New Trailer for Pokémon Gen 4 Remakes with HMs
A new trailer has come out for the upcoming Pokémon remakes, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl. It shows the Pokétch, hidden moves, characters, and more. These much anticipated games will be released on November 19th this year.
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A new trailer for the upcoming remakes, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl, was dropped on The Official Pokémon YouTube channel. These much anticipated games are scheduled to release on November 19th.
Hidden Moves
This trailer provides a peek of how “hidden moves” or “HMs” will work in these games. This subject is controversial among players because the need to be able to use HMs was a bit of a nuisance in past Pokémon games. Prior to Generation 7, players would need to be able to use HMs to advance in the game. Only certain Pokémon can use HMs, so players would have structure their teams based on what Pokémon can use each HM.
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Game Freak started using more practical systems to replace HMs in Generation 7, which was a welcome change. For example, the Rotom Bike in Sword and Shield. However, since Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are remakes of games that had HMs, players were concerned about them being brought back.
From the trailer, players can get some idea of how HMs will be used in the remakes. They are there, but the mechanic has been modernized. There’s a new app in the Pokétch for HMs, which is shown 39 seconds into the trailer. From the app, the player selects an HM, then a wild Pokémon arrives to use it. This is a very welcome overhaul to a primitive game mechanic.
You can also use your Pokétch to call on wild Pokémon to help you go places you could never reach on your own! They’ll use hidden moves like Cut to chop down trees that block your way, or Rock Climb to scale steep cliffs.
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Characters
This trailer also provides a glimpse at some characters. The player first meets Cheryl in Eterna Forest and can encounter her again in the Battle Tower. She’s shown in a green dress to match her braided green hair.
Next up is Riley, a secretive fellow who wears a blue sports coat along with a matching hat, which he slants to cover his right eye. Players will remember him as the man who helps them through Iron Island then gives them an egg, which hatches into a Riolu.
The last character shown is Eterna City’s gym leader, Gardenia. She is a Grass Type trainer who wears hiking clothes to go with her rugged personality.
This new trailer for the Gen 4 Pokémon remakes is a nice taste of the games as their release draws near. November 19th is just under two months away, so the wait is almost over. This fall, Pokémon fans around the world will go on a nostalgic journey through the Sinnoh Region!
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl – Destructoid
The last time we checked in on our Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Pokemon Shining Pearl review, things were looking decidedly tepid.
The fourth generation was the first time the series didn’t instantly click for me, and when coupled with the presentation of the Switch remake itself, to say I was unimpressed would be an understatement.
The aesthetics grew on me. A few other aspects? Not so much.
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (Nintendo Switch)
Developer: ILCA
Publisher: Nintendo, The Pokemon Company
Released: November 19, 2021
MSRP: $59.99
Playing through Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, I encountered a whirlwind of emotions. “Oh that’s cute.” “Oh that’s kind of sterile.” “Yep, that’s just how I remembered it.” Those were my three main mantras as I journeyed through the Sinnoh region once again.
One thing I did get used to was the chibi visual style. Sure, it still looks ridiculous when you meet a menacing figure that’s spouting some sort of speech about how the world deserves to pay — and he looks like a Puzzle Fighter reject.
At the same time, this is Pokemon, people. Most of its aura is “warm and welcoming,” so it makes sense and doesn’t stray too far from the original look. Still, the DS games look fine by today’s standards, so it’s also just a matter of getting to the point where remakes are less essential when compared to the Game Boy through GBA eras.
Warm and welcoming are traits Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl have in spades. Every subsequent run in Sinnoh I notice something else, and learn to appreciate it a bit more. No matter how I feel about the lack of newness in the remakes, the fact remains that Gen 4 is still worth playing in its own right. The little upgrades like auto-HM use without a party member requirement are nice, but for the most part, this is the same narrative from 2006 with a new coat of paint.
Gameplay based on using number clues to fill in grid squares that draw an image may be similar to other non-grammar games, but the addition of game-changing Pokémon abilities makes it feel special. Released as a free-to-play game, Pokémon Picross received critical acclaim for its sheer amount of free content, though some found the game’s microtransactions and power system too disturbing.
Pokkén Tournament
The updated Underground turned out to be a pleasant innovation, which is a kind of dungeon with its own ecosystem where you can find rare Pokémon and items. Among these corridors, the player can establish a secret base for himself, but now it will be necessary to equip it exclusively with statues of monsters, and not with a variety of furniture and devices, as it was in the original.
The developers have added the ability to catch all the legendary Pokémon within two games without resorting to transferring rare creatures from other projects, and also strengthened the teams of unique trainers that can be challenged after completing the main storyline.
Graphically, the project looks pretty good. Unity allowed the authors to create a colorful picture with nice and rich colors.
Moreover, the overall performance of the game is head and shoulders above all past releases of the series, created on the internal Game Freak engine. Frame rates are solid, combat scene backgrounds are amazingly detailed, and Pokémon attacks have added visuals.
But all this environment design is falling apart on the stylization of humanoid characters. The protagonist and other trainers look too unobtrusive, breaking out of the overall harmonious picture. In places it seems that the landscapes and characters were put together from two completely different projects. The “chibi” style looks tolerable while moving around the world map, but when the camera approaches the hero closely during cutscenes, all the magic disappears somewhere, and only a couple of angular doodles remain on the screen.
As expected, the change of the internal engine led to unpleasant consequences. Minor and major bugs and flaws are found here and there — from harmless problems with collision to serious holes that allow you to skip plot control points.
There were so many problems that the size of the first day patch exceeded 3 gigabytes. To date, some major bugs have not yet been fixed.
Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl can hardly be called a remake, since the amount of new content is so small that it is difficult to notice with the naked eye. And therein lies the main problem. The gameplay is not so different from the original versions that it becomes boring. We’ve seen it dozens of times, we’ve done it dozens of times, and we’re being asked to do it all over again. The main line of the franchise has long been suffering from a severe lack of new ideas and trends, and Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl does nothing to remedy the situation, acting as a stub before the release of Pokémon Legends: Arceus.
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Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl is a rather lazy re-release of a good game that is inferior in every way to Pokémon Platinum, which was released 10 years ago.
