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I know it's been beaten over the head by everyone ever but, BDSP, by far:
It is 1:1 faithful in all the worst ways possible. Even down to bugs and grammatical mistakes in Cyrus' dialog
Nearly 15 years since the originals released, and we still haven't tossed out the miserable limited time events, including the Platinum outfit, which is the only outfit worth wearing
Exp. Share permanently baked in, but none of the trainers besides the E4 were touched in any way.
No National Dex despite by this point, all of the Pokemon would have been capable of doing such; no patch for Hisuian Pokemon, what's the point?
Chibi art style that can't even do the Link's Awakening aesthetic properly
DS Sounds audio quality sounds like they put a camera up to a DS and called it a day; I've actively compared Platinum's quality with BDSP's via AKGs, and Platinum sounds way clearer
Bandaid solution to HMs making all of the unchanged field items totally unrewarding, replacing any player agency with the same basic slave Pokemon without even properly nodding to Pokemon Ranger
Literally all Platinum QoL such as the back button on the Poketch completely removed
Pissugly art style makes all models look bland and flat
Shiny Charm only working on eggs
The effort disparity for the same Battle Tower Ribbon between SwSh and BDSP; fucking why?
Contests are unreasonably hard for the Twinkling Star Ribbon
Contest in general totally disgraced, but at least they're not as mind-numbingly slow
No Battle Frontier. More will always be better than less, fuck off
TMs becoming single use again without making them easier to obtain like SwSh did to accommodate TRs
The whole HOME connectivity issue because they built the game in a different coding language
GWS delays
Turning Secret Bases into glorified trophy cabinets despite the "m-muh faithful!" angle
Follower Pokemon totally ruined
Forced affection bonuses
I could keep going, but you get the point. These games have no business being this roadkill
