Within the Sinnoh region, one trainer embarks on a journey of self-discovery and comes upon a nefarious plan that may disrupt the balance of space and time. With the help of their comrades, and their trusted team of Pokemon, do they have what it takes to save their world? In today's episode, I review all the shine and gloss there is to find with the new remakes, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. Does it capture the charm of the original games? Does it make significant improvements to the game? Listen and find out!
Other titles discussed: Pocket Card Jockey, Super Crooks, Hawkeye
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THEME SONG "Capture Soul" by J1K from the "School Daze" beat tape
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Released on November 19, 2021
Developed by ILCA, and directed by Yuichi Ueda and longtime series director, Junichi Masuda
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl is a remake of the original 2007 Nintendo DS games, Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. For those that are unfamiliar with how this franchise works, each new Pokemon release, over time, is referred to as a “generation”. Over time, each generation would subsequently get a remake of that original game that updates the gameplay mechanics to the current hardware. For example, generation one included games like Red and Green in Japan, Red and Blue worldwide, for the original gameboy back in the mid to late 1990s. In 2004, these games were remade into Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen, now on the GameBoy Advance. Now updated for the Nintendo Switch, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, are the latest remakes within the series.
As far as Pokemon games go, the original Pokemon Diamond and Pearl were fairly standard entries during the DS era that didn’t necessarily shake up the formula in groundbreaking new ways but was still quite enduring with fans, nonetheless when it was released worldwide. Cut to fifteen years later and Game Freak, the longstanding developer of every previous mainline Pokemon game, have now handed over the reins to a new developer ILCA who had previously had a hand in creating the Pokemon Home application. Yet, despite this major change, all the same ingredients that comprised the original games are very much intact in BDSP. However, though fans have long awaited for a remake of this generation, BDSP has been incredibly divisive amongst the community. Breaking away from tradition set by previous remakes, BDSP doesn’t adopt much of the same visual style of the current generation and instead emulates the original DS games with a chibi art style that feels glaringly strange and lifeless at first, but becomes easy to adjust to overtime. Another major change is the exclusion of monsters from later generations, while also baffling retaining later quality of life additions such as the Fairy type, and its respective moveset and other minor gameplay elements found in subsequent games.
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