Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire - Wikipedia Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Pokémon Omega Ruby Pokémon Alpha Sapphire The cover art for Alpha Sapphire featuring the legendary Pokémon Kyogre in its new Primal Kyogre state. Omega Ruby 's cover art features Primal Groudon. Developer ( s ) Game Freak Publisher ( s ) Nintendo The Pokémon Company Director ( s ) Shigeru Ohmori Producer ( s ) Junichi Masuda Shusaku Egami Takato Utsunomiya Hitoshi Yamagami Designer ( s ) Masafumi Saito ( lead ) Kazumasa Iwao ( lead ) Masafumi Nukita ( lead ) Suguru Nakatsui ( lead ) Artist ( s ) Mana Ibe ( lead ) Ken Sugimori Yusuke Ohmura Writer ( s ) Masafumi Nukita ( lead ) Suguru Nakatsui Hitomi Sato Composer ( s ) Shota Kageyama Minako Adachi Hideaki Kuroda Hitomi Sato Series Pokémon Platform ( s ) Nintendo 3DS Release WW : November 21, 2014 EU : November 28, 2014 Genre ( s ) Role - playing Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire ( ポケットモンスター オメガ ルビー & アルファ サファイア, Poketto Monsutā Omega Rubī & Arufa Safaia ) are two 2014 role - playing video games developed by Game Freak, published by The Pokémon Company and distributed by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems. They are part of the sixth generation of the Pokémon series, serving as enhanced remakes of the 2002 Game Boy Advance titles Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. The games were announced on May 7, 2014, in a teaser trailer released by Nintendo. As with Pokémon X and Y, the games include all official translations, unlike previous generations where each game contained only a single language. Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire were released in Japan, North America, and Australia on November 21, 2014, exactly twelve years after the release date of the original Ruby and Sapphire, while the European release was one week later on November 28, 2014. Contents 1 Gameplay 2 Plot and setting 3 Reception 4 References 5 External links Gameplay Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire retain most of the features of Pokémon X and Y, such as Mega Evolution and Super Training. The games introduced new features including Primal Reversion for Groudon and Kyogre, as well as using Latios or Latias to fly around Hoenn. Plot and setting See also : Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire § Synopsis The plot and setting of Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire are mostly the same as the original Ruby and Sapphire games. The game begins as the player is seen riding in the back of a moving truck. The player character starts by moving to the Hoenn Region from the Johto Region with his / her mother, as their father Norman has been hired as the leader of the Petalburg City Gym. The player arrives with their parents at the family 's new home in the village of Littleroot Town, on the southern edge of the main island. The player character begins their Pokémon Trainer journey by saving Professor Birch, the leading scientist in the Hoenn region, from a wild Pokémon, choosing either Treecko, Torchic, or Mudkip to defend him. Following the defeat of the wild Pokémon, the player receives the chosen Pokémon as their starter. They then travel around the Hoenn Region to complete their Pokédex and battle the eight Gym Leaders of the Hoenn Pokémon League. Along the way, the player character encounters the antagonist group Team Magma in Omega Ruby or Team Aqua in Alpha Sapphire who wish to use the power of the Legendary Pokémon, Primal Kyogre in Alpha Sapphire and Primal Groudon in Omega Ruby, to change the world to suit their desires. Team Magma wants to use Groudon to dry up the oceans to make the world a haven for land Pokémon while Team Aqua wishes to summon Kyogre to flood the lands to suit Water Pokémon. With the help of Hoenn League Champion Steven Stone and the Gym Leader Wallace, the player defeats their respective team and then either captures or defeats the Legendary Pokémon to prevent a global drought / flooding, and thus ensuring the teams ' mutual reformation. The player then advances on to the Pokémon League, challenging the Elite Four and then Steven to become the new Hoenn Pokémon League Champion. The player also has the option of participating in the various Pokémon Contests throughout Hoenn, using their Pokémon to put on a performance for an audience and judges. Aside from the gameplay, 20 new Mega Evolutions were added since Pokémon X and Y to enhance gameplay. A new side quest featured in Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire is called the Delta Episode. The player character must work with the new character Zinnia, Steven, and Professor Cozmo to find a way to stop a meteor from crashing into the planet, which requires capturing the Legendary Pokémon Rayquaza in order to stop the meteor which contains the Mythical Pokémon Deoxys. Reception Reception Aggregate score Aggregator Score Metacritic 83 / 100 ( OR ) 82 / 100 ( AS ) Review scores Publication Score Famitsu 37 / 40 Game Informer 8.75 / 10 GameSpot 8 / 10 IGN 7.8 / 10 Joystiq Nintendo World Report 9 / 10 Polygon 8 / 10 Hardcore Gamer 4 / 5 Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire have received positive reviews from video game critics. GameSpot 's Peter Brown praised the 3D visuals and the super training mechanic, but believed the game failed to fully resolve general issues in the game formula. IGN 's Kallie Plagge also praised the game 's 3D reinvention of Hoenn and online functionality. Plagge was critical of the over-abundance of HMs needed to play the game as well as the perceived imbalance favoring Water - type Pokémon ( she played Alpha Sapphire which features Team Aqua as the villains ) and the reliance on water - based routes. She remarked that while the Dive feature was novel in the original release, it had since become tedious. The games sold 3,040,000 copies in their first three days of sale. Of the total sales, 1,534,593 copies were sold in Japan, the rest were sold in North America and Australia. Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire had the biggest launch in the series history in the United Kingdom, beating the previous record held by Pokémon Black and White. By the end of 2014, the games had sold 2.4 million copies in Japan. As of December 31, 2017, the games have sold 13.94 million copies worldwide. References Jump up ^ `` Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire ''. Pokemon.com. Nintendo / The Pokémon Company. Retrieved May 8, 2014. Jump up ^ Scullion, Chris ( May 7, 2014 ). `` Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire remakes coming to 3DS ''. Computer and Video Games. Retrieved May 7, 2014. Jump up ^ Ong, Larry ( May 7, 2014 ). `` Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Out for Nintendo 3DS in November 2014 ( + Video ) ''. Epoch Times. Retrieved May 8, 2014. Jump up ^ `` 『 Pokémon Omega Ruby 』 及 『 Pokémon Alpha Sapphire 』 ( 日文 版 ) 新 資訊 介紹 ''. Nintendo ( Hong Kong ) Ltd. ( Taiwan ). Retrieved September 23, 2014. Jump up ^ `` 『 Pokémon Omega Ruby 』 及 『 Pokémon Alpha Sapphire 』 ( 日文 版 ) 新 資訊 介紹 ''. Nintendo ( Hong Kong ) Ltd. Retrieved September 23, 2014. Jump up ^ `` The Delta Episode : A New Story Brewing in Hoenn ! ''. Pokemon ( official US website ). Retrieved December 28, 2014. ^ Jump up to : `` Pokemon Omega Ruby for 3DS Reviews - Metacritic ''. Metacritic. Retrieved November 25, 2014. ^ Jump up to : `` Pokemon Alpha Sapphire for 3DS Reviews - Metacritic ''. Metacritic. CBS Interactive Inc. Retrieved November 25, 2014. Jump up ^ Hilliard, Kyle ( November 21, 2014 ). `` Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Review ''. Game Informer. Retrieved November 21, 2014. Jump up ^ Brown, Peter. `` Pokemon Alpha Sapphire / Omega Ruby Review - GameSpot ''. GameSpot. Retrieved November 18, 2014. Jump up ^ Plagge, Kallie. `` Pokémon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby Review ''. IGN. Retrieved November 18, 2014. Jump up ^ `` Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire review : A real gem ''. Joystiq. Retrieved November 18, 2014. Jump up ^ `` Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Review - Review ''. Nintendo World Report. Retrieved November 18, 2014. Jump up ^ McElroy, Griffin ( November 19, 2014 ). `` Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Review : Fresh Paint ''. Vox Media, Inc. Retrieved November 19, 2014. Jump up ^ Whittaker, Matt ( November 25, 2014 ). `` Review : Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire ''. Hardcore Gamer. Hardcore Gamer. Retrieved November 30, 2014. Jump up ^ Peter Brown ( November 18, 2014 ). `` Pokemon Alpha Sapphire / Omega Ruby Review - GameSpot ''. GameSpot. Retrieved November 20, 2014. Jump up ^ `` Pokémon Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby Review ''. IGN. November 18, 2014. Retrieved November 20, 2014. Jump up ^ Phillips, Tom ( November 26, 2014 ). `` Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire sell 3m copies in three days ''. Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved November 26, 2014. Jump up ^ Phillips, Tom ( December 1, 2014 ). `` Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire UK 's biggest Pokémon launch ever ''. Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved December 1, 2014. Jump up ^ Phillips, Tom ( January 7, 2015 ). `` Japan 's console market at lowest point for 24 years ''. Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved January 7, 2015. Jump up ^ `` Top Selling Software Sales Units - Nintendo 3DS Software ''. Nintendo. December 31, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2018. External links Official website ( in Japanese ) Official website ( International ) Pokémon Nintendo Game Freak Satoshi Tajiri Ken Sugimori Junichi Masuda Creatures Inc. 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Question: when did pokemon omega ruby and alpha sapphire come out
Answer: November 21, 2014