.Ozymandias
Child of Time
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- Seen Mar 14, 2010
I adore the originals. Blue will always be my favourite, but I love all the features that came with D/P, so if I could blend them together, I'd love it.
Ah... good old metal generation. The colour Gen might have introduced the games, but the next gen introduced so many things that we take for granted nowadays - the steel and dark types, breeding, genders, hold items, day and night, etc. These games had the most oppurtunities for explorations too, with hidden rewards like Tyrogue deep in Union Cave (I didn't even realise you could get Tyrouge until about the fifth time I played it, so yeah, it also has the best replay value). It let you get 16 badges! It sorted out the ridiculous strength of the Psychic type (but further weakened the Poison type. Doh).
It had its drawbacks - slight over-reliance on old pokemon with new ones being a bit too rare. There were a couple of lame new pokemon (Quilfish, Dunsparce) and some wierd new evos (Scizor sucks to the high heavens, IMO). Then there was the ridiculoudly under-levelled Kanto region, even the gym leaders. But overall, Generation II for the win!