Pokémon Gold and Silver: Difference between revisions
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{{tropelist|Tropes used in ''Gold'', ''Silver'' and ''Crystal'':}}
* [[Aborted Arc]]: Expecting to find out more about the history of [[Dark Secret|Dr. Fuji]] and [[Super Soldier|Mewtwo]]? Nary a mention of Fuji’s past as a scientist, although there are renewed hints in FireRed, LeafGreen, and Emerald. As for Mewtwo, the Unknown Dungeon is totally gone, and all that’s left is a hidden [[Deadly Upgrade|Berserk Gene]].
* [[An Interior Designer Is You]]: Gold and Silver were the first games in the series to let you rearrange your room with posters, potted plants, carpeting, and dolls. Lots and lots of dolls. [[Pokémon Stadium|Pokémon Stadium GS]] let you rearrange the same room in 3D.
* [[And Your Reward Is Interior Decorating]]: See [[An Interior Designer Is You]]. Most of the available room decorations are random or semi‐random gifts (obtained either from your in‐game mom or through interaction with other players), but you can also place trophies earned from [[Pokémon Stadium]].
* [[Audible Gleam]]: “Shiny” Pokémon have this (in order to distinguish them for the monochrome Game Boy system).
* [[Broken Bridge]]:
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* [[Character Select Forcing]]: Not so much of pointing which starter you should pick, but pointing out who you ''shouldn’t'' choose. Chikorita is a Grass‐type starter with low offenses and doesn’t learn attacks other than Normal and Grass type. In Johto, four out of the eight Gyms have critical advantages over it, as do two out of the five Pokémon League, none of the other Leaders or League members are particularly weak to Grass, Team Rocket uses Poison‐types often, two of the new trainer classes specializes in types with advantage over Grass, and so on.
** Outside of the starter and eventually Kadabra/Alakazam, every one of the rival’s Pokémon have an advantage over Grass. Start with Chikorita, and he gets Cyndaquil as his starter. Perhaps making up for Bulbasaur?
* [[Circling Birdies]]: Introduced as a visual indicator of confusion in these games, and used for the same in every Pokémon game since.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: All over the place, especially once you get to Kanto.
** The opening leitmotif to the music that plays when you battle {{spoiler|[[Final Boss|Lance]]}} and {{spoiler|[[True Final Boss|Red]]}} is from the opening movie to [[Pokémon Red and Blue]].
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** Professor Elm’s phone call to you after the burglary provides no useful details to the player. You can call him back after he’s calmed down, and he’ll explain what happened.
** Before you leave on your big journey, Elm says in passing that you should tell your mom you’re going. If you don’t do this, she’ll call you two routes later to say how hurt she is that you didn’t say goodbye.
** If you run from the battle Sudowoodo (instead of capturing it), you can see it hopping away on the overworld.
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: You will occasionally get calls from other trainers about how they failed to catch a Pokémon because they were distracted by a passing Beauty.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: Due to the games’ lack of kanji (which makes it easier to keep track of the Japanese language’s nightmarish amount of homophones), the Bell Tower was mistranslated as Tin Tower. The association with the Clear ''Bell'' and the fact that the remakes call the path to it Bellchime Trail and have bells on the top of the tower ended up with it being retranslated in the remakes.
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* [[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]].
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: In Crystal, the player character is shown to be this. In the Dragon’s Den, the Dragon Master will give you a test consisting of such head‐scratchers as “What are Pokémon to you, underlings or friends?” and “What helps you to win battles, strategy or cheating?”. After you pass, it’s pointed out that [[Always Second Best|Clair]] has never passed, although [[Big Brother Mentor|Lance]] has. (Although [[But Thou Must|the game won’t let you continue until you answer correctly]], giving all the right answers the first time will net you a [[Bragging Rights Reward|Dratini with Extremespeed]].
* [[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.”
* [[Intentional Engrish for Funny]]: Earl speaks entirely in broken English, though in his ''Pokémon Stadium 2'' appearance, he speaks normally so people could understand him, as he gave hints and advice that were imperative to competitive battling.
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* [[Numbered Sequels]]: Subverted; the [[Working Title]] of the games was ''Pocket Monsters 2: Gold and Silver''.
* [[Obvious Rule Patch]]: The steps taken to remove Psychics as [[Game Breaker|Game Breakers]]: The Special stat was split into Sp. Attack and Sp. Defense (resulting in most Psychics having lower Sp.Defense), and two new types introduced (Steel: resistant to Psychic attacks, and Dark: immune to Psychic attacks and deals extra damage to Psychic Pokémon). Also Ghost attacks now did extra damage to Psychic types like they were originally intended to, and stronger Bug‐type Pokémon and attacks were introduced.
* [[Old Save Bonus]]: Trading Pokémon with an environment three years in the past—[[Pokémon Red and Blue]]—is encouraged, and canon, through the Time Capsule. To ensure [[Restart At Level One]], though, [[Techno Wizard|Bill]] won’t get it working until after you beat the fourth gym.
* [[Olympus Mons]]: [[Pokémon Red and Blue|The originals]] had them, yeah, but it was in these games where they began appearing on the covers, and where they got some actual backstory to them beyond their simple rarity.
* [[Organ Drops]]: As the set of games that introduce held items to the Pokémon series, Gold and Silver provide the first examples of… well, not organs, but you can find eggs, beaks, claws, pearls, milk, scales, and mushrooms attached to wild Pokémon, presumably all produced through their natural biology.
* [[Previous Player Character Cameo]]: See [[Continuity Nod]]. {{spoiler|Red, the protagonist from Red and Blue, takes you on at the very end of the game, with a powered‐up team from Pokémon Yellow.}}
* [[Redundant Researcher]]: Come on, Alph Ruins researchers. It does not take ten years to assemble a jigsaw puzzle.
* [[Serendipity Writes the Plot]]: A lot of people think that the reason Kanto was scaled down due to hardware limitations, but Gold and Silver’s memory chips actually had plenty of free space and could have easily fit dozens more maps, events, and music. The real reason that many buildings and dungeons in Kanto have been scaled down so much is [[Schedule Slip]]—interviews reveal that Game Freak are notorious within Nintendo for failing to get things done on time. The in‐game explanation for the drastically reduced scope of caves and dungeons? [[Ass Pull|Rock slides.]]
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* [[Sequel Difficulty Spike|Remake Difficulty Spike]]:
** The Gym Leaders are noticeably more difficult than they were in the second generation, thanks to abilities (Bugsy’s Scyther has “Technician,” increasing its Quick Attack by 50%, and Whitney’s Miltank has “Scrappy” ([[The Scrappy|how fitting]]), enabling it to hit Ghosts who would otherwise be immune to Normal attacks) and better AI tactics (like the “Spore Punch” combo, where Chuck’s Poliwrath puts your Pokémon to sleep so they can’t disrupt its powerful Focus Punches) or simply because the elemental types are better balanced than originally, and this works out in the AI’s favor quite often. Even the physical/special split introduced in Generation IV seems to favor the AI (for example, “Flame Wheel” now relies on Cyndaquil’s physical Attack, which is lower than its Special Attack).
** Kanto received a ''huge'' difficulty spike in the remakes, compared to the original where everyone was level 30 or so: All trainers are now in the Lv.45–50 range, and the Gym Leaders are in the 50–60 range. {{spoiler|Red’s}} Pokémon are in the
* [[Retcon]]: A lot of it due to the story being reworked to be taking place around the same time as Generation IV and after Generation III.
* [[Retraux]]: ''HeartGold'' and ''SoulSilver'' have a key item called the GB Sounds (which is unlocked by getting all 16 badges) that, when activated, makes almost all overworld and battle music 8‐bit, even for (some) tracks that didn’t exist in any 8‐bit ''Pokémon'' games (i.e. music originating in those games, other DS games, or the GBA games). Every Sunday the music radio station plays 8‐bit tracks not accessible with the GB Sounds (i.e. music that only plays prior to obtaining the GB Sounds or music from radio stations, which aren’t affected by the GB Sounds).
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