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Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
Nov. 21st, 2021 01:36 pmThings I like about Generation IV:
- The graphics and monster designs are very cute.
- The music is distinctive and catchy.
- This generation introduces Budew and Pachirisu, two absolute baby-faced murder machines.
- The Sinnoh Champion Cynthia, who offers one of the only legitimately difficult matches in the series.
- Although Ruby and Sapphire take steps in this direction, Diamond and Pearl are the first pair of games to lean into the specificity of their setting. Because the games are set in Hokkaido, you get things like coal processing plants and museums, shiny new wind turbines next to abandoned coal-burning power plants, wildflower fields and a robust system of berry crossbreeding, and nods to the co-existence of newer Yamato belief systems with older Ainu mythologies. I think this is the first generation where you really get a sense of the games’ setting and worldbuilding, and it’s lovely.
- Flint and Volkner are husbands.
- Did I mention how much I love Cynthia.
- The graphics and monster designs are very cute.
- The music is distinctive and catchy.
- This generation introduces Budew and Pachirisu, two absolute baby-faced murder machines.
- The Sinnoh Champion Cynthia, who offers one of the only legitimately difficult matches in the series.
- Although Ruby and Sapphire take steps in this direction, Diamond and Pearl are the first pair of games to lean into the specificity of their setting. Because the games are set in Hokkaido, you get things like coal processing plants and museums, shiny new wind turbines next to abandoned coal-burning power plants, wildflower fields and a robust system of berry crossbreeding, and nods to the co-existence of newer Yamato belief systems with older Ainu mythologies. I think this is the first generation where you really get a sense of the games’ setting and worldbuilding, and it’s lovely.
- Flint and Volkner are husbands.
- Did I mention how much I love Cynthia.
