Pokémon Platinum Version is a 2008 role-playing computer game developed by Video game Freak, released by The Pokémon Business as well as Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It is an improved variation of Pokémon Ruby and Pearl and becomes part of the 4th generation of the Pokémon computer game series. It was launched in Japan on September 13, 2008, and later in North America, Australia, and Europe in 2009. The developers made Platinum with the intent of making it a more powerful version of Ruby and also Pearl, which they called the best Pokémon titles. In Platinum, players manage either a male or female character as well as start with one of three Pokémon provided to them from Professor Rowan. The mascot Pokémon is Giratina, who plays a main duty in the video game's story. While it only had one kind in Diamond as well as Pearl, it is given a new alternating type along with a new location called the Distortion World, which features modified physics from the reg...