Early Game Tips For a New Play-through of Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl

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Published 2021-11-18
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl is a return to the 4th generation Sinnoh games and here's some early game tips and tricks for your playthrough!

0:00 Intro - Spoiler-Free Video
1:06 The Pokedex
1:47 The Grand Underground
2:53 Early Fire Types
3:37 The Starters & Shiny Locked
6:10 Objective Tracking & Trainers
7:26 Date Skipping
7:59 Options & Controls
9:47 Exp Share & The Level Curve
11:45 TMs & HMs
14:27 Important Locations

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All Comments (21)
  • @MartyAraragi
    "You can finally complete the Pokedex without having to trade with friends!" Me: Oh thank God 😭😭😭
  • @matto.5102
    Did anyone else catch “Paraliseus” when he was trying to say Paralysis? I’m totally stealing this nickname for one of my electric types. Thanks AJP!
  • @voguefurret
    Fun fact: Empoleon and Torterra are the only starters with a unique type combination as of current
  • @martinneween
    The fact that they show us what to do next is so helpful for those who don’t play the game in like 2 days and forget where they are kudos to pokemkn
  • @SweetAshori
    Austin John: Don't change the clock. Me, still playing ACNH and going through major island re-designing processes: internally screaming
  • @francisco2759
    I like how he doesn't remove some mistakes and just repeats himself
  • @traviswreynolds
    I think I'm going to wait until pokehome is available. I have a Gengar from the original DP games that was essential in defeating cynthia's spiritomb. Now I have bred her until I have a shiny ghastly and I want to take her daughter through the remakes. Edit: thanks all for the kind words
  • @sadast1778
    I started playing 2 hours ago. I was thinking about shiny farm chimchar but i Couldn't be bothered. When the 2 starlys attacked me i choosed chimchar and woops shiny. Never been so lucky ever in Pokémon first try 5min after realese
  • @eesanadeem3523
    This man is literally on fire. Just finished the manaphy video and there is already another one.
  • @Dusxio
    SWSH had the friendship effect as well, with the focus sash and shaking off conditions. Seems to just be the modern style of showing friendship benefits aside from just return.
  • @Hamidmahdi
    This is the first overall positive review I’ve seen for BDSP on YouTube and it’s so refreshing. A lot of the other YouTubers, even when they were giving helpful hints, would give side comments about how they wish the game was more this than that or just complain about the game isn’t faithful to Platinum even though Diamond and Pearl are the original games. But this review has got me psyched about playing it today (in South Korea and my copy arrives today).
  • @Dr_McKauchner
    This is the best time of every year or so. When Austin gets active at a new release time. The content is just so straight forward. Any Pokemon YouTubers take notes
  • @deloen
    So glad these games are finally here, I'll be watching all the guides until I get my copy tomorrow
  • @knowhatnot347
    Pokémon: Gotta Catch Em’ All! Bdsp’s National Dex: What if I told you everything you’ve ever known was a lie.
  • So satisfying! You answered most of the burning questions about these games that were driving me crazy! Thank you! I feel relieved. However I need to wait for mine to come in the mail still, So I'll have to be patient. So many important questions quickly and directly answered! Thank you again!
  • @wolfegaming36
    Thanks for making the early stuff spoiler free! I'm clicking the notifications as soon as I see them come up to support because I really appreciate that.
  • @bl3ckc4t
    I need to correct something you could get Ponyta BEFOR the second gym, east in front the entrance to mt. coronet is a big patch of gras in the original diamond and perl where you could get said Ponyta it´s just at lvl 13 (route 211)
  • @ragingraichu219
    "Don't change the clock" Me, a time traveling Animal Crossing player: Oof...
  • @robertdoughlin
    Exp Share needs to be a toggle option.... at least by means of patching. Especially when dealing with mixed teams that can really damper the EV grinds. Although I understand that casuals may not care or even are against this idea, however I can say that I'm certainly not the only one who's had this mindset since swsh.
  • @tamahiro7343
    Have to completely re-evaluate my team originally was gonna go with: Empoleon, Drifblim, Rampardos, Toxicroak, Tangrowth and Mamoswine. Found out now that Tangrwoth is post game only, Drifblim didn't get better flying moves like I hoped and the 212 move tutor isn't the much better Platinum one so Rampardos can't get Fire Punch or Thunder Punch