Playing Gold
>The protagonist is canonically named Gold
>Ecruteak city
>Monst iconic Jhoto town, with the towers and all the autumn leaves and Ho-Oh being so important and the Kimono girls
>In the climax of the story go back to ecruteak and climb the tower you never had access to in the most iconic town
>Face the so much praised in legends legendary pokémon
>Crystal comes out
>Lore about ecruteak and the pokémon Ho-Oh revived gets expanded

Playing Silver
>Legendary pokémon is in shitholes MN whores forgettable caves in the middle of the fucking sea stinking of dead tentacools

Should Silver be retconned out of existance?

Pic related: Every fucking fan art and pokémon media pratically confirmed Gold's starter is cyndaquil, so that Silver's partner is totodile, and chikorita gets the shame it deserve