Videogame Review, Pokemon Crystal for the Gameboy Color (w/ Gameboy Advance and Worm Light)

Videogame Review, Pokemon Crystal for the Gameboy Color (w/ Gameboy Advance and Worm Light)

You’re not exactly looking for a crystal in this Pokemon RPG.  It’s like Silver, it’s like Gold; just add a few more features and Crystal Version has the best of both worlds.  Earlier (way long time ago) I was disappointed with Crystal because the added features really didn’t matter for someone like me: single, alone, and without a Pokemon friend.  Yeah.  It’s kind of sad.  But students at my school were too busy for this multiplayer action and the Gameboy link cable proved to be fragile; I didn’t always have a working link cable, but I did play with the Gameboy Color and used a worm light that just kept working, and working, and working… yeah, sort of like the Energizer Bunny.  A few more Pokemon are in Crystal but who cares?  One of the real highlights in this RPG are the black, surreal, ancient Pokemon letters which appear in different shapes of black and white; they’re known as “Unown”.  There’s something neat about diving into a tunnel in discovery of such ancient Pokemon writing that moves against your Pokeballs.  A battery can be seen in the clear, glittery blue Crystal cartridge and I imagine the battery wears out even in a new, unopened version of the game since batteries do have expiration dates and mobile-to-mobile circumstances related to flat or specially shaped metals.  Each and every move in this Pokemon game look fantastic even compared to some of the more recent editions of Pokemon.  Let me guess; you critics are going to ask me, “What’s a Pokemon?”  Such a question is very stupid.  We can just look at the Pokemon battling each other and know who they are, silly!  The blue wolf you see running in the fields before he dives into a chase with the Unown adds tension to what’s already a version for both the Silver and the Gold.  Have you ever played these Pokemon games?  Well, only choose Crystal.  Silver and Gold are just halves of the same game.  The idea back then was that a player can own Silver and play against someone with Gold.  But then, Crystal came and made the former versions obsolete.  Don’t count this as an unnecessary game from the past because there’s Pokemon in Crystal you won’t find elsewhere in the same atmosphere and tension for the story.  Honestly it took me a couple of years to finish playing Silver and Crystal was “defeated” quicker from past experience.  I’ve never actually seen adults play with one another on their Gameboys.  It’s too bad.  Adults could’ve really learned something from Pokemon; instead, they treated it as children’s junk.