Pokémon HeartGold

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Pokemon Heart Gold
Pokemon HeartGold Japanese boxart
Developer	Game Freak
Publisher	Nintendo
Release Date(s)	JP: September 12, 2009 NA: Q1, 2010 EU: Q2, 2010 AUS: Q1, 2010
Ratings	3+ E
Players	4
Compatible with	Gen III Gen IV
Paired with:	Pokémon SoulSilver
Succeeded by:	N/A

Summary

Pokémon Heart Gold is a remake of Pokémon Gold. The game will contain all of the Pokemon from the original game, in addition to Pokemon from generations three and four.

Plot Synopsis

Heart Gold re-tells the story of a young boy who grew up in the Johto region, who aspires to become a Pokemon Master. Beginning from New Bark Town, the player will have to catch. raise, and battle a team of Pokemon in order to collect the region's 8 badges for a shot at the Pokemon League finals. Along the way numerous legendary Pokemon will make appearances, and the player will be forced to deal with the maniacal Team Rocket, a quirky professor, and a hotheaded rival whose every move is aimed at taking the hero down.

Features

Example of a Pokemon following the trainer

A single Pokemon can be set to follow the player (as they did in Pokémon Yellow: Special Pikachu Edition). It must be in the first slot of your party. A Pokemon following the trainer may occasionally pick up items off the ground.
Graphics are on par with fourth generation titles (Pokémon Diamond, Pokémon Pearl and Pokémon Platinum).
Lugia and Ho-oh figurines will be given out when you pre-order their respective game. (Lugia for SoulSilver and Ho-oh for HeartGold) In addition if you pre-order both games an Arceus figurine will be given. No word on whether or not these offers will be available for countries outside of Japan.
The 16 Gym Leaders of Kanto and Johto are back! Players can hold rematches with the leaders once specific criteria has been met. Rematches will take place in the Fighting Dojo in Saffron City.
After besting the Elite 4, players will have the opportunity to battle them again -this time with even tougher Pokemon!
The Platinum Battle Frontier makes a return appearance.
Pokéthlon opens in Johto! Participating in Minigames will net you some nifty prizes this time around: Heart Scales, Metal Coats, Nuggets, Rare Candies, and more!
The touch-screen can be used to manage the Bag, Pokédex, PC Boxes, and the Pokégear.
The Radio now serves and even greater purpose -on Wednesdays a Hoenn Channel program plays- listening to the program will cause Pokemon from Hoenn to appear in the wild. The Radio also tells where Swarm Pokemon can be found, as well as where Sinnoh Pokemon have been sighted.

Pokéwalker

An additional tool has been included in the Heart Gold/Soul Silver game boxes, something that die-hard trainers will definitely want to take advantage of. The device is a pedometer (called the Pokéwalker) that allows players to transfer over one Pokemon from their Heart Gold/Soul Silver game save, as an alternative way to earn experience points (EXP) and raise the Pokemon's happiness.

Learn how it works: Pokéwalker