>>48965043Not really, given both Unova games have two pretty different Victory Roads. Unless your game has an exceptional Victory Road (which I don't think there even is one in the franchise, only losers like Gen 2's complete lack of trainers aside from a rival fight) that's automatically unfair.
>>48965060Structurally, the original BW has plenty of optional content. It doesn't let you do things out of order though, due to the way EXP scaling works it would just fuck up any level curve harder than Gen 2 or 1 already fuck it up. It's a lot more like Hoenn in that regard. That having been said, the optional content reaches similar parity with Gen 1 (I can link you my analysis on the archive if you want) which is more than I can say for a lot of Pokemon games. I guess it depends on what kind of exploration you want. I think Gen 2 would be better off with less of the out of order kind of exploration, but I'm really salty about the level curve even if it's not that big of a deal. On the other hand, if you took away one optional area in Gen 2 I'd gut you like a sheep.
