Pokemon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire is a pinball game featuring the Pokemon from Ruby and Sapphire. That's about it. There are two different boards to play on, arbitrarily named Ruby and Sapphire. The main gameplay is to interact with various elements on the board to reveal Pokemon to catch, evolve, or hatch. The only real goal outside of playing pinball is to catch every single Pokemon, but I think you'd really have to enjoy playing pinball to ever want to approach tackling that. There aren't any other modes aside from that. That isn't to say it's a bad game. The graphics are nice, the physics seem well done, but at the end of the day I simply don't really like pinball all that much, and I like completing the Pokedex even less. If either of those things appeal to you, then I say give this game a look, but I found it tiresome pretty quickly.

Pokemon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire is the second and last entry in the short-lived, but much-loved, Pokemon Pinball spin-off series. While the game plays like a traditional pinball game, where the objective is to get a high score by keeping the ball going as long as possible, it features Pokémon centered minigames and the ability to capture or hatch over 200 Pokémon from the Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn. The game doesn't bring anything revolutionary to the pinball game genre, but it does provide a fun exprience for Pokemon fans to once again try to "catch 'em all."