>>46586291I was very disappointed that they didn't fix the level curve issue. It's not hard to do, considering romhacks of HGSS go ahead and fix it themselves.
why the FUCK am I encountering pokemon in victory fucking road at a MAX level of 32? And even that I wouldn't have an issue with if they implemented the Vs. Seeker from FRLG/DPP, so at least you could just rebattle trainers as you need for quicker experience grinding. But no, they stuck to exclusively using the annoying phone system, where you just have to fuck around and hope that Joey calls you for a rematch with his rat.
Because of this, you're basically forced to pick a team early on and stick with them. If you ever want to ditch anything and find a new pokemon to use for your team, you're fucked, because the wild pokemon are so much lower leveled than you need, and there are no higher level wild pokemon or reliable trainer rematches to get them up to snuff. So you just don't pick new pokemon and tough it out with the ones you found early on. Hence why johto teams often look so similar.
