How Pokémon BDSP Compare To Other Pokémon Remakes

How Pokémon BDSP Compare To Other Pokémon Remakes

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Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl were treated differently from past remakes, starting with Game Freak not developing them, a series first.

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How Pokémon BDSP Compare To Other Pokémon Remakes

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are the latest of the Pokémon main series remakes and have had noticeably different treatment than the remakes before them. Over the years, classics have been made re-accessible to old and new fans, reborn as FireRed and LeafGreen, HeartGold and SoulSilver, and Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, and Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee!. No video game can ever please everyone, but it seems as though Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl have had more mixed responses than usual.

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl add several quality-of-life changes absent from their original 2006 iterations. Hidden Machines are gone, so Trainers don’t have to worry about wasting their Pokémon’s skill slots on HMs. Instead, HM abilities are added to the Pokétch menu for ease of use. There are new ways to encounter Legendary Pokémon in Ramanas Park and the Trainer can be customized, although these changes are more evident in battle when the full, non-chibi Trainer model is present. The Gen 4 Diamond and Pearl features of Contests and the Underground have been updated for their remakes, as well.

Pokémon BDSP is the first main Pokémon game not developed by Game Freak. Perhaps because of this, out of all the remakes, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are probably the closest to their source material and have taken few risks with introducing something new. Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire in addition to Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! had added a lot more in comparison.

Past Pokémon Remakes Evolved More With The Times Than Pokémon BDSP

How Pokémon BDSP Compare To Other Pokémon Remakes

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire included Mega Evolutions and even added new ones that weren’t available in Pokémon X and Y before it. Pokémon ORAS was the most complete version of what Generation 6 had to offer, expanding on its new changes like the Fairy-type and Mega Evolutions. As the competitive standard, they were the games used at the Video Game Championships in 2015 and 2016. Before ORAS, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen and Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver did the same for their respective Generations.

Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! were not the new competitive standard of Gen 7, but a reimagining of the classic Pokémon Yellow blended with Pokémon GO. Many aspects of main Pokémon games such as the day and night cycle, moves including Z-Moves and weather, held items, Abilities, breeding, and Eggs were absent. Because of this, the games were not backward-compatible, and transferring Pokémon through Pokémon HOME was limited.

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Since Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl don’t have any vast gameplay changes like Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee!, some players are displeased that their battle systems are not up to the current Gen 8 standard. There is no Dynamax transformation and Mega Evolutions are also absent. Pokémon BDSP does not support Ranked Battles, and won’t be connected to Pokémon HOME until 2022. It’s likely that when they are connected, they will have some limitations on how Pokémon can be transferred since they aren’t on the same level as Sword and Shield.

Because of this, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl feel more like they are for players who never experienced Diamond and Pearl in their original forms. It offers little in terms of new content, does not have a battle system brought up to the current Gen’s standard, and looks stylistically similar to the originals. The cute chibi art used for humans on the overworld is reminiscent of the sprites used on the DS in 2006, and many routes look to be exactly the same, but with improved and more detailed graphics. The player can now have a full party of Pokémon follow them around Amity Square, and one partner follow them around everywhere else. Their models are the basic 3D ones fans have seen previously, rather than a style that matches the Trainer.

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl Remains Mostly Untouched

How Pokémon BDSP Compare To Other Pokémon Remakes

Ultimately, it seems like the main goal of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl was to make the original 2006 games easily available to gamers again. 15 years is a long time, and finding old Pokémon games can be an expensive hassle. Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! were most similar to Pokémon BDSP in the sense that they didn’t offer a complete picture of their Generation’s Pokémon battle standards. Unlike Pokémon BSDP though, they did have unique gameplay in line with its Pokémon GO connectivity, and was one of the most beginner-friendly Pokémon experiences, even featuring minor co-op features that the youngest of children could understand. Pokémon BSDP is almost completely untouched nostalgia, which can be a pro or con depending on who you ask.

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl may have offered more new content if Pokémon Legends: Arceus wasn’t also on the way. It can be assumed that Arceus: Legends is the main focus of Game Freak’s development team at this time, which is part of the reason why ILCA was chosen to develop Pokémon BDSP. Legends: Arceus takes place in Sinnoh’s past and offers a large open-world experience closer to what we’ve seen in Sword and Shield’s Wild Area.

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Pokémon BDSP & Legends: Arceus Split Up Sinnoh Features

How Pokémon BDSP Compare To Other Pokémon Remakes

Pokémon BDSP and Legends: Arceus both share the same setting, and rather than make Pokémon BDSP closer to the Generation 8 standard seen in Sword and Shield, they opted to spread these elements out over all three new Sinnoh games. After experiencing Wild Areas or Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire’s open sky overworld, where they could freely fly around on Latios or Latias to discover Mirage Islands and Legendary Pokémon, players may feel disappointed with Pokémon BDSP.

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl also have done away with the classic item and Pokémon sprites that have been in menus since Generation 3. The miniature Pokémon pixel sprites have been replaced by stills of 3D models. From what has been revealed of Pokémon Legends: Arceus, it looks as though sprites are being replaced there, as well. This is one bit of nostalgia that some players wished to see in the remake, and now wonder if it will return at all in future titles.

Pokémon BDSP has improved Pokémon Diamond and Pearl’s Super Contests and Underground, for the most part. This was expected, especially since Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire did such a fantastic job bringing back the classic Secret Bases. The new Grand Underground has Pokémon Hideaways, which allows Trainers to find and capture specific Pokémon depending on the statues they have in their Secret Base. This can let players get Fire-type Pokémon that were very scarce in the original games, for example.

Secret Bases in Pokémon BDSP Didn’t Get The Pokémon ORAS Treatment

Unfortunately, statues seem to be the only Secret Base furniture items that exist in Pokémon BDSP. The huge amount of home décor that returned with Secret Bases in Pokémon ORAS was not included in the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl remakes. Secret Bases in Pokémon BDSP are more like Secret Statue Galleries with a hard rock floor to sit on.

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl is still a good Pokémon game worth playing. It didn’t go as far as Pokémon ORAS to become the Gen 8 standard, or include Pokémon Platinum content the way Pokémon ORAS included some Pokémon Emerald features. Pokémon BDSP didn’t alter its source material to the extent of Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! either. The Grand Underground has many adventures to offer, fossils to dig up, and Pokémon to catch. Sinnoh’s Super Contest Shows are upgraded and don’t seem to have anything substantial missing. It didn’t do as much as past remakes did, but it is best at giving the player a 1:1 sense of nostalgia with minimal quality-of-life adjustments.

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