Kallyle
Starwalker Neo
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Okay, so about the ‘new’ news:
The new features we do have are pretty good, but they seem to be either solely aesthetic or only exist to cover up another dumb decision made to keep the nostalgia factor.
Overall, this is telling me that the only things TPC seems to think is worth investing time in is 1) a simplified and easy main campaign and 2) is straight-up battling and trading, the absolute bare minimum of the multiplayer Pokémon experience. Don’t get me wrong; I think ILCA is doing a great job on these remakes! However, there just isn’t enough for me to justify my purchase of BDSP. I ultimately think TPC would’ve been better off porting Platinum (including all of it features like the Battle Frontier and the WiFi Plaza, as well as Platinum’s story), splitting it in two for version exclusives (including Dialga and Palkia), and calling them Diamond and Pearl: Premium edition.
- Going back to single-use TMs just for the sake of nostalgia is an odd choice. I really hope multiples of them aren’t locked to the post game.
- The Amnity Square restriction being kept is a really unnecessary implementation just to keep things ‘faithful.’ Also, taking away the multiplayer Poffin making is a very odd choice when you could just let ILCA borrow how Game Freak implemented multiplayer curry making.
- If Secret Bases are just for placing statues and there’s no more capture the flag mini game, then what’s the point of having secret bases in the first place? What’s the point of making other players visible in the Underground if you’re not going to let us interact with them? It really seems like the only reason we have the Grand Underground right now is to keep the route encounters the exact same as DP.
The new features we do have are pretty good, but they seem to be either solely aesthetic or only exist to cover up another dumb decision made to keep the nostalgia factor.
Overall, this is telling me that the only things TPC seems to think is worth investing time in is 1) a simplified and easy main campaign and 2) is straight-up battling and trading, the absolute bare minimum of the multiplayer Pokémon experience. Don’t get me wrong; I think ILCA is doing a great job on these remakes! However, there just isn’t enough for me to justify my purchase of BDSP. I ultimately think TPC would’ve been better off porting Platinum (including all of it features like the Battle Frontier and the WiFi Plaza, as well as Platinum’s story), splitting it in two for version exclusives (including Dialga and Palkia), and calling them Diamond and Pearl: Premium edition.
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