For 90s kids, there’s no need for explanation. For others, well, pokemon was a phenomenon. It was everywhere, on TV, in magazines, toys, stickers. You could trade pokemon at the school excursion on the bus.
You felt alive in this world, pokemon gen 1-2 were the pinnacle of pokemon for me. And in gen2, finishing the game, and lo and behold, there’s a whole other region (kanto) waiting for you to explore it. The night cycle in the game blew my mind in ways that I have been chasing ever since.
I know it will never be reached again, but the memory will remain as powerful as it was that evening of the early 00s. What is your greatest gaming high, that you know will never be topped again, and that you have been chasing ever since?
As an aside, Xenogears is awesome with a higher resolution and widescreen. It’s BS that it can be done emulated, but they’ve never bothered doing it officially (or even re-releasing it at all, for that matter). Uh, we’ll just pretend the second disc never happened, though…
I wish it’d get a proper remake, with the second half fully fleshed out. I’d even take a remaster with the second disc content fleshed out. Lol