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It's an ongoing discussion, so I'm going to continuously update the thread with confirmed and unconfirmed stuff. The sourcing is going to be lacking sometimes because Nintendo is actively deleting stuff.
CONFIRMED:
UNCONFIRMED:
Pictures of the Distortion Room where you find the Griseous Orb (and potentially fight Giratina? unclear) for Giratina's secondary form, in the post-game area.
Hall of Origin, where you supposedly fight Arceus:
One of the new areas from Romanas Park where you fight legendaries Pokémon:
I'll keep updating the thread.
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CONFIRMED:
- The games are a faithful remake of Diamond & Pearl and don't contain any story changes, nor new Pokémon or new forms. Every platinum form is in and accessible though.
- The game is made with Unity.
- There is a big day one patch coming that will implement the remaining music (atm, none of the battle themes have remixes, but all the overworld tracks do) and access to the new post-game area that leakers currently can't access.
- The trainers are based on the DP teams (with update movesets), including Elite Four and Champion, however...
- The VS Seeker item makes its return in this game and you can rematch every trainer in the game, including gym leaders and champions (and they have their Platinum teams when rematching the first time). All gym leaders and champions have three teams (default, Rematch 1 and Rematch 2), with the second Rematch being amongst the strongest fights in the entire series (Cynthia is now the strongest fighter in the Pokémon series with her lvl 88 Garchomp matching Red's Pikachu in Gold and Silver).
- Many Pokémon have new idle animations, based on their DP sprites
- Game has been balanced around the exp share, and people playing the game so far have been relatively on par with the gym leaders fights when fighting every trainer on the road.
- Friendship mechanic comes back with the following Pokémon gaining friendship, giving it some luck buffs and EXP boost.
- The original DP HMs are now TMs.
- TMs aren't unlimited anymore, gym leaders give you multiple copies.
- You can still play music notes with badges.
- Every customization option from the original games are there, except for the Letter ball seals you got from catching Unown, and one of the PC wallpapers to remove Charon (a Platinum only character).
- Battle Frontier isn't in, but the Battle Tower has been reworked with more options (but it's unaccessible without the day one patch so no more details). We know Battle Tower has Multi Battles.
- Pal Park has been renamed as Ramanas Park and is now a new post-game area that lets you catch legendaries Pokémon from Gen 1 to 3, with dedicates rooms for each. It is unaccessible at the moment, but the leaked description also imply you will be able to fight trainers from different regions there. In order to access these rooms, you'll have to roam the Underground looking for Slates.
- You can get gifts of Jirachi if you have a SwSh save, and Mew if you have LGPE (quite early in the game).
- National Dex is in, and all 493 first Pokémon are in the game.
- An item called the DS Sounds, similar to the GBA Sounds of HGSS, replaces the soundtrack with the original games one.
- Arceus, Darkrai and Shaymin events are coded in the game but it is unknown at the moment how you access them. Could be post-launch distribution of items.
- Arceus is definitely not capturable in the game as it is though, even though his event is in the game.
- Shiny Charm is in.
- None of the pokémon except Jirachi and Mew are shiny locked.
- The QoL improvements from ther recent games (bottle caps, passing down Egg Moves etc.) are in.
UNCONFIRMED:
- The AI has apparently been overhauled for gym leaders, champions and post game rematches, with use of EV, IV and strategic combinations. Tough fights overall in the postgame, possibly the toughest in the series.
- Transfer rulesmight be pretty strict, and it might be a one way-out from BDSP to HOME. However, text also implies you'll be able to transfer from Legends to BDSP, so it's unclear at this point.
Pictures of the Distortion Room where you find the Griseous Orb (and potentially fight Giratina? unclear) for Giratina's secondary form, in the post-game area.
Hall of Origin, where you supposedly fight Arceus:
One of the new areas from Romanas Park where you fight legendaries Pokémon:
I'll keep updating the thread.
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