Shortly after LeafGreen and FireRed launched, Pokemon Emerald was released for the GameBoy Advance. You’ve accomplished your objective and become the Pokemon League Champion, but if you go to Sevault Canyon on Seven Island after doing that, you can catch yourself a bonafide Larvitar - that’s the first form of what’s eventually going to become Tyranitar, if you didn’t know, who is irrefutably one of the most brilliant Pokemon ever designed. And, because it’s completely fresh, it’s genuinely enticing to keep on playing despite having technically finished the game. This is a region that is mostly only traversable after you’ve already beaten up the Elite Four. So, when you talk about the Sevii Islands, you’re automatically discussing a post-game area that’s entirely new. Gold, Silver, and Crystal were the first games to do that when they included a revamped version of Kanto - it just wasn’t subjected to the same amount of polish as LeafGreen and FireRed’s rendition. On that note, it’s also useful to recall that although LeafGreen and FireRed were the first full remakes in the Pokemon series, they weren’t necessarily the first games to reimagine a region as part of their makeup. Just when you thought you’d finished what was already a significantly long game, you realized that you were actually only about halfway through, and that your immensely strong Pokemon were about to become utterly pathetic weaklings all over again.īut this extra region was Kanto - it wasn’t new. Pokemon Gold and Silver had a frankly astonishing amount of post-game content in that they literally added another eight Gyms and a second Pokemon League. Also, Lorelei lived there, and she’s undeniably the coolest member of the original Elite Four - personally, I’m still holding out hope that Nintendo will be brave enough to reimplement the Sevii Islands in a future Pokemon game.īut again, it’s not the islands themselves that matter - it’s the fundamental concept of them. Not because of the area itself - despite being a pretty cool region, in my opinion, the Sevii Islands have yet to reappear in any other mainline Pokemon game, even though they had a fascinatingly spooky Hypno forest. The most important new element introduced in LeafGreen and FireRed was, without a shadow of a doubt, the Sevii Islands. LeafGreen and FireRed also made a variety of other breakthroughs that were previously unheard of in the series - most of which became staples in its official formula.īut one of these breakthroughs towers high above the rest. So the fact LeafGreen and FireRed got the remake train rolling is a pretty huge deal, but that’s admittedly pretty obvious for anyone who is even remotely interested in Pokemon. Related: Ranking The 10 Best Pokemon Episodes
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