#shining Pearl

[dorianbrightmusic]

are there any pokemon fans with a special interest in geology or tectonics out there? for nerd reasons, i need to know how Mt. Coronet formed, what its vague characteristics might be, and generally what this implies for the geography of Sinnoh as a whole. thank you!

[m00nb04rd5]

I choose Glaceon for the next Stimboard please!

Glaceon (Pokemon Diamond and Pearl)

[davi-darc]

New pokemon card! Combee! This one has a holographic effect!

[loupy-mongoose]

Hm. The Starlys sure are nuts today.

The untamed twittering of the birds sounded far more plentiful than normal to the boy. He glanced around, tilting his red hat to better block the morning sun from his slate-colored eyes.

So, where is it? It's here somewhere...

Ah!

He found what he was after, nestled in the tall grass near the lake's edge.

The briefcase.

He picked it up, grunting with effort.

Then, he heard a new sound.

A small sound, like...

A baby Pokemon?

Is that what the Starlys are so riled up about?

He set the briefcase near the path leading back home, and carefully began searching among the trees, straining his ears should the sound happen again. He readied a Pokeball.

Trusting his gut feeling, he followed the Starlys' chatter. They were definitely interested in SOMEthing over here...

He gasped at what he found, and fumbled for his radio.

“...where more Rangers have arrived, and are fighting to get it under control. There has been no news yet on how it started or if there are any casualties, but there is suspicion about a large structure--”

The TV was switched off.

“Hoenn's in a bad spot today, it seems,” The man muttered to a Lucario lying nearby. At his words, she stretched, yawning widely. “I hope they can get that sorted out quickly." He walked to his kitchen table and sipped from his tea cup.

Suddenly, his radio buzzed to life. The voice from the other end was abnormally unsettled. “Uh... P-Professor?”

The man grew serious as he held the button to reply. “Trouble, Lucas?”

“Uhh... N-Not reeeaally... I got the briefcase, but... Uh...” An anxious inhale sounded. “There's a man out here.”

“A man? You have the Piplup on hand, yes? Are you in danger?”

“No no no, I... Uh, no, he's... Not dangerous, I don't think. He's... He's unconscious... and...” The boy's voice cracked, and there was another breath. The man barely heard the next word. “N-naked.”

At this, the Professor's brows furrowed. “Is he injured?” He started toward his bedroom.

The response was quick and squeaky. “I don't know, I'm not gonna stare at a naked guy in the middle of the woods, Professor!”

The Professor couldn't help an inward chuckle at his flustered assistant. “Is he at least breathing?” He grabbed a couple large blankets from the closet, found a first-aid kit, and went to pull on his coat.

“Uh...” The radio went silent for a second. “...Y-yeah. He's breathing normally.”

The Professor nodded to himself. “Alright. I'll be there soon, Lucas. Keep Piplup at the ready in case any wild Pokemon get too involved.”

He went into his lab and explained to the top aide where he was going. He grabbed a Pokeball.

“Aye aye, Professor. And, uh... S-sorry... For, uh...”

“I understand. This is a very unusual occurrence. You've done fine, my boy.”

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(I hope that subject matter isn't too, uh... weird for people. Just so we're clear, I will never do anything overtly nude. I may imply it, but never depict it. Aside from, you know, Pokemon.)

Here we go, starting a whole new chapter!

From here we're gonna be following my playthrough of Shining Pearl that I did with my shinies and Mews. It won't be a perfect match to what happened in-game, it'll just loosely follow the same steps.

Disclaimer: This is my interpretation of the BDSP story and characters. Anyone is perfectly free to disagree with how I handle things, but please respect my decisions as the storyteller here.

If anyone wants to ask about any specific moments of this arc, I'm willing to break chronology UNTIL ETERNA CITY. A very important event happens there, so I don't want to go beyond it in story telling.

[waterlilylatte]

I was finally able to beat Cynthia's Garchomp in my Brilliant Diamond with Weavile, a quick claw, and too much time in the Grand Underground.

So, I drew my winning team with more real life animal characteristics! Staraptor is a starling, Luxray is a lion, Quagsire is a salamander, Houndoom is a doberman pinscher, Torterra is a Galapagos turtle, and Weavile is a cat (because I didn't wanna draw a weasel)! <3

I tend to stray away from the fire starters in Pokemon games so I'm gonna try my hand with Infernape my next playthrough and we'll see how it goes!

[captaindeinony]

What. Sinnoh

[daikondog]

i like to think he has five pawmi. one is shiny and they are all named after citruses

[krizeros]

Timeskip Champion Lucas! This man deserves more love

[pillotalkin]

A pinch hit piece I did, also for pokemonexchange22: The Sinnoh trio hanging out at a festival in Ecruteak, for @veloxvoid!!

[gale-gentlepenguin]

Did you play Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl? Or Legends Arceus?

I played both.

Legends was great. One of my fave pokemon games of all time. And has the best Villain in all of Pokemon.

Shining Pearl was sorely lacking. The underground was an improvement. But WHY DIDNT THEY JUST REMAKE PLATINUM! Platinum had most of the hot fixes.

[hannahhook7744]

HC For Lampwick's friend , Pete please ?

we know next to nothing about him xd

His full is Pietro Enzo Russo, but his friends usually just call him Peter or Pete.

Pete's parents are named Elio and Aria Russo.

Pete is an only child.

Despite being friends with both Lampwick and Alexander, Pete didn't go to Pleasure Island. This is because he had a cold at the time.

He's a big fan of stripes.

Pete used to cut his own hair, getting pretty interesting results every time until his friends told him as nicely as possible that it didn't...suit him.

He and Shining Pearl have two kids: Doli and Kansas. They're both girls.

Their kids are a bit younger than Tigerwick's two oldest kids.

Failed his driving and flying test six times before he finally got his license.

He has tattoos.

Still cuts his own hair after getting lessons on how to do so.

He's been nicknamed 'Where's Waldo'.

He's a bit younger than Lampwick. A year or so.

Wore his hair long for awhile. They don't talk about it.

He's very close to both his parents.

He was devastated when Lampwick and Alexander went missing, and helped Bella and Victoria look for them.

Pete also didn't like Pinocchio at first because of this and he still doesn't like Jiminy because of it.

His favorite candy is peppermints.

He and his family are poor.

He's known Lampwick since they were in diapers.

He lives in the village of Pariva.

[pokemon-npcs]

[otakuman-san]

Akari and Dawn playing some Pokémon games~

[b-dangerous]

QUAGSIRE BRILLIANT DIAMOND SHINING PEARL

[turboacek-blog]

BDSP was fine, y'all just mean

Kinda kidding but not really as I know it's a hot take

Written Feb 6th 2024

Not saying some of the dislike wasn't worth it

But the problem wasn't with ILCA it's the base game of Diamond and Pearl

A lot of people's complaints basically sum up that they didn't incorporate Platinum into the game

Mainly from Pokemon available, with some mentioning the Giratina distortion world and such plus other changes that platinum had from DP like battle frontier differences

On one hand yes it would have been nice if they did make some more changes like implementing more Platinum story elements making it more of a definitive Sinnoh experience

But also it's DP remakes not Platinum remakes

Similar with ORAS and FRLG they had some new stuff and revamped stuff. But it's not like FRLG had Yellow elements (that's lets go) and ORAS had a lot of Emerald. At most the Delta episode for ORAS was their workaround for no Emerald so if you want to group that as the full game then sure BDSP needed some DLC but then you have the DLC dilemma is getting the platinum stuff worth an extra $20-$30 dollars and have that dlc debate

The underground solved a lot of the issues imo

The underground having Pokemon down there personally solved a lot of the Pokemon availability problem

For example, I picked Turtwig so I wasn't just limited to Ponyta for a fire type since I didn't pick Chimchar I had options as Magby and Houndour were now available, which fixes the fire type problem imo

And I think people overreact about the changes to the bases and flag capturing as yes it would have been nice if they were the same but I think the changes outweigh it greatly. Plus if ORAS showed anything people really didn't care to have the secret bases as secret bases and just liked it for nostalgia mainly

Not saying BDSP was perfect but I do think in a lot of aspects it is the definitive Sinnoh experience as you're basically just missing the Giratina story which isn't as necessary to the plot imo

As it kinda just seems like Yellow, Crystal, Emerald and Platinum were seen as definitive because they don't have the dual version conundrum so they seem more complete in compariso. But when the dual version games get additional content is the additional usually third legendary plot really worth it?

Maybe maybe not

And I know a lot of rumors about potential Johto or Unova remakes have been going on and people are worried as they didn't like BDSP

But if for example ILCA makes the remakes and has the chibi style and etc

But they fix the level scaling in Johto or something like Pokemon availability for Unova I think those would be better even if minimal changed

I do have my own hopes and wishes for potential remakes but I will wait until they are officially announced