Finished Pokemon Brilliant Diamond. Had some fun with the naming, went with the Fire starter and it was definitely the right choice. I feel like Fire (later Fire/Fighting) is the best starter in Gen 2, 3, AND 4 (don't remember anything after that) by far, like it isn't even close. Considering Fire was the "hardest" starter in Gen 1 (at least, Grass and Water have a much easier time in the first 2-3 gyms) it's like they way overcompensated with making the Fire starter OP in the next few games.
I don't care if she's supposed to be 16 in the game or whatever, Dawn can fucking get it. At least, in battles, because on the overworld she looks like this:
The fuck is this design choice? Alpha Sapphire / Omega Ruby had normal-proportioned characters, now for this one they go back to the old 2D style of character appearance even though there's no reason to now. Just reeks of laziness.
Seriously how can you take this shit seriously? Just looks awful. Actually the whole game comes off like a low-effort port rather than a remake or remaster. This game has none of Platinum's improvements / added content as far as I can tell, it's just a port of Diamond/Pearl with better visuals. There were actually times roaming around where I felt like I was playing the DS version because it looked so similar. This is the first of the Pokemon remakes that didn't really feel like it was "necessary" to play or advanced anything over the original. Like, everything this does, Platinum already did better, so Platinum is still the definitive Gen 4 game.
If this leads to us getting a decent remake of White/Black 1 and 2, then great. Wondering if that'll happen since A) Gen 5 is two games and B) They didn't bother to do an upgraded version of Gen 5 in the first place like they did with all the others before it (none of the gens after that did either).
Here's my final party.
Game was extremely easy, until the final boss. They gave her a ridiculously-OP Garchomp and I just barely scraped past it.
Glad this one's over. I had fun with it because Pokemon is generally fun, but it has the same slowness and dullness that Gen 4 had pre-Platinum and it felt more like I was playing it to "check it off" than anything else.