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Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver turned Johto nostalgia into an overdelivering remake with following Pokemon and one of Nintendo's best postgames.
Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver launched in 2009 on Nintendo DS. It turned Johto nostalgia into an overdelivering remake with following Pokemon and one of Nintendo's best postgames. 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 2009 release on Nintendo DS immediately became part of the benchmark fans used to judge its whole generation.
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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