This is my take on these games, they are definitely better than the original diamond and pearl games, but platinum I still feel is a more definitive experience, granted it's more so because of the story. Though there are other elements these entries do have over platinum in their own regard, such as not needing hm slaves anymore on your team and being able to move through area's quicker like the snow area's to the north, but I can understand how some could see them as downgraded coming off ORAS. That said, they still beat out FR/LG for me, because despite BDSP using the DP dex, you can capture and evolve pokemon that aren't in it from underground, so you can still use whatever is in the game if it's in there, FRLG forbade the usage of any post gen 1 pokemon until after getting the national dex, which I felt was stupid, especially since you had to capture 60 pokemon to unlock it and unlike more recent games where completing the dex or capturing lots of pokemon is worth it for rewards, there was no such thing back then.
I look at these games and see them as being lazy and are net downgrades from the originals and incorporating little to nothing from Platinum, which is still the definitive version of Pearl and Diamond.
I am still of the opinion that if they just released diamond/pearl 1:1 with all the online features it had (GTS, etc.) and the old underground and contest. This game would still be better. The only good thing about BDSP is that it is on the switch. That is it.
13 reasons why BDSP are the WORST remakes of all time: 1. Faithfulness: Unlike other remakes, BDSP literally copy/pastes 90% of diamond/pearl(2006). You cannot copy almost everything from a 2006 game.. (Remember its 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. 4. 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. 5. 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'?? 6. 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. 7. 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.. 8. 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. 9. 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. 10. 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.. 11. 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. 12. Standards: A 2021 game should adapt the standards from the latest games (Sword 2019). The BDSP-standard isnt nearly as good as Sword/Shield. Many items, many attack moves, renewable TMs, dynamax, new pokemon, old moves without heart scales, more customization,max Raids or ranked battle stadium. None of the mentioned were adapted into this game -> BIG Downgrade for 2021 pokemon standards! 13. Price: Dia/pearl/Platinum: 40$ and Copy/Paste BDSP with Bugs:60$ -> Bruh.. 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.
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I honestly really enjoyed BDSP too! They weren't as extra on content like ORAS & HGSS, nor have the gimmick of the gen like ORAS did, but, I really enjoyed having access to other Pokémon from the Platinum Pokédex and it was cool even ones that were in neither iteration of the DP/Pt dex like Jynx were quickly available. The DS Sounds though, ugh... I'm going to have to disagree. They suck. As for the placeholder tracks, they honestly sounds closer to the DS than the official in game ones from BDSP. But, the BDSP OST outside the DS Sounds- I have to give it to ILCA, they COOKED THE LEAGUE. The Music, the Battles; good grief the tears of victory that I shed overcoming the 15 hardest battles in the game were crazy. Also, I used 3 teams to beat the League on my first playthrough of Brilliant Diamond and even crazier is that I GOT POKERUS IN THE MAIN STORY. Pokérus is rarer than a Shiny and my only theory is one of Barry's Pokémon had it. I was using repels, so I saw it before entering the league. I think. Also, the third team had a Kricketune that knew Perish Song. That was the greatest plan. Cynthia was an IDIOT and used SWORDS DANCE against a Kricketune, so I pulled off Perish Song and won. That victory was on December 24th 2021. Merry Christmas from my team to me, amirite? Overall, I agree. They're definitely upgrades to DP in so many ways, but, Platinum is definitely better, even if the League is not as challenging as in BDSP. Also, the music for the E4 is the BEST in the BDSP OST.
The pokemon company and Ilca really fumbled remaking my favorite generation of pokemon so I say that ILCA should be relegated to PERMANENT POKEMON HOME DUTY for the foreseeable future but here's hoping that with pokemon Legends Z-A coming and megas returning, it will mean that mega evolutions will be brought back into the main series games in Gen 10 by extension... But I hope that TPC will be lenient on development time to allow game freak to iron out any possible bugs and make gen 10 look and play amazing! This series deserves better.
Is it me or are some people relooking at these games and starting to see them for what they are rather than what they aren’t, would I still want a full modern remake with all sorts of new content yes, do these games have their flaws yes, as a Sinnoh child did I cry of joy playing them yes, better than Diamond and Pearl no doubt I’d say on par with Platinum, Platinum has a better game than the ones these were based on but BDSP shaves down the edges of those games and feels faster to play
Honestly if they kept the OG pokecontest minigame, made it so that you could still decorate your underground base and took over the Pokémon teams for Gym Leaders and the 4E from Platinum it would have been way better but alas.
Love this video man! Probably the best review I've seen of it haha I still don't know ow how your channel hasn't blown up, you do fantastic content Also yeah screw Barry
The bottom line is: be faithful to things that are good. Even if you're being faithful to smth that's not necessarily bad (RB & DP), but if a strictly better version of that exists (Emerald & Platinum), be more faithful to that instead.
ive never played the ogs. dont know a lot about pokemon lore but i know the basics. I boug legends arceus a few months ago and loved the game. Now i wanna buy a new one but i dont know which one. I feel S&V wont work for me. I'm between Lets go pikachu and Shinning pearl.. loved the artstyle of them
Yeah the art style of both games is absolutely wonderful! Lets Go is really awesome when it comes to the catching mechanics, the visuals, and the story though my only criticism is that it is a very easy game to complete (which was always intended for that game) and aside from catching all 151 Pokemon in the post game there isn’t too much to do after. As for BDSP you will have plenty of objectives and events to explore and achieve during and after the main story and it offers a bit more of a challenge when it comes to battles. But in the end I enjoyed both games and they’re both very good games to pick up even with minimal knowledge of the series! (:
my take : honestly i dont think platinum really matters, ive played all 3 and still prefer diamond for whatever reason , that aside , im kinda disappointed most of the glitches are patched as now im stuck finding my own, ive found a few , and one slight out of bound glitch , yes in 1.3 , but anyway the game is phenomenal compared to the originals and feel just like them so 8/10 because time limited events are ridiculous
I actually prefer the bdsp remake compared to remakes like oras. In my opinion, the point of remakes is to recapture as much of the experience of the original game as you can while making the experience as fluid as you can with modern sensibilities. The problem with oras is that they changed so much that it pretty much is an entirely different experience. You end up in a situation where in order to experience the original design and intention of the game, you still have to find your old hardware and deal with the archaic implementation of the original. A common complaint that gets thrown around a lot is about the forced exp share. What most people don't realize is that bdsp uses a very different exp formula from the original and scales exp gains based on level differences. This makes power leveling one pokemon much more difficult as well as encourage players to use a lot of different pokemon. This is further supplemented by the instant access pc so you can train a lot of different pokemon where as in the originals you could only train about 2-3 pokemon without grinding. I know a lot of people complain about not having a battle frontier but honestly it's a waste of time for the developers. It's an incredible amount of work that probably 90% of players will either not enjoy or ignore entirely.
I’m gonna be honest. Sometime I look at BDSP and say this look horrible lol but then as I’m playing BDSP it look great at times. People who haven’t played Pokémon in years hate the newer updates on sword and shield and XY they love BDSP because of nostalgia. But I think BDSP are great remakes. The Pokémon are awesome, best generational dex, great gym leaders and best elite 4 and thanks to scarlet and violet massive region, I appreciate the simpleness of BDSP
I completely agree. I just started playing Pokémon a few months ago after stopping at ultra sun. Having just played sword and then violet, it’s so nice go back to routes and not mess around with stupid gimmicks even tho I liked the megas back in gen 6.
Man I can't believe gamefreak perfectly split the Pokemon to make a legacy player like me upset because I have to buy diamonds and pearl in order to get the Pokemon I want. I'm not doing it. Only buying diamond. They just had to put the legendary birds in Pearl
The only thing ppl care is about platinum or giratina I think most of them forgot this is a diamond/pearl remake not perfect but it is pretty dam good for me I would rate it like a 7,5/10 or something like that
I Will say BDSP are Pretty Good Sure not the best Remake but they Not bad Dare I Say Pretty Good for Just wanting a Stander Pokémon Journey with no Crazy Major Gimmicks They Game Post game for The Gym Leaders Elite Four and Champion Completive Teams The grand Underground was Mostly a Upgrade In My Opinion Sense If you were Stuck with Only Just 1 Fire Type besides the starter That Would have Stink The Updates Did Fix the game and The Best Part you can Actual Shiny Hunt your Starters and the Box Legendarys Easily The Best Part Also The Item for Arceus Doesn't have a Time Limit meaning you can get it As a Shiny Arceus Legit is the Best Part of this Remake The Music Is Soild you have the DS Tracks too for Postgame Ramimus Park Does Balance the Amount of Legendarys Enough not to Feel Extremely Bloated Like in The Gen 3 Remakes and can get Regigigas with no Transfer Problems and have there Hidden Abilltys too (Few Exceptions) the Outfits are Soild Enough Having a Good Old Battles without Gimmicks is Rather Nice with the OG Gen 1 to 4 Pokemon and Sure The Story is the Exact Same But Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescuer Team DX is Also Had the Exact same Story and Mostly the Same Gameplay too But I Understand People want Pokemon Palatium But Hey Maybe we get Pokemon games More Like Crystal Emerald and Palatium One Day But Im Fine with BDSP A Fun Game Regardless
Personally I have never played a Pokémon game in my life iv always collected the cards but thought the games looked cool, mind you my favourite games is dark souls, hollow knight and the binding of Isaac. So incredibly different, and personally iv actually really enjoyed this game it’s pretty fun, feels nostalgic even tho I had never played it.
Technically if you take the original pixel sprites and turn them 3D they would actually end up as a chibi art style. Big head small body.
The style of Chibi would be different though. Ya know, it wouldn’t have those weird hands and faces..
@@JinxeBlaq Well that I think was a stylistic preference I’d like to think.
This is my take on these games, they are definitely better than the original diamond and pearl games, but platinum I still feel is a more definitive experience, granted it's more so because of the story. Though there are other elements these entries do have over platinum in their own regard, such as not needing hm slaves anymore on your team and being able to move through area's quicker like the snow area's to the north, but I can understand how some could see them as downgraded coming off ORAS.
That said, they still beat out FR/LG for me, because despite BDSP using the DP dex, you can capture and evolve pokemon that aren't in it from underground, so you can still use whatever is in the game if it's in there, FRLG forbade the usage of any post gen 1 pokemon until after getting the national dex, which I felt was stupid, especially since you had to capture 60 pokemon to unlock it and unlike more recent games where completing the dex or capturing lots of pokemon is worth it for rewards, there was no such thing back then.
I look at these games and see them as being lazy and are net downgrades from the originals and incorporating little to nothing from Platinum, which is still the definitive version of Pearl and Diamond.
I am still of the opinion that if they just released diamond/pearl 1:1 with all the online features it had (GTS, etc.) and the old underground and contest. This game would still be better. The only good thing about BDSP is that it is on the switch. That is it.
Pretty nice, that they faithfully remade the original bugs. Void Glitch still my favorite
13 reasons why BDSP are the WORST remakes of all time:
1. Faithfulness: Unlike other remakes, BDSP literally copy/pastes 90% of diamond/pearl(2006). You cannot copy almost everything from a 2006 game.. (Remember its 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.
4. 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.
5. 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'??
6. 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.
7. 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..
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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..
11. 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.
12. Standards: A 2021 game should adapt the standards from the latest games (Sword 2019). The BDSP-standard isnt nearly as good as Sword/Shield. Many items, many attack moves, renewable TMs, dynamax, new pokemon, old moves without heart scales, more customization,max Raids or ranked battle stadium. None of the mentioned were adapted into this game -> BIG Downgrade for 2021 pokemon standards!
13. Price: Dia/pearl/Platinum: 40$ and Copy/Paste BDSP with Bugs:60$ -> Bruh..
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.
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I honestly really enjoyed BDSP too! They weren't as extra on content like ORAS & HGSS, nor have the gimmick of the gen like ORAS did, but, I really enjoyed having access to other Pokémon from the Platinum Pokédex and it was cool even ones that were in neither iteration of the DP/Pt dex like Jynx were quickly available. The DS Sounds though, ugh... I'm going to have to disagree. They suck. As for the placeholder tracks, they honestly sounds closer to the DS than the official in game ones from BDSP. But, the BDSP OST outside the DS Sounds- I have to give it to ILCA, they COOKED THE LEAGUE. The Music, the Battles; good grief the tears of victory that I shed overcoming the 15 hardest battles in the game were crazy. Also, I used 3 teams to beat the League on my first playthrough of Brilliant Diamond and even crazier is that I GOT POKERUS IN THE MAIN STORY. Pokérus is rarer than a Shiny and my only theory is one of Barry's Pokémon had it. I was using repels, so I saw it before entering the league. I think. Also, the third team had a Kricketune that knew Perish Song. That was the greatest plan. Cynthia was an IDIOT and used SWORDS DANCE against a Kricketune, so I pulled off Perish Song and won. That victory was on December 24th 2021. Merry Christmas from my team to me, amirite?
Overall, I agree. They're definitely upgrades to DP in so many ways, but, Platinum is definitely better, even if the League is not as challenging as in BDSP. Also, the music for the E4 is the BEST in the BDSP OST.
The pokemon company and Ilca really fumbled remaking my favorite generation of pokemon so I say that ILCA should be relegated to PERMANENT POKEMON HOME DUTY for the foreseeable future but here's hoping that with pokemon Legends Z-A coming and megas returning, it will mean that mega evolutions will be brought back into the main series games in Gen 10 by extension... But I hope that TPC will be lenient on development time to allow game freak to iron out any possible bugs and make gen 10 look and play amazing! This series deserves better.
Is it me or are some people relooking at these games and starting to see them for what they are rather than what they aren’t, would I still want a full modern remake with all sorts of new content yes, do these games have their flaws yes, as a Sinnoh child did I cry of joy playing them yes, better than Diamond and Pearl no doubt I’d say on par with Platinum, Platinum has a better game than the ones these were based on but BDSP shaves down the edges of those games and feels faster to play
Honestly if they kept the OG pokecontest minigame, made it so that you could still decorate your underground base and took over the Pokémon teams for Gym Leaders and the 4E from Platinum it would have been way better but alas.
Love this video man! Probably the best review I've seen of it haha I still don't know ow how your channel hasn't blown up, you do fantastic content
Also yeah screw Barry
Haha I appreciate the kind words! Thanks for watching! 😊
The bottom line is: be faithful to things that are good. Even if you're being faithful to smth that's not necessarily bad (RB & DP), but if a strictly better version of that exists (Emerald & Platinum), be more faithful to that instead.
ive never played the ogs. dont know a lot about pokemon lore but i know the basics. I boug legends arceus a few months ago and loved the game. Now i wanna buy a new one but i dont know which one. I feel S&V wont work for me. I'm between Lets go pikachu and Shinning pearl.. loved the artstyle of them
Yeah the art style of both games is absolutely wonderful! Lets Go is really awesome when it comes to the catching mechanics, the visuals, and the story though my only criticism is that it is a very easy game to complete (which was always intended for that game) and aside from catching all 151 Pokemon in the post game there isn’t too much to do after. As for BDSP you will have plenty of objectives and events to explore and achieve during and after the main story and it offers a bit more of a challenge when it comes to battles. But in the end I enjoyed both games and they’re both very good games to pick up even with minimal knowledge of the series! (:
@@MegaMasterXY thanks forr the feedback! my Shinning pearl copy arrives tomorrow!
@@SlothB4byM That’s awesome! I hope you enjoy playing it!!
@@SlothB4byMi know ime late but your better off getting the original games with a emulator
my take : honestly i dont think platinum really matters, ive played all 3 and still prefer diamond for whatever reason , that aside , im kinda disappointed most of the glitches are patched as now im stuck finding my own, ive found a few , and one slight out of bound glitch , yes in 1.3 , but anyway the game is phenomenal compared to the originals and feel just like them so 8/10 because time limited events are ridiculous
it’s crazy that these games are the first truly useless pokémon games
Na it’s useful as a battle stimulator for gen 1-4 mons
You really did krickitune dirty
Nah. Didn’t go far enough
Theyre better than Sword/Shield but not good… hate how they ruined iconic stuff like underground and contests😔 Also no platinum stuff
I actually prefer the bdsp remake compared to remakes like oras. In my opinion, the point of remakes is to recapture as much of the experience of the original game as you can while making the experience as fluid as you can with modern sensibilities. The problem with oras is that they changed so much that it pretty much is an entirely different experience. You end up in a situation where in order to experience the original design and intention of the game, you still have to find your old hardware and deal with the archaic implementation of the original.
A common complaint that gets thrown around a lot is about the forced exp share. What most people don't realize is that bdsp uses a very different exp formula from the original and scales exp gains based on level differences. This makes power leveling one pokemon much more difficult as well as encourage players to use a lot of different pokemon. This is further supplemented by the instant access pc so you can train a lot of different pokemon where as in the originals you could only train about 2-3 pokemon without grinding.
I know a lot of people complain about not having a battle frontier but honestly it's a waste of time for the developers. It's an incredible amount of work that probably 90% of players will either not enjoy or ignore entirely.
Ohh hellllll no, oras was the goat
Man after first seeing the trailers for these monstrosities I said to myself “nah I’m good I’m just play platinum”
I’m gonna be honest. Sometime I look at BDSP and say this look horrible lol but then as I’m playing BDSP it look great at times. People who haven’t played Pokémon in years hate the newer updates on sword and shield and XY they love BDSP because of nostalgia. But I think BDSP are great remakes. The Pokémon are awesome, best generational dex, great gym leaders and best elite 4 and thanks to scarlet and violet massive region, I appreciate the simpleness of BDSP
I agree! It’s a nice change of pace to return back to the simplicity and classic feel the Pokémon games had with these remakes!
Only due to the updated platinum dex in the underground. Otherwise outside of chimchar line your only fire type option is ponyta
I completely agree. I just started playing Pokémon a few months ago after stopping at ultra sun. Having just played sword and then violet, it’s so nice go back to routes and not mess around with stupid gimmicks even tho I liked the megas back in gen 6.
6:49 The phrase "Meeting up with the underground man who would give us an explorer's kit" sounds ominous and dark without the context of the game
I really wish they kept the “steal the flag” mechanic in the underground
IT WOULD BE SO MUCH FUN IF THEY BROUGHT IT BACK! At least with online play with friends only if there needed to be some sort of restrictions.
It would be a good remake if it was made in 2009, it’s crazy lazy
Man I can't believe gamefreak perfectly split the Pokemon to make a legacy player like me upset because I have to buy diamonds and pearl in order to get the Pokemon I want. I'm not doing it. Only buying diamond. They just had to put the legendary birds in Pearl
The chibi art is atrocious
dude these games are so fucking underrated lmao
The only thing ppl care is about platinum or giratina I think most of them forgot this is a diamond/pearl remake not perfect but it is pretty dam good for me I would rate it like a 7,5/10 or something like that
@@thesenate2343 HGSS are Gold and Silver remakes with Crystal content
The game would be challenging, if the friendship mechanic wasn't forced in
Yes!! They are!!
I still play these games on 2024🤗
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I Will say BDSP are Pretty Good Sure not the best Remake but they Not bad Dare I Say Pretty Good for Just wanting a Stander Pokémon Journey with no Crazy Major Gimmicks They Game Post game for The Gym Leaders Elite Four and Champion Completive Teams The grand Underground was Mostly a Upgrade In My Opinion Sense If you were Stuck with Only Just 1 Fire Type besides the starter That Would have Stink The Updates Did Fix the game and The Best Part you can Actual Shiny Hunt your Starters and the Box Legendarys Easily The Best Part Also The Item for Arceus Doesn't have a Time Limit meaning you can get it As a Shiny Arceus Legit is the Best Part of this Remake The Music Is Soild you have the DS Tracks too for Postgame Ramimus Park Does Balance the Amount of Legendarys Enough not to Feel Extremely Bloated Like in The Gen 3 Remakes and can get Regigigas with no Transfer Problems and have there Hidden Abilltys too (Few Exceptions) the Outfits are Soild Enough Having a Good Old Battles without Gimmicks is Rather Nice with the OG Gen 1 to 4 Pokemon and Sure The Story is the Exact Same But Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescuer Team DX is Also Had the Exact same Story and Mostly the Same Gameplay too
But I Understand People want Pokemon Palatium But Hey Maybe we get Pokemon games More Like Crystal Emerald and Palatium One Day But Im Fine with BDSP A Fun Game Regardless
Personally I have never played a Pokémon game in my life iv always collected the cards but thought the games looked cool, mind you my favourite games is dark souls, hollow knight and the binding of Isaac. So incredibly different, and personally iv actually really enjoyed this game it’s pretty fun, feels nostalgic even tho I had never played it.
I never played the original so i love this version. 🤷♂️
I love Pokémon platinum
quality content
at least they look fine graphically, which you can't say about SW/SH or Scarlet/Violet.
Sword and shield looks awesome
Yes they are
great content!
thankfully we had legends arceus
It's actually an extremely faithful remake.
Yet everyone bitched about it.
because faithful dose not equal good
Yeah, 'faithful' to diamond and pearl, which have huge problems, many of which were... already fixed by platinum???
Yes