I first played this game when I was nine; and I had an unbelievably fun time playing it. I was hooked from the beginning. Basically, the story is about you, the player, appearing in front of another Pokemon (that you can choose yourself), and not remembering anything from your past. The Pokemon you meet in the beginning asks you to start a Rescue Team with them, and it gets better from there. Sometimes, there's more story than play, but the story isn't bad. It's actually pretty good. I think that this is a GREAT game. A nice break from the old "all-play, no-story" repetitiveness of Pokemon games.