/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5740942
The worst parts about Gen2 was adding way too many HMs so your party of 6 pokemon suddenly becomes 5 pokemon plus the HM whore. This shitty as fuck trend continued for generations and ruined every single water starter as most HMs are water based.
Also the special split was done haphazardly with little concern for balance. Certain pokemon like Gyarados and and Totodile are worthless because of their inability to use good moves. It needed to be done but it wasn't truly fixed until gen4.
The fix to crit chance was something that was also needed but it ended up doing more harm than good. Bread and butter moves like Razor Leaf went from slightly OP to straight trash. Totodile could have been good if he was allowed to use the broken Slash move like Charizard before him, instead its hugely underwhelming.

From what I understand much of Gen2 was planned for Gen1 but a combination of spaghetti code and production issues lead to much of it getting cut and later re-used for the sequel. What made gen1 great was a messy accident. Nothing was done with any real consideration or foresight into the consequences.

>>5176038
It's a sidescrolling 2D cutesy/kiddy game released on a system with a wide plethora of games that also fit that description during a console generation where they more or less dominated the market, and was Japan only to boot.
Don't worry though, it's a great game and probably has a huge amount of youtubers who will call it a hidden gem thus increasing demand and making physical copies grow in price.