I've played about 10 hours of Pokemon Crystal this week. It is a phenomenal game.
I think it holds up really well today.
This makes me think about how there really should be a Pokemon game being released on the Switch with a similar art style and gameplay structure to Pokemon Crystal.
The game would have:
- Basically the same graphics as Crystal but it runs way smoother, I picture a similar art style and performance to Celeste
- Fully reimagined music, but sprinkle in throwbacks to the 8bit sound
- Generation 2 Pokemon, can throw in some of the favourites from newer generations
- A focus on story and adventure
- A huge map but it's all about discovery similar to what Breath of the Wild was about
- A focus on having a balanced Pokemon team
- A focus on having good strategy to get through the game, make something that is a hard game to win, something hard but fair, almost require you having to do a bit of research on type advantage and what works best for each gym