Don't Watch This Review of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

There's no real point.
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[@jsenn8140]

No need to be worried Arlo, this video has ZERO dislikes! That means everyone agrees on how stagnant this franchise is!

[@GoldenDragon007]

For being "faithful" remakes, they sure weren't very faithful when it came to the origianal $40 price tag. Funny that.

[@donnylurch4207]

I stuck up for the art style at first, but it almost immediately became apparent they did not utilize it well. When Barry runs out his door and bumps into the player at the start of the game, he does exactly what his 2D sprite did: He exits the buildings, abruptly is stopped by the player's sprite, and a little digital noise accompanies the text "*THUMP*". Would have been really nice if they animated him running, stumbling, waving his little arms around, and putting on a shocked expression, don't you think? You can get away with "*THUMP*" in a 2D, standard-def, sprite-based game because that's all you can really do with the limits set on you. Here, the higher detail in the fully rendered, 3D models only highlights the complete lack of liveliness and expression in every character action.

[@brownranger1797]

The $60 cost for a remake that adds nothing and sometimes even detracts from the original game is such an obvious cash grab I couldn't clutch my wallet any tighter.

[@Tate56565656]

can you imagine if pokemon consistently improved every game? like we had soaring, megas, pokemon following you etc in all the games? if gamefreak would just do this pokemon would be a god tier series

[@thebaconator1883]

It’s almost like hiring people who have never fully developed a game before develop a game that can not be delayed AT ALL is a bad idea

[@sk00ks41]

This SHOULD be seen as unacceptable, but for some reason it isn’t. Why should it be seen as wrong to have minimum expectations for a fully priced game? Compare this to nearly any triple A 60 dollar game and its incomparable. Even older Wii games look better! Battle Revolution IMO is STILL the best looking pokemon has ever been, and that’s just depressing. It’s over 10 years old at this point.

[@Missiletainn]

When a game is advertised as "faithful", it's shorthand for lazy.

[@keebs5780]

Wait, I’m sorry - they don’t give Cyrus a NAME in the remakes?? He’s literally just called Boss?? Wtf

[@ThatBugBehindYou]

How convenient that such a faithful remake doesn't carry a faithful pricetag.

[@chugga]

This is the first main Pokémon game I have no intention of buying. I've had 13 years to play Platinum, it's one of my favorite games, and I've played it many times before. And like... I could spend a week of my time playing a worse version of Platinum. Or I could just... play any of the many new games that came out around the same time instead? I just don't get why this needs to exist when they're ignoring the better version they already put out over a decade ago. By their own measure, they've acknowledged the flaws with Diamond & Pearl and fixed them, just to... pretend they didn't need fixing later? If I get the urge to replay this, I'm going to choose Platinum every time cause it has more stuff and improves on many things.

[@PokeMaster22222]

9:47

[@Bluefire397]

I played Shining Pearl through a copy my friend lent to me free of charge and I still felt robbed.

[@thatonecommenter7169]

So not only did they take Cyrus's nose, his name is also gone

[@chrismahanna8101]

I will say right now that when people talk about the greatness of gen 4, they are usually referrng to platinum, whihc was more fleshed out and more balanced than diamond and pearl. That is the main reason why so many people were disapponted with these games being essentially graphically better games with some new moves and new types. I also think that part of what made gen 4 so coveted is that it was more difficult than many of the other games, which is why a lot of the newer additions like locked exp share hinder the game

[@Phantanatomy]

I’m glad to hear the games criticized like this. So often when people try to critique Pokémon they’re just called toxic and an example of why the Pokémon community sucks, when in reality we just hate seeing the Pokémon company put such little effort into games that mean so much to us.

[@Malisteen]

Most people with shining memories of diamond & pearl are actually remembering platinum instead. Still kind of a generic pokemon adventure, but a significant step up from the original g4 games.

[@masonharvath-gerrans832]

This game was a faithful remake, except where it counts. Even so, Pokémon’s remakes were known for being 1) developed by Game Freak itself, and 2) integration of the current generation’s mechanics. BDSP was outsourced and lack any real innovation.

[@sokumotanaka9271]

"But a remake should enhance and modernize a game so if feels like the original of the original were made today!"

[@jeremyelkayam]

The thing Arlo didn't mention about this game that has really been bothering me is the lack of multiplayer modes. The original Diamond and Pearl really went all-out with multiplayer with the GTS, Union room, underground, poffins, and more. In this "faithful" remake, they've removed all functionality from the Union room except battling, trading, and mixing records. No drawing, no chat, no spin trades. And it's limited to 2 people now, a limitation that not even the GBA games had. Underground multiplayer might as well be singleplayer because they've removed almost all of the interactions that you can have with other players. Wi-Fi Plaza minigames are also totally gone. If this is supposed to be a "faithful" remake, they could at least do the bare minimum of including everything that was there in the original. They've said the GTS is coming down the line, but at this point the game's multiplayer is already starting to die off. Even if they fix the multiplayer, it won't be enough to get people playing the game again.