>>28317989>You mean hasNo I mean had
The VC version changed encounter rates in places like Viridian Forest to make them less common.Doesn't change the fact that they're both the easiest games followed by Gen 2. Of course Gen 2 has that grind wall.
>It didn't give you any and figuring out what did what was the ENTIRE challenge of the game.There's a point where you have to realise that there's a difference between tedium and difficulty. Not explaining elements to the player isn't difficulty it's just forcing them to run around in circle needlessly.
>Going in knowing it all ahead of time obviously kills that.It certainly kills the exploration aspect and what not but everything else isn't an issue if you've ever played an RPG prior. Even with no prior experience with the game there's not much difficulty.
It's literally just being a child that made it feel difficult.
I would know, I'm old enough to have played the classic SNES RPGs that were actually hard and at first I didn't get what was so good about Pokemon because it was so simple then I dropped it until gen 3. 
