Pokémon Gold and Silver: Difference between revisions

** Notably averted with the trainer near the beginning of the game who shows you how to catch Pokémon. Gold and Silver are pretty much the only games in the main series in which you have the option to refuse the man’s offer.

* [[Game Favored Gender]]: The gender of a Pokémon is based on its Attack IV<ref>Individual Value, which vary between Pokémon and modify base stats</ref>, with higher values resulting in male Pokémon (unless the species is purely female). This means that generally in these games, males are physically stronger than females. Future games including ''HeartGold'' and ''SoulSilver'' don’t determine gender this way.

* [[G-Rated Sex]]: When leaving a male and a female Pokémon in the daycare together (or some genderless ones like Ditto), they have a chance of leaving an egg, depending on their “interest” in each other.

* [[An Interior Designer Is You]]: You could decorate your room with various dolls and such, thanks to Mystery Gifts. Your mother would also buy things with the money you sent home after battles.

* [[Improbable Species Compatibility]]: [[Trope Maker]] for the franchise. ''Pokémon'' was also the [[Trope Namer]] by way of [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire|Generation III]].

* [[Infinite Stock for Sale]]: Pokémon normally plays this trope straight, but there’s a [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday|bargain shop that only appears Monday mornings]], where you can buy high‐valued [[Vendor Trash]] to later sell at a profit—“but only one of each item.”

** This is even less subtle in Crystal, when he only behaves this way if you play as a girl.

* [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]]: The Goldenrod Underground is a [[Bazaar of the Bizarre]], with a different selection of shops each day of the week, providing goods and services you won’t find anywhere else.

* [[What Might Have Been]]: The Japanese version of Crystal had the ability to your real‐life cell phone and play against others online. The feature never saw the light of day in other regions.

* [[Wutai]]: Although all the regions in the main series are based on Japan (except for Unova), only a few towns are actually obviously Japanese‐influenced, and they’re all in Johto. Of special note is Ecruteak City, whose music was remixed in HGSS to sound more Japanese. Interestingly, Cianwood City, which it originally shared music with, has a separate remix that does not use the Japanese‐sounding instruments of Ecruteak’s version.

* [[Forced Tutorial]]: Just like in the originals, your mother insists on telling you how to use the phone. Just like in every ''Pokémon'' game, someone has to show you how to catch Pokémon. This gets very tedious, because your pseudo‐rival will show you how to catch Pokémon, realize that you weren’t in battle mode and therefore “didn’t see it,” and then you have to stand around some more while he/she shows you ''again''.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:

* [[Guide Dang It]]:

** Gym Leader rematches. Before you can request another fight, you have to get them registered in your Pokégear. To do that, you have to talk to them after meeting certain criteria. Problem is, you have to meet them at certain locations (some of which are rather obscure) at a certain time on a certain day of the week, instead of simply talking to them at their respective Gym. There’s even a couple that are gotten from an NPC other than the Gym Leader. Good luck finding all of them without a guide, even with the NPC that will randomly call you to give info about a random Leader. A good example of this is Jasmine, who appears at the Olivine City Diner between 13:00–14:00. Said diner is not important in the least outside of this one time and looks like a normal house, so you may not have just overlooked it every time you were in town.