Everything we know about Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Pokémon coaches will return to the Sinnoh region in the next versions of the Fourth Generation of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl. Almost 15 years after its original launch, the massively popular Diamond and Pearl titles are receiving long-awaited restarts, and fans awaken anxiously the launch of the series at the end of this year.

Remakes were announced for the first time with a rapid advance of a minute in February, and since then few new details have been published, as in the Last Direct from Nintendo. But seeing that these are remakes, there have been 15 years of new Pokémon content from the original releases, and fan theories have been shot online, we have been able to put together a fairly clear image of how these renewed adventures of Pokémon will be seen . .

Here is everything we know about Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl at this time.

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Release date

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl will be launched on November 19, just in time for the Christmas season.

Platforms

Like all Pokémon games to date, Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl will be launched exclusively for Nintendo Switch. With luck, by when these games reach the shelves, the long-awaited Nintendo Switch update will also be in our hands.

trailer.

The advance of the announcement of the last pair of Pokémon games is based largely on nostalgia to excite the players. The trailer opens with one of one of the original titles that will be launched in Nintendo DS, the portable console for which these games were originally designed. A montage of memorable scenes from the original plays (the introduction of the game, the choice of your initial Pokémon, the sea cruise in the SS Spiral) before we seem the Remake for the first time.

The game, obviously, will return us to the Sinnoh region, where we will collect Pokémon and fight against gy bedroom leaders as we compete with our rival and try to frustrate the Galactic team. There are also new mysteries that expect to be discovered and resolved. Cynthia, a mysterious character, will appear at several points to help unravel these mysteries.

It seems that these remakes will get closer to the top-down perspective and the chibi art style, like the originals, instead of borrowing any of the new styles used in Pokémon: Come on, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Come on, Eevee! o The most recent entries in the series, Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield.

as it is played

While surely a couple of new elements will be added to the games, we hope that the gameplay is very similar to the original titles and what we expect from a standard Pokémon game.

Players will begin the game as a new Pokémon coach that departs from Twinleaf Town after choosing between the initial Pokémon selection in the region: the Turtwig of the grass type, the fire-type chimchar or the water type piplup. You will begin to form a captured Pokémon team, you will fight against the leaders of the gyms and, finally, you will face the Elite Four in the region, all while you frustrate the chaotic plans of Team Galactic, an evil organization that is trying to convene the legendary Pokémon Dialga (in Brilliant Diamond). Or Palkia (in Shining Pearl).

Nintendo's direct August took a look at some of the new features that these games will bring. While they only showed briefly, we saw that we can decorate our Poké Balls with stickers, exchanging and fight locally or online in a union room, customize the outside of our characters in a style store, participate in super contests shows that it seems Play as rhythm games and enter labyrinthine dungeons with the browser kits.

Underground depths are full of fossils to discover, and you can even decorate your own hiding place with statues and sculptures of your favorite Pokémon. A novelty in these areas are the Pokémon hiding places, which will generate different Pokémon according to the decorations you have configured on your base. Some Pokémon will only appear here, which encourages experimentation.

The stickers that place in your Poké Balls not only make the balls themselves more interesting, but also add unique effects when they are used, as confetti sprouting or shooting fireworks.

Finally, you can choose any Pokémon you have captured to be your partner Pokémon and see them follow your coach while exploring the world.

Multiplayer

We hope that multiplayer mode is very similar to that of previous Pokémon; You can definitely fight against your friends and exchange Pokémon with them without too many problems. It is not clear if the Pokémon SWORD and Pokémon SHIELD multiplayer elements will be available, such as the ability to exchange Pokémon randomly worldwide or the existence of competitive leagues. We do not imagine that the game would include something like Sword and Shield's Wild Area, which allowed the wandering players looking for new Pokémon along with other coaches in real time. ## Make an order You can book Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl, including a double package with both games, right now in a handful of select retailers. Amazon: Nintendo: Stop of the game: #### Recommendations of the editors