So I just read the bulbapedia page on Pokemon Emerald and it says it got lower reviews because "there simply aren't enough changes to make this a must-buy". That confuses me because to me it is just as different maybe even more-so than Crystal and yellow.
Yellows changes were really just:
-Pikachu (just one pokemon sprite with SOME happiness)
-Gym party changes (much easier and crappier)
-bigger color palette (barely worth mentioning)
Crystal
- choice of girl character (actually fairly good)
- story changes and others adding to More than yellow added (i actually never owned this one)
Emerald
-Wireless play ( a big plus for some ppl)
- story changes leading to at least one epic part (legendary fight)
-tag battles
- Battle Frontier (a huge addition that for me makes the other games seem useless because of the extra gameplay this adds)
- and tons of little changes that add up (Magma armor hatching, Johto starters, rare pokemon,aesthetic changes)
What did they expect? A whole new map? An entire cast of new pokemon? It's not a new generation. It just seems incredibly dense to me that it got such low reviews where in my opinion it makes Sapphire/ruby obsolete if i had to choose just one.
Yellows changes were really just:
-Pikachu (just one pokemon sprite with SOME happiness)
-Gym party changes (much easier and crappier)
-bigger color palette (barely worth mentioning)
Crystal
- choice of girl character (actually fairly good)
- story changes and others adding to More than yellow added (i actually never owned this one)
Emerald
-Wireless play ( a big plus for some ppl)
- story changes leading to at least one epic part (legendary fight)
-tag battles
- Battle Frontier (a huge addition that for me makes the other games seem useless because of the extra gameplay this adds)
- and tons of little changes that add up (Magma armor hatching, Johto starters, rare pokemon,aesthetic changes)
What did they expect? A whole new map? An entire cast of new pokemon? It's not a new generation. It just seems incredibly dense to me that it got such low reviews where in my opinion it makes Sapphire/ruby obsolete if i had to choose just one.