Pokemon Gold/SilverGreyfeld
I think anything with "Pokemon" in the title should be under a 9 automatically before even reviewing it. Every title is the same crap, just with new trainers, in a new area. It reminds me of Madden, honestly.
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Here, read this:
"While Pokémon Gold and Silver retain the basic mechanics of capturing, battling, and evolving introduced in Pokémon Red and Blue, new features were added. A time system was introduced using a real-time internal clock that keeps track of the current time and day of the week. Certain events, including Pokémon appearances, are influenced by this feature. New items were added, with some designed to exploit a new mechanic: Pokémon being able to hold items. A new type of item able to be held was the berry, which comes in varieties and can restore health or cure status effects. Other held items can give boosts to the Pokémon during battle. More specialized Poké Balls were introduced, which make Pokémon catching easier in certain situations. A new item called the Pokégearwas introduced, functioning as a watch, map, radio, and phone, allowing the player to call other characters who offer their phone number. Trainers will call for a rematch and others will call about rare Pokémon that can be caught in a certain area."
"Another major change was the splitting of the Special stat into Special Attack and Special Defense, which increased aspects of strategy."
"With the introduction of Pokémon breeding, Pokémon are assigned to one or two breeding groups. When a male and female Pokémon that share at least one breeding group are left at a Pokémon Daycare, they may produce an egg, which will hatch into a young Pokémon."
All of that was introduced into Gold/Silver, which by the way was only the SECOND installment in the Pokemon series of handheld games. Take all that and add it with the already fun and addicting gameplay of Red/Blue, you've got yourself a AAA title. Sadly, gamespot didn't feel the same way at the time.
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