>>33891732But gold and silver do feel lonelier and more uncanny than any of the post gen-2 games. I still like the later games and Pokémon, and of course they made significant improvements on gens 1 and 2, but as far as the in-game mood goes, I think there was a shift (for the worse) after gen 2.
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>>33891818 I think you can say that a lot of this mood has something to do with the graphical limitations of the Gameboy Colour. Older games with crappy graphics leave a lot more for you to fill in, and so the world isn't nearly as full-realized as it is in more graphically advanced games -- this creates a sort of inherent mysteriousness to these worlds, especially when it's paired with obscure lore.
