The upcoming installments to the Pokémon video games series now have release dates! While the remakes Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl and the new title Pokémon Legends: Arceus were announced earlier this year for the Nintendo Switch, no release window was provided until today via two official tweets.

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl, which are remakes of Nintendo DS titles from 2006, will launch on November 19th:

#PokemonBrilliantDiamond.#PokemonShiningPearl.
November 19, 2021.

💎✨ Preorder now: https://t.co/xTW1T9xFov pic.twitter.com/zyKjJDsi54

— Pokémon (@Pokemon) May 26, 2021

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Pokémon Legends: Arceus, which sees the Pokémon series take a rather new direction by merging action and RPG elements will launch on January 28th.

#PokemonLegendsArceus.
January 28, 2022.

🏔️🌅🌲 Preorders available now: https://t.co/8cj1aajObs pic.twitter.com/ACSm9EeIzT

— Pokémon (@Pokemon) May 26, 2021

 

[GCS]

Can't wait for them. Though November is pretty late.

 

[Wuigi]

It was a brilliant idea to use fixed release dates before and pokemon sword turned out especially well, rushing development only has upsides.

 

[masagrator]

Who also cannot wait to play Breath of The Wild demaster?

 

[The Catboy]

Wooooooo yeah baby! That's what I've been waiting for!
I am so excited for these games!

 

[Varia]

Legends' box art looks nice. A little worrying that it's releasing so early, considering from the trailer they've shown it runs like crap.
Probably gonna be another rushed job.
Also, with how bad the open area in SwSh was, I don't expect much from this.

DP remakes' box art basically confirms no new forms for the legends. I do hope at least it has more content than base DP...

 

[DKB]

DP remakes' box art basically confirms no new forms for the legends. I do hope at least it has more content than base DP...

For 60 dollars, that shit better have more content.

 

[ombus]

worse graphics than lets go... and legends could have used botw engine.. they really dont want to use money if the games still make them what they do being bad.

 

[pedro702]

2 pokemon games with 2 months between them seems weird lol why not wait abit? im guessing they want the revenue before the fiscal year ending in march.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Never actually played generation 4 pokemon. I got a bit bored after the third generation. I hope it's better since you can play online, makes trading pokemon more approachable. I think the main problem with pokemon games is how boring the main story gameplay is. There is less variety and the only drive for most people to play is just collecting badges and defeating elite four. (No, not everyone is in to competitive pokemon breeding and battling) I mean least throw in some resident evil style puzzles or rewards for stuff like challenges or super bosses.

 

[pedro702]

Never actually played generation 4 pokemon. I got a bit bored after the third generation. I hope it's better since you can play online, makes trading pokemon more approachable. I think the main problem with pokemon games is how boring the main story gameplay is. There is less variety and the only drive for most people to play is just collecting badges and defeating elite four. (No, not everyone is in to competitive pokemon breeding and battling) I mean least throw in some resident evil style puzzles or rewards for stuff like challenges or super bosses.

you could trade and battle online on gen 4 that was the entire thing that was new in gen 4 lol, also the main story cant be played online on any pokemon game so i hope you understand when saying you can play "online" its basically just battle and trading, there is no wild areas in dp and their aren't even using that type of engine.

 

[Esdeath]

Can see the remakes, but never ever will they be able to make that breath of the wild game good within this time frame.

 

[VartioArtel]

2 pokemon games with 2 months between them seems weird lol why not wait abit? im guessing they want the revenue before the fiscal year ending in march.

Two completely seperate teams. If I remember the D/P are handled by an outside company.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

you could trade and battle online on gen 4 that was the entire thing that was new in gen 4 lol, also the main story cant be played online on any pokemon game so i hope you understand when saying you can play "online" its basically just battle and trading, there is no wild areas in dp and their aren't even using that type of engine.

Yes, I know online means trade and battle. I know it was originally that way on Nintendo DS. But what I mean is the main story seems repetitive most of the time. Sure the story itself is different, there new characters, places and scenarios. But the main goal ends up being collecting badges and defeating elite four. (And completing the pokedex)

Most people would probably not care to complete pokedex, so I'm not even going to talk about that. Though I don't know much about generation 4 honestly never played it. Previous games do not have much to do after defeating elite four. Sure in generation 2 you travel to kanto and beat those gyms, get their badges and elite four (repetitive) the third one had battle tower I think. I just think there should be more to do. That's what I just felt got boring after playing a few of the games. It's kinda short for a RPG in my opinion. Or I should say, the incentive to play it as a "Single player" game is short lived, compared to other RPG I know.

 

[jomaper]

Yeah.. there is no way in hell they fix the outlines for the models for DP remakes, and I'm pretty sure framerate will be absolute shit for the Arceus one still.

Please GF, please stop being so shit.

 

[Deleted User]

I hope this is the start of the end for Dynamax Evolutions.
I enjoyed how even in Pokémon Journeys the 4th Wall was broken by stating that Mega Evolution in that Series is just lazy Fan Service .

I couldn't force myself to get on the Dynamax bandwagon and I do hope it doesn't bleed over to these Remakes and new Title.

 

[Deleted User]

 

[MikaDubbz]

It's good to know that regardless of the end quality of the final product, Nintendo does intend to hit the ground running at the start of next year. I can't remember the last January they released a big high profile game of their own.

 

[guisadop]

Curious about legends.
I love Sinnoh, therefore I'm not that excited for the remakes.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

legends looks interesting, hope the d+p remakes add some new stuff(although i dont really like the graphical style)