It was the one I played as a kid because I prefer Lugia over Ho-oh, but that minor detail isn’t worth the convenience offered by HeartGold. I picked SoulSilver simply because it was the one I had on my mind when I decided to make this. SoulSilver requires you to visit the Whirl Islands which are much more annoying to get to and traverse than the HeartGold equivalent area. Q: Why SoulSilver over HeartGold (or both)?Ī: To be honest, if I were to go back and start from scratch, I would do this in HeartGold. Just keep these in mind going into the game so you have reasonable expectations.

No changes have been made to the Kanto side of the game whatsoever. Secondly, The game is only complete up to the end of Johto. This means you can theoretically fight Pryce before Jasmine and Chuck, despite the Pokémon in that area being such a high level. The progression of the game is also the same. This includes Pokémon base stats, abilities, learnable moves, etc. This means that there are several things that are NOT changed from the vanilla game. I took a few liberties with this (the Kanto starters are catchable in the wild, for example) but for the most part, I stuck to that rule. First of all, one of my major goals with this hack was to create an experience that still felt like it could be a vanilla Pokémon game. Nearly every evolution line from the first 2 generations is seen at least once. Team Rocket grunts no longer spam Koffing and Zubat.

Most gym leaders have had their aces changed to Johto Pokémon. There are no massive level jumps like in the vanilla game.īoth the bosses and generic trainers utilize a much wider variety of Pokémon compared to the vanilla game. This, theoretically, provides a smoother transition through the major battles of the game. The bosses increase in level much faster than the original game.

The level curve of the game has been completely overhauled. The only exceptions are the Legendary and Mythical Pokémon. Several gen 4 Pokémon (evolutions of gens 1 and 2 Pokémon) are also obtainable. The vast majority of the 251 Pokémon introduced in gens 1 and 2 are available before entering the Hall of Fame. SoulSilver Deluxe is a hack of SoulSilver that accomplishes 3 major things:

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