>>33506365Indeed, HGSS seems to be one of the most loved/shilled game of this board.
However...I disagree!
I will never understand how you can you enjoy it with all these underleveled trainers/wild encounters, poor gym leaders team, that bad distribution and these underwhelming villains.
Along with the fact that not all the crossgen evolutions are included in the main game, trainers included even when they're available. (Hello Pryce)
I kinda enjoyed it...until I quit the comfy Ecruteak City, where the game started to be too open and become a total mess.
In my opinion, a Pokemon game too open with the actual mechanics doesn't work, game design wise.
People are often quoting this message of Morimoto while praising this game:
>"In addition, as I mentioned a little earlier, we've been greedy in the amount of gameplay elements we've squeezed in there. There's so much included that I even had colleagues saying to me: "Are you sure you should be going this far with a remake?" In that sense, it's not simply a remake - I think it's more than that."Indeed, they added a lot of features compared to the originals...It does make the game better for a lot of people. (Not me)
Yet, this just sound like a red herring.
They fixed some mistakes, but not enough of them, they focused too much on the side things.
When alongside what I already said at the start of my post, there is disgusting blatant bad game design like:
>No Houndour in Johto.>Remoraid too late and so evolving directly at this point, when there was way other more early water places.>Teddiursa and Phanpy too late, when they were available early in Crystal.>Slugma evolving so late with such a shit BST>No Sneasel in Johto, not even in the Ice Path like Crystal.In the end, with all that said, some flaws must not bother that much others as they bother me.
I try to respect others opinions as I can, but with this, when I see things like "Game in which GF put genuine effort into" "Best Game", I just fucking can't.
