Pokémon So Diamond and Pearl got remakes and Uhm..
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Lady Timpani
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Same! I grew up watching the anime and occasionally playing my brother's files, but Pearl was the first game I ever played myself. This is really nostalgic for me. I think the graphics are really cute and are basically just an updated version of the original.
I was excited for the remakes to be announced because i never played the original, but i think i might skip them after all. I am not a fan of the art style. I am not upset nor disappointed, of course. There are people who have been wanting these games and many liked the style they went with, and it is similar to the original games.
Honestly, Nintendo made a good decision to just re-make the entire game exactly how it is without trying to overdo it. It's what people have been asking for. A re-make. No added bells and whistles. And they delivered exactly to the dot, no more and no less. I am personally not a fan of this new trend that's been happening in Switch games (this remake and Story of Seasons specifically) where the art style just keeps getting super round. I love pixel art styles (or at least things with sharper lines) and would really love at this point for Nintendo to just port over their old games in the pixel art style if they have zero desire to re-visit it as a medium. But most others don't seem to mind it and want to just re-play a game on their new console. It'll sell. And there won't be as much complaining as there was with the Lets Go series.
The only thing that is keeping me on the fence about buying it is the difficulty level. If they keep it at the OG difficulty level I will purchase it so that I can play a Pokemon game I really love and also mess around in the underground with my friends. But if they make it as easy as SW/SH and have an exp share I can't turn off again I will be passing. There is zero joy in playing a game that doesn't challenge me somewhat and I shouldn't be forced to put my own limitations on (using only baby pokemon, set battle styles, etc) to not get bored out of my mind. The fact that you can finish a Pokemon main game now in less than 2 days is disappointing. If I pay for a game, I want to get hours out of it.
I am fake-mad at Nintendo for the new Legends game because they are making me choose between my absolute favourite 2 starters (Oshawott and Cyndaquil), a decision that will keep me up at night until the game releases. But I think it looks really interesting and as someone who dislikes the Zelda franchise and has therefor never played BOTW, it'll be a new experience for me in terms of how the world looks. I'm quite excited for it and deeply appreciate that it is still turned-based because my tiny brain reacts so poorly to real-time combat.
The only thing that is keeping me on the fence about buying it is the difficulty level. If they keep it at the OG difficulty level I will purchase it so that I can play a Pokemon game I really love and also mess around in the underground with my friends. But if they make it as easy as SW/SH and have an exp share I can't turn off again I will be passing. There is zero joy in playing a game that doesn't challenge me somewhat and I shouldn't be forced to put my own limitations on (using only baby pokemon, set battle styles, etc) to not get bored out of my mind. The fact that you can finish a Pokemon main game now in less than 2 days is disappointing. If I pay for a game, I want to get hours out of it.
I am fake-mad at Nintendo for the new Legends game because they are making me choose between my absolute favourite 2 starters (Oshawott and Cyndaquil), a decision that will keep me up at night until the game releases. But I think it looks really interesting and as someone who dislikes the Zelda franchise and has therefor never played BOTW, it'll be a new experience for me in terms of how the world looks. I'm quite excited for it and deeply appreciate that it is still turned-based because my tiny brain reacts so poorly to real-time combat.
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This is exactly it for me. If they want to continue on as they are just add difficulty settings. Have a setting called "original", problem solved. I was cautious of how they were going the chibi route too, but on further thought it's really not that far off from the sprites we got back in the day. I don't mind it.
Wait was sword and shield too easy? I've never played it. Why were people complaining about Let's go?
Yeah, I do hope for challenge since all the other games have tactics and stuff making it too easy. Heck, I am currently replaying platinum recently and that's been a challenge but its been super fun!
It would be interesting to see if they do anything for the starters as those starters don't have mega evlutions or anything. i'm excited to see though!
But I know the feeling, I cant handle those sort ofgames either
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i still don't know why they give you a choice on what level of difficulty you want. That would really help keep the younger kids playing at a level they can do, and if wanting to, change it if they're bold. And gives the older players more of a reason to pick up the game.
I swear they made a difficulty level in black/white but you needed to have complteed the game first?
tbh i didn't want a DP remake and i'm not gonna get it but i'm glad they made one because now that furret on an escalator can finally rest 
but seriously, i'm glad they also annouced pokemon legends so i can look forward to at least one game lol
but seriously, i'm glad they also annouced pokemon legends so i can look forward to at least one game lol
Yeah fans, including myself, were not impressed by the Sword and Shield difficulty; I beat that game so quickly, that there was barely any challenge.
Let’s Go was abysmal in how easy it was. I don’t think any of my Pokémon fainted on my first run, so I was very underwhelmed. It was a cute game but I was not a fan.
And I agree. We should be allowed to choose the difficulty, since it would make everyone happier that way!
Oh wow, that's crazy, that definitely helps though, I definitely will buy the games but it's not a necessary; I'm playing the older games right now so that's been much fun.
With Let's Go, do your pokemon, the one in the first slot of your party, follow you around?
I'm surprised they haven't done a level of easy - hard.
Yes they do follow you!
DinosaurDumpster
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My. Childhood.
Me and my sister have been WAITING for this day to come. It's been our favorite game in the series for the longest time.
I was really excited when it got revealed, but also iffy about it. Didn't like the style at first, but it's grown on me. I can see why they chose the chibi style.
Hopefully they'll fix the issue of the lack of fire types! That's the only change i'm asking for.
Who knows, maybe we'll be able to get Arceus without glitching/cheating in this game.
And I want a challenge, so far Pokemon games have been wayyy too easy.
Me and my sister have been WAITING for this day to come. It's been our favorite game in the series for the longest time.
I was really excited when it got revealed, but also iffy about it. Didn't like the style at first, but it's grown on me. I can see why they chose the chibi style.
Hopefully they'll fix the issue of the lack of fire types! That's the only change i'm asking for.
Who knows, maybe we'll be able to get Arceus without glitching/cheating in this game.
And I want a challenge, so far Pokemon games have been wayyy too easy.
Fruit & more
Junior Member
I saw somebody compare the character models to Fisher price toys and...they're not wrong.
The character models are really the biggest disappointment for me. (The overworld does look more hd/improved/etc.) It's not the way I wanted it to be, but I could be happy with it, though still disappointed it wasn't what I hoped it would be, if the character models looked better. Right now they kind of just don't. I'm an artist and it bothers me because of that I think.
This might be the first main pokemon game I don't preorder when I have the chance to preorder ever. I loved sword and shield. (So many people said it looked like a "bad phone game" or exactly the same as the 3ds games and it was just a 3ds game or there was literally not a single thing good about the game at all, and it's like, at this point are you even playing the same game as me at all, or did you get some bootleg copy of a "Pokemon game?" Because that's the only thing that could actually explain that.)
Let's go looked really good, and it was fun. I might not have liked all the choices they made for those games but I still liked them and was excited for them, and I'm just not feeling it for these.
I'm going to buy diamond since i have pearl and platinum, and if it's 40$ I'd preorder it, but if it's not, and it's actually 50 or 60$ I'm going to wait and buy it on sale instead, and I'm not buying both versions this time, or at least I'm not planning to. I just can't spend that much money on this, especially when there are so many other games I want more and I only have so much money. But I'd pay 40 and maybe because it's being made by another company and everything else going on there, it won't cost as much as the other mainstream pokemon games? I can only hope it won't so I can buy it.
(I will definitely preorder legends though, and I'll probably buy snap on sale but I won't be preordering that one, as I don't think it really has much of a story in it or anything. Looks pretty though.)
I also really really don't like the logos. The logos are the worst part of it. They look like a bad fan-game logo, and I really hope they fix it cause it's just. Bad. It's bad. It doesn't look good. It really really bugs me. They really need to fix it. I don't like the character models. I hate the logo.
I can understand why they chose the remaster over remake and the style they did for the games however. It makes sense, since it gives them the ability to make both games instead of just one. So I understand why it's like that, and I'm glad they're making legends. I just hope they change the character models up some before release so they look nicer but I don't expect that to happen at all. I wish it looked more like the recent games but if they changed the models (and especially if there was more stuff added to the game that wasn't in the originals) I would be much more happy about the game. Even if it was still a chibi style. Just a. Nicer looking chibi style.
The character models are really the biggest disappointment for me. (The overworld does look more hd/improved/etc.) It's not the way I wanted it to be, but I could be happy with it, though still disappointed it wasn't what I hoped it would be, if the character models looked better. Right now they kind of just don't. I'm an artist and it bothers me because of that I think.
This might be the first main pokemon game I don't preorder when I have the chance to preorder ever. I loved sword and shield. (So many people said it looked like a "bad phone game" or exactly the same as the 3ds games and it was just a 3ds game or there was literally not a single thing good about the game at all, and it's like, at this point are you even playing the same game as me at all, or did you get some bootleg copy of a "Pokemon game?" Because that's the only thing that could actually explain that.)
Let's go looked really good, and it was fun. I might not have liked all the choices they made for those games but I still liked them and was excited for them, and I'm just not feeling it for these.
I'm going to buy diamond since i have pearl and platinum, and if it's 40$ I'd preorder it, but if it's not, and it's actually 50 or 60$ I'm going to wait and buy it on sale instead, and I'm not buying both versions this time, or at least I'm not planning to. I just can't spend that much money on this, especially when there are so many other games I want more and I only have so much money. But I'd pay 40 and maybe because it's being made by another company and everything else going on there, it won't cost as much as the other mainstream pokemon games? I can only hope it won't so I can buy it.
(I will definitely preorder legends though, and I'll probably buy snap on sale but I won't be preordering that one, as I don't think it really has much of a story in it or anything. Looks pretty though.)
I also really really don't like the logos. The logos are the worst part of it. They look like a bad fan-game logo, and I really hope they fix it cause it's just. Bad. It's bad. It doesn't look good. It really really bugs me. They really need to fix it. I don't like the character models. I hate the logo.
I can understand why they chose the remaster over remake and the style they did for the games however. It makes sense, since it gives them the ability to make both games instead of just one. So I understand why it's like that, and I'm glad they're making legends. I just hope they change the character models up some before release so they look nicer but I don't expect that to happen at all. I wish it looked more like the recent games but if they changed the models (and especially if there was more stuff added to the game that wasn't in the originals) I would be much more happy about the game. Even if it was still a chibi style. Just a. Nicer looking chibi style.
I think the main reasons fans were not a fan of Sword and Shield's graphics was because the Wild Area did not look great. Like at all, and was not up to par with today's standards. I am not the type of person who cares all about graphics (I mostly only play Nintendo), and I played that game all the way through, and while I did somewhat enjoy it, the wild area was the biggest let-down, with its trees that looked like something straight out of Ocarina of Time. Sometimes it still irks me as I'm driving through on my bike, since everything looks muddy even on a 1080p screen
Fans weren't complaining for no reason; we expect the biggest media franchise in the world to come up with something better. I personally feel like the remasters look nicer because they played it safe and made it looked the way it did 10 years ago but in HD, which I think is cool But everyone has different tastes I suppose!
Fruit & more
Junior Member
I think the main reasons fans were not a fan of Sword and Shield's graphics was because the Wild Area did not look great. Like at all, and was not up to par with today's standards. I am not the type of person who cares all about graphics (I mostly only play Nintendo), and I played that game all the way through, and while I did somewhat enjoy it, the wild area was the biggest let-down, with its trees that looked like something straight out of Ocarina of Time. Sometimes it still irks me as I'm driving through on my bike, since everything looks muddy even on a 1080p screen
Oh I'm not talking about those people, I'm talking about the people who literally said exactly those words I mentioned above. I understand some of the complaints when people are being reasonable about it, (nat dex) but the game was still good, a whole lot of it looked really good, and it was fun to play. Some of the pokemon designs needed...improvement...but overall I did really like the game and it wasn't anywhere near as bad as people claimed it was. I literally saw somebody say that every single aspect of the game was terrible and there was nothing good about it at all, so like. That's the kind of person I meant.
The wild area was alright, but I didn't find myself wanting to explore for hours, so yeah. Like, I could ride around on horseback in red dead 2 for hours and still not get bored cause they just, did a really really good job of making the world, but I got bored in the wild area, or I just wasn't that excited about it, and I just, didn't care, so I see what you mean. (Some people made too big of a fuss about the tree, where it basically made the whole game bad for them, but if they're not like that then I get where they're coming from.)
I was a really good game with some unfortunate flaws I feel like.
I think the overworld (and battle screen) achieve that for the remaster, but the character sprites are a 3d downgrade instead of the hd improvement they should be. Maybe just, slightly different proportions and textures and a small rework of how they look here and there, changing the faces a little, and they would be much better, even if they weren't my favorite style.
BunburyBrianna
Senior Member
100% agree with you here. I was looking forward to a remake on the Switch but the art leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Legends looks awesome though, so maybe I will buy that instead of DP.
Cosmic-chan
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I'm going to probably buy the remakes since I'm a super nerd who feels she needs to buy every game ever (plus I didn't get to play the originals since they came out when I was suuuuper young) but, still the art just looks strange. It's simply just a remastered version of the game and that seems rather sad. The Arceus game however, looks epic.
