So, I got my hands on Pokemon Platinum recently. This is actually the first Pokemon game that I have purchased at its original release date. Well, there was Leafgreen, but I don't think it counts because it was a remake of Pokemon Blue, a game that I didn't even play until about five years after the Pokemon craze first hit our shores...or was that when I was still into hating them, after being a fan for about five years? For those of you who are newer here, I had a checkered past as an AP ( that's "anti-pokemon") advocate.