Pokemon crystal game review

You really can't go wrong with monsters, two main adventures, countless side quests, and a baseline of 60 hours of gameplay. Upvote 5 Leave Blank. About the Author. Frank Provo. More GameSpot Reviews.

Load Comments 2. Average Rating Rating s 8. Developed by: Game Freak. The Pokemon games launched a huge franchise among kids back in , with a trading card game, books and quite a respectable although a bit cheesy TV series, but Pokemon cards are probably those kind of things in supermarkets which you would hardly notice nowadays.

Lets start with the new significant feature, the battle tower. The trainers are darn right impossible to beat, so unless you are the ultimate tactician around here, make frequent use of attribute boosting drugs and have the right moves, getting through it is extremely tough.

I admittedly have beaten a couple of trainers but what annoys me the most are that trainers in the game are normally trainers with Pokemon levels lower than yours and who are a walk-over while this is unbeatable AI.

Something you can safely miss to be honest. The basic Pokemon formula is simple, and the formula used here is just a slightly enhanced version of the original Red and Blue series.

The battles are played using a turn-based system, where one Pokemon fights the other taking turns to attack. Faster Pokemon can generally have first hit in a battle and maybe skank another go in that turn. Turns such as quick attack can ensure that your Pokemon uses that move first, before the enemy strikes.

As always, with a typical RPG, all Pokemon have elements of type and attacks most associated with their type, duh , plus the legendary Normal type complete with their own weaknesses as well. Then you have statistics such as speed, attack, defence, evasion, etc. The great thing about the Pokemon games is that anyone can pick up and play. No offence to Final Fantasy, used as an example and I being a fan myself, but not all players like to read story then eventually get into the game.

As always on Pokemon, the aim of the game is to collect all the gym badges, by Gym leaders who each specialize in a certain type of Pokemon, and then own the Elite Four. Basically, you get to choose three of your Pokemon, all at the same level, and put them to the test in the Battle Tower against trainers with higher AI than before! You can now test out those strategies that you've been dying to use on people who actually take the battle seriously!

Don't worry if you lose, seeing how this is purely for fun and not part of the main game. You won't lose any money here, but you won't gain any experience points either.

This is purely optional as well, so if you feel up to the challenge, give it a shot! Graphics If you thought the graphics of Gold and Silver were good, then you haven't seen Crystal's yet! That's right, EVERY Pokemon has been animated at the start of the battle to show that they are more than just a picture.

Sure it wasn't completely necessary, seeing how this feature was removed in all four versions of Pokemon on the Gameboy Advance, but it sure was cool as hell to see your Charizard strike an awesome pose in the status screen!

Also added to the game in various places was better graphics! The one key place that comes to mind is the Ice Cave. In Gold and Silver it looks exactly like every other cave in the game, but in Crystal, everything looks so friggin' cool, you'll get the impression that you're freezing your butt off since everything is now covered in ICE!

You'll have to see the Ice Cave for yourself to see how awesome it truly is. Gameplay Using the classic formula from the previous Pokemon games, nothing has changed in Crystal at all. The game is still the exact same as Gold and Silver, despite all of the major changes that were added. You basically go into the world, catch up a team of Pokemon that you would like to use, and then go town to town until you reached the Elite Four. You can eventually breed two Pokemon to create new level 5 Pokemon with traits from both parents, which can add to quite a few possibilities, especially on a new game.

But other than that, nothing is different from Gold and Silver. But seeing how this has been the same formula for the last five games and since it is still fun, there is no sense in changing a good thing. Music and Sound Again, seeing how Crystal has only changed by a large margin, the music still remains as it was in Gold and Silver, which isn't a bad thing since the music in those games was pretty awesome.

There are a couple of new themes in this game though, like the Radio tune for the new Radio show, and the music you get while battling Suicune is also new and worth hearing. The sound effects are exactly the same as well, and there are no new sounds to add onto this game.

Not really a bad thing seeing how the sound effects still get the job done, so there really is no problem with this at all. As with Gold and Silver, Crystal's replay is the same as all Pokemon games. I was skeptical at first when I first thought about buying this game, since I had Gold and Silver already and didn't think I needed to get another version of the same game, but I was wrong!