>>719592573
unbound

>>719592573
No, it's a objectively a bottom 5 game.
>too many johtomons locked behind kanto
>johto gym leaders don't use johto pokemon
>besides a few mons, the most competitively unviable of all gens
>most available johtomons have unappealing stats/learnsets even for a normal playthrough
>awful wild pokemon distribution
>pathetic level curve
>strongest wild encounter is mid lv 30
>encountering lv 3-5s on your way to the 16th badge
>uninspired, linear map
>only 4 branching paths in the johto map, the fewest of all games
>routes are decorated hallways, only one route has a reason to revisit
>cringe tier team rocket plot
>killed pokemania
>created kanto pandering
>by far the most insecure and schizophrenic fanbase here
>loved by reddit and shilled on /vp/ by discord group
>doesn't make use of the gbc's full color pallet
>half of the game is an afterthought to gen 1
>other half of the game is copy-pasted gutted down gen 1
>neutered Mt. Moon
>neutered Rock Tunnel
>removed Cerulean Cave
>removed Silph
>removed Pokemon Tower
>removed Kanto Legendaries
>neutered Victory Road
>removed Seafoam Islands
>removed Power Plant
>neutered Cinnabar
>removed undergrond
>removed old rocket hideout
>gave up on level progression and plot halfway through
>poor implementations of new features
>shallow attempt at open world
Johto is poorly designed dogshit and Crystal is easily gamefreak’s laziest singular release. Fixed fuckall flaws from the original GoySlop, added some little gay animated sprites, removed Mareep, and gutted half the Japanese exclusive content before localizing it (gs ball, online support, etc).
Shit games with trash pokemon in a boring region made up entirely of small linear grassy routes and unrewarding caves, full of underleveld Kanto mons from the first route to just before you’re fighting Red, awful encounter methods, horrible evo stone distribution. The only people who defend these trash games are fat balding troonlennials who played it when they were 3.

>>719592865
Bot lol

>>719592865
Nahh Lil gup typed all that :skull:
Just to be wrong :wiltingrose: