The player's Totodile, which is one of the game's three starter Pokémon, follows him.

The player first encounters a member of Team Rocket in Slowpoke Well. The games have 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. 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 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. HeartGold and SoulSilver take place in the Johto and Kanto region of the franchise's fictional universe, which features special creatures called Pokémon. 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. The games are part of the fourth generation of the Pokémon video game series and were developed by Game Freak, published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. SIIS = Super II Sonik.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. Such hacks include The Incredibles and Super II Sonik (which features music from Parasol Stars instead of Lemmings.) and due to these difference hacks the level order has been changed a lot. This game has been hacked several times with mostly just different stage graphics.

Scattered about the stages are the typical power-ups such as health items and such. While some of the stages seem fairly open, the player merely needs to reach the exit point in the level to progress through the game. The game has a total of four levels and a boss stage in which the player fights an Electabuzz. Pokémon Platinum is a fairly standard platformer where you can choose to play as either Psyduck, Pichu, Abra, or Flareon, though they don't seem to differ much in abilities.

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