what's going on everyone austin john plays here and today we're going to talk about a
whole bunch of quality life and big changes that are coming to brilliant diamond shining pearl
today october 13th 2021 at 9 00 a.m was an embargo lifted on several content creators
and news outlets that were allowed to see a 40-minute hands-off preview mostly through zoom
on brand new pokemon diamond and brawl footage i can speak firsthand that whenever they do one of
these events there is a very strict embargo regarding the amount of footage that you're
allowed to show how many things you're allowed to say specifically what you can and cannot
talk about uh i actually have my fun cover page letter here it's blown out right now you can't
see it too well my cover page letter here from my pokemon ultrasound ultra moon embargo that's
the only page i could show you i cannot show you the subsequent six pages involved in the embargo
that then changed three times throughout the entire reviewing process fun stuff but for
an event like this there's a very limited amount of things that they're allowed to share with you
so i went around and i read so far i found five news articles and board youtube videos that went
over stuff and while almost all of them except for game explain shout out to tris from game explain
actually talking it talking about this like an actual real real pokemon fan dude was great for
animal crossing and pokemon stuff shout out to him most of them are just trying to sell you on this
and focusing on the points that nintendo wants them to focus on but i basically consolidated
all of it down throughout so you don't need to watch these five videos and read these
five articles so by the way if you've been wondering where i've been i've actually been
playing a absolutely disgusting amount of new world the first time i've ever played an mmo
with my buddy philly bitsu you remember you may remember him from the ultra lock we are on the
cedarwood cedar forest server usa whatever it's called and we're marauders if you want to join
our company which is super dope and we craft tools for you and everything else then join the server
and find us in-game we're always there we're we're the green ones or go to phillystream at twitch.tv
you and just bother him about it and be like hey i know you from austin's ultralock videos
he'll he'll absolutely love that can we join your company if you don't have any friends who
are playing the game we'd love to be your friend and play with that game by the way it's a pc only
steam game from amazon that is 30 dollars great i'll see you there uh let's get in the video
first of all everyone received a 40-minute hands-off preview most likely what their embargo
for this listed is that we're going to be giving you several clips you could show x amount of
footage from x amount of clips and i think there may have also been a limit on the duration of the
video because it seems like all of them end around the five and a half six minute mark except for
game explains which was more of a q a style so maybe that's a fun work around for the embargo
that they spoke with their rep about or as i call it their handler by the way shout out to
kate who used to work for nintendo networks for over there google youtube hey how you doing she
was my handler she's she's good people met her at nintendo new york for the mario odyssey release
okay first things first something every single person has been talking about there was absolutely
no context in the trailer when we saw the poke and then we saw that there were the hm's listed
there the variety of pokemon listed there and the lack of explanation and lack of ui led us
to believe that that was showing us our hm's from our pokemon's inventory this has been proven to be
inaccurate in fact you are no longer required to teach hm's to your pokemon to traverse the
overworld which this is huge there are eight hms in this game but now you no longer have to have
one third of your entire party's pokemon knowing these specific hm moves instead in the poke you're
gonna pull it up you're gonna press the button and it's gonna do the thing in addition they have
returned the prompt of pressing a meaning that if you're looking at climbable rocks you press
a and then we'll automatically climb the rocks for you instead of you having to stand in front
take out the poke catch choose rock climb and then it will do it same goes for strength rock smash
probably surf as well things like that this is absolutely enormous because everyone had
a bidoof on their team and maybe they evolved it or not by the way i learned that the proper term
for what badoof was is now called an hm mule next most important thing is that there is auto save
and you can turn it off traditional pokemon players do not like autosave and you definitely
do not want autosave if you're going to be spamming a save in front of a legendary pokemon
last thing you want is you accidentally knock it out you got to go to the bathroom you sat
down and it auto saved instead before those major battles or specific points in time
you can freely turn it on and off which is fantastic third most important thing there
is modern typing involved meaning that fairy type is going to be introduced which is super
helpful because in this game you had spirit tomb spirit tomb had no weaknesses in this generation
i think sableye also had the same typing but you don't really think a stabilized being too op of
a pokemon right with that also there are going to be fairy type moves which is going to be helpful
especially against people like cynthia who is the final trainer of the game speaking of cynthia
and the final trainer of the game in fourth generation there was a very very large gap between
the highest level pokemon of the eighth gym and the pokemon of the elite four including
cynthia i think it was like an 11 or 15 level gap that they just expect you to go off and
grind in my first playthrough that i did a couple months ago i didn't do that grind
and through strategizing a lot i was able to make my way through the elite four on my first try
but then again you know i'm a pokemon master so it is what it is they are going to be reintroducing
the modern system of the experience share which means that instead of it being a held item for one
pokemon instead when it's in your inventory all of the pokemon are going to be getting
experience this is very helpful for that reason i have not seen anyone talk about if you are able
to turn it on and off if you recall and let's go pikachu and evie it was fixed to be on and i don't
remember sword and shield it seems like they're going to be using the modern experience system
if you didn't know there was a big change in the experience system that was introduced i think it
was x and y it was introduced it used to be if you caught a pokemon you didn't get experience
only if you defeated a wild or trained pokemon in battle however they made it so that if you
catch a pokemon you will be getting experience which obviously helps if you like going out
and grinding and catching a whole bunch of wild pokemon you are experiencing your team with that
compounded with the modern style experience share you're going to be getting a lot more experience
in the game which is going to be very helpful there was no mention of a specific mechanic that
was introduced in the later generations which is the under level over level system made it so
if you are a level 12 pokemon fighting a level 15 and you win you get more experience than if
you were both level 12 and significantly more experienced than if you were level 12 and it was
level 5. it sort of penalized you for defeating lower level pokemon and sort of rewarded you for
defeating higher level pokemon while we're talking about trainers one person mentioned on vooks.com
defeating trainers also seem to give more money compared to the original counterparts
and that seems like it might be a helpful thing it seems like it may make the game easier but
that also goes hand in hand with the next point i'm going to talk about i actually planned this
out pretty well we are not getting infinite tm usage generation 4 was the last generation that
had single use tms and in generation 5 they became multi-use tms oh great example the tr's now that
we have tr's in pokemon sword and shield have those are single use it's gonna be exactly like
that but that's for the tms now there were tms that you could purchase like thunderbolts and
or maybe it was thunder and blizzard and i think joe merrick mentioned this on twitter
that the tr issue wasn't really an issue in sword and shield because if you do a lot of max ray gens
they literally chuck them at you but now is there gonna be a way that we can farm these or are they
going to be more purchasable are the prices going to go down or the simple fact that we're receiving
more money from pokemon trainer battles is that going to help counter that fun little quality of
life improvement that's been present in the more modern games is that you're going to get your
option between character sprites there are going to be four different skin tones as we've
grown accustomed to in more recent generations in addition to there are two genders of trainer that
you can choose four looking more masculine and four looking more feminine there was no mention
of it although i would presume that they're no longer using the terms male and female as that has
been the trend in pokemon games recently instead it just says choose your appearance that's it
keep it vague everyone's happy oh this is huge uh pc swap anytime anytime that you're i think out in
the overworld there was no mention about specific dungeons and caves they just said anytime that you
want you could swap pokemon from your party with pokemon in storage supposedly we're going to be
able to do that either from the menu or from the poke i don't know specifically because they didn't
go over that in detail but this is something that's been introduced in more recent games and
honestly i'm not mad at it it's a single player experience play it however you want if you want to
swap pokemon on the fly i don't think you should have to go back to a pokemon center in order to do
that especially now that you no longer require hms the whole idea of setting off on your expedition
with this fixed team is gone know what i mean while we're talking about your expeditions this
is a bit of a stretch here these super effective moves have returned meaning that when you are
in a pokemon battle after you have battled the pokemon for the first time and you defeated it or
even if you didn't defeat it and you white it out when you go back into battle because the pokemon
was registered in your pokedex as seen now when you go into the battle you are going
to be getting a little thing that says of a move is super effective or not very effective
if you're only familiar with the more modern generation of pokemon games you're going to be
like yeah that's always there in generation 4 it was not there you had to calculate it in your head
the type of move and the type of effectiveness on the type of opposing pokemon and now that fairies
in the game i'm very happy they did that because i don't know why but i just can't learn fairy i
know that you hit it with steel and poison and that's all i remember there's many more things
for me to remember something about fire i don't know something that i didn't explore too much in
my time playing pearl was the puffin creation and the competition but according to the news
articles poffin creation is no longer better with other players meaning that in the original games
you would connect online with the nintendo ds wi-fi and you'd be able to have other people
throw poffins in there or throw berries in there to help you make better poffins now it seems like
that whole concept is null and void instead a single player can make just as powerful as a
profit of a puffin as if you were to do four people throwing in more berries previously
it has not been mentioned yet if that feature is exclusive to the amity square or not
that has a berry blender in there don't know yet uh quick little mention i think it was
pretty obvious but i might as well say it anyways there are no overworld pokemon instead we're going
back to the traditional walk in the grass and then while pokemon happens to be there except
for in the underground area that it appears to be overworld pokemon only and not wild pokemon just
popping up like in a cave similar to the let's go pikachu eevee system instead it's more like the
wild area system from sword and shield as long as you weren't in a patch of grass know what i mean
oh while we're talking about the grand underground which is fantastic polygon states this exact
phrase fill out your base with pokemon statues you collect while dowsing that's when you have the uh
the hidden item thing happening combinations of these statues will have special effects
on the rest of the underground for instance if you place three statues of bug type pokemon in
your secret base you'll see more bug types in the rooms elsewhere in the zone this is what i
theorized in my analysis video i do want to show one quick screencap from ign in this screen cap
right here we see that there are four different statues unknown takes up a tile slot of one by one
electravire and gallade take up slots of three by three and probopass takes up a slot of two by two
in addition we see small icons right next to them we have learned that the more statues that you put
down the predominant typing is going to be boosted there has been no mention of secondary typing or
if it creates a tier system right now it just seems like the most predominant one is the only
one that's affected in that zone i imagine that if it were tied between you know if i put down
two fire statues and two grass statues regardless of the second typing that whichever one had larger
models would become the more predominant as we've seen in the previous trailer when there was the
large charizard statue and there was we could also see here that you could place a total of
18 statues which essentially means you could just flood your whole base with it i'm kind of
upset that you can't place all of the unknown in a single room i think that'd be pretty fun
and what's not on screen let's scroll down you can see right here straight across past the ign logo
that the little globe thing is yellow symbolizing that electric type is going to be the one that's
currently boosted with the current configuration in addition we have seen footage in the past
that included only a charizard and a venusaur that were jade statues as opposed to everything
else that looked like a stone statue many people theorize that this was going to be a reference to
when you were able to put in pokemon fire red and leaf green into the bottom of the ds
we have seen other pokemon in the various news articles appear in jade so no mention
yet on the specific differences between jade statues versus stone statues effectiveness
rarity how to obtain or anything else like that and the very last point that i want to speak on
is regarding to the grand contests which seems as though it has been completely reworked in the
original game i did it once because it took like 10 minutes and i had no idea what was going on and
it seemed absolutely pointless it seems as though it's been completely overhauled and thanks to
corroborative efforts of what these people have said grand contest game is now more like a two
minute game than a 10 minute game exact quote from game explain and it's a rhythm based mini
game now and there's no longer waiting prompts and everything else like that there's going to be
five different types of contests and each of the five different contests has four different
levels of difficulty comicbook.com said this and i quote we confirm that the different
contests have their own variations based on the type chosen and the level of difficulty
to prevent the contest from becoming too monotonous multiplayer contests also return so
players can play with each other instead of facing the ai over and over and over again there was no
clarification on what the variations are if it's just a different song or if it's a different tempo
i would imagine the more difficult levels are a faster tempo since it is a rhythm-based game
maybe there's more buttons you need to input no clarification on that yet
and that is all of the important that things that i have found throughout all of the articles
with absolutely no fluff you know that the game looks different you know it's sort of
chibi like link's awakening no reason for me to talk about those things just the facts that's
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