10 Problems With Pokémon Gold & Silver Nobody Wants To Admit

10. Roaming Pokémon

Now this problem is not exclusive to Gold & Silver, and it has been written out of the franchise in recent years, but it started here, and it is important we stare the Legendary Beasts straight in the eye and let them know that we hate them, we hate what they stand for, and we hate the fact they forced us to venture in to Dark Cave just to find a Zubat we could eventually use to capture them. Anything that makes me go into Dark Cave deserves a spot on the Pokégallows.

In principle, it is not terrible. The idea of a Legendary Pokemon roaming free across the region and forcing you to track it down has an appeal in the exploration it may require. However, tracking it down even once can take up a lot of time, and then it will run as soon as it can and force you to track it down again. The means of trapping it are limited and force you to go out of your way to obtain them, not to mention that even after you’ve tracked it and trapped it, it is still a Legendary Pokémon and a massive ache to capture in the first place.

Gold & Silver made you do this three times.

May Arceus strike thee down.