Victory Road is unaltered and remains a Disappointing Last Level, a relatively small cave with no trainers or puzzles.This does get partially addressed by being able to acquire a Sword key item that serves as a replacement for the hidden machine Cut, but as far as other useless moves go (such as Flash or Whirlpool), they do not exist. The heavy dependency of Hidden Machines, more notably the ones that are practically useless in battle and just take up a move space on a Pokémon by default, gets quite exhausting.The lack of certain mechanics from future Pokémon generations, most notably the physical-special split is sometimes frowned upon.It's the Same, So It Sucks: Since the game tries to stay compatible with vanilla Crystal as much as possible.Silver, and the Indigo Plateau, which need to be visited at least once before it becomes a fly location). And because of how this ROM hack is programmed, not only are you allowed to use Fly without any badges needed but you can virtually fly to ANY Pokémon Center across BOTH regions with no strings attached (save for New Cinnabar, Mt.

But if you start a new game in Goldenrod City, you can visit the northern checkpoint house to obtain a free Spearow named KENYA, which comes pre-learned with said move, without any initial requirements. Normally you can't obtain the Hidden Machine Fly until you've gotten at least 3 badges and visited the specific locations on where to obtain them.The downside? You start with five balls and no Mart until you get off the island, at which point you cant go back until you get Fly. If, by some miracle, you manage to catch something like Magmar or Flareon on the third floor, youre set for a large number of gyms. The buried Pokémon Mansion underneath it has Pokémon whose levels start in the teens and go up to the high thirties, despite your single mon being level five. A Cinnabar Island start, if youre lucky and/or persistent, can shatter the early/mid game to bits.You can obtain Snorlax, the king of Gen 2 competitive play, along with every TM necessary to create the infamous Curselax set, from the very start of your game if you know where to look for everything.In addition, trainers scaling by your number of badges allows you to drive up their levels (and thus, your EXP gain), letting you rapidly level up your mons at the modest cost of increasing trainer battle difficulty. The open world nature of the game also makes it possible to grab higher level Pokémon ahead of schedule.The ability to inject custom starters has the potential to be this, as there are no restrictions on the species of Pokémon you can set as a starter, including Olympus Mons like Mewtwo, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Celebi and Mew.

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