Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Remakes Coming to Switch This Year, According to Rumor - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2021 / 2,986 Views
Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, which originally launched for the Nintendo DS in 2006, will be getting remakes for the Nintendo Switch, according to sources who spoke to Pokemon Center.
Pokemon Center reports The Pokemon Company is remaking Pokemon Diamond and Pearl for the 25th anniversary of Pokemon. The game will feature capture mechanics that is closer to the original games, than more recent releases like Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee.
The plan according to the sources is The Pokemon Company will announce the games in February.
The Pokemon Company is also celebrating the 25th anniversary of Pokemon by releasing New Pokemon Snap for the Nintendo Switch on April 30 for $59.99.
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Of course they are. Now can we please get the pokedex complete this time, GameFreak? Please? Also, please don't cut the Battle Frontier this time, like you did in OR/AS...
Nice
Damn Switch is full of hype this year
This was rumored a couple years ago so it is probably true.
I'll believe it when i see it.
IDK if it was intentional, but the picture is from Black/White not Diamond/Pearl.
I like diamond and pearl but, I would actually be way more excited for a bw remake.
I’ll definitely be on that Diamond remake of this is true.
Hopefully its an ambitious remake like Demon Souls, including dedicated animations and either a 3D world that's immersive or keeping the worldview isometric, but it looking a bit like Divinity original sin. I am probably asking way too much though.
If I were a betting man, I’d guess it’ll work in the same way Sword & Shield does: third person with elements of an open world , but still fairly linear.
Don't fcking disappoint us game freak
I really wanna see cynthia in glorious hd and this is the only time when I will buy the switch because of this specific remake lol
Please have a complete dex, no storage limitations, no stupid hand-holding bs, and allow for online trading proper and all the game's base features, it shouldn't be that hard GF.
Yes, but grammatically should then be as ‘proper online trading’ or ‘online trading done right’. Writing ‘online trading proper’ (sic) is grammatical nonsense (this one being personal pet peeve).
As a point, its not the first time I’ve asked someone to define the use of that phrase, and amusingly I keep getting given a different definition.
This is good news, but I want more than this for 2021 from Nintendo's 1st party stable. Make Poke'mon Snap 2 amazing! Release BotW2! Give us Odyssey 2 if it exists!
Ugh, I would've loved if they did that with Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee of having the capture mechanics as the originals instead of the Pokemon Go gimic :( figured they would've remastered Gold/Silver again before going here
yes please!! Sword and Shield turned out to be some of the worst main entries, after Sun and Moon...
I only got the third badge in Sword and stopped there because I was so bored. Been literally playing through Red and Crystal on 3DS to scratch the Pokémon itch.
I feel you man! finished it and left it there only to start Crystal on 3DS
Hopefully next month we'll have "Sinnoh confirmed", then =)
Sword and Shield is pretty meh.
Felt like an "enhanced" 3DS release rather than a title that would showcase the Switch's capabilities (Graphics, Audio, Input or otherwise.)
It was actually the first Pokemon game I had played since the OG Red and Blue games on Gameboy... And the formula hasn't really shifted much, still linear and predictable.
Hopefully this remake does Pokemon some justice.
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