>>34824527Gen 2 was a closed game.
It wasn't hilariously bloated with useless garbage like nu-gens. Instead of spending time modeling 800 pokemon, 1000 moves, cramming a bunch of old key items in a town and spending time on useless features, they actually spent time building the world.
Gen 2's world is more explorable than anything that came after gen 4. And it's just a colorful GB game.
Speaking of colors, they used bright colors for everything because the GBC didn't have internal lighting. Humans naturally like colorful things. It also made a nice contrast between day and night.
We'll never get the comfy gen 2 again, but they could go the Dragon Quest way and make an old school 2D version of the game that you can switch to.