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Pokemon Platinum did the classic third-version cleanup job so well that most people remember Sinnoh through it.
Pokemon Platinum launched in 2008 on Nintendo DS. It did the classic third-version cleanup job so well that most people remember Sinnoh through it. It sits on the canon-defining RPG backbone that decides regions, monsters, battle systems, and the assumptions every other Pokemon project eventually reacts to.
Example
Its 2008 release on Nintendo DS 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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