A look back at: Pokemon Kalos Crystal

No walkthrough from me this time, there's a reason for that. I will say my team though: Delphox, Jellicent, Krookodile, Florges, Aegislash, and Galvantula, plus a Watchog for HM usage, a Swoobat as a Fly user, and a Slurpuff for Sweet Scent.

So my expectations for this were ultimately shattered, as I thought it was going to be like Gold Unova, playing through a full region just demade. Instead, it's actually the other way around. Kalos Crystal is a sequel to a hack called Unova Red. What these hacks are is you play through the original game (Red or Crystal), but with the Pokemon from those regions. So Unova Pokemon were only in Unova Red, while Kalos includes them as well as the Kalos-native Pokemon. And there's 229 total, and yes it's possible to get all of them, including legendaries. Plus with the Fairy type added, a few minor changes to special and physical attacks, and new moves and TMs to accommodate the new Pokemon, and honestly it wasn't entire as shattering as expectations ended up, since yes you are playing the original Crystal, you're just playing with two different generations of Pokemon.

So yeah, nothing new in the storyline at all. The only real difference is whenever someone mentions some Pokemon. For instance, Slowpoke Well is now Stunfisk Well, because Slowpoke and its line aren't in the game. The author certainly went out of the way to make sure the sprites for some Pokemon were also different, including ones for Stunfisk and a few others like Honedge. Neat. Battles with major opponents were also done so that they would still use their type specialty, but of course with different Pokemon. The biggest change would be towards Elite Four Will who is now a Fairy specialist instead of Psychic. Makes sense, Sabrina I guess would have to keep her specialty in Kanto.

I think I did more than my fair share when playing, after all the Gen-2 games are longer than most people realize. I'm glad the roaming legendaries (Thundurus and Tornadus) are in the dex after you release them, plus the Ruins of Alph sidequests were somehow made more interesting. And they did make both the Elite Four and additional rival battle stronger, while not going too far with day/night events. It's just a nice hack to play if you don't mind any new story stuff and want to play Crystal differently. So yeah, no walkthrough because the story is the same. I mean I could have made a trainer guide but I decided not to.