If today's mighty overview trailer for Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl has you sold on the game already, you'll be pleased to know that an early purchase bonus has been revealed by The Pokémon Company.
That's right, those who pick up one of the two games early will receive a Manaphy egg; Manaphy is a Mythical Pokémon, and one that is very unusual indeed. By hatching your new Manaphy egg, you won't just be getting your hands on one special Mythical Pokémon, but two – breeding a Manaphy will get you a Phione, a Pokémon which can't be obtained any other way.
If you want one, you'll need to have bought the game and played it through to the necessary section by 21st February 2022. All details can be found below.
"You can receive your Egg by choosing Get via Internet from the Mystery Gift function in the game until February 21, 2022. By putting it into your party and carrying it around on your adventure through the Sinnoh region, you’ll be able to hatch the Egg and gain Manaphy as a companion.
An internet connection is required to receive the Manaphy Egg, but a Nintendo Switch Online subscription (paid) is not required.
It takes approximately two hours of play time before you are able to access the Mystery Gift function."
Have you already been convinced to pick up the new games when they launch in November? Will you be playing them on the shiny new Dialga and Palkia Switch Lite console? Hatch a comment below.
[source diamondpearl.pokemon.com]
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Agreed, this is much better than risking a pre-order
Absolutely a sweet deal.
Glad it's not some crazy pre-order bonus
I'd care more about this if this wasn't going to be like, my third one. But hey, obviously I'm not the only person this game is catered to.
@Pikman The preorder bonus info has been released. If you get a single game retail you get nothing. If you get a single game digital, you get 12 quick balls. If you buy the double pack retail you get 200 pokéballs. Purchasing the double pack digital is the quick and pokéballs. No matter what you get the Manaphy. https://diamondpearl.pokemon.com/en-us/shop/manphy-bonus/
Much better than the original Diamond & Pearl, where you had to either buy one of the Pokemon Ranger games (each of which could only send one Manaphy, even if you reset the save file) or attend a limited time in-store distribution.
I am missing almost all the DP legendaries and mythical mons from my living dex, so this is exciting :3
And then get a ditto to get Phanphi..... So will never evolve to manaphy 😒
That's a much better gift than 100 pokeballs and 10 potions. Lol
Can we get another Volcanion distribution? I realize it's different gen and Pokemon. But I missed the first time around and its the only Pokemon I don't have in my Pokedex
Oh, that's actually pretty nice considering I only have 1 Manaphy from the Pokémon Ranger missions with a bad nature.
Will definitly pick this up along my way.
Damn it. I was hoping it would have been stripped of its event status and obtainable in-game by default.
Free Manaphy? Sweet! I already have one but I could go for another~
Yes
Wait, let me think…
Yes
Wait so when the egg hatches I need another space in my party for the second?
@JugOfVoodoo Oh, yeah. I remember that.
I actually rented Pokémon Ranger from the video store as soon as I knew the code to activate the Manaphy Egg mission, and thankfully it was still available.
@MrPavoPeacock awesome, thanks
I’d fall into the single game retail category, oh well 😂
hopefully the other mythical pokemon have in game events and aren't distrubed through mystery gift
@PBNightmare : No. They've worded it a little poorly. Manaphy can mate with Ditto to produce Phione (and you can breed for as many Phione as you like, and Phione too can breed).
Being able to breed Manaphy is also how they got to get away with only giving 11 Mythical Pokemon for the 20th anniversary giveaway throughout 2016.
(That and I hear Deoxsys was demoted to an in-game event in ORAS that wasn't real time limited.)
I guess to make Gen 6 full Dex completion a realistic possibility for a time.
@UmbreonsPapa
We’re overdue a Volcanion distribution. There was one not so long ago in Japan. I bought the code off eBay, no idea if they are still valid, you could have a look.
No, I don't think I shall. Manaphy is not one of my favorite legendaries.
oh nice, lasts long enough for me to buy the game at a lower price and still be able to get the event
Manaphy is one of the few mythicals I don't have. So this is great.
Great that it's an egg, so we can have a mythical with us as the OT. I've always been a bit OCD about that, as most mythicals come through events and have OTs that are often the date or something and it looks sort of dumb. Not really sure why they do them as Mystery Event gifts instead of making them in game events.
I think the only others we've been able to get with us as OT is Mew from the Pokeball Plus, Celebi from Crystal on the VC, Victini in White, and Deoxys in ORAS.
Manaphy is so cute.
A Pokémon game and free breakfast? Nice.
@Peach64 : Some event legendaries in Gens III and IV were obtainable via event-exclusive items that enabled you to catch them in the "wild", which would allowed you to obtain them as the OT (and/or in their shiny forms), including Darkrai and Shaymin in Platinum (the Arceus event was never officially distributed), and Mew/Deoxys in FRLG/Emerald.
After Sw/Sh I no longer buy Pokémon games just because. I may pick up this I’m unsure. I’m currently not sold on Arceus and still need a ton more convincing.
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