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Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl brought Sinnoh back with a conservative remake strategy that pleased nobody completely but sold anyway.
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl launched in 2021 on Nintendo Switch. It brought Sinnoh back with a conservative remake strategy that pleased nobody completely but sold anyway. It sits on the canon-defining RPG backbone that decides regions, monsters, battle systems, and the assumptions every other Pokemon project eventually reacts to.
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Its 2021 release on Nintendo Switch immediately became part of the benchmark fans used to judge its whole generation.
Why it matters
Mainline Pokemon releases are the load-bearing beams of the franchise. If you want to understand why the rest of Pokemon looks the way it does, these are the games that set the rules.
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