>>48641865DS was the first console I bought with my own money which I saved up, in secret because my shitty parents hated videogames. DP was the first pre-release season I followed, I remember checking every month to see the new Corocoro scnas with new info. I was so excited that when the Japanese release dropped, I bought a Japanese copy of Pearl from ebay and had to use Moneygram to send the money to the seller because I didn't have access to a credit card to pay for it. I learned rudimentary Japanese phrases and kana from the game and managed to beat it. After beating the game I remember reading about the E4 door surfing glitch, and I followed the instructions online to do it and get Darkrai and Shaymin from their event areas. Good times. Even though I have this sentimental attachment to DP, when I need my Sinnoh fix I play Platinum because it is just objectively better, which is why BDSP is useless to me, outside of being a shitty copy of the originals what does it have? It will never be able to replicate the feelings from being part of the hype and release of the original games.
