Milesverse Crystal is Complete!!

I have completed my Pokemon Crystal playthrough!! Hooray!! Thank you everyone who read my silly little liveblog! I hope you enjoy Milesverse Emerald once I finish the intro post for it :D

For fun here's my silly little mini review of Pokemon Crystal :D

While I did still like it and Crystal is objectively better than Yellow I find myself enjoying the original games more than gen 2. The game is impressive visually for the Gameboy Color. The sprites look great and I LOVE the little animations the pokemon do when they're sent out. I'll miss seeing Sparky the pikachu wave at me when I open her status screen when I play Emerald...

Though while it looks better and isn't a glitchy mess like gen 1, gen 2 doesn't surpass gen 1 in any other way to me. Gen 2 is a sequel to rgby to a fault. This leads Johto feeling like West Kanto instead of it's own region with it's own pokemon. Many new pokemon are exclusisive to the Kanto postgame as well making them more Kanto pokemon than Johto pokemon.

Also the story is somehow more nonexistant than it was in rgby. Team Rocket are just kinda there honestly and don't really have any goals. Team Rocket not really having a "boss" also makes them seem like less of a threat and more like a neusance with underleveled pokemon that you have to fight fifty grunt of to get the next badge.

Silver while I like him, I don't really like him for anything in canon. He has his character arc offscreen making his growth seemed forced and out of nowhere. I think him having his path to redemption happen before the post game would work much better. Also something something pokespe Silver sweep.

The level scaling is god awful. The mid section of Johto is severly underleveled, then there's a sudden spike in levels for the elite four, then kanto is extremely underleveled, then blue is leveled correctly, then Red IS IN THE FUCKING 80s. My wrist hurt like hell grinding for that fight god damn.

It was still fun since it was pokemon but pikachu doesn't follow you around anymore 0/10 (it's more like a 7 idk)