Lost Pokémon Diamond & Pearl Documentary Reveals More than 100 Scrapped Pokémon Designs
The 43-minute Japanese film, archived from a legitimate DVD copy, shows scrapped Pokémon art, early designs and in-development game footage.
- On Wednesday, a recovered Game Freak internal documentary for Pokémon Diamond and Pearl surfaced online, revealing over 100 never-before-seen Pokémon designs from the Nintendo DS games' development.
- Originally produced for Game Freak staff in 2004, the film documented the creation of the Sinnoh region and remained private for nearly 20 years, known only through a 2007 blog post by director Junichi Masuda.
- The footage reveals several scrapped concepts, including early versions of Turtwig and Piplup, a Santa Claus-inspired Delibird evolution, and a Lapras pre-evolution among the discoveries.
- Popular Pokémon YouTuber Lewtwo archived the 56-minute video on his channel and the Internet Archive on Wednesday, planning a full English translation and stating, "Sinnoh will never be the same."
- While Game Freak guards its design process with secrecy, this recovery offers historians a unique view of Pokémon development, with some scrapped designs hinting at creatures that may eventually appear in future titles.
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Never-Before-Seen Pokémon Starters Found in Lost Diamond and Pearl Documentary
Several never-before-seen Pokémon starters have surfaced online after a lost making-of documentary for Pokémon Diamond and Pearl was recently recovered. The rare footage has revealed over 120 unused Pokémon designs for the first time in 20 years, including a Lapras pre-evolution and a Santa Claus-inspired Delibird evolution. New Pokémon Starters Are Revealed for the First […] The post Never-Before-Seen Pokémon Starters Found in Lost Diamond and …
A never-before-seen before Pokémon Diamond and Pearl documentary reveals early Pokémon designs
A never-before-seen documentary for a 20-year-old Pokémon game has been archived, revealing old designs for that generation. Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: Behind the Scenes DVD — MAKE ALL was a documentary produced internally by GAME FREAK, Pokémon’s game studio, that documented the two-year development of the 2006 Nintendo DS game, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. The documentary was never released to the public until today, thanks to the work of Pokémo…
Rare Pokémon Diamond and Pearl ‘Making Of’ DVD gets uploaded to Internet Archive
In the same week that gifted us a treasure trove of past E3 material, some random internet heroes have uploaded a rare Pokémon Diamond and Pearl “Making Of” DVD to the Internet Archive for fans to browse. Never released publicly, this DVD chronicles the two-year-long development of the first DS entries and includes a metric ton of beta designs and scrapped Pokémon concepts. A rather long video by Lewtwo, one of the people responsible for discove…
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