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It all started off with a speculation, around the time of the FireRed and LeafGreen releases, that Johto would also get a remake like Kanto did.
As longing fans waited, time passed, and no remake.
So people started making hacks from the Generation 3 games, such as the infamous ShinyGold and LiquidCrystal.
More time passed, and we got into the Generation 4, into the hated and loved Sinnoh games.
After Diamond and Pearl, speculations intensed because back in Generation 3, FireRed and LeafGreen came out after the first two games, Ruby and Sapphire.
But instead, Sinnoh got it's third installment, Platinum, but the speculations continued.
Even some word of a DuskGold and DawnSilver surfaced, but in the end was proven fake.
Just as people were dropping the total idea of a remake and focusing on Generation 5, Pokemon sunday announced the games HeartGold and SoulSilver!
Major uproar was heard all over the Pokemon fan based websites. Speculations of what the game would be like were everywhere. This was one game I doubt anybody was giving a second thought about.
Everyday gave us another slither of news, such as the layout of specific cities, character sprites, even the tiles!
Than bigger news came, such as Kotone, or Lyra as she's called in the English Games, would be replacing Kris (Which some people still hate), and the fact that your Lead Pokemon would follow you.
After that, bigger pieces of info were leaked, such as new additions like the Pokeathalon and the Apricorn system.
But what I believe rocked the fan abse the most was the annoucement of the PokeWalker, truly somehting that made these games betetr than all the rest. You could actually walk outside, at school, in P.E class, around the house, absolutely anywhere, and you would gain Watts which could be put to getting items, Pokemon, new areas in the PokeWalker, etc.
With the release of HeartGold and SoulSilver in Japan, everyone in the world wanted their hands on these games, Japanese or not.
Lots of people got the games in Japan, but foreveryone else, they waited for the English release. That's when it got good.
Now we could finally understand what they had been saying the whole time when we watched those sneak peeks and screenshots.
I don't thin kanybody was dissapointed by the game in any way, shape or form.
It topped D/P/Pt tenfold, if not more. Thought it had to keep some of the things from those games, such as the WiFi games and the Accessories, most of it was changed, and changed for the better!
New music, new tiles, new sprites for the Kanto and Johto Pokemon, TOTAL new plot in the game, the actual difficulty of the Gym Leaders opposed to the old version, and so much more, it would take forever to list.
But my favorite part of the games was the actual fact of bonding with you Pokemon individually instead of having to hear their feelings from Dr. Footprints or Daisy. You could actually talk to them and hear what they were doing or feeling. It actually let me slow down and actually admire the game for what it really is, like it was in the anime. And with the PokeWalker, i get to take that feeling whereever I go, which pushes me to take the long way to class or walk home instead of take the bus. And it's already making me feel better.
So if you ask me, HeartGold and SoulSilver was way beyond the previous games by Pokemon. The fact that it brought a whole new feeling and nostalgia to the Pokemon franchise is unbelievable.
I would suggest this game to any Pokemon fan, even if they hated the old versions. Because this isn't just a remake of Gold and Silver to me.
It's an actual remake of the whole Pokemon games.
As longing fans waited, time passed, and no remake.
So people started making hacks from the Generation 3 games, such as the infamous ShinyGold and LiquidCrystal.
More time passed, and we got into the Generation 4, into the hated and loved Sinnoh games.
After Diamond and Pearl, speculations intensed because back in Generation 3, FireRed and LeafGreen came out after the first two games, Ruby and Sapphire.
But instead, Sinnoh got it's third installment, Platinum, but the speculations continued.
Even some word of a DuskGold and DawnSilver surfaced, but in the end was proven fake.
Just as people were dropping the total idea of a remake and focusing on Generation 5, Pokemon sunday announced the games HeartGold and SoulSilver!
Major uproar was heard all over the Pokemon fan based websites. Speculations of what the game would be like were everywhere. This was one game I doubt anybody was giving a second thought about.
Everyday gave us another slither of news, such as the layout of specific cities, character sprites, even the tiles!
Than bigger news came, such as Kotone, or Lyra as she's called in the English Games, would be replacing Kris (Which some people still hate), and the fact that your Lead Pokemon would follow you.
After that, bigger pieces of info were leaked, such as new additions like the Pokeathalon and the Apricorn system.
But what I believe rocked the fan abse the most was the annoucement of the PokeWalker, truly somehting that made these games betetr than all the rest. You could actually walk outside, at school, in P.E class, around the house, absolutely anywhere, and you would gain Watts which could be put to getting items, Pokemon, new areas in the PokeWalker, etc.
With the release of HeartGold and SoulSilver in Japan, everyone in the world wanted their hands on these games, Japanese or not.
Lots of people got the games in Japan, but foreveryone else, they waited for the English release. That's when it got good.
Now we could finally understand what they had been saying the whole time when we watched those sneak peeks and screenshots.
I don't thin kanybody was dissapointed by the game in any way, shape or form.
It topped D/P/Pt tenfold, if not more. Thought it had to keep some of the things from those games, such as the WiFi games and the Accessories, most of it was changed, and changed for the better!
New music, new tiles, new sprites for the Kanto and Johto Pokemon, TOTAL new plot in the game, the actual difficulty of the Gym Leaders opposed to the old version, and so much more, it would take forever to list.
But my favorite part of the games was the actual fact of bonding with you Pokemon individually instead of having to hear their feelings from Dr. Footprints or Daisy. You could actually talk to them and hear what they were doing or feeling. It actually let me slow down and actually admire the game for what it really is, like it was in the anime. And with the PokeWalker, i get to take that feeling whereever I go, which pushes me to take the long way to class or walk home instead of take the bus. And it's already making me feel better.
So if you ask me, HeartGold and SoulSilver was way beyond the previous games by Pokemon. The fact that it brought a whole new feeling and nostalgia to the Pokemon franchise is unbelievable.
I would suggest this game to any Pokemon fan, even if they hated the old versions. Because this isn't just a remake of Gold and Silver to me.
It's an actual remake of the whole Pokemon games.
