The graphics are decent, and the sound is nothing to write home about. However, there is a fairly deep battle system here, so competitive players. The game is very easy the learning curve is very low, and there is even a hint system for when the player gets stuck. You are a young boy or girl, and are tasked with catching a variety of pocket monsters, or pokemon, and training a team of them to battle other trainers, which include the "Gym Leader" bosses, your childhood rival, a villainous cartel known as Team Rocket, and eventually the unparalleled Elite Four. This game is a very simple RPG with a basic plot. If this is your first pokemon game, however, then you are in for a treat, assuming that you are either very young or young at heart. That's both the game's greatest strength and its greatest weakness: while the original game was darn near perfect, nostalgia only goes so far, and the magic will not repeat itself. If you do, I doubt it will be a very rewarding experience.īeyond this caveat, this game is very good because it is virtually a carbon copy of the original games, which were also very good. Nowadays, however, there are so many pokemon that catching every last one is an endeavor only to be attempted by obsessive-comp ulsives I guarantee that you will have no desire to see the task of catching ever last darn critter all the way through. The reason I say this is because FireRed and LeafGreen are the same game, just with a handful of Pokemon being unique to each version.īack in the day, it MIGHT have made sense to have 2 versions if you didn't have friends to trade with.
I once owned Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed, and LeafGreen, and I ended up selling 3 of those. Years later, they have remade the 2 games that started the pokemon craze: Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen.īefore I begin, let me recommend that you all only get either FireRed or LeafGreen. Pokemon Red was my first Game Boy game, and as such holds a special place in my heart.