I played Pokémon Crystal for the first time recently! It was my first time going through Johto (and Kanto, but I haven’t actually gotten to doing it yet). I was able to observe a few things I liked and disliked about the region, so I’ll probably make a few posts in the next two weeks talking about them. It was actually a really fun experience overall though. It made me realize that no matter how far back you go in this franchise, you can still have a ton of fun.
For now though I’ll start with something (very) small that I like about Crystal:
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(Picture taken directly from my phone of my 3DS, please excuse the poor quality)
I like the different phrases they used to used for certain things happening. There’s something charming about 'SPCL.DEF went way up!' as opposed to 'Special Defense rose sharply!'. Another one is when a Pokémon is revived:
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(As opposed to '(X) recovered from fainting' of Scarlet and Violet).
There was also one more, when a Pokémon breaks out of confusion the message used is '(X) is confused no more!' which, I don’t know why but it sounds really cool to me (I didn’t manage to get a picture of that one though).
Expect a few more infrequent posts about Crystal/Johto cause it really is interesting how much I enjoyed it but also how much room for improvement there was. Thanks for reading!