Recreate 15 years on and off work? Nah if it goes im done will just let it be.Well that isn't bias and/or subjective at all.Not saying your complaints aren't valid... but some of these points are bigger than others (actual missing features vs nitpicks vs personal preferences), honestly there's probably plenty of little things about each game that'll drag it down to down even more possibly to zero, and it doesn't really way in any pros to balance out these cons. I'm fine with listing the problems you have with each game, I just had a small issue with the arbitrary scoring system. We get it, you like Platinum and think it's the best in the series (and may or may not like BW2 and think it's the worst), you don't got to come up with a mathematical equation to feel that way.
Though to comment on a few of your points:
- In that case you might as well subtract points from HGSS & Platinum for not changing the Battle Tower (and HGSS for just reusing the Platinum BF wholesale). Sure, it may stand out more because it's now the only Battle Facility, but that doesn't really change the Gen IV Battle Tower is ultimately the same and was just now integrated into its Battle Frontier (Emerald also had a Battle Tower but it was updated to match the Battle Frontier mechanics and given its own Frontier Brain).
- BUT BW2 did bring in a lot more Legendaries from other games. But I'll grant the Dream Radar was a bit of a strange idea and locking the new forms behind it was a bad ideas.
- While certainly not as indepth as Contests were I also feel Musicals were meant to be a more lighthearted affair and movies both a puzzle to figure out and to mess with. You're not supposed to spend hours grinding for the best Pokeblocks/Poffin and coming up with a different movesets for your Pokemon to use during the Contest, no, you can pretty much use your battling Pokemon as is in these and still get rewarded with less amount of the time you spend in Contests.
- This I feel evens itself out. Sure, some medals were grindy or involved going online thus you can no longer get them, others I feel were fun ideas or suggested interesting challenges. I had a lot of fun trying to figure out a team of specific Types to get all the "Beat the League with a team of all this Type" medals (except for Psychic where I swept them all with Mewtwo so I could get both the Psychic and "Solo the League" Medals, lol). I feel the Medal System just needed some improvements, maybe more original/fun ideas and Challenges instead of relying on doing certain activities multiple times or connecting online... BUT of course GF never brought it back. *SIGH*
- While they maybe could have thrown in some hints and such, I like the idea of finding the Gym Leaders on their off hours and that unlocking more special rematches with them. Like, maybe allow you to have rematches with them by going through their Gym again... BUT if you find them on their off hours they'll give you their phone number so that you can just call them and they'll all go to the Battleground so you have one convenient place to go to battle them without having to go through their entire Gym as well. Not restrict rematches but also award you for going out of your way to find them to make rematches easier to do.
- Kanto was expanded but not really in story but rather in presentation. Kanto in GSC was really shrunk down (now revealed to have been a beta concept of Gen II originally being ALL of Japan) and so missing a lot of elements and pizazz (such as with the Gym Puzzles). HGSS very much fixed that by including all the excluded locations back and giving the Kanto Gyms puzzles to solve through. I do agree it's disappointing they didn't expand the Rocket return storyline into Kanto, like after defeating Archer he reveals he was only the leader of the Johto Rocket revival group and there's another group back at Kanto trying to get things back in order their. Also, wow, I never realized they forgot to evolve Silver's Sneasel and Magneton, that's a pretty noticeable oversight especially since HGSS didn't prevent cross gen evos like FRLG did.
Aside from Sunkern which is a minor nitpick, honestly this is more two issues which would bring Platinum down to an 8.
I don't think Platinum had this either. Both Emerald's and Platinum's post game was comparable as it included just the BIG area: Battle Frontier.
OR buy a copy of OR/AS and BD/SP (not both versions, one of each would do) and then emulate Emerald and Platinum.
Sadly I don't think so. Once the battery goes or is removed all data is wiped. You could see if there's a method to dump the data onto a file on your computer but you'll probably need some specific hardware for that (and would probably just be easier to recreate your achievements).
Now if you're talking about having some rare Pokemon on there, yeah, may want to start transferring them upwards.
To answer some of your replies.
Platinum did actually update the battle tower as all the trainers and movesets changed to include the new move tutor moves.
And Platinum did have a good postgame area in the form of the whole survival area around the frontier and with vs seeker gives you great rematch options there and over sinnoh.
Also the reason I put all of platinum in 1 point is that most of it is very unimportant and affects very little of the game, its more of like things that would make the game even better than it already is but is not hugely important, I did also combine various bits of bw2 into 1 point where it could have been more, even being kind tho it still adds up because they crammed way to much into the game and so didn't have the time to make any of it that good or immersive, they really went for quantity over quality in alot of it
As far as musicals and movies they are just much weaker than contests/pokeathlon and there is not really much else to it.
I like the idea of medals and it was the first time the game kinda prompts you to try everything in the game ( though not surveys clearly even GF knew that was a waste of space ) but the final version of it is horrible, there should be way less medals .... max 100 and they should be more stylish and nice to look at individually like actual symbols of the achievment not a bunch of generic colours and designs, and it should be just 1 not like 4 for each activity, rather than giving you 1 for doing it 10 times 20 times 50 times and 100 times it should be just 1 for getting the highest realistic score or level you can in that activity, and medals like passing 1000 people or doing funfests with 30 people and tucking mons into game sync should not even exist, it should reward effort and skill like previous games not just making you repeat it till you die of boredom, again they really went for quantity over quality in this area to.
I also agree with the hgss gym leader thing but still feel it could have been a little less complex, lets be honest no one would ever get Blue's number without google lol.
But I also meant just normal trainers in hgss can be rematched by calling them at certain days and times but no one ever knew about this till way to late its so hidden and no one hints at it in the game, easier rematches would have made johto leveling alot more pleasant, by far pokegear rematches are the worst kind.
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