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BDSP Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl General Discussion

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The thing they should patch is the long af black screen when booting the game. Or place a nice screenshot of the game, instead.
 
prog rocker said:
Well, depends... Some glitches can be hilarious or (accidentally) improve the experience. Combos in fighting games started as a glitch, for example.
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Really? I had no idea that fighting combos started as a glitch. I know glitches have sometimes turned into features during development. The most prominent example I know of is the Double Cherry in Super Mario 3D World, that started out as a glitch in development that they decided to turn into an actual powerup.
 
Anyone else think BDSP are too hard at the end? I've never struggled so badly with the endgame phase of Pokemon games in my entire life, not even in the original DPPt. And I'm not underleveled either, my team are about the same levels as Cynthia's and have powerful moves and items and all that. ILCA had zero clue on what they were doing in the difficulty department.

There was a reason Platinum nerfed the league from DP, after all. DP's high difficulty was complained about, and BDSP actually manage to be even HARDER. I'm incredibly disappointed. I was excited to put a lot of hours into BD since Sinnoh is my favorite, only to find I cannot complete it. I'd probably have to restart the entire game at this point. I can't level up anymore without annoying grinding and I don't want to start over in the league. I always found that concept incredibly annoying and boring.
 
Kelleo said:
I can't level up anymore without annoying grinding and I don't want to start over in the league. I always found that concept incredibly annoying and boring.
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The Elite 4 are always a good option for levelling up your Pokemon. If you made it to Cynthia that means you managed to beat the other four trainers. If you keep doing that for just a little longer your Pokemon will gain levels very quickly to a point where Cynthia becomes much more managable. You can find a Lucky Egg in the Grand Underground if you want to speed things up. It's really not that bad. Also remember to use stat-boosting moves like Shell Smash or Quiver Dance. People tend to underestimate just how much of a difference these moves make in battle.

 
puddleths said:
You're certainly not the only one to struggle with this E4. They're EV trained, with pretty good movesets. I think it's expected for people to struggle with their in-game teams. It's not impossible, though.
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It is nice to hear that I don't simply suck or something, but I don't like games that make things absurdly hard. I don't want a super easy game, but I don't want a hard one either. So I'm probably going to sell my copy and hope Legends Arceus is easy-ish or at least has the option.

Pokemon was never this hard and was clearly never meant to be. How GameFreak allowed ILCA to do this, I won't understand. What happened to being kid friendly and all?

@Baka_Marimo Yeah, and lose a lot of money in the process since you always have to fork some over when you lose. I don't use Pokemon that know or can know those moves. I already have that Lucky Egg and it's only one, so it obviously will only benefit one Pokemon and still take a lot of time to grind. I also don't want to redo the league since it takes long enough as is.
 
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Moneywise you will always have a net gain if you beat the first four and then lose to Cynthia. But I guess it can't be helped if you don't feel like it, so it's probably best to put the game aside for now. After all, what is the point of playing Pokemon if you aren't having fun? :)
 
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Baka_Marimo said:
Moneywise you will always have a net gain if you beat the first four and then lose to Cynthia. But I guess it can't be helped if you don't feel like it, so it's probably best to put the game aside for now. After all, what is the point of playing Pokemon if you aren't having fun? :)
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That is true, but redoing the league over and over like that is still a bore. I'd rather have a less tedious way to level up, like if I just had more trainers I could battle in general or decently leveled enough wild Pokemon to knock out. Too bad the VS Seeker never worked in caves for some reason. So I can't rebattle any Victory Road trainers...
 
Kelleo said:
That is true, but redoing the league over and over like that is still a bore. I'd rather have a less tedious way to level up, like if I just had more trainers I could battle in general or decently leveled enough wild Pokemon to knock out. Too bad the VS Seeker never worked in caves for some reason. So I can't rebattle any Victory Road trainers...
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Well you could train in the GU, the pokemon in the hideouts go up to level 63. The good thing about that ist that you can train your pokemon against pokemon that have type disadvantages, so you if you would want to train an Empoleon you could just go to a fire themed cave. But Cynthia should be doable, I was (sometimes noticeably) underleveled and was still able to beat her (took a bit of luck though, her Garchomp usually destroyed my team, but I eventually got lucky once because she used dragon dance so roar of time made me OHKO her). Revives and max potions where needed though.
 
RavenRaziel98 said:
Well you could train in the GU, the pokemon in the hideouts go up to level 63. The good thing about that ist that you can train your pokemon against pokemon that have type disadvantages, so you if you would want to train an Empoleon you could just go to a fire themed cave. But Cynthia should be doable, I was (sometimes noticeably) underleveled and was still able to beat her (took a bit of luck though, her Garchomp usually destroyed my team, but I eventually got lucky once because she used dragon dance so roar of time made me OHKO her). Revives and max potions where needed though.
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Oh, really? That's surprising since the highest level wild Pokemon you could find in the original DPPt, even including post-game, didn't go past level 56 or something. And there is a section I can access now that I've not yet visited either, so I should at least check it out.

I thought I picked a good and prepared team, but maybe I should replace my Lopunny with someone. She doesn't have much use against Cynthia. I always liked using Lopunny in my Sinnoh teams, but I also lack a Grass-type to take out Gastrodon, so...
 
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