The pokemon will only follow at the beginning of the game, if you remember in Pokemon G/S you couldn't catch any pokemon until you talk to prof elm after your Rival got his pokemon.warumonoLS

dude, go to this page and you'll be proven wrong about the whole "early in the game" and "starter only" stuff.

I heard that HeartGold and SoulSilver was being released in Japan at the tenth anniversary of the originals. If that is true, then it will be released in NorthAmerica: October 15, 2010, Austrailia: September 4, 2010 and Europe: April 6, 2011. It wouldn't be fair if everyone but Japan doesn't have to wait till its anniversary to get it and Japan is the ones making the games. :|

ANIMEguy10034

I do kind of agree with you, but, i don't think they're gonna make it that special and would be more appealing for the large fan base of Pokemon gold and silver to release them internationally ASAP. I am actually kinda thinking with the faster rate of transferring Pokemon games I mean with platinum it was only 8 months, 1 week and 2 days from japan to Europe! the dates become closer together every time. in D/P, it was almost 10 months! If you're right, I will admit I was wrong, and not go in denial about my opinion, but for the time being we cannot tell, so we'll just wait and see;)