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Perhaps, like what happened with FE and Awakening, they were aiming big. Well, Gold and Silver were originally gonna be the last game. If you ask me, the fact the anime was going to debut shortly before Gold and Silver were originally going to be released, likely had a hand in the delay once initial reactions to the anime happened. I've seen people theorize that the two-year delay (where no info whatsoever came out for a year) is because they were rebuilding everything from almost scratch. Though this might apply for the second release date, maybe. Well, Gold and Silver were originally gonna be the last games. Did Gold have some sort of psychological trauma in his past?Ĭould they bring back some of these beta Pokes? Farfetched could use the evolved form. I find it funny though the starting town was supposed to be called Silent Hills. We don't even have a steely Scizor! I'm happy they delayed things. This being a beta from a whole two years prior to actual GS release, it's understandable why these Pokemon designs would be so different. Guess they concluded fitting all of Japan in one game was either too ambitious or bad from a marketing perspective (and fitting in Kanto, while unique among Pokemon games, was indeed quite barebones as is in the final product). A little boring, but to be fair this is a beta, sans cave and building interiors as well. amusingly enough, Pallete Town was reacreted 1:1, but the rest.ĭidn't notice the map until you said it (I'm using Night Forest), but yeah it is interesting. If you thought Kanto was bare-bones in the actual games we got. In fact, Kanto is there, the southeastmost "city" on the map. Must say, what got most my attention is the fact "Johto" was actually the (almost) whole of Japan, instead of just the Kyoto-Osaka region in the final product. Which is a big contrast to Kanto just being, well, Kanto.