History VideoGame / PokemonDiamondAndPearl

-->"Welcome to the next generation of Pokémon! As a rookie Pokémon Trainer, you will need to catch, train and battle Pokémon on your journey to become the Pokémon League Champion. You will face many challenges along the way, as you search for the Pokémon that rules time or space..."

"Welcome to the next generation of Pokémon! As a rookie Pokémon Trainer, you will need to catch, train and battle Pokémon on your journey to become the Pokémon League Champion. You will face many challenges along the way, as you search for the Pokémon that rules time or space..."
--'''Blurb''' on the back of the boxes of ''Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Versions''

* NoFairCheating: Hack a Spiritomb (a Pokémon with no weaknesses) to have Wonder Guard (only super effective attacks do anything) and Fire Fang will still bypass Wonder Guard. The trainers in the Battle Tower (already famed for its cheating) seem to use Fire Fang in place of more powerful moves just so you can't use that cheat.

* JigsawPuzzlePlot: The Team Galactic subplot.

** In general, it would seem that the 3rd version in each generation is the canonical version. For example, G/S/C seem to follow Yellow as opposed to Red and Blue, since Red has all 3 starters and his main Pokemon is Pikachu, something that can only be done without trading in Yellow.

The fourth generation of ''{{Pokemon}}'' games, ''[=~Pokémon Diamond and Pearl~=]'', hit the NintendoDS in 2006. Taking place in Sinnoh, the Pokémon world version of the Japanese island of Hokkaido, the plot is familiar territory for the series: [[HelloInsertNameHere you]], a child from the modest little village of Twinleaf Town, and your [[TheRival hyperactive best friend]], have a fateful encounter with [[BadassLabcoat Professor Rowan]], the local authority on Pokémon, and his well-meaning but inexperienced assistant. Said encounter leaves you both with your first [[{{Mon}} Pokémon]], so naturally you set out ToBeAMaster, collecting monsters and badges and challenging/defeating opposing Trainers along the way.

* MythologyGag: Three Trainers from the ''PokemonJirachiWishmaker'' and ''PokemonDestinyDeoxys'' movies of the ''Anime/Pokemon'' appear as Ace Trainers in the Battle Zone. Butler and Diane from movie 6 appear on Route 229, the two of them sharing four of the Pokémon Butler owned in the movie. Rebecca (named "Hitomi" in Japan) from movie 7 appears on Route 224 with her Metagross. The English translation team did not notice this EasterEgg however, as Butler and Diane are renamed "Felix" and "Dana", respectively, and Rebecca/Hitomi is renamed "Jamie" instead.

* Irony: When you get your first Pokemon from Rowan, he gives it to you under the condition you will never recklessly endanger yourselves again (the player and rival had been about to run into tall grass without Pokemon). Cue later in the game, you're fighting what basically amounts to the god of antimatter and a sociopathic nutcase to save the world. If that isn't reckless endangerment, I don't know what is.

Not to be confused with seasons 10 through 13 of the ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' anime. For the bootleg under the name ''"Pokemon Diamond"'', see {{Telefang}}.

* MindScrew: Platinum Version's Distortion World.

** Averted for OHKO + No Guard. This works wonders when used by a fast Pokemon like Ninjask.

*** As of Platinum, Giratina, less of a downplay than the former. It lives in an EldritchLocation where time,space and gravity don't apply. [[WordOfGod Satoshi Tajiri]] says that it's the personification of antimatter, and it's on par with [[PhysicalGod Dialga and Palkia.]]

* MythologyGag: Three trainers from the ''[=~Pokémon: Jirachi Wishmaker~=]'' and ''[=~Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys~=]'' movies of the ''Pokémon'' Anime appear as Ace Trainers in the Battle Zone. Butler and Diane from movie 6 appear on Route 229, the two of them sharing four of the Pokémon Butler owned in the movie. Rebecca (named "Hitomi" in Japan) from movie 7 appears on Route 224 with her Metagross. The English translation team did not notice this Easter egg however, as Butler and Diane are re-named Felix and Dana, respectively, and Rebecca/Hitomi is re-named "Jamie" instead.

** There's a trainer in the Marley part of Victory Road that wants to [[AustinPowers judo chop]] you.

** [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Gallade Gallade]], a male-only Psychic brawler with a strong honor code who fights with energy blades, and [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Froslass Froslass]], a female-only ice apparition, both of whom uniquely achieve evolution through exposure to Dawn Stone radiation, may remind you of a certain pair from YuYuHakusho.

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: rumors persisted prior to the games' release that the starters would follow a new elemental dynamic (Fighting/Dark/Psychic instead of Grass/Fire/Water).

* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Only a handful of 'cute' Pokémon can play in Amity Square. In D/P, even the ''starters'' were excluded; this was fixed in ''Platinum'', even allowing you to take all their evolved forms for a walk. Still, this makes for a grand total of ''11 or 20 out of 493'' getting to go for a stroll.

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* DifficultySpike: The Elite Four and Champion are ''much'' harder compared to the eight Sinnoh Gym Leaders. Special mention goes to Cynthia who has a team with perfect IVs, wide type coverage, and one Pokémon that is such a GameBreaker that it's included in the [[OlympusMons Legendary]] [[CharacterTiers tier]] of the competitive battling circuit. She is by far the toughest battle in the main game.

* HumansAreBastards: In this case it's a huge number of ''players'' that are bastards and/or idiots, with the developer and publisher as enablers. The Global Trade System was a great concept -- take advantage of the NintendoDS's Wi-Fi receiver to trade {{Pokemon}} between players all over the world, ''theoretically'' enabling you to Catch 'Em All without necessarily needing to personally know a fellow player or own multiple versions and systems. Unfortunately Game Freak and {{Nintendo}} grabbed the IdiotBall with both hands and curled up around it in the fetal position, releasing a bare-bones system without enough hard-coded safeguards to prevent abuse or impossible trades. The end result: lazy players quickly ruined the GTS by filling it with ridiculous offers like low-level ComMons for legendaries and Level 100s, or seeking Pokémon at levels lower than it's possible to acquire them at. All told, it is nearly impossible for serious players to find any {{Mon}} they were looking for at a reasonable price. Various unpatched glitches and rampant hacking make it even worse.
** Read Bulbapedia's take on the GTS' problems [[http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/GTS_sabotaged_by_greed here.]]

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: The Battle Frontier in Platinum, ''and fucking how''. It's in the game's programming to continually stack the odds against you more and more the higher your win streak goes.
** Also if you're one of the few people who think the ability Sturdy is useless you might wanna eat those words when the computer starts [[OneHitKill OHKOing]] your Pokémon with Sheer Cold, Fissure, Guillotine, or Horn Drill.

** Also if you're one of the few people who think the ability Sturdy is useless you might wanna eat those words when the computer starts [[OneHitKill OHKOing]] your Pokémon with Sheer Cold, Fissure, or Horn Drill.

Being a Pokémon game, a [[UpdatedRerelease third version titled]] ''[[UpdatedRerelease Platinum]]'' came out a couple years down the line. ''Platinum'' tweaked the storyline a bit, adding more characters, remodeling several Gyms, and naturally including new challenges for players.

[[Characters/{{Ptitle6ta6tjtj}} Has a character sheet]].

* SidetrackedByTheGoldenSaucer: As with every other game in the series, there's a casino. And whenever that happens you end up spending hours on end trying to get the grand prize.
** The elusive Feebas, a major cause of people getting sidetracked, is in the basement of Mt. Coronet, which also happens to be where Cyrus plans to unleash Palkia and/or Dialga on Sinnoh. Don't worry, Team Galactic will wait until after you're done hunting down a rare fish before they try to destroy the world.

** {{Justified}} since your Poké Balls are in a bag, and possibly they don't allow you to speak up about it in their rush.