 well um yeah sorry i know normally i have videos out in the morning i had an extremely busy day at work and there's a ton of news so we're just gonna jump right into it with a bunch of pokemon news including release dates for pokemon legends arceus oh boy things are heating up here in the world of nintendo all right we're not gonna sit here and make you wait a whole much longer we have some stuff to talk about we got box art for brilliant diamond and shiny pearl announcement of a dual pack which isn't surprising they did the same thing with sword and shield and yeah we'll be talking about pokemon legends arceus and the box art for that release dates everything so let's get into the recap here we have a bunch of stuff and then we'll kind of revisit something samus hunter has previously said about these pokemon games and what's going on and why today was a bit of a surprise since people were expecting this to be announced in a pokemon presents and this makes you wonder are we not going to get a pokemon presents that's something we have to start thinking about so it says the pokemon company has announced the official release dates for pokemon brilliant diamond and shiny pearl and pokemon legends arceus brilliant diamond and shiny pearl remakes of the original diamond and pearl on nintendo ds will launch on november 19th so just before black friday not a surprise uh pokemon legends arceus will follow very shortly after really shortly after on the 28th of january 2022 uh yeah legends arceus is obviously a completely new take on the series has an a vast open world version of syno and as we know uh it is now a prequel to diamond and pearl coming out after diamond and pearl but you know whatever uh yeah that's uh really really exciting stuff um i'm i gotta say i'm pretty stoked in general uh for pokemon legends arceus i don't know if it's going to be all it's cracked up to be and i know there were some people doubting it was even going to release in early 2022 well it's not just releasing in early 2022 it's basically releasing as early as it possibly can by coming out in january this does make me wonder when the heck breath of the wild's coming could it also release in november with diamond and pearl is it going to be a march release now two months after are they going to wait till after legends arceus comes out is it going to be an october release a december i have no idea right and that's assuming we're even getting it in the next year nintendo has not given us a release day for it but let's go back to the pokemon so we got some box arts as well uh up on the screen right now you can see boxers for pokemon brilliant diamond and shining pearl and i gotta say um they're kind of stock standard box arts it kind of looks like something in my opinion a fan could create but it looks nice the color contrast is nice you got the kind of blue and sort of the pinkish style going on with the contrasting you know diamond and pearl the logo is obviously rating pending i mean it looks nice it's nothing that you know rocks my world but they typically don't rock your world when it comes to pokemon box art it's pretty stock standard stuff where they feature like a legendary pokemon and all that so yeah it looks nice uh what's interesting obviously is the box art for pokemon legends arceus because the box of our pokemon legends arceus as you're seeing right now uh is it's kind of like fan art right it's it's not like an arrender or anything it almost looks like the animated series you know it's very interesting that they went with this style box or you got the the giant mountain volcano thing in the background obviously in the foreground you got some pokemon obviously you guys can maybe uh you know recognize citadel and citiquel i don't know i'm not very good with my pokemon names obviously pikachu and some others there as well uh it's very interesting to see this obviously you have the the the male and female dynamic because you could choose either or uh in pokemon games i'm very um i'm at this point with this game coming out right it's coming out in seven months we're seven months away from pokemon legends arceus i'm very curious you know gameplay wise last time we saw the game it was exciting it was promising but it also looked a little bit rough especially with the frame rate it really the thing it was chugging a bit now that doesn't mean that that's not some early alpha build that's going to be all ironed out by beta let alone going gold but obviously we've never seen the game this ambitious from great game freak and they have put a lot of development time supposedly three years of development time i have heard in the pokemon legends arceus so we're gonna have to wait and see what this game ends up becoming uh if it ends up being everything that's cracked up to be we've heard things about how they are trying to uh make this a big deal make this their breath of the wild uh one other thing that's really cool about all of this is they are also releasing a what they call a double pack i don't see a price listing for it just yet um you know maybe it's going to be a hundred dollars so you could save 20 bucks maybe it's just going to be 120 bucks since both in one box um i i don't know uh and there was also a small update for pokemon home uh so the mobile version of pokemon home is receiving a welcome update next month that will add new features and reward players with two special pokemon firstly a new catch calendar feature will allow you to view your pokemon arranged by the dates in which you caught them the idea here is you'll be able to track them uh when you caught your very first pokemon right up to the day you finally grab the biggest baddest legendary around it's also that you set special dates like anniversaries your birthday and the day you first met your favorite pokemon it'll also update the pokedex functionality inside the app after installing the update you'll be able to view pokemon from different angles giving you a better look at each and every monster in your collection as for special pokemon well the new update also brings with it a Bulbasaur and a Squirtle both of which can be transferred to your copy of pokemon sword or shield and both which can gain uh gigantamax when fully evolved if you're already uh got the special gigantamax charmander from leon in game you'll soon have that full set from the original uh games no specific date has been provided for the update but june's obviously coming up and we're probably gonna still get a pokemon event because we didn't see gameplay so a pokemon presents is likely i just find it interesting that before a pokemon event before e3 when they're gonna clearly show gameplay of these games that we're not like you know they're they're dropping release dates that's what i find funny this is how they chose to drop release dates and information pokemon home obviously uh being one of those things that you know you can get on your phone what's what's cool here is um samus hunter uh went out and responded to all of this uh because she's been teasing some of these updates the release dates all that jazz um you know and she goes as i said there are several updates planned for already release titles uh this is in regards to pokemon home uh they seem to be revealing several pieces of information in advance however uh they're still missing key details such as trailers and information on update dates which again that's something that i feel like is going to come into pokemon presents i'm still on the train we're getting a pokemon presents despite this information coming up today um what's also um is they is they stayed with the original period set for diamond and pearl when it first came out um and it said this announcement was actually unexpected even by samus hunter uh but she's going to try in the next couple of days to find out more updated information on the business plans for the pokemon company because she does know the pokemon company operates independently of nintendo uh so it's really hard for her to get information specifically uh in regards to that but um she did mention all the stuff that we were going to get updates on pokemon before e3 and we did this isn't the way she thought we were going to get it she thought it'd be a pokemon presents but whatever i still expect a pokemon presents and i think for the most part uh you guys kind of expect one as well so honestly i'm going to throw this up to you guys i got so many other news videos i want to get to before our podcast tonight at eight p.m uh future rule of two review uh we got a lot to talk about clearly this has been already a very busy week so we got a ton to talk about but i want to throw it to you guys what are your thoughts on these release dates are you planning on picking up brilliant diamond shining pearl are you planning on picking up pokemon legends arceus are you planning to pick up all three of the games uh what are your plans for pokemon do you use pokemon home are you excited about that pokemon home update are you sorting shield fans that would like to get squirtle uh and volvosaur through there and get the gigantic max forms and all that you guys let me know i'm not big into pokemon as of yet but pokemon legends arceus has me interested that could be the game that brings my pokemon fandom from gen one and gen two full circle again so i'm pretty excited for that one i just need to see more footage so thank you guys so much for tuning in i am with andrew robidance from nintendo prime and i got to move on to the next video so i'll catch you guys in the next one