>>48443076To be fair, Crystal's "new content" was basically just guaranteeing you get one of the legendary beasts by catching the other two. If anything one of my few complaints about HGSS is that they basically shove Suicuine into Kanto for.... reasons? It drags out that whole questline all the way to fucking Fuschia almost and it's just not fun to have to backtrack for.
If you want to talk about what makes HGSS special, talk about shit like the safari zone coming back with a whole new route, all the new postgame content like returning legendaries that weren't in GSC and aren't called Suicune, the easier tracking of roamers with the Pokegear, the auto-run button, and following pokemon. Those are what make HGSS good, not whatever measly shit they scraped off of Crystal and shoved into the games. If they had adapted crystal content you would have had to catch the beasts to get ho-oh and no fucking thank you even with the easier method of tracking them.
Gamefreak literally only needed to make the game not run like shit and I was going to buy it, gen 4 was my favorite gen and seeing it in 3d with performance that doesn't chug and HP drain that is slow and inexcusable since the FUCKING RANDOMIZER CAN FIX IT MEANING IT IS LITERALLY A CODING ISSUE OF SOME KIND is more than enough for me to play. Plus, it's nice to finally play a pokemon game on a console again instead of a pc with an Xbox controller.
