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>most forgettable starters
>Johto gym leaders don't use Johto pokemon
>too many Johtomons locked behind Kanto
>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 Pokémon distribution
>useless babymons to pad dex count
>pathetic level curve
>strongest wild encounter is mid lv 30
>encountering lv 3-5s on your way to the 16th badge
>gym leaders/champ need hacked mons
>uninspired, linear map
>only 4 branching paths in the Johto map, the fewest of all games
>edgy fanfic-tier rival
>routes are decorated hallways, only one route has a reason to revisit
>cringe-tier Team Rocket plot
>killed pokemania
>gamefreak acknowledges that Gen 2 was the final cash in on the early craze
>left Tajiri in a state of depression
>created Kanto pandering
>worst selling 3rd version in history
>by far the most insecure and schizophrenic fanbase here
>put quantity over quality to satiate toddlers at the time
>doesn't make use of the GBC's full color pallet
>needed Kanto to keep genwunners buying in
>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 Pokémon Tower
>removed Kanto legendaries
>neutered Victory Road
>removed Seafoam Islands
>removed Power Plant
>neutered Viridian Forest
>neutered Cinnabar
>removed underground paths
>removed old Rocket hideout
>one of the games only exists to shill a movie
>only appeal is revisiting Gen 1
>failed its only appeal by neutering it which left genwunners disappointed
>poor implementations of new features
>completely invalidated by the remakes
>shallow attempt at open world
>only praise is buzzwords parroted by schizos that missed out on Gen 1
Just stop, Johturd. You're nothing more than a cancerous tumor attaching itself to West Kanto and Gen 1.
