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.

Reviewed on Sep 20, 2023


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