Image Source: Nintendo via Twinfinite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe ultimate Game Boy Color game. Pokemon Gold and Silver were already massive, beautiful games that seemed to push the console to its absolute limit, yet somehow Crystal eked out just that bit more. As with its predecessors, players could traverse not only the new region of Johto, but also Kanto. For the first time however they could now do so as a female trainer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was very much an iterative third entry in the second generation of Pokemon games (the only other major change being animated sprites), but if you’re going to pick up just one of the three, the updates in Crystal definitely make it the best choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, that does mean that 3 out of the 10 best games on the Game Boy Color were Pokemon games but there’s no getting around how much the franchise dominated Nintendo’s handheld output at this time. Pokemania was at its zenith and Nintendo absolutely delivered the goods to capitalize on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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