/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9620563
They're not all winners, but there's plenty of good ones, and there's some weaker ones in Gen 1 as well. Babymons were kind of a dubious gimmick for the games themselves, essentially an extended stage of the egg, but it was some neat detail, and added some more content to the Pokédex.
They were obviously strongly motivated by merchandising, and maybe expanding their girl demographic a bit (even though Pokémon seemed like it was quite popular with girls already), but they seemed to have not given Babymons much more focus after Gen 2, maybe it didn't have the in game function or market effect they were hoping for.

Misdreavus is 200% perfect though, hence the Pokédex number. Adorable and mischievous ghost who's obnoxious to catch but fun to fight with.

>>9620517
Maybe some did, but I think it was very obvious with how Pokémon took off like a rocket in Japan, and then every other market they introduced it to, the game and merchandising was a giga phenomenon. The writing was on the wall well before Gen 2 was even released.

>>9620581
They definitely put in a lot of features just because they thought it would be cool to show off, and to make it come off as more advanced, not maybe thinking as much about implementation as they should have. The day and night cycle I think was worth implementing just on the visual side, it adds atmosphere and makes the world feel more alive, nocturnal Pokémon added more of a point to it, maybe in a tedious way, but not so badly that it hurt the game.
For the added HMs, I would say that it got to the point of bloat, yeah.

>>7812897
They're pretty late on in the game. They're also kind of a goddamn bitch to catch, because of Perish Song. At least they were when I captured one in Gen 5, where they appear wild at around Lv. 40 or higher, I don't remember if I ever even caught one back in Gen 2, that was long as fuck ago.

Worth the trouble though.

>>4810823
>fire tiger thing
>baby Vulpix
>baby Tangela
>anchor shark/"Grotesque" line
>twin ghost thing
>baby Meowth
>baby Ponyta
>baby Growlithe
>fire sea lion
>electric tiger thing
>voodoo doll and derpy jumping vampire panda
I like all of these.

>used condom Ditto
>spurdo Porygon 2
>a somehow worse evolution of Lickitung than what we actually ended up getting
>all these less good looking versions of existing shit
>no Misdreavus
I hate it.

>>4811331
I got Octillery, but I never really felt that Remoraid looked much like a gun, the beta sprite definitely conveys that more.

>>4812125
>No misdreavus
Biggest crime of all, IMO.