>>55410946>GSC have a completely different visual style to HGSS, same with the music.A worse one, yes. 8 bit only appeals to nostalgia blinded retards.
>The Pokemon battles are also significantly faster But every single other battle mechanic is objectively more shallow. Shitty movepools, bad mon variety, bad held items, worse items overall, it was just worse.
>you don't have shitty HMs like Rock Climb and Rock Smash bloating up your movepools.Except you do, Rock Smash was an HM in gen 2 and you still need whirlpool, surf, waterfall, strength, etc.
>You also don't have to worry about natures or abilities in GSC Which, again, makes the battle system more shallow (though in a casual playthrough you don't have to worry about those things either, and compshitters don't get rights or opinions).
>obviously movesets are going to look completely different because the physical/special split hadn't happened yet.Completely worse, feraligatr is objectively the worst pick because it's a physical attacker that only knows special moves (and has a shitty movepool on top of that), and HGSS fix that along with several other pokemon.
>You can argue about what's an improvement and what isn't but they're fundamentally different experiencesHGSS is objectively a better experience. Stat XP is a shitty system.
>and that tends to always be the case with any remake, not just Pokemon.Yes, the remake is (usually) the better experience.
>Hell with HGSS in particular it's literally a game where the story kind of lampshades its status as a remake constantlyIt's the exact same story as GSC.
>so I'd never recommend it as someone's first experience of Johto for that aloneI absolutely would, because gens 1 and 2 are just janky dogshit versions of the remakes at this point. FRLG > HGSS > ORAS > BDSP or Platinum then don't play anything else because it's shit.
