Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire

Pokémon Omega Ruby
Pokémon Alpha Sapphire

The cover art for Alpha Sapphire featuring the legendary Pokémon Kyogre in its new Primal Kyogre state. Omega Ruby's cover art features Primal Groudon.
Developer(s) Game Freak
Publisher(s) The Pokémon Company
Distributor(s) Nintendo
Director(s) Shigeru Ohmori
Producer(s) Junichi Masuda
Designer(s) Masafumi Saito (lead)
Kazumasa Iwao (lead)
Masafumi Nukita (lead)
Suguru Nakatsui (lead)
Artist(s) Mana Ibe (lead)
Ken Sugimori
Yusuke Ohmura
Writer(s) Masafumi Nukita (lead)
Suguru Nakatsui
Hitomi Sato
Composer(s) Shota Kageyama
Minako Adachi
Hideaki Kuroda
Hitomi Sato
Series Pokémon
Platform(s) Nintendo 3DS
Release date(s)
  • WW: November 21, 2014
  • EU: November 28, 2014
Genre(s) Role-playing

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire (ポケットモンスター オメガルビー&アルファサファイア Poketto Monsutā Omega Rubī & Arufa Safaia) are two 2014 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. They are part of the sixth generation of the Pokémon series, serving as enhanced remakes of the 2002 Game Boy Advance titles Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.[1] The games were announced on May 7, 2014, in a teaser trailer released by Nintendo.[2][3] As with Pokémon X and Y, the games include all official translations, unlike previous generations where each game contained only a single language.[4][5]

Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire were released in Japan, North America, and Australia on November 21, 2014, exactly twelve years after the release date of the original Ruby and Sapphire, while the European release was one week later on November 28, 2014.

Gameplay

Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire retain most of the features of Pokémon X and Y, such as Mega Evolution and Super Training. The games introduced new features including Primal Reversion for Groudon and Kyogre, as well as using Latios or Latias to fly around Hoenn.

Plot and setting

The plot and setting of Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire are mostly the same as the original Ruby and Sapphire games. The game begins as the player is seen riding in a moving truck. The player character starts by moving to the Hoenn Region with his/her mother, as their father Norman has been hired as the Petalburg City Gym Leader for a town in the Hoenn region. The player character begins their Pokémon Trainer journey by saving Professor Birch, the leading scientist in the Hoenn region, from a wild Pokémon, choosing either Treecko, Torchic, or Mudkip as their first Pokémon. They then travel around the Hoenn Region to complete their Pokédex and battle the eight Gym Leaders of the Hoenn Pokémon League. Along the way, the player character encounters the antagonist group Team Magma in Omega Ruby or Team Aqua in Alpha Sapphire who wish to use the power of the Legendary Pokémon, Primal Kyogre in Alpha Sapphire and Primal Groudon in Omega Ruby, to change the world to suit their desires. Team Magma wants to use Groudon to dry up the oceans to make the world a haven for land Pokémon while Team Aqua wishes to summon Kyogre to flood the lands to suit Water Pokémon. With the help of Hoenn League Champion Steven Stone and the Gym Leader Wallace, the player defeats Team Magma or Team Aqua and then captures or defeats the Legendary Pokémon to prevent a global drought/flooding, and thus ensuring the teams' mutual reformation. The player then advances on to the Pokémon League, challenging the Elite Four and then Steven to become the new Hoenn Pokémon League Champion. The player also has the option of participating in the various Pokémon Contests throughout Hoenn, using their Pokémon to put on a performance for an audience and judges. Aside from the gameplay, 20 new Mega Evolutions were added since Pokémon X and Y to enhance gameplay. A new side quest featured in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire is called the Delta Episode.[6] The player character must work with the new character Zinnia, Steven, and Professor Cozmo to find a way to stop a meteor from crashing into the planet, which requires capturing the Legendary Pokémon Rayquaza in order to stop the meteor which contains the Legendary Pokémon Deoxys.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate scores
AggregatorScore
GameRankings83.79% (OR)[7]
82.73% (AS)[8]
Metacritic83/100 (OR)[9]
82/100 (AS)[10]
Review scores
PublicationScore
Famitsu37/40
Game Informer8.75/10[11]
GameSpot8/10[12]
IGN7.8/10[13]
Joystiq[14]
Nintendo World Report9/10[15]
Polygon8/10[16]
Hardcore Gamer4/5[17]

Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire have received positive reviews from video game critics. GameSpot's Peter Brown praised the 3D visuals and the super training mechanic, but believed the game failed to fully resolve general issues in the game formula.[18] IGN's Kallie Plagge also praised the game's 3D reinvention of Hoenn and online functionality. Plagge was critical of the over-abundance of HMs needed to play the game as well as the perceived imbalance favoring Water-type Pokémon (she played Alpha Sapphire which features Team Aqua as the villains) and the reliance on water-based routes. She remarked that while the Dive feature was novel in the original release, it had since become tedious.[19]

The games sold 3,040,000 copies in their first three days of sale. Of the total sales, 1,534,593 copies were sold in Japan, the rest were sold in North America and Australia.[20] Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire had the biggest launch in the series history in the United Kingdom, beating the previous record held by Pokémon Black and White.[21] At the end of 2014 the games have sold 2.4 million copies in Japan.[22] As of September 30, 2016, the games have sold 13.18 million copies worldwide.[23]

References

  1. ↑ "Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire". Pokemon.com. Nintendo/The Pokémon Company. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  2. ↑ Scullion, Chris (May 7, 2014). "Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire remakes coming to 3DS". Computer and Video Games. Retrieved May 7, 2014.
  3. ↑ Ong, Larry (May 7, 2014). "Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Out for Nintendo 3DS in November 2014 (+Video)". Epoch Times. Retrieved May 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ "『Pokémon Omega Ruby』及『Pokémon Alpha Sapphire』(日文版)　新資訊介紹". Nintendo (Hong Kong) Ltd. (Taiwan). Retrieved September 23, 2014.
  5. ↑ "『Pokémon Omega Ruby』及『Pokémon Alpha Sapphire』(日文版)　新資訊介紹". Nintendo (Hong Kong) Ltd. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
  6. ↑ "The Delta Episode: A New Story Brewing in Hoenn!". Pokemon (official US website). Retrieved December 28, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Pokemon Omega Ruby for 3DS/2DS - GameRankings". GameRankings.com. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Pokemon Alpha Sapphire for 3DS - GameRankings". GameRankings.com. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Pokemon Omega Ruby for 3DS Reviews - Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  10. ↑ "Pokemon Alpha Sapphire for 3DS Reviews - Metacritic". Metacritic. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved November 25, 2014.
  11. ↑ Hilliard, Kyle (November 21, 2014). "Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Review". Game Informer. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
  12. ↑ Brown, Peter. "Pokemon Alpha Sapphire/Omega Ruby Review - GameSpot". GameSpot. Retrieved November 18, 2014.
  13. ↑ Plagge, Kallie. "Pokémon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby Review". IGN. Retrieved November 18, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire review: A real gem". Joystiq. Retrieved November 18, 2014.
  15. ↑ "Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Review - Review". Nintendo World Report. Retrieved November 18, 2014.
  16. ↑ McElroy, Griffin (November 19, 2014). "Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Review: Fresh Paint". Vox Media, Inc. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  17. ↑ Whittaker, Matt (November 25, 2014). "Review: Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire". Hardcore Gamer. Hardcore Gamer. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
  18. ↑ Peter Brown (November 18, 2014). "Pokemon Alpha Sapphire/Omega Ruby Review - GameSpot". GameSpot. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  19. ↑ "Pokémon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby Review". IGN. November 18, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  20. ↑ Phillips, Tom (November 26, 2014). "Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire sell 3m copies in three days". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
  21. ↑ Phillips, Tom (December 1, 2014). "Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire UK's biggest Pokémon launch ever". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  22. ↑ Phillips, Tom (January 7, 2015). "Japan's console market at lowest point for 24 years". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
  23. ↑ "Top Selling Software Sales Units - Nintendo 3DS Software". Nintendo. June 30, 2016. Retrieved July 27, 2016.
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