Nintendo recently releasedPokemon Shining PearlandBrilliant Diamond, the remakes of the fourth generation ofPokemonwhich initially debuted back in 2006. SeveralPokemonfans have taken to the remakes to discover details they hadn’t noticed the first time around, while onePokemon Shining Pearlplayer got the wrong Legendary.
Pokemongames are well known for showing off the latest Legendary Pokemon on the game covers and that’s no different withPokemon Shining PearlandBrilliant Diamond.As a result,Pokemon Brilliant Diamondfeatures the Steel-Dragon type Pokemon Dialga whileShining Pearlillustrates the Water-Dragon type Legendary known as Palkia. AlthoughPokemonfans typically get the corresponding Legendary Pokemon towards the end of the main storyline, one copy ofShining Pearlseemingly offers the opposite Legendary Pokemon.
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Reddit user Beary-Allen09 recently posted images from their playthrough ofPokemon Shining Pearlwhich showed the player encountering Dialga rather than Palkia towards the end of the game’s storyline. On top of showing the Pokemon battle between Dialga and Beary-Allen09’s Skorupi, thePokemonfan also showed the boxed copy ofShining Pearlas well as the Nintendo Switch menu showing that they were playingShining Pearlafter recently playingShin Megami Tensei 5. Between Beary-Allen09’s story and theirPokemonscreenshots seemingly confirming it, several Reddit users have voiced their perplexity of the situation.
One of the images that Beary-Allen09 shared showed the Lustrous Orb, which is an item held specifically by Palkia which empowers the Legendary. Because Beary-Allen09 had the Lustrous Orb rather than the Adamant Orb, thePokemonfan was unable to strengthen their curiously swapped Legendary Pokemon. While this issue may simply be a bug inPokemon Shining Pearl, this incorrect item may result in a weaker Pokemon, and Beary-Allen09 may consider trading for a Palkia to make have the appropriatePokemonbox artLegendary and to validate the Lustrous Orb.
Beary-Allen09 inspired several Reddit users to discussPokemon’s Eterna CityLegendary Pokemon statue which portrays a Pokemon that resembles a mixture of Dialga and Palkia. Some claimed that the statue’s text read Dialga, and others stated that it said Palkia but in reality, the statue is more of a fusion of the two. AlthoughPokemon Brilliant Diamondfans will typically encounter Dialga andPokemon Shining Pearlplayers typically encounter Palkia, the statue in Eterna City represents a mixture of the two in both versions of the fourth-gen remakes.
Although it’s possible that Beary-Allen09 was aPokemonfan who purchased bothPokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearland has created an elaborate ruse for the Reddit community, the images they showed off added some validity to their story. It’s currently unclear how manyPokemonfans are encountering this potentialPokemon Brilliant DiamondandShining Pearlbug, but given the fact that the games just recently released, Nintendo andThe Pokemon Companymay have an update for the game that fixes the issue soon.
Pokemon Shining PearlandBrilliant Diamondare available right now for Nintendo Switch.
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