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Pokemon Crystal
@pokemon-gamesPokemon Crystal added animation, Suicune focus, and a smoother revision pass that made Johto feel final.
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Pokemon Crystal@pokemon-games
Pokemon Crystal launched in 2000 on Game Boy Color. It added animation, Suicune focus, and a smoother revision pass that made Johto feel final. It sits on the canon-defining RPG backbone that decides regions, monsters, battle systems, and the assumptions every other Pokemon project eventually reacts to.
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Its 2000 release on Game Boy Color immediately became part of the benchmark fans used to judge its whole generation.
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Why it matters
Mainline Pokemon releases are the load-bearing beams of the franchise. If you want to understand why the rest of Pokemon looks the way it does, these are the games that set the rules.
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