Amazon Maximum Age: 17 years Amazon Minimum Age: 72 months Binding: Game Cartridge Brand: Nintendo EAN: 0045496731472 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: SPIG Manufacturer: SPIG Platform: Game Boy Color Publisher: SPIG Sales Rank: 659 Studio: SPIG
Amazon.com Review: Pokémon Crystal is to Pokémon Gold and Silver what Pokémon Yellow is to Pokémon Red and Blue. It features several minor upgrades from its predecessors, but in essence it's still the same game. The classic Pokémon formula of adventuring, collecting, and battling is at a series best with Crystal. This is one of the best and most addictive role-playing games for the Game Boy Color.
The most notable feature is the selectable female trainer who has her own set of animations and backgrounds. This is a great option for female Pokémon fans who were previously stuck playing the game as a male character. There are also subtle improvements to the cell phone system, HM moves, and prebattle animations. Rival trainers' phone calls are now more plentiful and pragmatic. HM moves, which are required throughout the game, are available at the push of a button--you'll no longer have to navigate menus to use these moves. Lastly, seeing a Pokémon's new animation makes encountering new creatures more fun than before.
If you haven't played Gold or Silver yet, Crystal is definitely the way to go. If you've played those previous games, Crystal has only enough new features to justify a purchase from Pokémon fanatics. This game is compatible with the link cable, Game Boy printer, and Pokémon Pikachu 2. It's playable on Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance only, and can be played on a television using Pokémon Stadium 2 and a Transfer Pak. --Raymond M. Padilla
Pros:
New female trainer
Prebattle animations are cute
Lots of subtle improvements
Cons:
Too similar to Gold and Silver
Mobile phone features not in the U.S. version
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Girl Power!
Finally! A pokemon game where you can play as a girl! This off course was the cry sent out by girls world-wide when this game was first released. Female main characters are standard now, but this was the game that poineered that. Highly recommended!
Rating: - Awesomest. Pokemon. Game. Ever.
I loved the Gold and silver games, and when this came out, I was all over it. This is easily the best pokemon game ever, with 16 gym leaders and 2 different regions and only 250 or so pokemon (so it's easier to catch 'em all, but not too hard), this game has more content than any pokemon game before or after it. Amazing. One of these days I'll have to get mine out again.
Rating: - Pokemon Crystal
It's a fun game to own and play just like Pokemon Yellow,its counterpart from the previous series of three pokemon games. Only certain aspects of game play are negatives such as the time aspect and daily events as well as having to chase the legendary pokemon unlike in Pokemon Yellow. Missing certain events and having to wait literally a week sometimes to return to them is slightly annoying as is having to capture certain pokemon during specific times of day as they are in some cases specifically nocturnal or their percent in a given area is extremely low. Other than these things the game plays very well and the improvement that you can select to be a male or female trainer unlike Pokemon Yellow is great. Seeing each pokemon in their given coloration is really nice just like it was in Pokemon Yellow too. The added new types and moves are also a plus. Overall a well worth buy for a Pokemon fan.
Rating: - Even with Pearl and Diamond out there, this one stands out!
This is my favorite Pokemon Version of them all (so far). Even with Pearl and Diamond out, and all the others, this one is my favorite. I like it because it's origanal, and pretty much all the pokemon that were in the older versions are in this one. It has the best music of them all too! Plus there are two reigons to beat! The reigon from Red and Blue, and the new reigon! 16 gyms! Plus, all the first legendary pokemon from the classic part of the show with Misty and Brock are in this game too.
you also get cool accecories like a cell phone and radio (in the game) so you don't have to walk all the way backto your home town to talk to your mom in the game.
I also like the item and pokemon copier cheat. It's simple, and doesn't take too long. You can have as many of the same pokemon as you want!
Rating: - A fun game, but a small warning.
Pokemon Crystal was part of the second generation (Gold/Silver/Crystal) pokemon GBC games. Personally, I'm not a huge Pokemon fan, but this generation of Pokemon games was really unique. The Crystal version was the first installment that actually allowed players to choose whether they wanted to play as a male or female character. It pretty much followed the same story line as Gold and Silver, but had a few differences, such as some extra secret rooms hidden in the Ruins of Alph, and the fact that Suicune could be battled/caught and would not run away. (Entei and Raikou, would still run, however.)
I could go on and on about how great the game truly was, but the main point of my review is to actually give a fair warning to customers who may not be aware of what has happened to these games over the years. Recently, I just tried starting up my Gold/Silver/Crystal games, and the only one that still had it's former save file was my Silver Version. My Gold and Crystal versions had lost their save files and whenever I started a new game and tried to save, the memory just didn't work. I got curious and decided to look into this further. From what I found out, appearently the game cartidges have a small battery that power the memory usage of the game. Now if you haven't already guessed it, nothing lasts forever, thus the same rules would apply to these batteries. The approximate longevity these batteries were given were about 8 years at max. Now is about the time for the batteries to be failing and if the batteries are failing, that means good bye to any former saved files and no longer can people save new files. The reason I bring this up is because I see that some people are still selling their used Crystal (and Gold/Silver) versions. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that everyone out there is trying to sell everyone else lemons, but before anyone decides to buy one of these games, they might just want to check into the used product they're buying and see exactly how old it is, because some of the newer editions of these games should most likely still work as far as the battery goes. I'm not into the technical details of this whole thing, but considering that two of my games are only good for a scrap heap now, I really think it's only fair to warn others who may be interested in buying a used edition of these games.
- Girl Power!
- Pokemon Crystal
