Given that it seems that we will be getting some Platinum content, as shown by the Platinum-exclusive Floroma NPC and the presence of Porygon-Z in the trailers, I'm wondering how much other Platinum content we'll get.
While I haven't played Diamond or Pearl all the way through given that I had Platinum first and preferred it outright, I understand that there were many semi-significant changes to the story and environment. I've heard that there were a few extra Galactic interactions, the gyms were in a different order, some new NPCS and side-quests were added, and etc. Also, the environment was changed for the better in Platinum, with areas like Stark Mountain being the most evident in this regard. I hope they will include the Platinum versions of these.
One thing I'm also curious about is how they'll handle the climax/postgame. Depending on how faithful the remakes are, they could do a delta episode-esque postgame based on Platinum content, which, along with the Neo-Galactic Heatran postgame added in Platinum could make for a MASSIVE postgame load. Alternatively, imagine a climax at spear pillar like in the sinnoh version of the adventures manga: Cyrus summons Dialga/Palkia, (depending on the version) and like in Platinum, Giratina shows up and interferes. Like in the manga, Giratina could capture both the respective box legend and Cyrus and take them to the distortion world, and you would go in with Cynthia like in Platinum, but this time, for example, you would have to defeat Cyrus and then Battle Giratina to defeat Dialga/Palkia or something of the sort. I'm not sure exactly how this would play out, but basically you would have to fight either of Cyrus or Giratina in order to get your chance to battle/catch the box legendary. That would be a very interesting twist on the spear pillar mission. Assuming any of this gets changed, how/when will you fight Giratina? Climax? Postgame distortion world mission? Altered form in turnback cave like in the original D/P?
It will be interesting to see, as well, how they handle any of the events. If it's faithful, will we go get to do the missions of battling shaymin and darkrai at their respective locations? Will we get a mission where if you collect all the plates and get the azure flute, then you can ascend to the hall of origin and fight arceus? Or, will all of these events get scrapped in favor of the new style of "Wifi distributions." Also, will they release any DLC like they did with sword and shield? Maybe they'll add the battle frontier and all its related content as an expansion. lol.
Overall, I'm definitely excited for these. I haven't touched Pokemon since I played moon, and I don't even care if they remove megas, Z moves, maxing, or etc because I've always found that stuff to be goofy. Platinum was my first, and is my favorite game, and I'm happy that the gen 4 remakes are on the way. If this game is what it appears to be: A faithful D/P remake with lots of Platinum content/features, and a different graphic style than the uncanny-valley-esque, tall, weird-moving, and etc characters from X/Y-onward, then there's not much more I would even ask for from this game. A modern Platinum that has all the newest quality-of-life changes. Sounds pretty good to me! Haha