>>52529900>HGSS are rated so highly when it's full of shitmonsYou gotta understand that Gold and Silver were from a time when Pokemon was not a game about giving you all kinds of options all the time, they were rather adventure games where getting new tools is a reward for overcoming challenges or going out of your way to explore. They are not the types of games where you will have a completely new team every time you play them, because that's just not what Pokemon was back then.
And HG/SS did a great job at taking that old formula and modernizing it with (at the time) current mechanics. But if you start up a new file with the expectations to have a colourful team of 6 by the second arena, like modern Pokemon games allow you, you are going to be disappointed.
Also, while the games are not exactly hard, I disagree that they have no challenge, as Claire, Whitney and the Elite Four are all decently tough.
Kanto I agree could have buffed up the levels. The whole Kanto section is really just about showing you how far you have come (before Red stomps you back into the ground), and I agree it goes on a bit too long for that.
