let me break down into points for the 2 or 3 retards in the thread.
>level scaling is still bad in HGSS Its not. If you look at the trainer levels in Kanto you'd realize this is 100% fixed.
>but the wild pokemonLike in any other pokemon game you use trainer levels to keep up and if you do this you will have zero problems keeping up. If you think otherwise then you are literally bad or grasping at straws in the most retarded way possible. Multiple people have already stated this has not been a problem my starter was at level 60 or above by Blue and the rest of my mons were 1 or 2 levels behind it. Wild pokemon also do scale correctly, they are always about 10 levels behind the current content and that is the case even in the original gen 2.
>Red needs grindingRed is a postgame challenge, its like fighting upgraded Barry. Its not a challenge you are meant to do without grinding.
>the grinding options are shitRead this.
>>22993925Also learn to abuse your DS clock, I'm sure you did that for platinum.
>lack of the pokemon I wantHappens for someone in every single pokemon game. Johto doesn't feature ONE new pokemon per route it features several alongside the old ones. There were 100 new pokemon spread out amongst both regions you can easily make a team of 6 new pokemon with just Johtomons, your favorite pokemon not being there is just cheating in your argument.
>the villains and characters aren't fleshed outLets get one thing straight, the whole fleshed out characters shit started becoming a thing in platinum and HGSS improved upon that. Having this shit in newer games is only thanks to this nee direction. The way they did it for having these games be a remake and not changing the original content entirely it was fine and it was good. They gave Silver way more character and backstory, they explained what happened to Giovanni and even gave you a fight with him for closure, they give more personality to the main villains and the gym leaders.