Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl Review - The Final Verdict
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- Опубліковано 22 лис 2021
- In spite of a lot of missteps and unforced, unnecessary errors, however, Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are excellent outings. By eschewing a lot of the modern design sensibilities the series imbibes, and hewing so faithfully and closely to the fifteen year old game often regarded to be as one of the series' high points, they end up delivering an uncontroversial, safe, but incredibly fulfilling and compelling Pokemon adventure, the best one we've had in years.
Perhaps there is something to be said about what it means for the Pokemon games that their best game in almost a decade is essentially an almost totally faithful 1:1 port of a fifteen year old game, and that's definitely a discussion that needs to be and should be had. But this isn't a review of the Pokemon series, it's a review of just this one game.
And this one game, by choosing to be unambitious and sticking with what has been known to work, delivers undoubtedly one of the best outings Pokemon has had in years - warts and all. May it remind Game Freak and The Pokemon Company why players fell in love with this series to begin with. - Ігри
Never really played this in 2006 I left the series after Ruby . This is a great game for a first play through now
Same
Same here. I didn't come back till Sword and Shield 😬
Go and play Platinum. Way better than this
@@iliketopotatoe I got Platinum on an emulator, but I purposely didn't finish it since I knew this was coming soon
@@daveyjonez6820 yeah i held off replaying Platinum again because this was coming out, but im already thinking of just going back to playing Platinum after playing this
I completely disagree.
I believe ORAS and HG/SS are vastly superior remakes of their respective originals
BDSP are stubbornly faithful in all the wrong areas. And I disgree with Diamond and Pearl being good games. Platinum is the good game, and it outshines Diamond in Pearl in pretty much every aspect.
So WHY... WHY could you not take Platinum as a base for the remakes, but slap the Diamond and Pearl story onto it?
So many things in this (the clunky to use Pokétch, item distribution (mainly certain evolution items that prevent awesome Pokémon from being used in the main game), Trainers' Pokémon, et cetera) are unnecessarily bad, because they were bad in the originals and the refused to go with Platinum regarding these instead. Also, mandatory catching tutorial is back, though we had just managed to get rid of that in SW/SD.
Yeah, the new Underground is fun, Pokémon following after you is awesome, and the soundtrack is nice, but there just isn't much innovation in these games that justify their existence. HG/SS and ORAS have amazing features that make it worth playing them over the originals. With these, you're just playing a slightly more shiny version of the originals... and again... the originals were actually kinda bad, if you think about it.
THANK YOU
Finally someone said it, being 100% faithful to the original is not a feature, it’s lazy.
100%. I actually felt insulted. There was absolutely nothing for old players. They removed small yet endearing features like the clothing change in the contests, the base decorating system and all the fun that went with it… OR/AS had a sprinkle of new story that bloomed with the delta story at the end. I was blown away by that and said, entirely worth it.
But everything you said and more just left this game so poorly executed and was so disheartening that I legit have no heart to finish the game knowing that there’s nothing new to discover.
I hope Legends is the first of a new line because it offers such a new experience to old games. So much lore can be explored. If it’s just a one off- I’m afraid that diamond will have been the last of my adventures…
@@RogueT-Rex8468 jezz what a snowflake.
I know this game is easy compared to the originals... but for me to buy this game on my switch for my son this Christmas and introduce him to the pokemon world...being easy is somthing as a father I like.
The games pretty easy?
The first like 5 minutes is just constant repeat of the same thing
ORAS was a better remake than this one imo
You mean remake
It's a remake and no
@@roshandinesh6701 Uh, yes it was. Stubbornly sticking to the original does not make this a better remake. If anything you can call this a remaster, while games like FR/LG, HG/SS, and OR/AS are actual remakes, and good ones at that.
@@DerNiko it is sticking to orginal and adding some new stuff so yes it a remake not remaster. Just because megas or distortion world is no there doesnt mean it's a remaster its remake. Also this is a better remake than those expect maybe oras
@@roshandinesh6701 no man. this feels like coming back to an old game that you loved as a kid. but now it just feels outdated and not as exciting because you've seen it all. this "remake" or "remaster" is super uninspired. it might be better than the original because it changed a few things but in that sense you could also say it's worse because there's so much potential wasted by going the safe route of copy & paste.
The game is too easy. I've always tried to be lenient in terms of difficulty, but both this and Let's Go put me RIGHT TO SLEEP like video game melatonin. Platinum Version should've been the groundwork for the remake I feel.
Yes! Way too easy. For example I think I got through 6 gyms without losing a single Pokémon. And I’m no expert at the game. I started trying to make it harder for myself by changing my Pokémon lineup but still. Come on.
Gotta say, I think this is the best review I've seen and in just today I watched about 12 of them. Actually took time to go over points and look into positives and negatives properly. Really enjoyed hearing your thoughts on this one and was really helpful. Thanks
More games need to be like these two! We want the games we love with graphical upgrades, we dont want "brand new gimmick" save that for new games. When I want a remake of a classic I want it to stay true to the classic.
Exactly why I stopped playing at diamond and pearl back in the day
Yup
I agree except for two things. I hated even back then really the random encounter mechanic. They should use the updated roaming Pokémon in my option. And keep the xp share or at least have it as an option.
And I am down for a more difficult pokemon game. But do so in other aspects not making me have to grind each pokemon one by one up.
That’s just hate gate keeping. And grinding isn’t hard.
Make it more difficult by introducing a post game that is more challenging
Great to see a remastered Gen 4 game and I really enjoyed playing through this game the first time again. I think Diamond/Pearl and HeartGold/SoulSilver were some of, if not, the best pokemon games made, adn this remaster is great to have on the Switch of this generation. Also, the music in Diamond/Pearl was just amazing, some of my favorite tracks of the series. Still kind of strange a remastered game is $60 but I guess that the Pokemon Tax...
$50 at walmart
everything from nintendo is $60
Yeah it's just Nintendo. Steam is so much better but hey gotta fleece those children.
i'm considering getting this...but i've played the original as well, and wondering if its worth the money?
I don't think I can bring myself to buy this game. I'd just be paying 60 dollars to replay the game I did 15 years ago, but this time with fewer features. I'd beat the game in 10 hours and then have nothing to do.
100% true. I can confirm because i was silly enough to actually spend those 60 dollars.
You think it would be worth playing if you never played the original Diamond and pearl? i have not played a pokemon game since blue and red on gameboy. I really wanted to check fhis game out but everyone saying it sucks
@@VintageGameZ if you never played the original DPP it would be a nice experience, although it'd be even better if you could get your hand on a copy of the original DPP.
@@VintageGameZ your better off playing platinum unless you wanna play online than play bdsp
I think people need to remember that actual little kids play these games and what’s easy and simple for adult players can be challenging for small children
Shhh. You’re speaking plenty of sense.
Small children can read walls and walls of text made up largely of pretend words? Who knew?!
If they were gonna use the chibi artstyle, they could AT LEAST try and capture the essence of the vivid colour palette and gone all out to stylistically look good like Links Awakening. It looks like they did the bare minimum to translate it to 3d one to one. Honestly Nexomon extinction looked better with this artstyle thanks to its art and colour direction
Agreed it feels lazy
yes, thank you so much for saying it! it baffles me how little i hear critique about the graphics. like how does a multibillion company with already existing engines create something that looks so ugly? it looks like a plastic first render in some new engine they just tested out and just decided to not add anything else to it. the black shadows, the lack of outline, the lack of any nintendo color vividness, it's so upsetting how soulless it's become
@@Lasagna_Prince to be honest, i think i would really enjoy the game but i just dont want to play something that looks so ugly to me. it's honestly absurd how the graphics all look like complete dogshit
@@beerustdv1822 yes i very much agree. i wanted to play some of the older games i haven't played anyways, so i saw this as a great opportunity, but paying 60$ for a game to look like THAT?? i'd rather just find an original version of the game and play it on my nintendo
AGREED.
The bugs are classic memory leak issues and most likely being caused by the auto-save, I disabled auto-save the second I started the game and I have experienced ANY bugs at all, this was also the case with Sword and Shield btw, there's just something wrong with GameFreak's auto-save.
This was developed by ILCA, not GF lol
The only thing I disagree with is the challenging difficulty of trainers, all trainers early to mid game are way too easy and pose no challenge. Another thing is the point you brought up about the poffin game not being touch screen, I believe this wouldn’t make sense because of all the people who play this game docked to a TV.
The game is really hard
So why implement touch screen for anything I believe is what he’s saying? The poffin cooking should definitely be touchscreen, based on the fact that the poketch is and opening the badge case utilizes it. It doesn’t make sense that those would be and that wouldn’t. It doesn’t really matter how many people play it docked. (I exclusively play it on my TV), but I’m sure there are lots of people that have Switch Lite or like to play it in handheld that would take advantage of the poffin cooking having touch screen prompts. And you’re right, the early game is laughably easy.
i had to download a rom hack for gen 1 called blue kaizo becuase all pokemon games our to easy. i cant even beat my rival for the 3rd time his mew is hard as hell
You should look up Renegade Platinum if you want a challenging Pokemon D/P/P experience.
The move animations are a real improvement. The pokemon actually act almost properly according to the move executed.
yes we want the old games back but not like a one to one copy... the world feels empty and generic with the checker board trees. in the early 2000s on a small nintendo screen this might have been enough but now it just feels like a lazy safe copy. the underground is great though. i feel like the devs were like oh yeah people loved the underground mechanic let's focus all dev power on that and just copy & paste the rest of the game with chibi 3D graphics. what a shame...
There really wasn’t too much reason to go so backwards as to giving players the random encounter system instead of seeing the Pokémon roam freely. That aspect as a modern method to catch what you wanted was the greatest idea they’ve had and I regret them not respecting a players time by trailing backwards.
Absolute shit take
Yeah I prefer random spawns
They didn't took it but it's not part of the main game and I love it for that
Random encounter system makes the game fun and more based on chance. You must be the newest pokemon fan ever to have that opinion.
Trash take tbh
Last played Emerald and picked back up on Shield. So I’ll def buy this used for 30$~. Only good thing about missing over a decade of Pokémon is coming back and playing them all
I loved D&P back in the day but this remake just hasn’t excited me like I thought it would. S&S definitely didn’t excite me and not looking forward to the new games either. I need Pokémon to do something different but what that is idk. Or maybe I’ve just out grown Pokémon which is a sad thought really.
Maybe that Arceus game might be the new thing you're looking for.
I tried out Digimon Cybersleuth after the disappointment that was S&S and it was a great change of pace imo.
Legends Arceus looks like a pretty big change for the franchise
@CYB3R2K30 visually it's certainly hindered by the fact that it's a 2015 vita game that was ported to PC and switch in 2019. Yet it's more fun and has better story than any pokemon game I've played in recent years.
As a bonus, the monsters actually have elaborate attack animations.
EDIT: My bad, were you talking about the Arceus game??
I bought the double pack. But I haven't opened it yet....should I keep it sealed?
If you decide to buy one of them to play on top of it and sit on the sealed double pack for some years for resale value.
You can but with these remakes and popular with massive production, I am not sure if they would have future value since a remaster or another remake again may come out. Usually for collectors they want is where the game started like the original booster cards, but hey you never know. It's up to you.
Return it and emulate platinum
@@centipedekid9824 yeah he could but I got a feeling he would want to trade or battle online as well. And not everyone has a pc or laptop or knowledge to emulate the game. If you have the first switch version is so easy to insert a ton of games in it.
I get frustrated because i know none of these issues are ever going to be addressed except bug fixes. Which frustrates the hell out of me because I desperately want pokemon to finally be worth playing anymore but i know that it'll never happen. I feel kinda dumb for getting these games but it's like my only option or get a 80$-100$ platinum copy. Guess this is actually my last pokemon game I'm playing.
Dude legends looks more ambitious
Keyword looks
@@1DPIKI I would be so surprised if that one even come close to botw or stories 2's graphic. It just looks so bad rn.
Character design is terrible I just can’t get over it. They should of used sword and shield character design style instead. We need to not let this happen to remakes like these.
4 minutes in and the review has not started
Nothing but appreciation for the game lol
Right? Lol 17 minute video for a Pokemon game. Very rambling review
The first 3 minutes were quite literally him saying they were nearly “1 to 1” recreations over and over
@@FireRayquaza24 This guy is my least favorite narrator… I mean, I’m aware that he doesn’t write the reviews or play the games, but I’d rather listen Jon or Landon’s voice rambling as opposed to his.
@@Th33anomaly is Landon still with the team? I haven't heard him narrate in awhile.
thanks for this. immediate skip to 4 minutes
3 comments you lucky guy. you see what you said about that disconect on the sweeps (basically its the feeling of beeing fed the understanding of emotion by something witthout actual emotion) is 100% an ai rendition. Just like the GTA definitive edition, which im 100% sure grove studios is a completely autyomated company, and alo cyberpunkafter working with advanced language models and watching leeta (some head of mensa dude talks to the smart ai ellon musk helped with) what a time to be alive
I wish they had a difficulty setting or a new game + mode. Maybe been playing too many soulsborne games lately so i wish pokemon had those features as well. Hopeful update tho 🙏
Sounds like you should try a hardcore nuzlocke with set mode. Super fun challenge!
@@ThoniusB ive always wanted to but idk how to. Ive played hard roms on my phone before but its not the same yk. The dream is an rpg multi region game
@@randomperson8991 so platinum is my personal fave to run it. Basically just don't over level the gym leader, and then no items in battle. Set mode means you don't get to switch your pokemon in for free so you need to know how to switch in while taking as little damage as possible so none of your pokemon die.
@@ThoniusB oh those sound like good ideas thank you!
Soulsborne games dont have a difficulty slider tho
I had Pokémon platinum as a child and I loved it i bought brilliant diamond and love it im Hooked again I’m 21 now and have no regret on my purchase definitely a great throw back
I disagree with this opinion within the first 3 minutes of the review.
Awesome review!! Thank you!
The least the developer could have done was update the Pokédex. The DP dex is incredibly limited
They did update the dex. The grand underground has Pokémon that were not in DP.
@@noahlefebvre29 He means the regional pokedex (the Sinnoh dex).
@@noahlefebvre29 Though you can't use most of them properly, because you can't get their evolution items till Post game... du-dum
10:36 BECAUSE THAT would require the devs to actually stop and calculate if the leveling progression would be balanced to the opponents you face without exp share given average playtime, which would take, you guessed it EFFORT. Instead they are just content with making the games dreadfully easy to cater to the most inept of children with a forced exp share system so they don’t have to actually check in see if the game will function without it. It’s absurd especially for remakes like this one where the work was DONE FOR THEM ALREADY.
The only complaint I have with this game is how you go from having zero challenges(aside from Cynthia) to going to post game and almost everyone having max ev and competitive teams and builds where you are stuck with your in game team as there is no way to transfer your ev and Iv Pokémon from other games to help you out and instead you either have to dump countless hours breeding and ev training or spend hours over leveling and farming money for vitamin to match the post game content but other than that it’s good
Also we probably will get a platinum post game kinda thing like the delta episode but in the form of the crowned tundra where you have to pay to get it
Pokemon bank to transfer your Pokemons?
Tbh, sinnoh and gen 4 was my least favorite. Just found it dull. I wonder, will I like this? Or is it time for me to move on from pokemon?
This game is a good addition to the pokemon gaming community; it is difficult and challenging with excitement and adventure. For puzzles just type them into youtube if you get stuck for anything
I also don't really like the chili asthetic. At first I thought it would be charming but after playing it I realized it's just weird and off-putting at times.
bruh one pet peeve i had was not being able to unlock following pokemon until hearthome, i really wanted to walk with lower stage pokemon like the starters and shinx lol
I miss normal Secret Bases
I look forward to more pokemon legends style games. Arceus is the best Pokemon I've played since Emerald
I wish there was an option to turn off the experience share feature. 😕
Fucking same
4:29 the game wasn’t developed by Game Freak, was it…? I thought it was outsourced.
6/10 for me atm although i just reached Veilstone City.
I personally don't like N-switch's design with the joysticks (terrible for walking straight in pokemon) and the asymmetrical and excessive buttons. (why do i have to push the miniature + buttton to select my registered (key-items) or confirm a nickname?), why is there no interaction with the touch screen?
Personally the Chibi-style isn't my thing but it's the designer's choice so it's fine.
I also share a lot of the opinions in this video about the limited roster due to available (viable) pokemon, how many of us started our journey with
starter mon-Shinx-Starly once again? Only to leave fun pokemon like Kricketot , Croagunk or Cherubi by the side of the road?
I like the fact that this game stays true to the original, but as stated in the video, expanding on the existing content would have been even better. +
I like to compare it with ORAS which for me was a solid 9/10. The new Contest system is ridiculously boring and im bummed that the Veilstone City game corner is not in the game. Talk about a dissapointment.
The only positive i've found in the new game so far is the expansion on the underground tunnel network which is also mentioned in the video although that is simultaniously negated by the fact that there's no interaction with our secret base apart from putting a statue inside of it.
To summarize: I think this had a lot of potential, people had been looking forward to a DP remake for YEARS and being one of those people i have to say im pretty dissapointed.
Thanks for reading my essay. :p
You touched on all the things I’ve been disappointed in so far. I am also in Veilstone City.
The switch sticks have been bad from day one On any game. You should’ve already bought a 3rd party controller by now unless this is your first switch game
@@vetisu_7719 As if the switch in itself wasnt costly enough lmao
@@hieronymousblackmane9152 yeah I’m not arguing that it’s not ridiculous but it really is necessary. Playing breath of the wild on the original controller is abysmal.
I just asked my parents to mail me my old copy of diamond on the ds. I just can't get down with a 1 to 1 remake like this.
Very well written review~
Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are the best versions and remakes and this is coming from a hardcore kanto johto fan I always loved the og dp and platnuim but these remakes are very awesome I love pokemon versions that are top view like these i also like the 3d versions to only versions i didnt care for was og ruby sapphire and the leafgreen firered remakes or black and white 1 and 2 but all other versions I love
Holy friggin frigs encounter rates, Batman! I was almost overleveled for the Elite Four before I even got to the third gym! Yeah, maybe I'm exaggerating, but not by much. I only did trainer battles and was well 10 levels or more above most mons in region and still proc'd wild encounters almost every 3-5 steps. No grinding necessary in this version. The game itself is the grind. If you don't run from half of your battles, you'll become stupidly overleveled and OP. I didn't like it.
Have you played Sword or shield? If so how would compare these with those in terms of difficulty? I thought Sword and Shield were way too easy
Love the beginning of your comment
Wow, pokemon fans will buy anything. They deserve this.
oh and this is what gamwes looked like in our heads kids lol especially zelda that was my first game i choose as a big boy took me time to finish it was stuck with bowow for time... blew my mind though. yo look at ffV!! gone from a badly translated mess to absolute film looking what a time to be alive.
- patiently waiting for an Emerald remake - (as is)
I want to try this eventually..but I can't justify the cost at $79.99
so true pricey.
This game is better than the previous in some ways (admittedly a low bar), but I think I'll just stick with replaying Platinum on my DS.
This makes me less excited for gen 5 remakes, gen 5 was the best gen imo and im worried they will ruin it too.
I loved the Sinnoh region but the horrible type balancing (3 available fire types), lack of any challenge and reason to play if you have the Gen 4 games and the fact no Platinum content was included are massive turnoffs for me.
The whole point of a remake is to take the original and update it with modern improvements.
Its literally the original with an update with modern improvements though.
In general there are flawed remakes, while there bring some of the nice stuff from the originals other parts didn´t aged well or even made it worse for the purpose of being faifhtful.
One example is the Pokewatch, in the originals it was a neat idea because on the Nintendo DS you had two screens, one of them being a touch screen where you can rotate apps with the stylus while also walking or talking with an NPC at the same time. But here is annoying to navegate the Pokewatch because the game is ported on to the Switch, a entirelly different console with only one touch screen that most players would rather not touch directly of fear for damage it in the long run. Not only that but is hard to tell which things can be touched and which not, as you said why you cannot use the screen for Puffin cooking?
R* take note this is a remaster. see all the nice words and actual video footage lol sick though srsly cant remember them much but im a gen 1 kinda guy lol
This isn’t a remaster. This is a remake and was remade from the ground up. The GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition was just a remaster. Nothing like this.
It's a remake do some research
Nintendo still creates games with the old practice of before releasing they need to make sure they have completed the game as much as possible before it ends in a cartridge. Few patches here and there but triple aaa games or companies they make their games in gigabytes. Pc, Xbox, and playstation eats up a ton of hard drives vs Nintendo still on memory cards. They prefer to release it now get a ton of money and may fix it later. Would they change heck no since they can still sell games. This is like their gta online problem back then.
I am looking forward to get both Pokemon brilliant diamond and Pokemon shining pearl games for Christmas🎄. I also would liked to play as Dawn and choose Piplup as my starter Pokemon so I can do better than the anime Dawn and what Piplup would never do. And that is catching more Pokemon and evolve Piplup into Prinplup and then to Empoleon.
However when I was watching UA-cam of any ideas what to expect on Pokemon brilliant diamond and Pokemon shining pearl, but when I was looking to find out about Wonder Trade that I've just found out today that at the moment is unavailable😱. I mean it isn't fair because I was looking forward to get both Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Pokemon Shining Pearl games for Christmas and I was hoping to used Wonder Trade for any Pokemon I want. Now I'm going to have to wait in early January to hear more news at that what I though it's going to happen.
Sinnoh is absolutely not the best map, might be in the bottom 3, tbh. The endless caves feel samey and annoying. Sinnoh has a lot of biome diversity but it feels soooooo artificial and it’s sense of place is even weaker than Johto and Hoenn before it. I don’t get the endless praise of Sinnoh. It’s the worst batch of new Pokémon with high emphasis on making uglier, less cool evolutions of existing Pokémon and Sinnoh itself has never resonated with me. The batch of Gym Leaders is so forgettable it is second only to Kalos’ completely bland people.
finally someone said it. i always get shit for liking 3rd gen better than 4th. many people connect this to their childhood memories and can't see this from an actual game design perspective.
Agreed. Black and White brought me back to this series as Gen 4 really pissed me off.
@@Bornagainvillain Black and White are so unfairly maligned. So much better than Sinnoh, even the Pokémon designs. I said what I said and I stand by it.
@@ryanwall5760 and pokemon had only gotten worse sense. All sense of innovation started to die after gen 5.
@@ryanwall5760 wrong
Never played this one, but I was disappointed by the last few pkmn games so this is gonna be fun
Crystal will always be the best game.
Also, the people that buy these games every release are the reasoning as to why the games get weaker and weaker with each iteration; not enough changes.
Crystal is amazing as well as Emerald, Platinum, HG/SS and ORAS😛
Bad take. People will buy the games they want. It's stupid to blame them because you're not getting the games you want GF to make.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but I would totally hate if the shared exp thing gets taken out of the games... I dont want to play the same game forever I want fast progression. Yes it should be an option I give you that.
I would get the game if it wasn’t for the exp share…
Same
Ditto
I can hear the pain in his voice as he reads the script
Why do some people hate on the 3d i fw it hard thats the best part i can see if you complained about other stuff maybe
I would like a Pokemon: Perfect Platinum Version
What works well on the designs is that Game Freak wasn't behind the development (they outsourced it to another company this time). I know that GF is behind the artistic stylizing of the game, but they didn't have their poor game-play designs all over this remake.
I LOOOOVE the exp share lol
Great but needed platinum content
I think they messed up big time by not adopting the let's go series art/graphics. The only thing I have against these.
Whoever was reading the script for this video desperately needs to work on his reading fluidity
For me as an advanced Player who played Gen4 competitively, it is a huuge disappointment that BDSP does not even have the standard move teachers like in all the other games since Gen4. Today, I bred a Rotom-W and wanted to teach it pain split, when I realized that there actually is no way of teaching pain split to rotom in this game. A lot of Gen-4-OverUsed-pokemon will not have a real purpose in the BDSP meta game because of that and for me, that is just a really frustrating experience. :(
Do.you guys actually check you're scripts before reading? Because the it more an review of the originals and alit of gibber gabber for the first 5 to 7 minutes
Yah he mentioned how amazing the map was like 5 times in a minute while listing things
This review needs some background music !
This review needs a lot of things. But yes I agree, that’s a biggie.
I don't understand why people love gen 4 aside from the final champion battle. The story is not great let's be honest. The rival is fine, but the story is boring and the final battle with the boss happened way too early. Why was I able to catch the box legendary before the elite four? I love the fact that Cynthia can be tough to beat off the bat. I love the elite four being pretty tough to beat. However the actual game and limited mons just weren't fun. I love love love the difficulty of the champion battle though and I want to see more of that in future titles. This is only an opinion and I have enjoyed myself playing the game.
I think people loved that there was over 400 pokemon to catch in gen 4 and there was new mechanics to catch specific pokemon like honey in the trees, or the underground. Outside of that there was a good amount of legends that were event locked but the Action Replay was new and gave access to them without. So for me being in middle school, it was a lot of fun to spend hours looking up codes with my brother seeing what new pokemon we were about to face, hoping we wouldnt get a dirty egg that would crash our game lol. I found out about Darkrai, Shaymin, Giratina, Cresselia, Arceus exclusively from having an AR. And it was pretty cool to be able to get regigigas if you transfered over your other regis from ruby. Outside of all that, not sure what your beef is with being able to catch the box legendaries before the elite 4. Thats like always been the case lol. I had lugia in gen 2, kyogre in the elite 4 hall of fame in gen 3, dialga in gen 4, reshiram in gen 5. And I never beat Y, and never played sun and moon.
@@atticusstephenson2895 My beef with catching a legendary before the elite Four is just that. I don't think we should be able to catch one until after. I understand that in most games legendaries are obtainable before the elite four. That's something I dislike and I wrongfully attributed that to this gen. I'm very wrong for using that in my criticism. The different catching mechanics are interesting however limiting it to 6 hour intervals is so inconvenient. My first playthrough was severlt limited by such a mechanic. Sadly that persists throughout pokemon and I get that. It felt like this generation was a but more penalizing however. I have to check trees every certain amount of hours to get one member on my team and if I can't get it then I have to suspend my progress that much more to get that one pokemon. That is not fun or challenging. Like I said I love the high difficulty but with high difficulty I'd like a little consideration into how much time is plausibly put into it. I don't mind spending an hour or two to get a decent nature. Waiting 6 hours just for a possibility to even catch that mon is just too much.i like the idea of checking specific trees speraticly throughout the region for one mon but the time limit is just not fun. I don't want easy mode but I don't want to have to time my life over trying to catch one pokemon. I rarely even get to use my favorite mons because they're locked behind trades, let alone time exclusive mons. It's just not fun. I understand the excitement but why not just hunt for a shiny in that case? I wasn't trying to be harsh and I appreciate your own criticism of my comment. I still do believe the story isnt great and the post game really doesn't have any story. It's cool to catch legendaries and while these games have a limited pool I do appreciate the way they're handled. It's not just going into a cave and hoping for one of however many. But I mean there really isn't much to the post game. But thst isn't a unique criticism. That goes for all pokemon games. I do however remember a lot of people praising this post game, which I didn't really understand.
I still am playing the game and spending a load of time underground. I still feel I got my money's worth with this title. I do not regret my decision to play it.
I agree with that, in my opinion gen 5 is the best gen, the characters have good backstories and the story is amazing
I find that to be a Very controversial statement. Pokemon's peak was undoubtedly Gold and Silver.
I feel like I may as well play my old copy of platinum rather than buy this new game for 50 bucks. Its such a shame they completely ignored all the things platinum improved on and didn't really add that much to the game. I hate to say that I won't be buying the remake of my favorite pokemon generation.
What are my thoughts? BD & SP are good games. The graphics are weird, but well done. However, the post-game content leaves too much to be desired for my tastes. So, I'm going to have to pass on these games.
Sorry I can't play main series poke games anymore after swsh 🖐🏾😑
lol no. 1st through 3rd gen is objectively "pokemon at its peak". Gen 4 is cool and all, but each game becomes proggresively easier to the point that 2 year olds can breeze through it, less attention to detail, inferior pokemon design, and over mediocrity and pointless dumbing down or removal of useful features for useless ones. Games like FireRed, HeartGold/SS, and Omega Ruby/AS just shit on Gen 7 and 8 so bad it isn't even funny, and still beat out the decent yet frankly a tad lacking Gen 4, 5, and 6. Note that i'm not screaming Red/Blue/Yellow + Gold/Silver/Crystal supremacy, not a "Genwunner", just know quality RPG games when I see them considering i've played well over 200 of them over 30 years.
(Although to be fair there IS something to be said about the INSANE feeling of mystery and the quaint 16 bit-ness of games like Crystal or Emerald that just OOZE the fact that these games were jam-packed with love and attention to detail the likes of which even the remakes tend to lose in the name of graphics and accessability.)
Heart Gold and Soul silver were released in gen 4. So they are still counted a gen 4 even though they are remakes of gen 2. That is why gen 4 is regarded along with platinum as being one of the greatest gens if not the greatest.
I am currently playing SMT V so i dont have any interest in this
I really disagree with the complaint about exp share. It really is jarring to endlessly grind pokemon. I'm happy this will also keep me using more pokemon I did compared to my original run on DS. Not everybody has that free time anymore.
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In sword and shield I can understand not having a toggle for the new xp share, I don't like it, but I can understand it. The original diamond and pearl didn't have this xp share which make no sense at all, Oras did it, if people like it, that's great, but at least give the option to turn it off. It doesn't hurt anybody having a toggle.
What are you talking about the game is good
Keeping the top down view perspective from the original game is a step back imho and I believe the majority of fans would have wanted to be fully immersed in the sinnoh region for the first time ever in a view that would have been similar to sword n shield
Not true. Nobody likes the new way, everything feels way more linear
But why would you recreate the weaker game, Platinum is the superior version so why not just remake that or add features from it to these games?
In my opinion BDSP are the worst remakes of all time. Here are some reasons why:
1. Faithfulness: Unlike other remakes, this game literally copy & pastes 90% of the game from diamond/pearl. Diamond/Pearl are games from 2006. You cannot copy almost everything from a game that more than 15 years old. (Remember this is a remake not a remaster!). Almost everything is copied: All dialogs, the storyline, the chibi art style, the national dex, old pokemon encounters and even the Poketch were copy & pasted to this game. Pokemon games have been improved in the past years and had many quality of life changes like 3D art style, overworld Pokemon encounters and reusable TMs. None of these changes were adapted to the game which is just sad. This game is too faithful and faithful sounds more like a excuse for lazyness.
2. Not-Platinum-Based: So they copy & pasted 90% from the old Sinnoh game but not based on Platinum? Diamond & Pearl had several weaknesses and Platinum fixed many of them and included many Quality of Life changes. Here are some Platinum improvements over Diamond/Pearl: It extends the storyline with additional content, new dialogs, new characters like Charon and a new map Distortion world (loved it). The rival was a bit too weak in Diamond/Pearl which was fixed in Plat. The Poketch has a reverse Button. It has the battle frontier. And finally: the Sinnoh dex which was baaad in Dia/Pearl was fixed. The bad sinnoh dex in dia/pearl has only very few Fire Pokemon (very weird). Gym leaders were forced to use weird mons in the main game like Electric gym leader using Octillery or IceType gym leader using Medicham (WTF? Despite Sinnoh having enough Ice/Electric mons) and also many sinnoh mons were restricted to the postgame. Thats means many of the favourite sinnoh mons cannot be used in your team for the main story. But Platinum fixed this issue and created a NEW sinnoh dex which fixed all these issues which made the main story like a sinnoh game. ALL of these great changes of Platinum where NOT included in BDSP. This means BDSP uses the OLD sinnoh dex, OLD dialogs, OLD storyline, NO new character like Charon, NO distortion world and NO battle frontier. That makes BDSP a worse Sinnoh remake than Platinum which was released in 2008. (Imagine a 2008 DS game of the same Region beats you in ALL aspects. WTF)
3. EXP-Share & Friendship-System: One of the most hated features is the EXP-Share system which often leads to WAY more exp than in the past games. In my opinion, the EXP-Share is not too bad. BUT diamond/pearl were not designed to be played with the new EXP-Share system. So if you include an EXP-Share system, you have to increase all levels of the pokemon (from opponent). But they didnt which makes the difficulty of this game too easy.Basically, my whole team was too oveleveled. And the friendship-system is the worst luck-based system i ever saw. A feature that increases the Critical hit-chance,removes paralysis, lets me dodge 100% accurate moves and even lets me survive moves with 1HP. WTF did you smoke gamefreak? And the worst is that, you cannot make any of these optional. Because of that many players who love to do a nuzzlock in Sinnoh, prefer the old DS games.
3. No Innovation: This game not only copy & pastes the majority of its content, it adds nothing new to the game. Lets review some good remakes: HeartGold/SoulSilver (HG/SS) were Gen 2 remakes and included some storyline from Crystal and added many new stuff like the pokeathlon, battle frontier (from sinnoh), gen 1 map/storyline, a complete national dex and the pokewalker. HG/SS were not copy & pasted, but actually remade the game and added good new stuff. Also Alpha ruby&omega saphire (ORAS) have new changes like new art-style , new designs for Team magma/aqua, new Mega-forms, new Primal forms, changes to dialogs and storyline and the complete national dex. BDSP on the other hand does not provide any kind of major change in the game which makes this game really boring. It does have a new Underground which has overworld pokemon, but that is nothing special for 2022 and the ramanas park was neat but nothing too exciting.
4. Underground/Super-Contest: The old underground allowed to create your own living room with furnitures and set traps to troll friends online. Both were removed for a statue system which is really boring. Collecting statues and the effects of the statues are really disapointing. The Super-Contest used to be a fun-mode where you had many different options and varities and had to have good reflexes to do
the correct moves at the correct time. Now all you have to do is Press A at the correct time and use 1 attack. That makes this mode so boring and disapointing. I mean, was it really that hard to let the player press like 4 different buttons instead of just 'A'??
5. Art-Style: Many of us expected a modern review of Sinnoh in a 3D human like Art-style. But they decided to go for the Chibi-Art-Style. Everyone has different tastes but in my opinion the Chibi-Art-Style ruins many serious moments of the story line of this game, especially vs team galactic. It feels like all the emotions of the characters were removed. The reason why it was used in Diamond/Pearl was because of the limited hardware. In my opinion the Chibi-Art-Style waas the wrong decision and does not suit a switch game at all.
6. Only Gen 4: BDSP has a national dex which includes the pokemon from Gen 1-4 which is basically the same as Diamond/Pearl. As a player who would have loved to see at least some Pokemon from Gen 5-8 in Sinnoh, i am very disappointed. At least some Pokemon post Gen4, or some new forms or at least add Sylveon in this game. Not even mega-forms were included in this game. The fact that 95% of the megas are from Gen1-4 and the underground being the perfect place to grind the mega-stones, makes this decision even more disapointing. The reason why diamond/pearl was limited to Gen 1-4 was because there werent any other new pokemon. The reason why BDSP limited the game to Gen 1-4 is because of lazyness..
7. PVP: On of the worst things in this game is everything arround PVP. The worst disrespect a main series pokemon game can get, is when GameFreak calls that all the competitive tournaments including the world championship will not take place in BDSP (WTF?). Unlike Sword/Shield, you have no option to search for PVP matches which makes it way harder to find battles. But the worst thing is the grind for a PvP team: TMs are not reusable (WHY?!). For some important TMs like Earthquake, you have to grind for 80BP (WTF. Thats a lot of Grind). Also you cannot catch pokemon with hidden abilities except those from poke radar. To get the hidden ability you have to grind for the ability patch for 200BP (WTF. Grind competitive to create a competitive. Nice system). By putting important PVP items behind such ridiculously high grind walls, it makes creating a PVP team disgusting.
8. Events: The events were also copy & pasted from Diamond/Pearl. Same Shaymin event, same Darkrai event. And other events are only accesible if you bought other main series pokemon game (Why..). And finally some garbage "events" which include some useless statues. Meanwhile, the 3 year old SW/SH getting better and innovative events like new PVP cups/tournaments and some legendary shinies. In my opinion the events in BDSP are disapointing.
9. Bugs/Glitches: Holy Moly! This game had so many bugs and glitches! You dont even need hacks, when the game itself has to many glitches. Many of them where completely broken. Many Pokemon clone glitches and item dupe glitches ruined the game. You could even get infinity money, create your own shinies (WTF), make your pokemon 6IV and let any Pokemon learn any move. I used to be in a discord for trading in BDSP and because of the glitches, the trade market was only about getting shiny 6IVs etc. Not to forget to mention the soft locks which made you restart the whole game which can happen for example in the ice gym. Usually every games has a few bugs. But this one had too many and too many game breaking glitches. A very hyped game like this shouldnt be developed by a 3rd party company.. But Gamefreak had other plans..
10. Controls: The controls of this game feel weird and uncomfortable. Characters move in a grid which looks so weird during the storyline. The pokemon who follow me often block me in a bad way. The underground has many inivisible walls which makes moving in some rooms horrible. And finally the control with the cycle are the worst. The cycle in pokemon games are a beloved feature but in this game.. It feels so uncomfortable moving with the cycle, I sometimes even prefer walking.
11. The original Game dia/pearl and also Platinum was sold for like 40$. Meanwhile the clearly inferior game BDSP was sold for 60$. And now if you think about it: That 90% of the game was purely copy & pasted and has plenty of weaknesses and bugs, you realize that BDSP is just a cow getting melked -> Its clearly a rip-off!
12. Conclusion: It feels like GameFreak didnt want to do a Sinnoh remake but wanted to milk some money by releasing the highly demanded Sinnoh remake. The fact that, they hired a 3rd party company who never developed a major game, only supports this theory. Not forget to mention that, BDSP had a giant day one patch which was essential to enjoy the game. The fact that they released Legends Arceus almost 1-2 months after BDSP release also supports the theory, that they didnt care at all for this remake. Because of the release of Legends Arceus, the hiring of ILCA, the amount of glitches, the boring events, the exclusion of VGC, the 0 Innovation in this game and the fact that the majority of the game is copy & paste of a 2006 game (Dia/Pearl) which is worse than a 2008 Game (Platinum), makes this game the worst remake of all time in my opinion.
Give me legends arceus any day of the week
Why is Mew so fat and it's tail is so short.
The contests is completely butchered and it was my fave part of the game 😭
"As is" is said way too much here...
I'd say it's step back from sword and sheild
But overall the region Is a joy to explore
And the core pokemon game is just always fun.
They literally copy pasted a 15 year old game and re selling it 😂 this is basically a 3ds game now
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Only think i don’t like about it is that it’s 60$ :0
As a former kid that fondly remembers playing Red on my game boy with the plug in light because it did not have a backlight then, I will never understand anyone complaining about EXP share. Anyone complaining about EXP share is not going to have a challenge with the game to begin with, and just wants to act like it's making the game easy. If you actually want to make the game a challenge just use 3 Pokémon instead of 6.
I played the originals back in the day (Although my favorites are the G, S, and C versions) and I hate the exp sharing. They could've made it optional for both tastes.
They are complaining because the essence of actually training a virtual pet is gone. It used to be hard and grindy and had that sense of accomplishment and bragging rights that the new Era of pokemon don't have. I stopped playing the games after emerald because the game went to a direction that it feels different. Or maybe I just out grown pokemon. I do still watch reviews just to see if they would make an amazing changes but I can see pokemon had changed to a little bit of digimon.
@@antoniosupan272 Same here. I wanted to dust off my Switch and play a Pokemon game again, but this EXP share makes no sense to me. The games were already extremely easy, but now they remove the only thing that was fun to me - actually training my fav pokemon. Splitting games into two identical roms in 2021 is also insane. I guess I'll wait till I can get Shin Megami Tensei 5 for cheap.
@@Noobirus to be honest I buy tons of games that I don't even play. I have a switch not a single game was played. There are just too many games but not too many time to play and also the drive to play. To be honest I spend more time playing with my psp with custom firmware which I can do with switch but the psp fits in my pocket and I can easily find a USB port to keep it running and even in planes it runs. It can be a flash drive, music, movie and game carrier. Which phone, vita and switch can do as well but it's just smaller and much convenient. Ps1, snes, famcom, arcade, psp, Nintendo 64 and Gameboy games in my psp it keeps me busy already playing all the classic games during travels.
@@antoniosupan272 Had the same problem for some time. But now I only buy games that I am SURE I will play from start to finish. I also stopped playing retro and spamming ~100 hours in a game. I just want to experience new titles, finish them and let go. The only game on Steam I have 100+h in is Grim Dawn, bc I sometimes play it to switch my brain off and relax.
I loved ORAS way more than BDSP
Anyone who never played the original Gen 4 and decides to play this instead is just doing themselves a disservice. This looks so bland. At least if you play the originals, the character and pokemon designs, the graphics, everything goes together and everything is "of it's time" - you're experiences Pokemon in it's pure form as it was in 2006. You're traveling back in time and experiencing history, what it was like to play it back then. This remake just looks like... nothing. Not upgraded to modern 3D visuals, and not capturing the nostalgic 2006 charm of the originals.
If you never played Gen 4, go play the originals, not this
As a Pokémon fan from Gen 1 i have to say I preferred Let’s Go rather then Sword/Shield and I’m so happy these other generations are being remade so I can experience them for the first time the way they should look.
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Yah the intro seemed ominous
nice review. i think i'll pass this year
Unpopular opinion, but these games looks way worse than the originals. I would have preferred they just ported the original diamond and Pearl games to the switch. The 3D chibi models are so bad. It’s honestly a disgrace at how the pokemon company think they can keep putting out these mediocre games for the fans that want to see some real improvement