OverviewPokémon Crystal is an RPG that came out for the GameBoy Color in 2001 in North America. The player is playing as a 10 year old boy or girl who has been asked by Professors Elm and Oak to go on a journey to complete the pokédex of 251 pokémon and to fight off the evil Team Rocket from reforming and taking over the world. Your goal is to defeat all 8 gyms, the Elite 4, and the Champion to become the Champion of Johto and Kanto. PlotYou start in your house. You are sent to get a pokémon from Professor Elm lab, as most 10-year-olds are. You can choose between the grass starter (Chikorita), the fire starter (Cyndaquil), or the water starter (Totodile). You then travel to Mr. Pokémon's house to deliver a parsel given to you by Professor Elm. At Mr. Pokémon's house, you receive an egg from Pokémon. You will also receive a pokédex from Professor Oak. He will ask you to catch every single pokémon possible to catch. Once you do this, you return to Professor Elm's lab to deliver the news to him about the egg. You then advance to the next route, where you are given pokéballs. After that, you can start challenging the gyms. But, an unknown person steals a pokémon from Elm's lab and comes to Violet City with you to fight you. Depending on what you picked, the stranger's pokémon will have a type that is super effective against your's (if you chose fire, he would have water; if you chose water, he would have grass; if you chose grass, he would have fire). Once you defeat him, you learn his name and can proceed to the Pokémon Center to heal your pokémon and head on to the first gym. The first gym is a flying-type gym, and the leader is named Faulkner. Every time you defeat a gym leader, you earn a gym badge. Along the way, you will battle Team Rocket, an evil organization that uses and exploits pokémon to their own advantages. They were disbanded a few years back, and are trying to reach out to their old leader, Giovanni, using the Goldenrod City Radio Tower. They will try to stop you getting to the Pokémon League, and try to annihilate everyone who gets in their way. Getting through all 8 gyms, you reach the Pokémon League and fight the Elite 4, a club of strong, high class trainers that love pokémon. After you beat the Elite 4, you will face Lance, the champion of Johto. Defeating the champion means you become the champion. My thoughts?I enjoyed it a lot. I enjoyed playing it, the storyline, the challenge of getting to the end, and the overall feel of the game (music, controls, etc.). I thought the game was very well thought out, along with its counterparts, Gold and Silver. Points of RNG when it comes to battle are pretty annoying though, but it wouldn't be a battle if there weren't a challenge to overcome, even if it was luck. I do love the RNG out of battle though. There are chances of encountering certain pokémon, or even encountering an alternately colored pokémon (a.k.a. a Shiny Pokémon). For example, the pokémon Rattata is normally purple, but it's shiny is green. The odds of this happening is a 1/8192 chance from random encounters. There is a special animation (called a sparkle) that occurs when one of these is found/used. Probably the best idea that Game Freak (creators of the Pokémon games) has ever had, in my opinion. Overall rating: 9.5/10.
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