Video: Pokémon Fan Reimagines The Diamond And Pearl Remakes As Full 3D Games

Wow. That's all I have to say to that, that's freaking amazing.

"Nintendo, hire this man."

That goofy running animation got me lmao

People are so easily impressed by anything it seems

0:00-1:45 presents what I, a paying customer, want.

It take's them no time to do there animation's at all, why? bc its the same one from years ago. The most high tech thing ever, character models are still going down a F*** grid like pattern, wile we got this 3 minute animation with a all knew thing of movement.

Maybe the "fan" should use his genius to create his own game and turn it into a billion dollar franchise if he is so creative.

@nessisonett He's not wrong though

I like the pearl and diamond remakes just the way they are. I do not want every Pokemon game to look like sword and shield . why play a game that looks exactly the same as another? I like the new looks. it gives them a fresh feel like links awakening. oh and good luck to whom ever put up that video . Nintendo and the game freak will take it down in a matter of days.

@HotGoomba Pokemon games will never be on this level, because this was made in blender. Not to mention the animations aren't really that great in the trailer. The running animation just.. looks really jarring.

This is a very ambitious trailer. It looks like it merged pokken with traditional game. I love that the players can move the Pokemon. I think this type of gameplay would suit Pokemon well. They just would have to make it more arcadey like powerstone but with Pokemon.

I don't know if it's just me though but I despise the doe eyed trainer characters. The art styles for humans kinda clashed with the environment.

Unfortunately I am not too optimistic that we will get anything close to this level with the new Pokemon open world game from the Pokemon company.

@Snatcher Legends actually changed a bit of the animations. Starly actually walks on the ground now, instead of it constantly flying around. Pokemon actually make contact in combat now.

I'd probably buy the game if it looked like this...

.... just for that running animation alone. Hours sunk just running around and enjoying the occasional laugh.

In all seriousness though, this looks really good. And I'm saying this as someone who doesn't mind the chibi artstyle of the upcoming remakes.

... that running animation, though

@VoidofLight I really hope it turns out great.

Hm. Is this based on Naruto Storm content? Those run animations and especially the real-time combat look fairly familiar, but I'm afraid I never owned a Naruto game after PS2-era so have had limited contact with them. Also it's funny seeing everyone point out the run animation. Like, guys, have you never seen anime and anime-related video games, like, ever?

Disregarding possible baseline altered models and animations, that doesn't detract from that this looks exceptionally more pleasing a Pokemon title than what we've got in quite some time. Actually customizing your freaking Pokemon and Poke Balls to such a degree has been a desire since, god, generation 1 I guess with the anime teasing us at things that'll never come to pass in the games. Although Go and Let's Go have already challenged that with the many seasonal attire for starter Pokemon and Pikachu and Eevee got little odds and ends to wear in Kanto, so hey, there's a base to start off of.

As far as concepts go, this 'trailer' pretty much meets what folks were hoping for in a new/remade Pokemon game. Great concept, decent visuals, open-ish world. 10/10 would buy and pre-order.
Nintendo and Game Freak? Arceus is coming, but the ball was clearly dropped with what could've been experimented with for a Remake.

@Echostory Legends Arceus only got one trailer. Not to mention most of the stuff seen in this fan trailer wouldn't fit with Sinnoh or with the switch's hardware limits.

@VoidofLight Not in the tech biz myself, but by simple basis of looking with my eyes, nothing in this trailer exceeds what my Switch has done playing Doom 2016, Super Mario Odyssey or even Breath of the Wild, which I would argue is the most plain of the three by design. Tone down the particle effects a bit maybe, this isn't Jump Force, but this doesn't seem outside the Switch's range via past titles the console's less than matching market standards has still squeezed out.

Obviously in this hypothetical the game would still need some cleaning up, raise the framerate, etc. but this is essentially SwSh but better if laggier animations and quality of life customization things. That and their wild areas had the artistic care the Let's Go games had with their routes with an underwater one akin to ORAS. SwSh's wild areas filled their function but they were bizarrely barren and lifeless to look at.

I feel like I'm one of the only people excited for a faithful remake of Diamond and Pearl

@DarthXenos I'm excited as well, since I never actually got to play the original games due to my Platinum game card no longer working, and the originals being slow as heck.

@Clod The lighting itself, and the realistic grass, combined with the texture work being more realistic. Those things look like something you'd find in an Unreal Engine game on PC, and not something that'd work on switch without frame rates being absolutely horrid.

@DarthXenos I don't hate what we've seen thus far but it always leaves me asking "Why?". Wait until more info is out before giving it its proper criticism, but it appears going by the first trailer and accompanying details that it wants to go backwards from what FireRed/LeafGreen did for Gen 3, HeartGold/SoulSilver did for 4, so-on and so-forth. Each of those specifically went out of their way to not just recreate the previous title and update it to the new title of that generation but to also surpass them. Arguably Emerald is king of Gen 3, but FRLG I'd say surpass Ruby and Sapphire. HGSS were so good they fight for supremacy of the Pokemon series as a whole. ORAS do SOOOO much more than X and Y on top of Ruby and Sapphire, though it still is of course a shame the Emerald content they cut.

BDSP as is seems to just be Diamond and Pearl but given the Switch Link's Awakening deal. Possibly not even that, Switch Link's Awakening added the DX content. We might not even be getting Platinum content for BDSP if ORAS to Emerald is any example.

I'm hopeful I'd say, but Game Freak make it just so hard to get excited over their future prospects once reality sets in.

@Clod The remake that's actually doing something original, and adding it's own spin onto it is Legend's Arceus. BDSP are more for those who've yet to experience the original games, or those who don't want an open world pokemon game and rather play a more familiar version of the formula.

BDSP is also not developed by Gamefreak. It's being developed by ILLCA, and with my understanding.. this is the first project they're actually developing alone, and not just helping out a company with developing a game.

@VoidofLight Eh, agree to disagree? You're right in concept, I think you're just underselling the Switch's examples and overselling what this trailer's got. It's just Let's Go's stuff zoomed in. BotW had similar grass. A strong art style really sells it.

That's why I still place Metroid Prime somewhere alongside the like's of Halo 3 as my Best Looking Games Ever list.

I made a thread about this two days ago and it got locked (for advertising a youtube channel?)...then this makes the newsfeed? At least tell me you're going to use it as an article instead of giving me a weird reason. Rant over.

This trailer is amazing, you can tell he really wants the most out of Pokemon/ GameFreak/ Ilca.

I should make a concept video of a fighting game with 300 different characters just to embarrass Sakurai lol.

@Clod I'd say once you release a trailer of in game footage, it's almost fair game to openly talk your opinion otherwise we get poor quality launch titles...and even despite criticism we still get them...on the rare case you get Halo Infinite being delayed and improved.

@SnackBox Does the sonic movie count?

@SnackBox I'm not saying anyone can't have their initial reactions, by all means. But I intend to be more lenient until we have a bigger picture.

Of course, we had an issue with just that going into SwSh and the whole Dex cut hurricane of bad decisions and just generally poor information. God, reflecting on that, they still don't advertise or admit that SwSh is missing Pokemon in Japan, don't they? Remember that was a thing once the DLC started coming around. Even the new Snap game had the foresight to clarify, and that's the least-expected place for a full Dex to show with just some common sense.

Anyways, derailment aside, yeah we can all talk about what we do know on BDSP at the time being. I'm just not willing to lump it away as "Nothing more but Diamond/Pearl but 3D and slightly claymation" until we know more. For all we know, they're taking the Episode Delta concept from ORAS and expanding exponentially. Hell, have a hail mary, maybe they're finally acknowledging MissingNo. We just don't know what their plans are in great detail at the time, and as is I'm not set to burn it at the stake just yet. Just.....wishing its chibi models didn't look worse that ORAS's, blurriness and all.

...Yeah I'll stick with the official remake.

Tons of fun to watch! Kudos for Drifblim as the flight Pokemon and the neat Pokemon dress-up feature.

Wow I don't understand why people making fun of this concept. Sure it's only a short animation video and making game is really not easy, but is it wrong for us to have a dream? Is it wrong for us to hope for a 60$+ game to be on this level when PS5/XSX/PC gamers can enjoy quality 4K 60-70$ games?

@Clod I'll agree that Soul Silver and Heart Gold are amazing games. I never actually played Fire Red or Leaf Green, but I did not like Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. Compared to those, I would preferred playing the originals again with the updated battle mechanics (mainly the special split). I haven't really enjoyed a Pokémon game since X and Y (and those were still a little lackluster). That's 8 years. If Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are a full on by the books remake with graphical updates, I'll be happy, but I think there will still be quality of life updates and that makes me even happier! I can for sure say the thing that makes me most excited and hopeful is that GameFreak themselves aren't making this one. I just want a good mainline Pokémon game again

@Clod Hear, hear! Definitely too soon to throw in the towel completely...I think people have just jumped the gun to hop a negative bad wagon...though on the other side of the coin...game freak really could have communicated their omissions or general plans and come across a tad more transparent.

Regarding ORAS, I think there's still some missed/ rushed polishing that game really could have soared from and garnered the same quality HGSS and FRLG h=still have today.

@Miu It's not wrong to dream, but it's a bit annoying when people say that Gamefreak is lazy because the games aren't like a fan animation, and that the series should be handled by fans.

BDSP might not be what you, or some others want, but it's made for the people who never played diamond and pearl before, or who actually wanted a remake that was the exact same as the originals, but a bit better.

If you want something with fresh gameplay, as well as better animations and graphics, then get Legends Arceus when that releases.

Game development isn't as easy as making a small fan-animation, and it's good to have actual realistic expectations for an actual game. Something like this fan trailer couldn't work as an actual switch game, without causing massive performance issues. Also, expecting a switch game to be on par with a ps5 game is lunacy.

@VoidofLight I'd counter that for the highest earning franchise in the world, realistic expectations should be set extremely high, they have the experience and monetary is a non-issue. However, the only problem I see which people blame them for being lazy is they don't have enough time, trying to keep the TCG, anime and games on a roll is a balancing act that will lead to sacrifices in some areas.

The art style is subjective but people don't like to lie down and accept mediocrity when they've tasted better in the past.

And with Panic Button's recent releases, they've proven that games that far outpace the quality of that trailer are indeed possible.

I encourage anyone quick to defend The Pokémon Company in this comment section to check out "Pokémon Doesn't Care About Their Own Games" by KnowledgeHub.

@SnackBox The thing is, TPC cares more about the anime and TCG. The devs themselves aren't lazy. It's the main heads of Gamefreak who in which care more about merch sales than game sales.

It's on you guys if your expectations are high, when most of the money doesn't even go to the games themselves, but to the merch and anime.

Not to mention again, Gamefreak isn't even making BDSP. ILLCA is.

@pennylessz Yeah, go read a clearly biased opinion piece to get all the facts. What a joke.

Well, this certainly was a great CGI video, but it is really easy to do a CGI video compared to a full game. I love the people moaning about Gamefreak when Gamefreak aren't the ones developing the Sinnoh remakes. Gamefreak are making Legends Arceus, which from the early footage shown is more along the lines of this CGI video.

@Trikeboy I honestly don't get why people are choosing to forget Legends Arceus even existed in the first place honestly..

@Kevember Nah its easier to make essentially a crappy 3D cartoon with stolen models but show a few menus and call it a "game concept"..

It's the equivalent of drawing a rocket on a piece of paper and saying "NASA should make this".

@SnackBox Id say the most valuable franchise in the world is the one whose idea has the most value. Not the one that gets the most money put into its idea.

The value of the idea is the difference between the cost to make and the money it brings in, and all Switch games are $60/£50. Pokemon would never have the biggest production values because they don't need them. They're better off with production values that Gamefreak are comfortable delivering on time, because selling 10+ million copies every other year is what keeps it valuable.

You just have to see the state of Square Enix who chased bigger and bigger production values for Final Fantasy to see it can derail what was once a very valuable series. On PS1 where they could get like 5-10 million sales for games releasing every other year. Now a single entry takes over half a decade to make, constant delays, engine shifts, director swaps just because they chased graphics.

And few think they're better games for it. Put too much production into Pokemon and it won't be the most valuable for very long.

This is exactly why i dont like the Nintendo hardcore fanbase.

@liljmoore To be fair gamefreak set the bar really low

At best, I expected a remake using the Sword/Shield engine with maybe a wild area portion or two and some new mega forms. I would have been thrilled with that. Also, the ability to obtain Manaphy without a special event (similar to how Deoxys was "demoted" of its event status in OR/AS, which I thought was a good move as there are far too many event Pokémon now) and Arceus via the long-fabled Hall of Origin.

At worst, I expected the Let's Go treatment, and I quite liked the contrast between catching Pokémon and battling them in Pikachu/Eevee, which helped break some of the monotony, and I would have loved the novelty of two cute Sinnoh Pokémon starring in their own game. I would have LOVED Let's Go, Chatot, complete with Chatot-themed Joy-Con that includes a microphone so that you can voice commands in battle and have it mimic you outside of battle. Perhaps they could have contrasted this with Let's Go, Mime Jr. which could have included a special Mime Jr. Joy-Con with a camera that would enable Mime Jr. to mimic your gestures in and out of battle.

Psst, Game Freak... I'm available if you're hiring.

But as for what we're actually getting...

I don't think I have ever been so disinterested in a main series Pokémon game since Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon (and I quite enjoyed those, mind).

They might as well have just ported the DS games at native HD resolution with revised sprites and textures at this point. The first shot with the chibi protagonist in her bedroom is byfar the most pathetic reveal I have ever seen in a Pokémon trailer. I was in utter disbelief at how unimaginative, unambitious, and downright ugly it was. Even X&Y looked better than this (and had substantially more content for a lower asking price too!).

I am quite looking forward to Legends: Arceus, which somewhat makes up for BD/SP, but I think the long-awaited remakes of the Gen IV games deserved just a little better than LESS the bare minimum.

@HotGoomba Your point doesn't stand because it's not a game. This is always the problem when some fan makes one of these videos. People like you then conflate making a trailer with making a game, and it's a grossly unfair comparison to make.

I like how the worst thing about pokemon is the one thing game freak refuses to change. They change everything else, take features away that people actually like, even cut pokemon, and literally the one thing holding the franchise back the most is its potato ass combat engine.

GameFreak never needs to put in effort to make a game like this since people will buy whatever they make anyways.

@Xaessya It's not a game

Seeing that Giratina reminded me that we are pretty sure not getting that part of the story from Platinum in these...

I would definitely play this, I prefer the visuals in this to the remakes coming. However, given we've got legends I'll probably just pick that up instead of the remakes. Crackin' effort on this trailer though, well done whoever made it

@SimonCucho This 'trailer' didn't have a hundred people working on it for 3+ years either...

This is just two people and their spare time during a couple of weeks/months. The in-game models what they've made so far look a lot better than things we've seen from GF.

@liljmoore GF set the bar quite low to be fair

@Dethmunk Normally, there aren’t any problems with 3D chibi art styles. They can be very well done like the Link’s Awakening remake. However, with the last official Pokemon game, Sword and Shield, GameFreak already gave us the Pokémon art style of THIS Gen.

Historically, with each new Pokémon game remake, that remake takes on the art style of that current Gen. Instead of building on Sword and Shield and improves on it, fans are now given a B rated mobile looking game out of nowhere. Even the last remake, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, with its 3DS graphics, looks better than this remake.

Yes, GameFreak and the Pokémon Company can do whatever they want. What most likely happened was any work done for the initial Diamond and Pearl remake have been shifted to be part of Legends. The art style of Legends looks exactly like Sword and Shield, with a slight faded palette change. The 3D models look the same. It’s no coincidence Legends is based in Sinnoh either. It may have been part of the original remake or the likely Arceus based plot line that may have been added to the remakes.

The point is, imagine if Breathe of the Wild 2 looks exactly like a chibi top-down Zelda game. This is the type of shock to some Pokémon fans I think. At least it was for me initially.

The greater problem is this, Pokemon and really Nintendo (by way of Mario Party and Animal Crossing for example) have been giving us unfinished or half finished games. Many features in past games are missing, and when some of these features are added later on, they are marketed as free updates. When I pay full price for a game, I expect to have a finished game. It’s not that fans are being entitled or spoiled, but if we look at the problems with each of these games, we will find missing past features to be a big one.

By the way, the trailer looks amazing. Only thing I would be curious is how they would animate the battles with such dynamism when the battle system is so turn based.

It sure does look nice, but let's see something with this graphic fidelity running on switch at a constant 30fps. Once again, Pokemon fans don't really understand game development and it shows. LMAO.

@Folkloner whatever I realized how dumb my comment was and I'm on a break from this site

@Xiovanni
Of course it would, if Game Freak actually gave a damn about their graphics and performance.

You know, I get it, this is not a video game, and it dose not have any code in it, but damn, do yall really have to step over there hard, work like its nothing?

@Chamver
If Bandai Namco made this, I can almost guarantee you that the game can run perfectly on the Switch and probably even better, at 60fps.

The Switch hardware isn't to blame for the setbacks. Game Freak is, because they never bothered with them.

I would buy this with no hesitation, but it looks way to good to run on the normal switch

@ModdedInkling @Octane
Sw/Sh has scenes with visuals and animation far better than this trailer.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5OGJkihwg

Having the whole game be like the above is unfeasible though, it's an interactive game not a 3D movie.

I mean just look in this fan trailer how the animators struggle to make Empoleon fight Infernal believable and that's a pre-set animation between two known models. Imagine if it was Caterpie and Wailord and or any combination of all the the hundreds of Pokemon shapes/sizes, limbs having to realistically trading blows in close quarters or far away with the hundreds of moves.

It's pure fantasy that anyone could make a game battle system that's somehow both cinematically staged like the anime, but also endlessly dynamic/flexible to work with thousands of possible combinations of combatants and moves.

Impressive and fun if a little janky in parts.

But all the cries for "Hire this person"...why would they do that? The skills required to make a cool trailer with some wishlist things for a game and the skills to actually make the game and implement those ideas are so vastly different. They can't just hire anyone with a cool idea. Game Design is crazy hard (and mostly balancing numbers) it's not just having a cool idea.

This person has some cool video editing skills, so if they need one of them then maybe.

@Dr_Lugae The battle stuff looks a bit rubbish I agree (but it was mostly one person, and it was only three months or so, so that's forgiven). But the first minute or so has a very nice visuals I think. It reminds me a lot of the anime, in terms of style and details.

Yeah, the animations look very off, but that person probably isn't an animator. Remember, this isn't the work of a 100-person team over the course of couple of years, this is the work of one person in mere months.

The real remake every fan of Gen 4 wanted but instead they hired a random team to make a chibi remastered

I would've loved this but, shouldn't legends arceus fill this gap? I hate what they did with the chibi remake as much as the next guy, but really, a game like shown in the video is more of a reimagining than a remake. Same for legends arceus too. That's why we're getting both the remake and legends arceus.

(Also, I find it funny how every time we see something cool like this people are really rude to the creator and pretend there are laws preventing you from making anything like that.)

How likely do you think it is that we'll see legends Arceus at E3?

@Trikeboy so a video you haven't seen by a channel you don't know is "clearly biased" but your comment dismissing it is not? 😂
Is a general knowledge channel biased about Pokémon, or is it the random dude on a Nintendo forum with a Pokémon profile pic?

Not to mention all the other buzzkills who consider a fan-made animation made by one dude in his bedroom nothing impressive, and then defend antiquated animations made by dozens of experienced professionals with a potentially infinite budget 😂

Boy are Pokémon fans absurd, never change ❤️

Well... now I’m kinda sad 🥺 Pearl was my first game and seeing Sinnoh recreated like this would be AMAZING. But I’m hopeful for Legends Arceus to give Game Freak a chance at really succeeding with 3D / open world, then maybe we can have this beautiful experience in Kalos, or wherever the mainline games travel next 🤞

Edit: wait, I meant Unova. Kalos after that!

@SimonCucho let's please tone it down with the toxic behavior.

The biggest thing I see in this trailer that Pokemon currently lacks is riding your own Pokemon and using them to navigate the environment. Look at how the trainers ride Pokemon in the sky, through the ocean and up rock walls. Those were exactly the things HM's tried to evoke, back when the technology couldn't illustrate these mechanics as literally as we can see in this trailer.

Pokemon Legends: Arceus already looks close enough to this level of graphics. All we need is for the mainline entries to return to that original motif of catching your own Pokemon not only to master Pokemon battling, but also to master the world around you.

@clvr who said I am unaware of the channel and video? Also I said the animation was impressive. Why are you so defensive? And since you drew attention to my profile pic, just like the creator, I made it in Blender using assets taken from Pokemon games.

@Trikeboy me defensive? Quite the opposite, actually.
Tell me though, doesn't it sound salty that a person with a Pokémon* profile picture shoots down actual constructive criticism of the series as "biased"?
Can you not see the irony?
That was the point, not the fact that you knew the video or not.
If you've seen it and still think the video is biased, well, I don't know what to add.
I don't really like the channel either, but it's hard to disagree with the points he raises.

*Of course it'd be the same for any other franchise.

Honestly can't believe all these Gamefreak/TPC/Ilca apologists lmao. So many people thrashing on 2 random dudes' hard work of 3 months to make an awesome concept/vision video with some clunky animations here and there because ofc there are, it's made by 2 random dudes who probably aren't even professionals and made this in their spare time in about 3 months or so, versus actual Pokémon games having hundreds of professionals working on them for years and somehow those professionals still manage to under-deliver their recent titles because they don't give a *****. TPC knows apologists and newcomers will buy their game regardless of what crap they put out so they don't care, all they give a ***** about is money. While yes SwSh were greatly sold games as many on here like to boast, the actual people that still care about and play those games regularly are close to nonexistent. From the dexcut, to the PS1 textures, to the same models being used since xy, to the non existent unique move animations for 90% of the Pokémon, to the annoying af excessive hand-holding, to the bland almost non-explorable one-way straightforward routes and caves, to the dlc paywall locked returning old gen pokemon, to the season passes being separately sold based on what version you have, to the paid online service, to the overpriced Pokémon home service, to the laughable nonexistent at launch post game, to the horrible online menu and timer in friendly matches and to the lies and misinformation and apologetic bs on the terrible decisions made by gamefreak/TPC, I beg to differ that SwSh were great games, they aren't even mediocre at best.

To the people defending gamefreak and I guess Ilca in BdSp's case. If you'd let any competent/somewhat interested/caring company handle the remakes it wouldn't look as terrible as the ones we got. The environments look nice in BdSp artstyle sure but that's about it. I've never in my life seen uglier chibi's than the ones shown in the first trailer. XY and ORAS had better chibi's and those were made for the 3ds which is a greatly inferior console in terms of performance and specs compared to the switch and switch lite. Now idk about y'all but I for one, won't be able to take Cyrus even remotely seriously in this ugly ass Chibi style like whatsoever. I've seen people saying they're hyped if it's a faithful remake because it will be slightly better when the remakes haven't even released yet (if it is indeed a 100% faithful remake have fun with all the flaws of the original like having only 3 fire Mons in the game and so on), and these same people bash on a fan's concept/vision (clearly states it's not a game fyi) with no monetisation in mind, for showing potential graphics and features Pokémon games could have if the necessary love and care to make it happen was put in it by the professionals. Also shame on the people who are always the first to threaten cool fan creations like this with ***** like "TPC should take this down asap lmao", you are the reason that TPC doesn't give a ***** about their mainstream franchise anymore because you allow them to get away with anything and will always defend them on anything and are the first to bash any non professional fan creations that don't even get any money from their hard work because they made it solely because they wanted to share their vision. If what was shown is the best Ilca/TPC had to offer than it's downright tragic. For the simple fact that TPC is a multi billion dollar company that could easily invest all the money in the world in Ilca or any other developer if they cared enough for that matter to make the BdSp remakes the best they could be, That's why the majority of the people are not excited for these remakes. If I want the best authentic gen 4 experience I'll just play platinum again or Drayano's Renegade Platinum over DP and especially over BdSp. I would've been more excited for a HD Platinum port and even HD DP port on switch instead of this horsecrap dubbed BdSp, at least in those games the artstyle is superb and the sprites bring the Pokémon to life more than the generic reused 3d models since XY' BS ever could.

Also seen a lot of people defending Pokémon legends of arceus when the frame rate looks absolutely atrocious, the art style is nice but based on what we've seen if they don't fix the framerate and performance issues then it's a rap for that game, people will ofc still buy the everliving ***** out of legends arceus and the BdSp regardless tho because newcomers and apologists will buy anything TPC makes and I've been there myself so I know what I'm talking about but I grew up and chose to open my eyes and face the facts that TPC doesn't care about their games or their fanbase, only money. (as is the case with most companies)

And because they don't give a ***** because they know people will buy their crap regardless of it being good or bad, they don't even have an incentive to ever change or improve the formula that is Pokémon mainline series games and never plan to put out anything above the "mediocre at best, but hey it still sells well" bar they've set for themselves. The state of this series is as stale and tragic as it ever could be, I daresay at it's lowest point yet, but that's ofc my opinion. An opinion that an enormous amount of people share I might add. Because they and I find it upsetting that this is the best Pokémon mainline series has to offer when it could be so much more if the time, care, resources and money was put into the hands of whichever developer was entrusted with handling said mainline games and remakes that the multi billionaire company known as TPC could easily afford to invest in and make it reality. They just choose not to.

@OGFastkris ok let's calm down, no need for four consecutive rants

@OGFastkris Just like Final Fantasy got better the more money they put into it? No, I dislike how the Nintendo fanbase are veering towards the same graphics obsessed Mania that is basically ruining the AAA industry.

The Pokémon games never at any point succeeded because they were a graphical spectacle. New gameplay concepts like the Wild Area and the Dynamax battles add more interesting twists, pokemon Amie, Pokemon Camp give more players more reasons to play. LGPE Go style gameplay is proving to soon become the best selling remake.

By the end of next year the Switch will have 4 different styles of Pokemon:
LGPE Go Style
Sw/Sh Style
Legends 'Action Adventure' Open World style
BD/SP traditional grid style

It's more varied than every other system Pokemon has been on. Ofcourse TPC care about money that's been the truth since day 1, but this is literally the most experimental/varied moment in Pokemons main series history. Your rant about "staleness" couldn't be any less well timed.

I don't think adding a new gimmick and calling it a day will ever improve the franchise either. My point about TPC having a lot of money, was just to bring the point across that they could invest all the resources into their games if they wanted to and work on it for as long as they wanted to instead of making recycled ass new games every year or two. The gimmicks in SwSh were poorly executed. Wild Area? Great concept that was very poorly handled leaving me and a lot of fans disappointed. Dynamax battles and especially dynamax dens were a pain to play, you basically HAVE to play it with other players because the NPC companions are useless, the turn time limit and the multiple life thresholds for the dynamaxed Pokémon are just a pain in the ass and not fun at all. I'll take mega evolutions over dynamax any day, anywhere. Pokémon Amie was cute, so was Pokémon camp but by no means are they ever the main selling points for a pokemon game, Pokémon Amie was also a bit weird with the more humanoid Pokémon like gardevoir or machop evo line. I really like LGPE artstyle and will take it over SwSh poorly executed engine any day of the week but it's gameplay changes sucked. The catching system was horrendous, the only thing I can give props to that system is being rewarded for catching the same pokemon species multiple times. The difficulty sucked ass, same with SwSh and that isn't because I grew up and got better at the games. I played through platinum again recently with nuzlocke rules and the difference in terms of difficulty was so clear in comparison to my nuzlocke run of SwSh. TPC doesn't put any care into their games anymore, they have the time and resources to take their pokemon games to the max, but just choose not to do so. Instead they put one of the most anticipated remakes in the hands of a developer team known for creating mobile games while they work on legends arceus which doesn't even look impressive due to it's unusually terrible framerate. They have 4 different styles of pokemon games and all of them suck and fail to innovate. My rant about 'staleness' still stands. And I pity the ones who can't see that the games lost their soul a long while ago. But hey to each their own, I guess if you wanna support games for the rest of your life that don't even bother to change the most basic of things in their games and keep them coming every year or 2 and are willing to pay 60 for an unfinished game, on top of all the other stuff like the season passes and online and home scam services then more power to you. I'll stick to the older games if I want an authentic nostalgic Pokémon experience and to fangames and romhacks if I want an authentic newer Pokémon game experience, which is completely free and multiple times better than the crappy mainline series releases as of late created by a multi billion dollar company that could create a much better experience than these fangames if they chose to put the necessary time and resources in if they wanted to. They just choose not to, it's as simple as that.

@Eel was actually meant to be one rant but didn't fit so I divided into parts haha 😅

@Kevember 1) "Fan?" They spent hours upon hours making this. Just so that they and people on the internet could have something to entertain them and.think is cool. 2) Being an animator doesn't mean you understand coding (I 3D animate as well yet have only briefly touched Unity) 3) I don't understand what your problem with this is, they clearly enjoy pokemon games and wanted to conceptualize what a possible entry in the series could look like.

"The graphics look horrible. Is this an N64 game? Heck, I feel like N64 games had better graphics than this. Are those the tree models from Ocarina of time? As a Pokemon fan, I must spread my negativity about Pokemon whenever the topic is mentioned on Nintendolife."

Holy moly, this looks amazing!
Salute to the guy making this

Ida preordered this on preorder day 1 after the running was fixed

@clvr Sorry for the late re-entry into the conversation. Thank you for standing up for my original comment in my absence. I'm not a huge KnowledgeHub fan nowadays, but the guy does occasionally hit his mark, and he really opened my eyes with this one. I'm a Pokémon fan by the way, which makes the entire altercation that occured here very comical.

@pennylessz you're welcome mate 😃