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Re: Gallery: A Peek Into Nintendo NY Store's Pokémon Sinnoh Region Event

Munchlax

@Rayquaza2510
I know stuff like the battle tower (not frontier) have been confirmed, but since I still have the originals and don’t like the graphical style of the remakes, I really need there to be a significant amount of new fleshed out content for it to be worth £50. So far, it’s a underground wild area, and that’s basically all there is that wasn’t in Platinum too.

Re: Looks Like Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Are Unity Engine Games

Munchlax

@Crono1973
As @RupeeClock pointed out, the other remakes did include content from the 3rd version if appropriate. I know that these are DP remakes not Platinum, but they could have easily just chosen to remake the vastly improved version instead. Luckily, it appears that there may be more Platinum features than it first seemed, but they have implemented them awkwardly into side areas and post game events, when the groundwork for integrating them into the main story already exists- why not just use that?

Re: Looks Like Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Are Unity Engine Games

Munchlax

@mr-duster Improved on Dp, but it makes no sense to use them as the base when a superior version already exists. Its like if the Links awakening remake was black and white because colour wasnt added until DX- they're deliberately flawed purely to be as faithful to the first release as possible even though this ends up hurting the game on several aspects.

Re: Looks Like Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Are Unity Engine Games

Munchlax

The games seem great if you haven't played the originals, but it just seems worse than Platinum overall. Gyms have their inferior DPPT teams, there is only that battle tower (not frontier), and the underground seems like an awkward integration if the Platinum dex.
The QoL are minor, and route and story structure are identical, so I don't find much value in this remake. However, I was happy with paying full price for Links Awakening because I hadn't played it before, and I hope new players will be able to find value in this where I can't.

Re: Random: Oh No, People Don't Recognise GameCubes Any More

Munchlax

Some of the comments here are harsh, remember that since everyone on the site is a hard-core Nintendo fan, of course we'd have better recognition of this. Saw people in this thread comparing this to not recognising a gramophone or lp, which is a ridiculous comparison given how much more mainstream that is. Remember that the Game cube only sold 22 million units. There are more people have played Botw and SSBU than people who have owned a Gamecube.

Re: First Impressions: For Better Or Worse, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl Look Like Extremely Safe Remakes

Munchlax

Hopefully this remake is most in line with FRLG- nice new QoL features and fixes to the biggest problems with the originals. ORAS added and removed things in equal measure, so it can’t necessarily be called the definitive version of Gen 3, and whilst HGSS were nothing but improved on GSC, the Gen 2 games have some absolutely massive flaws (poor level curve, balancing, item availability, pacing) that could have easily been fixed, but instead were ignored entirely.