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What Pokemon game should I play next?
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this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
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Don't play Brilliant Diamond, play Platinum instead, it's much better in every single way.
You can use an emulator to get it up and running quickly.
As far as Sun vs Ultra Sun, I think most people prefer the original but I've never played them.
Can you tell me why platinum is better? I’m genuinely clueless.
BDSP was a terrible remake that was farmed out to a random porting studio. It's one of the lowest effort remakes I have ever experienced.
One of the biggest issues is BDSP added modern EXP share where all your pokemon gain EXP every battle.This caused a huge problem for BDSP because they didn't re-balance the game to account for you gaining much more XP than the original developers expected. The game is completely trivial because you become unreasonably over-leveled when playing through the game normally.
Platinum also added extra content to gen 4 beyond the original Diamond and Perl. None of this content was added to the remaster. If you are wanting to play gen IV and have hardware that can run it, Platinum is the best choice.
Thanks! One of my complaints about Pokémon is that it’s too easy. That alone will push me to platinum.
BDSP are 1:1 Unity remakes of diamond and pearl, for better or worse. Platinum just had some small quality of life upgrades and both the legendaries.
Also, BDSP aren't made by Pokemon Company, I enjoyed the games but artistically it's just not Pokemon. If you told me BDSP was a fan game, I'd believe you. It's cool to see a 3d chibi take of Pokemon but I love the art direction of the DS games far more.
Platinum had a lot more than small upgrades, it's just easy to forget how much of gen 4 comes from platinum.
Platinum came out a year after Diamond and Pearl, it made a lot of changes to the games. From the top of my head these are the most important ones:
Thanks! You have convinced me to play platinum over the switch releases.
No problem!
I've consistently heard that the gameplay fixes of Ultra make the game objectively better, however they make some weird ass story changes that ruin the story of a very dialogue heavy game.