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Pokémon: Shining Pearl

» System: Switch » Buy it from: Online, retail » Buy it for: £49.99

This game, and its counterpart, don’t quite do that – while you’ll find things largely as they were on the DS in 2006, and games from a couple of years ago. Instead, the original layout of the game has been largely preserved and the overhead view is back, with a new, very cutesy art style replacing the awkward mixture of sprites and polygons from the originals.

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