/vr/ - Retro Games

At this point I'm not sure if retron shill threads are legit shills or just an endless parody. Poe's Law in action.

The game was originally supposed to be an expansion pack of sorts.
Most of the Pokemon that you don't find until very late in the game or even in Kanto were actually slated to be in RGBY, but were cut due to lack of memory.
This is bourne out by the fact they can be traded back to RGBY with the Time Capsule under certain conditions, where they take the form of the Missingno variant that shares their deleted index number.
Heracross is broken as fuck, it's probably best he was hard to find.
The game was much larger, and they tried to stretch it out further by lowering levels. They really should have just bumped everyone's levels up instead, anyway.
The new types were pretty much exclusively to fix balance issues.

It wasn't "casualised", there were just a lot of poor concessions made to upscaling the game to degree it was expanded.
It was basically a second run at Gen 1, where they took everything they learned from developing RGBY and tried to improve upon it.