Why BDSP Is The Most HATED Pokémon Game 

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I think Legends Arceus was the game Gamfreak actually wanted to make, while BDSP was the side project they pawned off to a third party studio.

To add insult to injury, these games aren't even remakes, they're remasters. They ported the source code to Unity, gave it new graphics and music, and called it a day. It still checks for GBA games in the bottom slot whenever you go to Ramanas Park, and people have found new glitches in the original games from examining this game's code.

4 words. Blame The Pokemon Company. They were responsible for the game being rushed. Originally ILCA wanted to have an open worldish overworld among other stuff according to their proof of concept of the games, but despite not working on them directly, Masuda had to tell the devs to rush it. The proof of ILCA is not being as incompetent as people think is them working on games like Ace Combat 7, Neir Automata, and One Piece Odyssey Adventure. They have a pretty solid repertoire of games so even if they only supposedly contributed to a small part of those games I stated above, they weren't just some new or small dev who got handed it just to get it over with

I haven't played the game but just by looking at it alone it REALLY comes across as a game that said "Shut up about sinnoh remakes" and nothing more.

The controversy is essentially that they just remastered Diamond and Pearl, basically the same game with minimal changes and new assets. Rather than the more thorough remakes the previous games had, where there were a lot more substantial changes from the original games.

the Platinum outfit is the most insult thing a constant reminder of failure and we most likely wont get a pokemon platinum remake

Luminescent Platinum, the rom hack you mentioned, is the saving grace of these games. I’m in the project’s discord server and they’ve seriously gone and taken these lackluster cashgrabs of games and turned them into genuine labors of love.

The worst part is ILCA wanted to make it a good remake but Masuda and GF stopped them

It’s sad because there was so much hype for gen 4 remakes. Gen 4 games were my personal favourites so I was super excited for the remakes but man, bdsp was a huge disappointment for me and to this day I’m still sad about it :(

Im kinda scared for black and white remakes because they might bdsp it and i really want thwm to take the legends route

“The next remakes will be black and white” Legends Z: “Allow me to introduce myself”

After Oras I was hoping that every remake would take place in the mega evolution timeline. That way they could make the new pokemon in the classic style and let them have the spotlite, while slowly introducing new mega evolutions.

Friendly reminder a significant portion of BDSP’s backend data was copied and pasted from Diamond and Pearl, hence the same glitches being present.

I really wish Bdsp was in the style of Oras. By that I mean, take the gimmick of the generation, and integrate it into the story of the remake. I know swsh says dynamax only occurs in Galar, but in reality dynamax is just Eternatus’ power. They could’ve made something up like after the Eternamax incident, Eternatus’ energy spread all over the world, and that’s why there’s Dynamax in Sinnoh. They could’ve even put the raid dens in the underground instead of cramming them into existing routes. As well as actually being in the same style as Swsh too with full character models and all that

One of the most scummiest things bdsp did was releasing the physical versions on cheaper cartridges, and forcing the players to download the rest of the game in a "day one patch", this day one patch is required for the entire post game to become available as well as the official music and not placeholder music. so whenever the switch's online connectivity dies it will literally be impossible to experience 50% of the game's total file size if not downloaded prior

Its hated because they just grabbed the original Gen 4 games, put a new coat of paint on them, then resold it at $60 for a game that we already had and added nothing different. When frlg,hgss, and oras expanded the gen by adding new content new form or much needed added lure that helped make certain characters more fleshed out

BDSP was game freak's way of telling us to never ask them for anything ever again.

Great video! I think if BDSP had a few more months in development and added new content it would be have been much more well received. There should have been way more Hisui connections in BDSP and if you had save data for Legends Arceus the Hisuian Pokémon should have been catchable somewhere in BDSP. Or at least allowed them to be transferable. Not having the Hisui Pokemon in BDSP cause the fan base to get confused and think these Pokemon went extinct when it was confirmed they are not. The chibi art style wasn’t too bad, but the issue was that many fans were expecting something more like ORAS did so fans were ready to experience Sinnoh in the engine of SwSh. BDSP with more Pokemon and more content would have made the game so many times better.

The battles just feel so slow. There are so many animations that can't be skipped. They really need to add a speed up function like most emulators have

As someone who started with Gen 4 and whose first introduction to Pokémon was through Diamond and Pearl, you could imagine my excitement hoping that we’d get a remake like HGSS or ORAS. Only for that excitement to turn into utter disappointment when BDSP were announced and eventually released. Rather than giving Sinnoh a fresh can of paint and new foundation, they just painted over the cracks and did nothing to expand Sinnoh. I’m incredibly fearful of Gen 5 remakes just because of how lazy these games were

The problem was that some fans didn't really like Diamond and Pearl to begin with due to its story and other things. Platinum improved and fixed some things and that's why people always praise it.

BDSP was the most disappointing thing I've ever seen in my life. I really had hope in it! I'm so sad my favorite generation had such an awful remake but its whatever😭 Wish they even at least based it off Platinum, and even Platinum fixed some of the issues that DP Had like the slowness(other than the HP Bar). Hope future remakes dont end up like this. Great Video Mark!😄👍

I played with a friend group in which we all grew up with Pokemon and the trading cards so it had a huge nostalgic factor playing for us. Whilst playing we wouldn't wish for anything more to be added as it was good enough for us as long as it brought the nostalgia back from 2007, which it did! BDSP has been the most fun Pokemon game I've played since the release of HG/SS and I bought all Pokemon games each year.

A true remake should combine all aspects and features of the games they're remaking. Like you said, the Suicune chase from Crystal was in HGSS. The Delta Episode in ORAS was an enhancement from Emerald with the ability to catch Rayquaza plus they added for the first time ever the ability to find & catch Deoxys officially without events. BDSP are just 3D ports of the Gen 4 games with barely added content.

There’s actually content and concept art showing BDSP was originally gonna be more like ORAS/HGSS and sword and shield but it seems like Game Freak/Nintendo made them change it too avoid competing with Legends Arceus or whatever….

I'm playing it now for the first time, and I was prepared to hate it. But I don't. It doesn't size up to the other remakes, which I also replayed somewhat recently and they had a lot more to offer the player. But it's not horrible -- just some poor directional choices. I think they executed their concept competently (after the bug fixes.) They just didn't nail the concept as well as they could have.

Apparently, ILCA had a lot more planned for BDSP, but GameFreak shut them down and used some of their ideas for PLA.

I believe I remember reason not long after release that ILCA said their original vision for the game was full 3D in the style of sw/sh, but gamefreak the Pokémon company insisted on the chibi style.

What i like from ORAS is that they brought in the gimmick from the latest Pokemon game at it's time, mega evolutions, it simply brings a little more variety into the game and a more fresh experience to it's veterans at least.

I was expecting a sword snd shield looking game with dynamax, set in in sinnoh like omega ruby snd alpha sapphire were to XY

I really hope game freak and the Pokemon company pay attention to the backlash from bdsp and not the sales and don't ruin black and white remakes

I wish there was enough force in this world to make me forget this remake ever happened.

They would have received less hate if it was Platinum, & Platinums story. They also locked evolution items after the elite 4. They also used gen 4 Diamond & Pearls Pokedex.

TKD, you'd have to ask gamefreak why bdsp came out the way it did , not ilca. Ilca's vision of the game would've looked like legends arceus ( but based in the present time) and it would've probably been just as good. Game freak or the pkmn company restricted them from doing so because they wanted legends arceus to shine more

When Fans ask for a Diamant/Perl Remake they wanted a Remake of Platinum not Diamant and Perl. The OG D/P already isn't good and only the many changes Platinum made did end up making Sinnoh one of the best Regions.

Pearl was my first Pokemon so when SP dropped I immediately picked it up, honestly I enjoyed it just as much as I did when I was a kid

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I’m excited to get arceus once I get the chance, but I’ll see when I can get brilliant Diamond and shining Pearl though, because mods made the games even better because of the new added in stuff that makes the game way better! So I’m happy the modders were able to fix these games up the right way, especially with making some custom fights with N & Ghetsis which I was super impressed with! I’m still going to get these and legends arceus plus the scarlet and violet whenever I get the chance! I’m excited to play them!

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It’s only so exciting to encounter Geodude and Zubat in caves constantly. That’s pretty much all I remember from the game.

I'm gonna save you 8 minutes and 4 seconds with these 3 words: It's not Platinum

Heartgold and SoulSilver will always be the #1 best remakes ever in the games. ORAS was a good remake too though, just some minor changes made certain things more annoying in that version. But overall was pretty solid also.

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I liked the games but I wish it had more stuff from platinum like using pokemon from the platinum dex and platinum level curves

Just found your channel hoping to find a good review. I’ve completed scarlet and violet and need something new until release announcements. I hope you still do content!

Remember: a remake is a recreation of something from the past. A remaster is an altered version of something from the past. An example of a remaster is Platinum. An example of a remake is BDSP. An example of both in one is ORAS.

One way they could’ve made BDSP stand out more would’ve been including the Hisuian Pokemon. Yes, they’d would make Legends Arceus somewhat redundant for Pokédex completion, but it still would’ve been something. Maybe they could’ve made it a compatibility update. If you have a Legends Arceus save file, Hisuian Pokemon’ll start appearing in BDSP. Or at least the cross-Gen evolutions like Kleavor to tease PLA more. (And why didn’t they include Sylveon or the 2 new Regis at the time?)

My only problem with it is that it probably shouldn't have been full price. Still would rather play it over Let's Go, no doubt. At $40, the game would be a pretty easy recommendation (which it's very easy to find at that price now anyway, unlike other Pokemon titles).

Small correction: The mod you are talking about for bdsp is "luminescent platinum" and it is a difficulty mod based on the rom hack "renegade platinum" for the original platinum game.

In terms of platinum’s content, I heard ILCA WANTED to include a ton of platinum content and kept getting shot down by Game Freak. They were under strict orders to make a remaster, not a remake. And of Diamond and Pearl, not platinum. It was the first time a mainline game was outsourced, so Game Freak didn’t want them taking creative liberties. Personally I also see Legends Arceus as the actual gen 4 remake. To me they were probably developing Legends and realized it’s far too different than Diamond and Pearl that it’s not even recognizable as their remake. So the solution was to make a paired release with a faithful remaster. That’s what I think happened though myself.

Gen 1 remake: Graphics improved by three generations, two generations of Pokemon added, and Sevi Islands added. Gen 2 remake: Up to gen 4 Pokemon, all pokemon fall you, moving sprites, wifi Gen 3 remake: 3D, revamped fly mechanic, new post game content, megas Gen 4: Especially a 2.5 remake

Now I'm scared for the Gen 5 remakes...

i just bought Pokémon SP like 2 weeks ago and ive been having a blast (just beat it yesterday). I didn't know there was even a controversy over it, although as someone who grew up with Platinum, (which was my first ever Pokémon game) only gripe I really had was a lack of platinum content. Otherwise I've had fun with it, don't regret the purchase.

Your video editing is amazing!

I just realized i havent bought or even played a Pokemon game since Sun/ Moon. Literally eveygame since then i decided to skip because it wasnt good enough.

My conspiracy is that they attempted to make a full open world modern style Diamond and Pearl, but couldn't make the technology work, work instead converted that into Legends Arceus, but were still contracted to make them so ILCA had to throw something together last minute. There's a thing when covering a song in music, where you can generally do one of two things, make it completely your own or make it mirror the original, any attempts to do an inbetween fails and ILCA went for the "mirror the original" take but it's just not what anyone actually wanted.

I love the things that have made the series great all along. Trainers battles, the gym challenge, the stories, routes to follow, some places to explore, optional areas, turn based battles, funny bad guy teams, etc.. Do you know of other games that have a similar style? I'm pretty sure there won't be any more pokemon games I'm going to love.

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Honestly, I was excited at the first trailer for BDSP when I saw the chibis. I thought “Pokemon was so much better with chibi models!” Mainly referring to gens 1-5. But gens 6 and 7 were pretty good too. It seemed like a lot of corners were cut and issues arose once the games tried going with a more true-to-size feel (gens 8 and 9). When I saw that Pokemon following us would be back, I felt validated. Like “This is why chibis were the right choice! They make things easier to program and will allow for improvements in other aspects of the game that people actually care about!” And then… The games came out. First day patched were needed, the in game experience was too much, the affection stat made things too easy, they butchered contests, a lot of aspects from Platinum weren’t included, and so forth and so on. I wanted to believe so badly that these games were going to go back to the franchise’s roots and prioritize quality of game play over trying to look realistic. And I was so disappointed. It sucks how 4th gen was the personal favorite for a lot of people (myself included). And 5th genners tend to be some of the most devout in the community. I hope that the inevitable remakes for that gen are much better.

Hated for no good reason they are diamond and pearl remakes exactly as it says on the tin

I actually caught a shiny male ralts the first time I went down into the underground section of shining pearl, and you best believe I evolved it into a gallade the moment I got the dawn stone.

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Frankly, I think BDSP is better than the original Diamond and Pearl simply because of the addition of Grand Underground, Fairy types and dropping of HMs. Not as good as Platinum but still better than vanilla Diamond and Pearl. It's not my fave Pokemon game but I think its overhated.

Well, I think Legends Arceus was in fact the real Sinnoh remake. It checked all the boxes of the 'great remake' with different storyline on a familiar region, new forms for the cover legendaries, new features, etc. But I feel PLA was such a massive departure in terms of gameplay. So BDSP were pushed (last minute decision? Due to the massive demand for Sinnoh anniversary title) to be the complementary titles, so that new players will understand the difference between the two. In a way, PLA IS the Platinum for BDSP's original Diamond and Pearl. That's why BDSP didn't include Platinum's content.

Wasn't the oaks letter, and azure flute event for bdsp a timed exclusive event? So it can't even be accessed now?

No Mega Evolutions, no species beyond Generation IV, same trainer battles, and lack of other decent features all serve as a principal reason why BDSP failed to make the charts. Even if ILCA, Inc. was responsible for the works instead of Game Freak, there are many more reasons why a remake seemed to be rushed without a trace.

The experience share killed it for me. I was 10 levels over leveled by Champion Cynthia battle. I would have enjoyed them more if it was challenging as the original.

Dude it was awesome as a kid seeing that hp bar decreasing slowly, it got emotions and hope up

BDSP's issues to me is that it sometimes felt clunky. The trainer battle animations feel weird, first it is a static pose like the originals then it goes to normal right after, making it feel unfinished. It would have been better if the trainers had simpler battle intro animations to keep the flow. There is still the pokedex issue of no fire types outside of ponyta and chimchar. Though this is kinda fixed with the underground. Some of the art style choices from platinum should have made it in (mainly Eterna city's Team Galactic building ).

I'm hoping the remake of Pokemon Black and Pokemon White for next year will have graphic designs of the characters and the scenery just like Pokemon Sword/Shield and Pokemon Scarlet/Violet games because Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl games sucks as the characters in the games are small and not much scenery in the game at all.

I would have liked these games in the mega evolution time line or a story more like Platinum, but the thing that I was disappointed the most about these games is that i thought i could bring all my gen 1-4 Pokemon into them since I was not able to do that with SWSH because of Dexit, but then they decided to reset the moves of any Pokemon transferred into those games. Since many of my old Pokemon are from events or Pokemon that had special egg moves or legacy moves, etc... that was not an option. I'm not even sure why that was the case since BDSP was not being used for official battle tournaments.

Holy... You choosed the perfect songs and hit the sweet nostalgia with the right order

The Chibi style didn't bother me all that much. It was the lack of an new content or improvements made by Platinum and other less than wanted changes that ruin this game for me.

who the fuck actually consider USUM as remakes??? do you play pokemon through smallant or alpharad? bcs you must be late for school tomorrow if you actually thinks that USUM is a remake

If you didn’t do any research, just say that. ILCA did NOT choose Chibi, Nintendo forced them to. Look at their concept art. This had the potential to be something truly incredible.

Do you guys think we're getting the Unova remake next, or the Johto remake next? Both gens have never seen the 3D world before

BDSP was aggressively okay. They're heavily flawed but not terrible. One thing that I never understood was the complaints about the chibi artstyle. Literally every game before gen 6 had that same artstyle and nobody complained then. Hell even in gen 6 itself the main gameplay uses an artstyle halfway between chibi and realistic proportions.

If you ever feel usless remember tdkpanda exists this was the last good pokemon modern remake he prob never played the old games gen 1

What I love about ORAS is the introduction to Mega Rayquaza post game in the Delta Episode, and the whole legend and history of what happened in the past. Also Mega Rayquaza after ORAS being my favourite legendary, how can I not love it? I always love Rayquaza but Mega Rayquaza is just to another level

My only gripe was the character models, that being said I DON'T want any more remakes. I would much rather them revisiting older regions with new characters,protag,story and such like what they did with Black/White 2.

saying USUM is a remake is basically saying platinum is a remake

Contrary to popular opinions, I played through this whole game with my best friend and it was extremely nostalgic and the story was consistent. I really enjoyed the experience and it really shows that if you stop thinking about what you don’t have but you focus on what there is, it is rather enjoyable.

ILCA apparently planned on doing BDSP like Legends was done but it was denied then Game Freak decided to use the idea of an older Sinnoh open world for Legends

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It's stupid cause they could've gone for an HD remaster or port of Diamond, Pearl & Platinum with HQ orchestrated music and that would've imo been better. I wanted to buy an Oled Switch for summer last year and the only ones left in stock were bundled with BDSP, so I had no choice but to buy it. Upon trying it I decided to play all the way to the league, but had soooo much trouble playing consistenly cause I didn't find any joy in it. I have never had this before with any of the previous Pokémon games. I hope BW remakes aren't gonna take the same route...

The main issues I have with the game is the movement. Literally I couldn't move 2 feet without slamming into a rock or something. The reason this happens is because the player hit box is way to big. Sometimes it makes it unenjoyable. Anyway Gr8 Vid!

1:09 They're not remakes. They're enhanced editions like Crystal, Emerald and Platinum, but split into two versions so they could make more money and capitalize on Necrozma having multiple forms like Kyurem, but it made sense for Black/White because they at least got an *ENTIRELY* new story. USUM just reworks trainer teams, adds more Pokémon variety and changes up/expands the endgame and postgame activity, at the cost of Lillie and Lusamine's character arcs sucking. GAME FREAK would never remake a game literally a *YEAR* after the original games launched.

CAN SOME PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE VIDEO EFFECT AT 0:52 IS CALLED?!

Great video, just wanted to say the fan game is Luminescent Platinum. Renegade Platinum is DS Platinum but harder. My opion on BDSP is that they are games that aren't the worst but could be much better with small changes. Give trainers there Platinum teams, it just fits the type specialist's don't use a team made out of not their type. Add a toggle button for the in battle friendship stuff, it makes the fights too easy. Lastly the could make the story more like Platinum or they could have added postgame like in OR AS. And for so added fun mainly for the people who complain about gen 4 not having many fire types, give the player multiple different fire types throughout the game. Rant aside the game would be so much better if Gamefreak made it.

Bro this was a BANGER >:)

When I was playing this game I had it crash on me twice, once when I was exiting the department store in veilstone city, I had a togekiss out and following me after I had left my togekiss was facing the left and had it’s textures missing and then my game crashed, second time I was when I was facing Bertha, I was fighting her hippowdon and after I selected my move the game just froze the only thing that was playing was the music so I decided to wait for about five minutes before closing the game and then reopened it, that taught me to save before every fight

13 reasons why BDSP are the WORST remakes of all time: 1. Faithfulness: Unlike other remakes, BDSP literally copy/pastes 90% of diamond/pearl(2006). You cannot copy almost everything from a 2006 game.. (Remember its a remake not a remaster!). Almost everything is copied: All dialogs, the storyline, the chibi art style, the national dex, old pokemon encounters and even the Poketch were copy & pasted to this game. Pokemon games have been improved in the past years and had many quality of life changes like 3D art style, overworld Pokemon encounters and reusable TMs. None of these changes were adapted to the game which is just sad. This game is too faithful and faithful sounds more like a excuse for lazyness. 2. Not-Platinum-Based: So they copy & pasted 90% from the old Sinnoh game but not based on Platinum? Diamond & Pearl had several weaknesses and Platinum fixed many of them and included many Quality of Life changes. Here are some Platinum improvements over Diamond/Pearl: It extends the storyline with additional content, new dialogs, new characters like Charon and a new map Distortion world (loved it). The rival was a bit too weak in Diamond/Pearl which was fixed in Plat. The Poketch has a reverse Button. It has the battle frontier. And finally: the Sinnoh dex which was baaad in Dia/Pearl was fixed. The bad sinnoh dex in dia/pearl has only very few Fire Pokemon (very weird). Gym leaders were forced to use weird mons in the main game like Electric gym leader using Octillery or IceType gym leader using Medicham (WTF? Despite Sinnoh having enough Ice/Electric mons) and also many sinnoh mons were restricted to the postgame. Thats means many of the favourite sinnoh mons cannot be used in your team for the main story. But Platinum fixed this issue and created a NEW sinnoh dex which fixed all these issues which made the main story like a sinnoh game. ALL of these great changes of Platinum where NOT included in BDSP. This means BDSP uses the OLD sinnoh dex, OLD dialogs, OLD storyline, NO new character like Charon, NO distortion world and NO battle frontier. That makes BDSP a worse Sinnoh remake than Platinum which was released in 2008. (Imagine a 2008 DS game of the same Region beats you in ALL aspects. WTF) 3. EXP-Share & Friendship-System: One of the most hated features is the EXP-Share system which often leads to WAY more exp than in the past games. In my opinion, the EXP-Share is not too bad. BUT diamond/pearl were not designed to be played with the new EXP-Share system. So if you include an EXP-Share system, you have to increase all levels of the pokemon (from opponent). But they didnt which makes the difficulty of this game too easy.Basically, my whole team was too oveleveled. And the friendship-system is the worst luck-based system i ever saw. A feature that increases the Critical hit-chance,removes paralysis, lets me dodge 100% accurate moves and even lets me survive moves with 1HP. WTF did you smoke gamefreak? And the worst is that, you cannot make any of these optional. Because of that many players who love to do a nuzzlock in Sinnoh, prefer the old DS games. 4. No Innovation: This game not only copy & pastes the majority of its content, it adds nothing new to the game. Lets review some good remakes: HeartGold/SoulSilver (HG/SS) were Gen 2 remakes and included some storyline from Crystal and added many new stuff like the pokeathlon, battle frontier (from sinnoh), gen 1 map/storyline, a complete national dex and the pokewalker. HG/SS were not copy & pasted, but actually remade the game and added good new stuff. Also Alpha ruby&omega saphire (ORAS) have new changes like new art-style , new designs for Team magma/aqua, new Mega-forms, new Primal forms, changes to dialogs and storyline and the complete national dex. BDSP on the other hand does not provide any kind of major change in the game which makes this game really boring. It does have a new Underground which has overworld pokemon, but that is nothing special for 2022 and the ramanas park was neat but nothing too exciting. 5. Underground/Super-Contest: The old underground allowed to create your own living room with furnitures and set traps to troll friends online. Both were removed for a statue system which is really boring. Collecting statues and the effects of the statues are really disapointing. The Super-Contest used to be a fun-mode where you had many different options and varities and had to have good reflexes to do the correct moves at the correct time. Now all you have to do is Press A at the correct time and use 1 attack. That makes this mode so boring and disapointing. I mean, was it really that hard to let the player press like 4 different buttons instead of just 'A'?? 6. Art-Style: Many of us expected a modern review of Sinnoh in a 3D human like Art-style. But they decided to go for the Chibi-Art-Style. Everyone has different tastes but in my opinion the Chibi-Art-Style ruins many serious moments of the story line of this game, especially vs team galactic. It feels like all the emotions of the characters were removed. The reason why it was used in Diamond/Pearl was because of the limited hardware. In my opinion the Chibi-Art-Style waas the wrong decision and does not suit a switch game at all. 7. Only Gen 4: BDSP has a national dex which includes the pokemon from Gen 1-4 which is basically the same as Diamond/Pearl. As a player who would have loved to see at least some Pokemon from Gen 5-8 in Sinnoh, i am very disappointed. At least some Pokemon post Gen4, or some new forms or at least add Sylveon in this game. Not even mega-forms were included in this game. The fact that 95% of the megas are from Gen1-4 and the underground being the perfect place to grind the mega-stones, makes this decision even more disapointing. The reason why diamond/pearl was limited to Gen 1-4 was because there werent any other new pokemon. The reason why BDSP limited the game to Gen 1-4 is because of lazyness.. 8. PVP: On of the worst things in this game is everything arround PVP. The worst disrespect a main series pokemon game can get, is when GameFreak calls that all the competitive tournaments including the world championship will not take place in BDSP (WTF?). Unlike Sword/Shield, you have no option to search for PVP matches which makes it way harder to find battles. But the worst thing is the grind for a PvP team: TMs are not reusable (WHY?!). For some important TMs like Earthquake, you have to grind for 80BP (WTF. Thats a lot of Grind). Also you cannot catch pokemon with hidden abilities except those from poke radar. To get the hidden ability you have to grind for the ability patch for 200BP (WTF. Grind competitive to create a competitive. Nice system). By putting important PVP items behind such ridiculously high grind walls, it makes creating a PVP team disgusting. 9. Events: The events were also copy & pasted from Diamond/Pearl. Same Shaymin event, same Darkrai event. And other events are only accesible if you bought other main series pokemon game (Why..). And finally some garbage "events" which include some useless statues. Meanwhile, the 3 year old SW/SH getting better and innovative events like new PVP cups/tournaments and some legendary shinies. In my opinion the events in BDSP are disapointing. 10. Bugs/Glitches: Holy Moly! This game had so many bugs and glitches! You dont even need hacks, when the game itself has to many glitches. Many of them where completely broken. Many Pokemon clone glitches and item dupe glitches ruined the game. You could even get infinity money, create your own shinies (WTF), make your pokemon 6IV and let any Pokemon learn any move. I used to be in a discord for trading in BDSP and because of the glitches, the trade market was only about getting shiny 6IVs etc. Not to forget to mention the soft locks which made you restart the whole game which can happen for example in the ice gym. Usually every games has a few bugs. But this one had too many and too many game breaking glitches. A very hyped game like this shouldnt be developed by a 3rd party company.. But Gamefreak had other plans.. 11. Controls: The controls of this game feel weird and uncomfortable. Characters move in a grid which looks so weird during the storyline. The pokemon who follow me often block me in a bad way. The underground has many inivisible walls which makes moving in some rooms horrible. And finally the control with the cycle are the worst. The cycle in pokemon games are a beloved feature but in this game.. It feels so uncomfortable moving with the cycle, I sometimes even prefer walking. 12. Standards: A 2021 game should adapt the standards from the latest games (Sword 2019). The BDSP-standard isnt nearly as good as Sword/Shield. Many items, many attack moves, renewable TMs, dynamax, new pokemon, old moves without heart scales, more customization,max Raids or ranked battle stadium. None of the mentioned were adapted into this game -> BIG Downgrade for 2021 pokemon standards! 13. Price: Dia/pearl/Platinum: 40$ and Copy/Paste BDSP with Bugs:60$ -> Bruh.. Conclusion: It feels like GameFreak didnt want to do a Sinnoh remake but wanted to milk some money by releasing the highly demanded Sinnoh remake. The fact that, they hired a 3rd party company who never developed a major game, only supports this theory. Not forget to mention that, BDSP had a giant day one patch which was essential to enjoy the game. The fact that they released Legends Arceus almost 1-2 months after BDSP release also supports the theory, that they didnt care at all for this remake. Because of the release of Legends Arceus, the hiring of ILCA, the amount of glitches, the boring events, the exclusion of VGC, the 0 Innovation in this game and the fact that the majority of the game is copy & paste of a 2006 game (Dia/Pearl) which is worse than a 2008 Game (Platinum), makes this game the worst remake of all time in my opinion.

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Been missing the old Pokémon games. I wish I never sold them as a kid. Atleast I kept my copy of gamebly red, gba fire red and sapphire, I got soul silver still. But my copy of plat I’m pretty sure is broken. I keep getting a blue screen saying game can’t be read or something along those lines. Having trouble finding replacement copies for my 3ds versions and ds versions.

My only issue with the BDSP was the chibi art style, like I wanted this game to be just like the modern pokemon games we play with the new art style and open world. But I got over it, but I really do hope that they do better with the Black and White remakes.

I’m one of the rare ones who enjoyed bdsp 😂 it’s a lot about nostalgia I guess. My parents didn’t allow me to have a Pokémon game because they thought it was to cruel for a kid to have "animals" fight against each other… but a friend in school borrowed me their perl so I was able to play it and I loved it so much. To this day shinx and starkly are my absolute faves and I have these ridiculous memories of asking my older cousin to help me through the Pokémon league and their face when they saw my level 40 something team that wasn’t evolved at all, because I thought they were cuter that way 🤣🤣 I’m also a big fan of the chibi art style, to me the best game designs were xy and oras. When you make the characters more detailed, the world around it needs that polishing too and I think the 3D games didn’t do that well enough. However, I’m really not someone who complains a lot about the games. I just enjoy catching pokemon. The only thing I was really sad about in bdsp was that it brought nothing new. Giratina's story, the house on the other areal… I hated that you just caught the legendarily in these random caves. Why not give them a story why they are there. The other remakes did that so much better. In that regard bdsp really wasn’t a remake, but just a newer design of the whole game 😅 so I do see the complaints. I just really enjoyed it still

Judging by skimming over post-SV clout videos, BDSP is officially going to become the Sonic 06 of Pokemon. The game that's forever referenced by reviewers and non-fan observers as "proof the series is bad," even 15-20 years after its release. (Especially considering these people deliberately pretend Legends Arceus doesn't exist due to being a "side game" when it's more of a main series entry than BDSP was ever meant to be.)

All I wanted was drippy redesigns for characters like Archia and Maxie in ORAS. Cyrus, Gym Leaders, The Elite Four. I just wanted to see all of them but remade in the new Pokemon style.