>>50934743hi I’m the retarded anon that keeps asking questions in every thread but never doing a run
except this time I actually did one
Played Crystal for the first time a few days ago, just beat it 2 days ago; used an emulator because I can’t find legit for a decent price (sub-50), but it was a fucking blast
Lots of old jank like the pc system and how you shift around moves, but it was still really enjoyable. No idea why they got rid of NPCs using berries as healing items more often than the battle tower or clever stuff like the pokegear’s radio being needed to wake up snorlax. That fight was rough btw, nearly lost half my team to it due to rollout
Johto’s still got lots of issues (Crystal specifically has way too many normal types, lots of which are absurdly rare for no good reason; geodude destroys the entire game; level curve is annoying for e4 and a snore in Kanto; fleeing Pokémon outside of the safari zone makes me want to tear my hair out; forcing you to stop for every call sucks ass, etc) but it has so much charm that I can look past them, and I loved stuff like the custom animations or a lot of daily events.
Played with a sort of casual ruleset- just standard rules with banned pokemarts, dupes/shiny clause, no breeding/trading and encounters were determined via RNGing encounter tables instead of first thing I see
Made for an extremely varied team that somehow pulled through- lots of deaths (8 total)- miraculously none at the league. Pic related is the team after sweeping Kanto
From top to bottom-
Feraligatr
Umbreon
Shiny Clefable (odd egg)
Golem (randomized to allow evolution)
Magneton
Dragonite (e-speed)
