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6/29/2025, 2:37:40 AM
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Crystal original in all cases for the series' peak soul and gameplay experience, but if you've played a pokemon before or are coming back from when you were 7, play a romhack like polishedcrystal that ups the soul even harder: it changes as little as possible (or makes the stuff they do change optional) but in doing so makes a half dozen very small quality of life fixes, very light content additions, and freshening up's you'll appreciate as a returning player, pic related.
The problem with default Johto in both versions is that even though it's the peak series roster and best region design, its level curve is horrifically fucked, so after you fight a busted early game miltank on a gym leader that's massively overtuned, you won't run into another challenge till the final 15 minutes of the entire game and are mostly going to be bored. Trainers are universally too weak, and refighting trainers is lame because they never really meaningfully progress. The romhack fixes this.
Additionally, despite including Kanto, both have INSANELY weak post-games until the last 15 minute, because they didn't do the work to make the second half of the game an actual game: it was something they threw in because they could, and the HGSS remake doesn't really fix this.
Crystal original in all cases for the series' peak soul and gameplay experience, but if you've played a pokemon before or are coming back from when you were 7, play a romhack like polishedcrystal that ups the soul even harder: it changes as little as possible (or makes the stuff they do change optional) but in doing so makes a half dozen very small quality of life fixes, very light content additions, and freshening up's you'll appreciate as a returning player, pic related.
The problem with default Johto in both versions is that even though it's the peak series roster and best region design, its level curve is horrifically fucked, so after you fight a busted early game miltank on a gym leader that's massively overtuned, you won't run into another challenge till the final 15 minutes of the entire game and are mostly going to be bored. Trainers are universally too weak, and refighting trainers is lame because they never really meaningfully progress. The romhack fixes this.
Additionally, despite including Kanto, both have INSANELY weak post-games until the last 15 minute, because they didn't do the work to make the second half of the game an actual game: it was something they threw in because they could, and the HGSS remake doesn't really fix this.
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