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Ahead of the Pokémon Legends: Arceus launch in Jan 2022, Nintendo has appear an upcoming Modern Team Galactic outfit available to players who played the Pokémon Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl. The inclusion of the Team Galactic outfit adds more than connections to Arceus' setting, Hisui, earlier it after becomes the Sinnoh region.

The Modern Team Galacti outfit will be available to whatever player who has saved data of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl on their Nintendo Switch. These games are remastered versions of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, released before Pokémon Legends: Arceus. Should you not have any save data of these games on your Nintendo Switch, you will not be able to add together them to your trainer's appearance collection.

Having this salvage data also comes with the chance to capture Darkrai, a mythical Pokémon that appears during Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.

While calculation the outfit set and Darkrai are non required to complete Pokémon Legends: Arceus story, they add more connections to the ancient Hisui region and Sinnoh. The other, story-related connexion is the Diamond and Pearl Clans that players meet during the story, led by Adaman and Irida, respectively, forth with the fact players volition exist a part of the Galaxy Team, which may hint to why they take access to the Galaxy Team outfit as an optional advent.

How the Diamond, Pearl Clans, and the Milky way Squad connect to their modern roots from Pokémon Diamond and Peral remain a mystery, if any at all. We know diverse characters will be ancestors of ones nosotros've already met, such as Commander Kamado, leader of the Galaxy Association, who is the antecedent of Professor Rowan. But players will be interacting with the Diamond and Pearl clans to larn more about the Noble Pokémon they protect, potentially capturing these exclusive Pokémon during their travels, such as Kleavor.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus releases on January 22, 2022, for the Nintendo Switch.