an inferior remaster of an already inferior game. why anyone would play this instead of just emulating platinum is beyond me, much better experience and art style. i wholeheartedly believe that this is the worst mainline pokemon game and it isn't even close.

i also wonder why they even made these games in the first place if they were going to do them like this? past pokemon remakes at the very least refreshed the characters with new designs that are mostly better other than a few hgss and frlg characters (the latter was rectified with let's go of all things) and actual new content to enjoy, and in the case of hgss and oras they adapted the content from the third version into the story pretty well but still in a mostly new way. brilliant diamond and shining pearl are just remakes of the sinnoh games with less content and less quality without adding anything of note from platinum or to set them apart from their originals.

an emulated port of pokemon platinum would've been infinitely preferable to whatever the fuck this is supposed to be