Pokémon Presents February 26th - Diamond & Pearl remakes, Pokémon Legends Arceus (open world RPG)



Rumors and leaks are going wild, as the minutes count down to the awaited reveal of what The Pokemon Company has in store for the future of the franchise. Whether or not you believe the "leaks" that are being passed around, it's time to hand in your hype train ticket and board, as today's Pokemon Presents is just about to begin.

It begins.

We get a retrospective on how Pokemon has evolved, and the various media that it had over the years. Even the Pokemon Mini got a shoutout.

Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of the Pokemon series.

First off is New Pokemon Snap gameplay. You can edit your photos with stickers and frames. Photos can be shared online.

Next are some events that will be held to celebrate the anniversary. There's a Gigantamax Pikachu raid in SwSh, Go will have a Kanto celebration, and Pokemon Cafe Mix will have free tickets. Pokemon Masters EX adds Leon and Charizard.

Finally, the next games.

It's a DS...Diamond and Pearl's intro screen...

Remakes confirmed! Just as the rumors said, they'll be in a chibi-fied form that emulates the sprite look of the originals, but in 3D. Battles will instead look like Sword and Shield's. Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl release Late 2021.

It's time for a new era...

It's a prequel to Diamond and Pearl, taking place in the ancient era of Sinnoh. The gameplay shows open fields where you catch Pokemon by sneaking around and throwing Pokeballs yourself. Arceus is teased at the end. This more action-based take on the franchise is called Pokemon Legends: Arceus. Releases early 2022.

The DPPt games will be "faithful remakes". ILCA is developing them, the team from Pokemon Home. Game Freak's Masuda will be involved, though. The Underground is shown, too, confirming that it'll be included.

Legends Arceus is a different take on Sinnoh, with Pokemon from other regions appearing as well. The village is your base, and your goal is to create the first Pokedex. There are normal turn-based Pokemon battles.
 

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I'd love it if they made the Pokeball controller as an optional way to play. (Not forced, just optional. A single Joy-con would be cool too, just like the Let's GO! games.)

Since earlier there have been a post about pokeball controller going back onto production and DT remakes don't look like they are made for this, I think your wish is answered
 

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why do i ffeel dissapoints?

not that i care about pokemon anymore but those remakes are fugly. coulda justt took lets go or the most recent and use that engine. having 2 players but regular battles (or optionally super casual lets go "battle only trainers) and following/ridable pokemon ... i dunno i bet u gotta have HM slaves in this too
 

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hmm, well this direct was short but interesting to watch (i caught this live on yt the UK version)
when it was happening, i tuned in at around the pokemon legends reveal and pokemon D/P reveal (at the end).

which was the most awesome part of the direct IMO.

im super excited for Legends as it has that "BOTW" feel along with PoKemon mix instead of zelda.
can't wait for this in 2022!

finally, i good pokemon game for me to play on my switch! I didn't have a good pokemon game yet for my switch,
so this will be awesome. i wonder why they choose shion region instead of the classic kanto where Pokemon originally started from,
imagine that as pokemon legends, oh well this region is good too.

Pokemon diamond and peral were a 100% given, i mean the leaks that they had were huge, so they had to be real,
and i think those title names, i saw a while ago on yt mehcioned by someone way beofre the direct happened,
lol. talk about fututre sight, nt sure who it was but they were right on the names.

also, one thing i noticed in the dircet at the begining was that they went thorugh all the pokemon stuff from 1997 to now,
but they did not show or mehcion the Pokemon games for GC (Collsuom/Gale of darkness or Battle revolotuion) at all,
i didn't see them in the history overview trailer, which was real shame as they were 9are) still great PKN games to play.
 

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I saw people saying that Sinnoh remakes look like indie games.

In fact... they look WORSE than an indie game.


Pokémon Legends on the other hand is pretty amazing, I wish they had done a better job of handling Sinnoh's remakes.
 
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My god, Legends Arceus looks like the game that SwSh should have been. It looks so so much much better.

I'll be keeping an eye out on that one.
 
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I saw people saying that Sinnoh remakes look like indie games.

In fact... they look WORSE than an indie game.


is that video supposed to be proof? while tenten looks great, it lacks contrast, it uses limited palletes, and the battle enviroments are quite empty and plain compared to pokemon's. Disliking the chibi look doesn't make it "bad quality". Realism is not quality.
 
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hmm, well this direct was short but interesting to watch (i caught this live on yt the UK version)
when it was happening, i tuned in at around the pokemon legends reveal and pokemon D/P reveal (at the end).

which was the most awesome part of the direct IMO.

im super excited for Legends as it has that "BOTW" feel along with PoKemon mix instead of zelda.
can't wait for this in 2022!

finally, i good pokemon game for me to play on my switch! I didn't have a good pokemon game yet for my switch,
so this will be awesome. i wonder why they choose shion region instead of the classic kanto where Pokemon originally started from,
imagine that as pokemon legends, oh well this region is good too.

Pokemon diamond and peral were a 100% given, i mean the leaks that they had were huge, so they had to be real,
and i think those title names, i saw a while ago on yt mehcioned by someone way beofre the direct happened,
lol. talk about fututre sight, nt sure who it was but they were right on the names.

also, one thing i noticed in the dircet at the begining was that they went thorugh all the pokemon stuff from 1997 to now,
but they did not show or mehcion the Pokemon games for GC (Collsuom/Gale of darkness or Battle revolotuion) at all,
i didn't see them in the history overview trailer, which was real shame as they were 9are) still great PKN games to play.
well im guessing they didnt want to show gc pokemon games that had better graphics than the switch pokemon games lol
yeah Colosseum and XD would be amazing to have an remake with more open-world style and wild Pokemon in grass and whatnot, shame they dont even acknowledge them in pokemon history.
 

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yeah Colosseum and XD would be amazing to have an remake with more open-world style and wild Pokemon in grass and whatnot.

nice point there, and to this i have a little story from the past that is related to this exact idea:
the story goes as such:

back when i was on thepurplecube website way back when, the site is no longer with us unforte :( .
there i was known as "Talesfanthedude". and
i had made a exact thread talking about this exact idea (many many years ago, lol).
that i wish could have happened, using these games as a base (and BR for wii).

lol, and now that idea is happeneing, but with DP world, lol.
im excited.
 

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nice point there, and to this i have a little story from the past that is related to this exact idea:
the story goes as such:

back when i was on thepurplecube website way back when, the site is no longer with us unforte :( .
there i was known as "Talesfanthedude". and
i had made a exact thread talking about this exact idea (many many years ago, lol).
that i wish could have happened, using these games as a base (and BR for wii).

lol, and now that idea is happeneing, but with DP world, lol.
im excited.
not sure if legends will be like that, i will threat it more like an open world exploration game and not an rpg type pokemon game, since its like a prequel to everything i doubt we will see gyms or pokemon league or elite fours and whatnot, it will be probably more like botw where you can go anywhere and each region has something to solve that will help you to go and face arceus in the end.

but it wont be a regular pokemon game in openworld fir sure imo.
 
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not sure if legends will be like that, i will threat it more like an open world exploration game and not an rpg type pokemon game, since its like a prequel to everything i doubt we will see gyms or pokemon league or elite fours and whatnot, it will be probably more like botw where you can go anywhere and each region has something to solve that will help you to go and face arceus in the end.

but it wont be a regular pokemon game in openworld fir sure imo.

oah, yeah that looks awesome, can't wait for this,
since it is a prequel, there aren't any gyms or league yet, there's no pokedex, lol
it's that anicent, this isl ike the best orgin story to PKN!
pkn never had this type of game before, now it the time for it.

if anything im getting this only pkn game for switch, i wonder how many diffrent gens will be in here?
Gen I - VIII or just gen I - V.
i've been waiting for something like this for a very very long time,
the trialer sure looks amazing, hope it stays that asweome until relase in 2022.
 

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oah, yeah that looks awesome, can't wait for this,
since it is a prequel, there aren't any gyms or league yet, there's no pokedex, lol
it's that anicent, this isl ike the best orgin story to PKN!
pkn never had this type of game before, now it the time for it.

if anything im getting this only pkn game for switch, i wonder how many diffrent gens will be in here?
Gen I - VIII or just gen I - V.
i've been waiting for something like this for a very very long time,
the trialer sure looks amazing, hope it stays that asweome until relase in 2022.
well they arent doing gens anymore they just pick a certain number of pokemons from each generation that think people like and cut the rest lol, so i wouldnt call it saying every pokemon from gen 1-5 will be there but kinda like sword and shield it will be some pokemon from each gen.
 

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is that video supposed to be proof? while tenten looks great, it lacks contrast, it uses limited palletes, and the battle enviroments are quite empty and plain compared to pokemon's. Disliking the chibi look doesn't make it "bad quality". Realism is not quality.
My problem with the remakes is not because of the chibi style, but because it looks like a mobile game.
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About Temtem, it is a simple indie game and it costs much less than Pokémon, it is very strange that it seems to be much better mainly visually.

I loved Pokémon Legends, but the remakes are so horrible, I don’t speak because of the artistic style but in general graphics, you could have delivered something even better for $ 60
 

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I saw people saying that Sinnoh remakes look like indie games.

In fact... they look WORSE than an indie game.


Pokémon Legends on the other hand is pretty amazing, I wish they had done a better job of handling Sinnoh's remakes.

Switch exclusive looks worse than a game designed with a focus on PC hardware...more news at ten.

I agree Legends Arceus looks a fair bit better than BD/SP, but it also looks like it runs at 15 FPS. I'm still interested in it, but that's always going to be the trade-off when it comes to portable consoles: performance gains for graphical downgrades, or vice-versa. New Pokemon Snap seems to have struck the ideal balance in that regard, but it probably helps a lot that it's an on-rails game.
 
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Switch exclusive looks worse than a game designed with a focus on PC hardware...more news at ten.

I agree Legends Arceus looks a fair bit better than BD/SP, but it also looks like it runs at 15 FPS. I'm still interested in it, but that's always going to be the trade-off when it comes to portable consoles: performance gains for graphical downgrades, or vice-versa. New Pokemon Snap seems to have struck the ideal balance in that regard, but it probably helps a lot that it's an on-rails game.
You know that Temtem is capable of running on a PC much weaker than the Switch, right? In addition, the game will also be released for Switch later this year, and to be honest, Let's Go and Sword and Shield both have slightly better visuals than Temtem, so there are no excuses for Sinnoh's remakes to be worse and look like 2010 mobile game.
 

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You know that Temtem is capable of running on a PC much weaker than the Switch, right?
The minimum requirements for 720p@30 FPS are right around Switch's specs, so I wouldn't say "much weaker" is accurate. Not really sure what your point is either, that a game running at 640x480 is going to look a lot worse than running it at 4K? I mean...yeah. TemTem is scalable with hardware, Switch exclusives are obviously not.

to be honest, Let's Go and Sword and Shield both have slightly better visuals than Temtem, so there are no excuses for Sinnoh's remakes to be worse and look like 2010 mobile game.
That's debatable, especially when taking things like anti-aliasing and performance into account. Plus I'm pretty sure the Sinnoh remakes are just using a slightly modified version of the Let's Go engine anyway.
 
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Late to the party and I must say: I'm disappointed that of all the niche things they mentioned in the montage, Adventures wasn't included.

Oh, D/P remakes? Yeah yeah, we already knew it was coming. Legends looks neat though, minus the lack of polish in the video. I guess they have a whole year though.
 
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Ahh yes my history with Pokémon It's been a long 22 years lol (I'm 29) I'm not really a fan of the D/P series but I did like Cyrus

PK R/B/Y - I had beat Yellow
PK G/S/C - I had beat Crystal
PK R/S/E - I had beat all 3
PK LG/FR - I had beat fire red
PK D/P/P - I had beat Diamond and Platinum (I didn't like the game too much)
PK B/W/B2/W2 - I only beat Black
PK HG/SS - I beat the PK League in SS but I still have Kanto to beat
PK X/Y - I was playing Y but I'm on the 5th Gym
PK S/M/US/UM - Never played it
PK OR/AS - Never played it
PK E/P - I played Lets goo Evvee I'm on the 6th Gym
PK SW/SH - I beat SW
PK R/B/Y - I had beat Blue
PK G/S/C - I had beat all three
PK R/S/E - I had beat all Sapphire
PK LG/FR - I had beat fire red
PK D/P/P - I had beat Diamond
PK B/W/B2/W2 - I only beat Black
PK HG/SS -
PK X/Y - I beat Y
PK S/M/US/UM - Started Moon and got past the first trial and I got annoyed by the amount of cutscenes
PK OR/AS - Beat Alpha Sapphire
PK E/P - I played Lets go Eevee to the 3rd or so gym
 
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The minimum requirements for 720p@30 FPS are right around Switch's specs, so I wouldn't say "much weaker" is accurate. Not really sure what your point is either, that a game running at 640x480 is going to look a lot worse than running it at 4K? I mean...yeah. TemTem is scalable with hardware, Switch exclusives are obviously not.


That's debatable, especially when taking things like anti-aliasing and performance into account. Plus I'm pretty sure the Sinnoh remakes are just using a slightly modified version of the Let's Go engine anyway.
while performance maybe be debatable saying that visualy dp remakes are better than lets go or sword and shield is not lol.

so its like saying final fantasy xv pocket edition is better becuase it will maintain the framerate lol.

obviously the overworld visuals are 10 times better on lets go vs dp remakes same for sword and shield, they basicaly did barebones 3d, obviosuly this will run more stable than a fullblown 3d title.

So you think links awakening remake looks better than botw becuase the performance and resolution is better? just because a game has a higher resolution/performance that doesnt make it better visually, as always you sacrifice visuals over resolution that is never gonna change.

pokemon lets go is a 720p handheld and 1080p docked sure it can drop afew frames here and there but still looks 10 times better

saying this
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looks worse than this is ridiculous
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