Read on for tips on how to get started in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. That means they're a unique mixture of new and old, so if you're an old-school Pokemon trainer or you cut your teeth on Sword and Shield, you may be surprised by some of the mechanics and conventions present in these remakes. Click here to learn more about our Review Policy.Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are remakes of the Gen-4 Pokemon games, with some modern quality-of-life tweaks and enhancements.
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Boring textures and an almost purposeful lack of detail takes something that was originally served as a masterful dish and converts it into a repackaged microwaved TV dinner.Ī copy of this game was provided to App Trigger for the purpose of this review. This game takes all those and rehashes it only through the veil of basic 3D characters that have the mobility of Funko Pops. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (Nintendo Switch) Score: 6.5Įverything genuinely good about this game exists mostly because the original Diamond and Pearl games had a good story and interesting characters.
But if you’ve already played this game in the past - unless you really miss Starly’s, the best of the basic bird Pokemon - there’s really no reason to play this game as it just takes literally everything you remember and turns them into a lifeless facsimile. If you never played the original, it’s worth taking a look at, mostly so you can see what happened in the game and experience Team Galactic before Pokemon Legends Arceus shows up and references them constantly. But it’s just so slow-moving and slow boring that servers as an example to my kids as to what Pokemon games used to be like and why they should really be thankful for what they have. Surprisingly, this isn’t the worst Pokemon game. The battles still work exactly like how you’d want one based off an older game to work though, while the animation is pretty, it’s also stuck in a camera angle meant to replicate the original games which is a shame though because you can tell they went ahead and animated your trainer but you can only see it if it happens to wave a hand far enough where it gets on screen.
They also can’t turn their heads or emote beyond the image file on their face changing to a different one which in 2021 is weird to see. The NPCs cannot move on diagonals so it equates to many moments in which a character is zig-zagging and turning in place. I put together a couple of quick moments from scenes so you can see how these characters move. While they were really fun back in the day, it was mostly because we were making do with limited technology and we just had never experienced how good games could really be yet. This is a very “for better or worse” type deal because the old Pokemon games were a slog. There’s some new end game content and a few quality of life features. This is a game that takes every map, every piece of dialogue, every moment and recreates them with a different visual style. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl is a faithful remake of Diamond and Pearl. And the fact that ILCA has made both but are not compatible is a sign. The program allows you to transfer Pokemon from one game to the other. It wasn’t made by The Pokemon Company, but rather a company called ILCA who’s other main title is Pokemon Home. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are remakes of the original Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl. And I want you to know that if you played the game and you’re a long-time Pokemon fan like me, it’s perfectly okay to accept that sometimes bad things will happen. See, I own both Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Pokemon Shining Pearl, and, listen, it’s not great.
There comes a time in any fandom where you have to realize that if you like something, you also have to accept when it’s not great, instead of just rolling with the punch and pretending your beloved franchise, team, country, band, etc is letting you down. It’s that moment when Green Day fans had to deal with their political album and Blink 182 fans had to deal with…alien sightings. It’s that moment when a fan of local sports moves to Cleveland and has to deal with what they got available. It’s that moment when Doctor Who fans have to accept that many of the episodes of any season in the show’s 50+ aren’t great. Before me lies a dilemma that everyone of any fandom must one day go through. By Eric Halliday 11 months ago Follow Tweet
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