>Game Corner>Gym>TR hideout >Department storeGreat place to beef up your team. I also like Goldenrod & Veilstone for similar reasons.
>>58780116>didn't get post game access to Celadon hotelWhy even live?
>>58780116Giving everybody in your team the elemental punches is probably the most satisfying moment in any pokemon playthrough
>>58780116>Goldenrod & Veilstonewhat about Lilycove?
>>58780116Veilstone sucks compared to Celadon and Goldenrod. GF fucked up gen 3 and 4 by splitting the "big city" into multiple citiesUnique theme: Slateport (gen 4 ones all have unique themes)Casino: Mauville, VeilstoneDepartment Store: Lilycove, VeilstoneCenter point: Mauville, Jubilife, HearthomeGen 1 split the big city into Celadon and Saffron but at least all the cool stuff is in Celadon. Gen 2 did it best by having it all in Goldenrod, which is close to the Route 36/Ecruteak center point
>>58780116Celadon always represented a huge turning point to me, it means you get Fly and free access to Saffron, and, in general, to the whole region. When i was a kid Rock Tunnel was the last wall before this
>>58780133Arriving in Goldenrod always makes me feel overwhelmed with stuff to do there, not much for Celadon
>>58780145Comes way later and the TMs aren’t as good as the ones in Mauville’s GC. Also no gym.>>58780148Nah I like Veilstone just as much as the other two. It had Galactic’s base, the last GC, Maylene’s gym, and the massage lady to boost friendship. Also has Porygon in Platinum & the outfit shop in BDSP. Having Jubilife be the “social” big city, Hearthome the Contest city, and Veilstone as the more miscellaneous is great. If they were just one big city the other two wouldn’t nearly as memorable.
>>58780148Goldenrod was originally the central hub too. The Magnet Train used to connect to Ecruteak and the Sea Route from Olivine used to connect to the western port of Goldenrod where the GTS is in the remakes. Cianwood didn't exist back then.
>>58780133That little bit of grass in the corner is weirdly charming
>>58780116>Heheh! This GYM is great! It's full of GIRLS!
>>58780150That was how the games were paced back then, the midpoint was always supposed to be when the game really opened up.
>>58780163It still was the central hub even without all that. Everything important that you’ll want to return to is in or right around Goldenrod. The Game Corner, Department Store, Radio Tower, Underground tunnel, and train station are all in Goldenrod. The daycare is to the south, and the National park to the north to.
everyone gives sabrina a hard time for doing nothing when the rockets invaded saffron, but sleepy erika didn't do a fucking thing to stop their game corner racket either
>>58780679Isn’t Crasher Wake the only Japanese based regional gym leader that does anything to combat the villain team? I can’t recall any of the other Kanto, Johto, Hoenn or Sinnoh leaders doing anything
>>58780717Half of kanto works with team rocket lol
>>58780718Only in one manga
>>58780116Celedon is awesome. Not to mention, free Eevee in RBY and remakes. Saffron is shit by comparison.
>>58780717Closest I can think of is Wallace opening up the Cave of Origin, but things are kinda out of Aqua and Magma’s hands by then.
>>58780735I hate the Viridian/Pewter/Saffron theme so much. Boring theme used too often.Celadon and Fuchsia/Cerulean should've swapped themes. Fuchsia/Cerulean theme is more energetic and fun, more fitting for a big casino city like Celadon.
