regigigas was released in America via Toys "R" Us. Additionally, five exclusive forms of Rotom were introduced,[108] all of which are can be unlocked with a Secret Key available for download viaPlatinum's Mystery Gift function.
Pokémon Platinum sold 1 million copies in its first two days on the Japanese market.[109] By December 2008, Platinum had sold nearly 2.2 million units, making it Japan's best-selling DS game and second-best-selling game overall for 2008.[110][111][112] On March 21, 2009, the day before the North American release of Platinum, Nintendo held a launch celebration at Nintendo World Store in New York City.[77] In just nine days, the game sold 805,000 units in the U.S., the second-highest game sales for the month.[113] In a hands-on preview of Platinum, Kat Bailey of 1UP.com praised the game's many new features as well as its improvements in interface and graphics: "Pokémon fans probably won't be found wanting with Platinum. Even after you finish up the main quest, stop messing around with the Battle Recorder, and clear out the Battle Frontier, you've still got side quests and contests to keep you busy. And once you venture back down the Pokémon rabbit hole, you won't be coming up again for a while."[108] Famitsu gave the game a 9/9/9/9 score for a total of 36 points, saying, "From the new story elements to the addition of the Battle Frontier, there's a ton of neat stuff, and you're getting a lot for your money here."[95] Craig Harris of IGN gave Platinum an 8.8 out of 10; though he praised the addition of the Distortion World, he felt that the "weak visuals" made the gameplay in the Distortion World "a little clunky" and that the addition was too minor to make the game a worthwhile investment for people who had already played Diamond or Pearl.[114] Likewise, Game Informer gave the game an 8.5 out of 10 for being "a good RPG" but felt Platinum was "Not worth playing mostly unchanged content all over again unless you're a superfan.
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