>>50435367I'll be honest, when I played GSC as a kid and realized there was a Kanto map before the league, I was like "...Kanto again?"
I just wanted new content, and it was boring reexploring again even though navigating through Kanto was a puzzle. It wasn't fun especially because I thought you would be able to capture all Kanto Pokemon and finish the Pokedex, but no, you had to transfer them using RBY, you couldn't get the starters when seeing Oak, you couldn't get the fossils except Aerodactyl by trading a Chansey to some dude, no other legendaries, and there was no reason to explore except collecting badges to unlock an extra powerful trainer, which was completely overleveled even after defeating everyone in Kanto.
That postgame looked like an excuse for me in order to make you play the game longer.
Really, I was satisfied with just the main game, a game is not better because it has a crazy amount of content, but in this case, if the goal was to complete the whole dex, as it is the main quest of the series, it would have been fine.
Also the Battle Tower wasn't present in Gold/Silver but was present in Cristal, and wasn't even postgame content. I didn't find it appealing, it was just like a bonus challenge.
