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>planned reveal date was 28 September in a Pokémon Direct which would showcase the last DLC for Sword and Shield and a new spin-off, but due to the ongoing pandemic and restrictions and the subsequent delays, these reveal was pushed back to early January
>For the first time, two devs were developing the remakes, namely Unno and Takahashi, the latter playing the main role, with Unno taking a more advisory stance within the dev team. Ohmori and Masuda are overseeing these games.
>Game is being handled like some sort of successor of Let's Go, with more unpopular features such as the catching system removed in favour of the old one, to not scare off those who grew up with the DS games, who are the main target audience for these games.
>Original 493 return, with another hundred from later generations being implemented
>Story and Sinnoh itself aren't heavily altered and are pretty much directly imported from Diamond and Pearl, although the general gym and plot structure was copied from Platinum, so that the popular Looker can return and to tie in the new Dynamax mechanic
>Only limited amount of new Gigantamax forms: Starters, Cover Trio, popular pokemon such as Luxray, Garchomp, Honchcrow, Spiritomb, Milotic. Dynamaxing ring is given to the player after the fourth gym, although no major character will use it besides Cyrus and Cynthia.
>Post-game facilities of Diamond and Pearl (not Platinum) are brought back. Post-game story revolves around rogue gigantamax Giratina terrorising Sinnoh. Player can catch Arceus to bring an end to that.
>Intended release date of the game not set in stone, but the time window between August and October 2021 is intended to be hit by the dev team
