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Also, that’s an outline of the entire Kanto basin, not simply Tokyo. It looks like Tokyo, Chiba, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tochigi, Gunma, and Kanagawa prefectures.
“Greater Tokyo area” - most of that is farmland and forests.
Just because they Kanto doesn't mean they should
Especially with that awful level curve.
Gen 2 was a beautiful mess.
Kanto was Gen 1, though.
Kanto was also fully in Gen 2.
Fair enough
And how they handled that is my issue. Too many Gen 2 Pokemon were locked behind reaching Kanto. Johto should have been heavier on giving us the new faces, Kanto the old.
I love that it was included, but it felt like they just kinda went "Hey, we can do that!" and that was the end of really thinking about it. There's a lot of balancing that could have been done.
Thankfully we have HG/SS and Crystal Legacy, which both did better jobs.
There are so many Crystal improvement ROM hacks that it's very difficult to decide which one to play. I hear Polished Crystal is really good as well.
Still probably the best surprise a game has ever given me.
Oh, you finished the game? Nope! entirely refreshed revisit to the previous game!
And here's an outline of just Saitama