Pokémon: Diamond, Pearl, + Platinum Versions (DS) Retrospective | The Definitive (+ slow) Generation

Описание: Pokémon never really went away after Gen 3- after Red and Blue, Gamefreak was left scrambling to make spinoffs, Gen 2 just never had that many because things moved so fast, but Gen 3 has Mystery Dungeon, Colo, XD, Channel, Dash, Pinball RS, the Gen 1 remakes, and Emerald, and I remember the Gen 4 hype cycle- Lucario got a movie, Mystery Dungeon and Dash had Munchlax, I remember checking Serebii for CoroCoro leaks daily- Gen 4 felt like Pokémon’s big comeback from not even being gone. Diamond and Pearl are Hoenn’s Johto- slower games, focused on history and lore, more grounded and realistic, with locations that are memorable for the people and Pokémon you meet, a return of online features from Crystal, a focus on new evolutions and babies of old Pokémon, a weirder level curve, and wacky new ways to find Pokémon. Diamond and Pearl also exist with some notoriety- for one, they’re slower than hell, just a genuine slog in every aspect, and for another, they’re substantially harder than the prior games despite developer insistence otherwise- all that and more soon. Pokémon Diamond and Pearl were… kinda early DS games, releasing in 2006 in Japan, and 2007 elsewhere, and as such carry some of that console with them- with the touch screen stuff, but of course, would have a life beyond this initial release.

==Pokémon: Diamond Version and Pokémon: Pearl Version== - (00:00:00)
Intro - (0:01:21)
Gameplay - (0:02:43)
Version Exclusives - (0:15:26)
Presentation - (0:21:10)
Coal Badge - (0:27:28)
Forest Badge - (0:51:17)
Cobble Badge - (1:23:00)
Fen Badge - (1:45:00)
Relic Badge - (1:58:30)
Mine Badge - (2:04:20)
Icicle Badge - (2:11:20)
Beacon Badge - (2:20:55)
Elite Four - (2:35:28)
The Really, Really, Long New Stuff in Old Places Part of the Video (1) - (2:45:33)
Cresselia, for Some Reason - (2:52:44)
Turnback Cave and Giratina, for some reason - (2:53:47)
The Really, Really, Long New Stuff in Old Places Part of the Video (2) - (2:56:26)
Rotom - (3:56:49)
The Really, Really, Long New Stuff in Old Places Part of the Video (3) - (3:57:36)
Snowpoint Temple - (4:06:33)
The Battle Zone - (4:08:00)
Mythicals - (4:33:31)
Teams - (4:40:03)
Manga - (4:43:55)
Conclusion - (4:52:45)

Two years after Diamond and Pearl, in 2009, Pokémon: Platinum Version would be released for the DS. Platinum is arguably the largest overhaul for a third version to date- Yellow does have quite a bit of changes, but it doesn’t really serve to fundamentally fix issues with Red and Blue, just add a few more events and slap a gimmicky starter on top, plus make most gym leaders vaguely worse, Crystal adds like… maybe 20 minutes of events, and Emerald only really changes the story towards its tail end and adds a few post-games areas. Platinum is a foundational rework, hammering out issues with Diamond and Pearl as it goes- a revised Pokedex, the concept of speed, new areas and story- it’s a night and day difference from the Diamond and Pearl in the rough that its precursors were.

Pokémon: Platinum Version - (4:56:03)
Intro - (4:57:58)
Gameplay - (4:58:46)
Version Exclusions - (5:00:09)
Presentation - (5:01:56)
New Stuff - (5:04:26)
Team - (5:16:48)
Manga - (5:18:47)
Conclusion - (5:22:23)

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