One thing that makes me laugh everytime they release a new pokémon game:
The games look so good in the commercials, but when you buy it, and play it, you think/say that´s not as good I imagined...
I´m really dissapointed with this new generation of pokémon (for me the best generation of pokémon was the G/S/C one), the ruby/sapphire one was OK, but this one...
Starting with the new pokémon design, some are really cool (Dialga, Lucario, Empoleon, etc, IMO of course)
Others looks like they were drawn by a 3 years old kid...
Do I need to say something about these?
About the games:
Diamond & Pearl were much better than the previous versions, but
was really worse than other RPGs for the same system (Final Fantasy III, for example).
Also, most of the 3D shown in it could be done in a GameBoy Advance (yes there are 3D games for the GBA), and don´t forget that a nintendo DS has more processing power than a Nintendo 64.
Same standard story of the previous games: catch´em all, beat the evil organization and the E4, and become the champion...
PBR, has a better battle system than the Game Cube one, however I get the terrible feeling that they rushed too much to release this game (because every pokémon game is rushed XD, time is money, you know), you see, if they had waited and worked a little more to release this game (like they are doing with Mario Galaxy) it would be at last 10 times better than what we got.
I´m really dissapointed with this one, when I watched the first video preview I said: "Wow... This will be the ultimate pokémon game!" Of couse, back then I thought PBR had a Story line, Mini-games, and due to the fact that Fr/Lg characters were shown in the first preview, I thought: "Cool, is backward compatible with the old games!"
But when I searched for more information I found the sad truth.
PBR still had some 3D models from Stadium, it don´t have a Story Mode, no mini-games, the arena desctruction was not there aswell...
About the anime:
Well, it´s going downhill...
First because it´s still focusing in imaturity plots, the anime never changes, the same main character for 10 years! And to make it worse, the main character is still 11 years old after 10 years of anime! XD
They should try to make it a little more mature, like they did with digimon in their new season: Savers. (I love it)
Although Pokémon is not as popular as it was back in 1999, I´m still a fan, but only a fan of the concept (cool creatures that fight, etc).
I found much better games to play, and much better animes to watch, but I wish pokémon games and anime were in the place of the others I´m talking about.
Pokémon has potential, that´s not being used IMO, I really don´t know how pokémon is standing still...