

It didn't go as far as Pokémon ORAS to become the Gen 8 standard, or include Pokémon Platinum content the way Pokémon ORAS included some Pokémon Emerald features. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl is still a good Pokémon game worth playing. Secret Bases in Pokémon BDSP are more like Secret Statue Galleries with a hard rock floor to sit on. Unfortunately, statues seem to be the only Secret Base furniture items that exist in Pokémon BDSP. The huge amount of home décor that returned with Secret Bases in Pokémon ORAS was not included in the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl remakes. It's likely that when they are connected, they will have some limitations on how Pokémon can be transferred since they aren't on the same level as Sword and Shield. Pokémon BDSP does not support Ranked Battles, and won't be connected to Pokémon HOME until 2022. There is no Dynamax transformation and Mega Evolutions are also absent. Since Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl don't have any vast gameplay changes like Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, some players are displeased that their battle systems are not up to the current Gen 8 standard. Because of this, the games were not backward-compatible, and transferring Pokémon through Pokémon HOME was limited. Many aspects of main Pokémon games such as the day and night cycle, moves including Z-Moves and weather, held items, Abilities, breeding, and Eggs were absent. Pokémon : Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! were not the new competitive standard of Gen 7, but a reimagining of the classic Pokémon Yellow blended with Pokémon GO. Before ORAS, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen and Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver did the same for their respective Generations. As the competitive standard, they were the games used at the Video Game Championships in 20.

Pokémon ORAS was the most complete version of what Generation 6 had to offer, expanding on its new changes like the Fairy-type and Mega Evolutions. Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire included Mega Evolutions and even added new ones that weren't available in Pokémon X and Y before it. Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire in addition to Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! had added a lot more in comparison. Perhaps because of this, out of all the remakes, Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearlare probably the closest to their source material and have taken few risks with introducing something new. Pokémon BDSP is the first main Pokémon game not developed by Game Freak. Related: Pokémon BDSP: All Version Exclusive Pokémon In Diamond & Pearl The Gen 4 Diamond and Pearl features of Contests and the Underground have been updated for their remakes, as well. There are new ways to encounter Legendary Pokémon in Ramanas Park and the Trainer can be customized, although these changes are more evident in battle when the full, non-chibi Trainer model is present. Instead, HM abilities are added to the Pokétch menu for ease of use. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl add several quality-of-life changes absent from their original 2006 iterations. Hidden Machines are gone, so Trainers don't have to worry about wasting their Pokémon's skill slots on HMs.
