- Publisher: Nintendo , The Pokemon Company
- Release Date: Nov 19, 2021
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 917 Ratings
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Positive: 322 out of 917
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Mixed: 214 out of 917
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Negative: 381 out of 917
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Nov 21, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Jan 30, 2022
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Jan 15, 2022Incredibly buggy. The graphics also seem to be a prototype version. Shouldn't have been sold.
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Nov 22, 2021
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Nov 28, 2021
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Jan 3, 2022
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Nov 26, 2021Keine Liebe im Spiel. Nicht mehr genacht als nötig. Das was verändert wurde ist nix was das Spiel verbessert. Vor allem mal wieder keine einstellbaren schwierivkeistsgrade
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Jan 30, 2022Low effort remake of a classic that defined a lot of people's childhood. Embarrassing.
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Feb 16, 2022Actually **** this game.
You already know why.
I'm just happy we got Legends Arceus in the state we did, most likely cause gamefreak didn't need to split they're dev team to make both games.
As long as gen 9 follows in legends footsteps were in a good place, otherwise it's back to soulless **** :( -
Dec 12, 2021Just so sick of the same old pokemon stuff. Gamefreak will literally never listen to us. I know this is a remake, but you can still feel the 0 effort they put into this. They don't even have the Vs recorder in the game which was oringally in Diamond and pearl. They don't even have a rank mode for this game :/. They left that on Sword and Shield.
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Nov 21, 2021Nothing new, the same old copypaste, disappointing as always. Don't pay attention to the fanboys review, this game is made with the minimum effort and doesn't deserve your money.
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Nov 26, 2021
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Nov 22, 2021Bad Graphics or better, similar in some way to 3ds graphically, rushed, and plus, incomplete unless you download update day one, without platinum content and has few current gen improvements, different than HGSS and ORAS, all of this for $60. And sorry for my bad English.
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Nov 20, 2021This is not a good remake.
Why doesn't this remake have platinum content or any original content? When Heartgold Soulsilver had crystal content and Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire had some Emerald content. No story changes, graphics looks like something came out the PS2 GameCube era. ILCA and Junichi Masuda should be a shamed of themselves! This not worth $60!!! -
Nov 20, 2021
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Nov 21, 2021
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Nov 21, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 21, 2021
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Dec 3, 2021
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Nov 22, 2021The game is fine, it maintains the essence of the original diamond, with pleasant graphics to see.
The big problem is in the difficulty, it is null.
I don't see any point in the exp being active for all the pokemons on the team, it should at least give the option to deactivate it, that added to other small things that make it too simple an adventure -
Nov 22, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 24, 2021One point for the new graphics. The remake has no a sincerity, I’m even missing ORAS on 3ds. It hardly has any new contents being a new game in 2021 selling for 60$. All I want now is a National Pokédex, I have even put away my wild wish for the return of mega evolution.
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Nov 24, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Nov 24, 2021
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Nov 25, 2021
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Nov 30, 2021Nintendo still sits on their success and the knowledge that everyone will buy the new title, no matter how bad it is. You can again see how they didn't listen to the community nor to pro players.
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Dec 2, 2021
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Dec 6, 2021
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Dec 11, 2021This game is uncomplete as hell, the took pokemon pearl as the base instead of platinum, the graphics are horrible, the entire game is a copy-paste of the original, 0% innovation, 0% new content, 0% easter eggs, and on top of that, people look like pinipongs, the could have done much better than that.
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Dec 28, 2021Mediocre en todo los sentidos y el peor Remake de todos sin duda. Ya fuera de la estética que te puede gustar más o menos el juego es horrible y todo el rato da la sensación de que los desarrolladores no sabían que hacer con el.
Una perdida de tiempo y dinero.
Awards & Rankings
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Sep 9, 2022Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are faithful remakes of the 2006 Nintendo DS games. They probably lean too much on the safe side, not achieving an awful lot to improve on the originals other than a few quality-of-life improvements. The improved Underground sections are a welcome addition, but the missing features from Pokémon Platinum are a big let-down. All in all, though, the Sinnoh region offers just as brilliant of an adventure as it was 15 years ago and the formula that worked back then (and then some) is still as addictive to this day. If you are a fan of classic Pokémon titles, this is a no-brainer.
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Nintendo Force MagazineMar 7, 2022I honestly think ILCA's decision to play it safe was the biggest thing that hurt Brilliant Diamond. Maybe if it had included a few more of the story beats and improvements that were introduced in Platinum, I'd be giving it a higher grade. [Issue #57 – January/February 2022, p. 66]
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LEVEL (Czech Republic)Feb 18, 2022Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl is a decent remaster transferring the fourth generation from Nintendo DS to Switch. The authors handled well the absence of the second screen, but in the case of game mechanics they could go a bit further.