


Indeed, the battles look like they were lifted straight from that game with minimal changes made. When you get into a battle, the game switches to the traditional over-the-shoulder viewpoint and the human characters change from the new chibi style to a more conventional look, similar to what we’ve seen in Pokémon Sword and Shield.

It doesn’t retain this art style the entire time, however. What’s more, the game’s characters are now presented in an adorable ‘chibi’ style, with chunky big faces that look similar to EA’s old MySims franchise (just throwing that reference in there, in case the idea of a DS game being 15 years old didn’t make you feel ancient already).Īt times the game is reminiscent of another Switch remake, Link’s Awakening, and while it doesn’t quite nail the same toy-like aesthetic, it still gives off a similar vibe with its cute characters, colourful landscapes and occasional surprisingly eye-catching effects (the water, for example, looks wonderful). While the DS original mainly consisted of sprite-based graphics with a few 3D-based environments thrown in, Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are entirely polygonal. What has been completely overhauled, however, is the game’s visual style. To be fair, if you’ve been sitting there hoping for a Pokémon game that will shake things up, a remake of a 15-year-old game wasn’t really going to be where that happened. If you’ve played any of the older Pokémon games, then, you’ll already know what to expect here in terms of the general structure. Watch on YouTube Subscribe to VGC on YouTube
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