SirPentious
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I've lost my "legal way" to run my Leaf Green cartridge a long time ago, so when Nintendo released a port of FR/LG on the Switch, I couldn't help myself and decided to buy it (they could have made it a bit less expensive thought...). I went with Fire Red this time, since I played Leaf Green when I was a kid. I played the whole game the entire last week and... oooohhh boy, the joy I felt playing it.
Catching all the Pokemon, building my team for the adventure, battling all the trainers on the road, everything was even better than I remembered. And this time I could even do more as the Switch version has the Ho-Oh, Lugia and Deoxys events unlocked natively, so I could do them for the very first time. Pretty tough captures I must say, but it was really fun.
I concluded the game beating the League Rematch and having 165 Pokemon in the Pokedex (I wanted to get pretty much all the Pokemon obtainable in the game, aside of some evolutions that were too tedious like Dragonite and Tyranitar, and... a couple ones I'm gonna mention right now...), and I really had a blast from the beginning to the end.
There's only one thing that left me frustrated in the game. In one word: CHANSEY. Ooooohhhh boy, that's one of the most infuriating things I've ever seen in a videogame. Why would Game Freak think that it would be fun? I spent like two hours in trying to catch it, even trying strategies I looked online, but it always fled first turn, and I never caught it (and couldn't even get Blissey with it). But that's pretty much the only thing I hated.
Aside that, I really loved my revisit on this game, and it shows more how good Pokemon games used to be. I really hope Emerald receives a port as well, I'm looking forward in re-experience that one as well (and to do Mew's event for the first time).
Anyone else who bought the Switch ports had the same fun with it?
Catching all the Pokemon, building my team for the adventure, battling all the trainers on the road, everything was even better than I remembered. And this time I could even do more as the Switch version has the Ho-Oh, Lugia and Deoxys events unlocked natively, so I could do them for the very first time. Pretty tough captures I must say, but it was really fun.
I concluded the game beating the League Rematch and having 165 Pokemon in the Pokedex (I wanted to get pretty much all the Pokemon obtainable in the game, aside of some evolutions that were too tedious like Dragonite and Tyranitar, and... a couple ones I'm gonna mention right now...), and I really had a blast from the beginning to the end.
There's only one thing that left me frustrated in the game. In one word: CHANSEY. Ooooohhhh boy, that's one of the most infuriating things I've ever seen in a videogame. Why would Game Freak think that it would be fun? I spent like two hours in trying to catch it, even trying strategies I looked online, but it always fled first turn, and I never caught it (and couldn't even get Blissey with it). But that's pretty much the only thing I hated.
Aside that, I really loved my revisit on this game, and it shows more how good Pokemon games used to be. I really hope Emerald receives a port as well, I'm looking forward in re-experience that one as well (and to do Mew's event for the first time).
Anyone else who bought the Switch ports had the same fun with it?