Random: A Lovely Easter Egg From Pokémon Diamond & Pearl Returns In The New Remakes

I could've sworn they removed that for the remakes.

@DomGC It was a joke, because, you know...they removed crap from the remakes. lol

Sweet i will check it out
Ps happy birthday and can't wait for the next pokemon game

@DomGC Actually they kinda removed the secret bases in the Underground. I mean it still exists but you can only place statues there instead of decorations etc. Also the fun minigame where you have to steal flags, then they removed traps etc

If they didn’t include it, there would be a DiamondDust Rebellion.

@mariomaster96 But they also greatly expanded the scope of the underground

@DomGC
The GTS
The Pal Park
Base decoration and capture the flag.
2/3 rounds of the contest mini game.

@RupeeClock
Tbh, locking features behind a paywall in the remakes is actually worse.

Retire already... The Pokemon company needs new blood so badly it hurts.

So is it now officially being called brilliant diamond dust?

@DevinRex @noobish_hat Actually, he has mostly stepped down as Director of the Pokémon series, and that's an incredibly rude thing to say to someone, let alone on their birthday

That’s a pretty nice thing to do for someone who helped out with the series, and it’s great to see they took the time to keep the easter egg in for the remakes.

The first time this appeared in the original Diamond, I saved outside in Snowpoint City just to enjoy the effect for years to come. I didn't boot up the game much at that point but loaded it every now and again just to see the effect lol.

@noobish_hat
First of all, as has been said, that’s an extremely jerkish thing to say to someone on their birthday. How would you feel if someone whined on the Internet repeatedly that you were a terrible person on the day of your birth?
Second, it’s not really ripping off anybody. At the end of the day, it was exactly what it said it was: remakes of Diamond and Pearl. There are some issues and I will agree with you that corners were cut, but it’s literally just Diamond and Pearl, how is that “lazy, unfinished, greedy, corner-cutting garbage”?
Third, what more do you want from Pokémon right now? In 2021 they revived a beloved franchise that has laid dormant for 20 years, they gave the remakes that everyone begged for, now they’re making an open-world game that’s full of advancement to the series. What do you want them to do?
And finally, WHO ASKED for you to complain on a post about a cool Easter egg celebrating this man’s birthday? Like, literally no pleasurable conversation is going to come out of this, you’re just whining randomly about someone who dedicated their life to making system-selling video games?
Phew, I needed to get that out…

You say Easter egg, yet I don't see any chocolate... I feel let down now

@KateGray With all due respect Kate, a CEO who is focused on making profit over quality, ham-fisting microtransactions and cheap gambling tactics to children, butchering the most successful franchise ever made, alienating the Pokemon fans have grown up with for a quick buck, and being so out of touch with his community that he has no idea what the community wants anymore, greenlighting the laziest development tactics and making the most trivial excuses that even an indie dev would scoff at (Dexit anyone?) When they have the resources of a billion dollar AAA studio, gets no sympathy from me.

Retiring on your birthday isn't a bad thing either. And while sure, I apologize if I come across as rude there, it doesn't detract from the fact that I feel that he's out of touch, and I'm tired of his company's incompetence on each new release. As a customer, buying almost every new mainline Pokemon game that comes out with my own money, and now the DLCs, I don't see it as a bad thing to be critical either, to be honest.

Consuming product and getting excited for next product was never a corporate mindset I can tolerate with em, which I should reiterate, has nothing to do with his character or date of birth. This is how I've felt for a long time, and I'm tired of paying $60 for lackluster pokemon experiences, reused animations since the 3Ds games, and being nickle-and-dimed for features already existed for free in past games (Pokemon Home, I'm looking at you...) It's not about Masuda as a person, but as a CEO... I feel it's time for new leadership.

All this said, and despite my little rant about my displeasure with the guy, I do wish him the best of Birthdays and hope he lives long and prospers.

@noobish_hat Exactly. No offense, but it's hard to feel "sorry" for someone who is responsible for ripping kids off with half-finished games. Then charging them AGAIN for content that should've been there day one.

Thought we get a in game easter egg gift going to see it.

Guess someone got coals for Christmas.

Nice that they kept this easter egg in, was not expecting they would use resources for this.

@RupeeClock
"At least free Home accounts have enough buffer to freely transfer stuff between games."

Isn't moving between games locked behind premium or does that only matter for the older games?

https://home.pokemon.com/en-us/premium/
Moving Pokémon from Pokémon Bank: Unavailable for basic

So you have to change something in a "faithful" remake, for it to be Polish/Finished, because if its faithful, its some how Lazy? K.

@Snatcher Surely you're not assuming that the gripes customers have had with Pokemon's incompetence in leadership, quality issues, laziness and lackluster content, generation after generation of all their recent releases is all based on a switch port / remake of diamond and pearl.

@RupeeClock
Thanks for the info, then it is better than I first thought. Hope the transferring/storing of 30 Pokėmon at a time will stay free for the upcoming games.

@DevinRex Of course not, Its pretty understandable, Great polished series of games, And it just got worse, I myself hated how they lied about the dex wasn't to happy with how sword and shield came out. not the mention we have had the same pokemon animations reused poorly.

But I'm talking about this game, That people keep calling lazy, when how is that the case when its a faithful remake! what else where they going to add? (BTW I'm not saying a remake can't be lazy, But the main point people bring up is its lack of content)

Idk maybe I just don't understand it? I just don't really find these games lazy, wile I will agree has a lot of problems. I do agree with you on pokemon home tho.

@Snatcher I can see your point. All things considered, I personally agree with you in that BDSP looks a lot more polished than say, SWSH. I think it helped that they already had a template to work from with the originals. Still I'm a little salty that there's no Pokemon Platinum version. That was my favorite of the three versions and me being the sucker I am for nostalgia, will probably be first in line to buy it if it turns out to be a DLC. Mainly for the Battle Frontier... God I miss the Battle Frontier.

@DevinRex Thats an argument I 100% agree with, I totally understand Why that would be upsetting, I personally don't understand why they didn't just remake Plat, Why remake the older versions, and not the new version?

TBH it was a little upsetting for me too, even tho I never played the original's, As I pretty much thought they where going to add it, It just made sense.

But they didn't for whatever stupid reason, Even the faithful remake argument doesn't really work here because who would you have hurt by doing that?

Thank you for a civil pokemon discussion (:

@noobish_hat
Fair enough, I probably went a bit too extreme there. But my point still stands. You still said nothing about how this rips off children and your reasoning for attacking this man, but you still went there. It’s just not a good thing to do. Maybe if you would explain your argument instead of throwing random insults on a tangentially related post, you wouldn’t have any issues with impotent tirades.
Side note: I haven’t heard the word “impotent” in a while. Really underrated word, so you do get points for that.

@Snatcher Agreed, thanks for the civil discussion as well. It's nice knowing how two humans are still able to have a good talk and come to an agreement despite a difference in views on some things.

@KateGray There is no nice-ness on the internet, especially with 'gamers'. I gave up a long time ago.

The comments section here is appalling as usual. I usually don't bother reading, let alone commenting, but I'm going to say my piece here.

Masuda gets a lot of unwarranted hate. The man has been directing Pokemon games since Gen 3, and by most "hardcore" fans, the golden age is considered Gen 3-5, of which Junichi Masuda is very responsible for many of the decisions that made those games great.

That being said, even as a director of the Pokemon series, there are factors that can't be controlled. For instance, budget would be decided by the Pokemon Company based on number of staff and other figures, Pokemon assets like the models and animations are sourced from Creatures Inc, etc. Many of the complaints about Pokemon models, animations or lack thereof isn't even GameFreak's responsibility, it's from their sister company.

That said, Pokemon has in recent years made a number of changes to streamline the games and make them more applicable to many fans of very different ages. For whatever reason, older fans view this as an insult to their intelligence, when it's really just an attempt to allow more fans to play the games without getting frustrated. I see many harping specifically on Sun and Moon and Sword and Shield, and the irony of it all is that Masuda didn't even direct those games, Shigeru Ohmori did, and he's a much newer hire.

Masuda has always been kind to his fans, those he interacts with on Twitter and as far as I've heard, his employees as well. Those complaining about how GameFreak needs new blood fail to realize that GameFreak has been hiring new blood all the time. They often hire new developers, fresh graduates or otherwise, and have been doing so since Gen 5, or even earlier.

Telling someone to retire, to get away from the company or that they ruined a franchise because you have personal disagreements with them not only shows immaturity, but ignorance of the bigger picture. The changes with Pokemon as of late have not been due to the greed of a single person, but rather logistical and business decisions decided by everyone at the Pokemon Company (GameFreak, Creatures Inc, and Nintendo).

Legends Arceus is a fresh new idea, and the series has a bright future, yet I still see people directing hate towards these game directors hiding behind a shield of false virtue. You can say you're targeting corporate greed, but when you're targeting a specific person, especially one who has helped build the foundation of the franchise as a whole, you're clearly filled with more hateful intentions that you are of good ones.

@DABYX It's not exclusive to gamers. I have two twitter accounts - one for football and one for wrestling and it's exactly the same. The internet - for all the good things it does - is exposing the ugly side of humanity for all to see. It gets more difficult to deal with every day.

Love the remake of D and P.

Well I am enjoying Pearl more than I anticipated. Never played the original though. Cool Easter egg.

I know this has been said many times, but for everyone complaining on an unrelated thread, here it is. @darthyoshi said Pokemon is treating their audience like children. Well guess what, their audience is children! Just because you're a big boy now doesn't mean Pokemon has to become something it's not. Accept that you're too old for it and move on.