Image: The Pokémon Company/ILCA Inc via Polygon What’s not there The written directions are helpful, especially when you need to look for someone specific within a town. Your map now has a flag showing you where your next destination is, as well as clear, written directions like “Travel South on Cycling Road” when you pause your game. The pause screen tells you where to go next ![]() ![]() Experience ShareĪll Pokémon in your party get experience points (EXP), regardless of whether they battled or not. There’s a new Pokétch application that allows you to use unlocked HMs whenever, regardless of which moves your in-party Pokémon know. In the remakes, you now no longer need to bring Pokémon with HMs along. Meaning, if you ran into a specific obstacle, but didn’t have a Pokémon who knew how to remove it, you’d be out of luck. In the originals, you needed to keep a Pokémon that knows that move in your party at all times. (For example, Rock Smash will destroy a boulder blocking a path.) It’s a clever way to guide the player along a specific path and keep certain content locked until the trainer is ready. In this and other mainline Pokémon games, you’ll run into obstacles like trees or rocks that require a Pokémon knowing a special move, called a Hidden Move, to remove the barrier. There’s no need to go all the way to a Pokémon Center to change who’s in your party. Now, like in more recent games, you can swap your Pokémon in and out of your PC at any point. Image: The Pokémon Company/ILCA Inc via Polygon Access to Pokémon PC anywhere So if you’re picking an attack it’ll say if it’s “effective,” “super effective,” and so on. (Like after accidentally killing a legendary Pokémon.) Battles now show type differencesĪfter you beat a Pokémon for the first time, the attack menu screen will show how effective each type is on it. You can still manually save in the menu and if you’d like, and you can turn auto saving off in case you’re worried about saving where you don’t intend to. Now, each time you enter or leave a route or building, the game will automatically save and show a “Now saving. So here’s a round up of these quality-of-life improvements, along with a few features that didn’t get modernized. These include details like whether or not the entire team gets experience from battling, which can make a difference in the overall difficulty of the game. These changes, although minor, can seriously influence the way people will play the games. And lots of these updates are quality-of-life improvements. While much has stayed the same - many sections boast a one-to-one recreation of the earlier games, and minigames like the beauty contests will return - the game will bring plenty of gameplay changes. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl bring a fresh coat of chibi paint to two beloved Pokémon games from the Nintendo DS era.
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