Kanto or Johto?

[RedBlastoise]

In GSC you could visit both Kanto and Johto. Did you prefer the Johto part of the game where the main plot happened or the Kanto part with the post-game content?

I preferred Johto because there was more to do and there was an actual story being told even if that story was shoddy and not very organized.

 

[Leonhart]

I liked Jouto way more than I liked Kanto in G/S/C. Kanto felt cut up and smaller than it was in R/G/B/Y, whereas Jouto felt more full. Jouto also had a lot of interesting cities and caves compared to Kanto.

 

[TwilightBlade]

Johto's soooo much better than Kanto was in Gold, Silver and Crystal. Johto had the Team Rocket plot and gyms that were actually hard. All that Kanto had were some high level trainers and barely any other content.

 

[Leonhart]

All that Kanto had were some high level trainers and barely any other content.

One of my biggest gripes was that Game Freak went overboard with shrinking the Kanto region by not only shortening a lot of the routes and getting rid of some dungeons, but also by them getting rid of certain buildings altogether like the Safari Zone, the Nibi (Pewter) Museum, and turning the Pokemon Tower into a Radio Tower instead.

 

[Feline]

Kanto did shrink in G/S/C. I definitely prefer Johto cause of all the reasons everyone else said.

 

[Ubermuk]

Johto's wayyyy better because it was a new region at the time so you didn't know what to expect when you played GSC for the first time. Kanto may as well've not been in these games because it was so useless...

 

[NeganTheSavior]

Johto was my first region so I gotta go with my nostalgia lol.

 

[TheWanderingMist]

Johto is so much prettier aesthetically than urbanized Kanto. It really sucks that they locked half the Johto Pokemon in the post game. Frickin' Morty and his Gengar line Gym.

 

[Leonhart]

Kanto may as well've not been in these games because it was so useless...

I actually agree to an extent. I like Kanto as much as the next person, but I can't help but feel that I would've rather seen a bigger version of Jouto in G/S/C at the cost of Kanto not being accessible.

 

[NeganTheSavior]

Johto is about as Japanese as it gets. The remakes legit make me want to travel to Japan someday so I can experience the culture firsthand.

 

[RedBlastoise]

Johto is about as Japanese as it gets. The remakes legit make me want to travel to Japan someday so I can experience the culture firsthand.

Only a few places in Johto looked really Japanese to me and that was Violet City and Ecruteak City. Places like Goldenrod looked more like NYC than anything in Japan but that's just me.

 

[NeganTheSavior]

Only a few places in Johto looked really Japanese to me and that was Violet City and Ecruteak City. Places like Goldenrod looked more like NYC than anything in Japan but that's just me.

Goldenrod City is actually based on Osaka City from the Kansai region in Japan.

 

[TwilightBlade]

Johto is so much prettier aesthetically than urbanized Kanto. It really sucks that they locked half the Johto Pokemon in the post game. Frickin' Morty and his Gengar line Gym.

Half of Johto's Pokemon? I only remember Misdreavus, Houndour, Murkrow, Slugma, Larvitar and Sneasel being in the post game part of the games.

 

[TheWanderingMist]

Half of Johto's Pokemon? I only remember Misdreavus, Houndour, Murkrow, Slugma, Larvitar and Sneasel being in the post game part of the games.

50% is an exaggeration. There are 100 Johto Pokemon total. Houndoom, Magcargo, Pupitar, and Tyranitar were also locked to postgame by virtue of their pre-evolutions being locked there. That's 10% of the Johto Dex being stuck to post-game. Houndour and Slugma can't even be found in Johto.

 

[Leonhart]

Goldenrod City is actually based on Osaka City from the Kansai region in Japan.

It is, although I can see why some people wouldn't know that since Osaka probably isn't as well-known internationally as places like Tokyo or Kyoto. But speaking of Kogane (Goldenrod) City, I remember getting lost there when I first visited it.

 

[WalesNote]

Johto's cooler, more style. But it's still kind of small for a region. Wish it were bigger with more routes and towns and stuff. The routes is has at present aren't all that big, either.

 

[Kutie Pie]

While it was actually really exciting and cool to explore Kanto, and seeing how it changed in-game three years was awesome (albeit sad at times), Johto was better, being a new region and all. Kanto needed more room to be on par with Johto, which was luckily fixed in the remake, but I still appreciate what they managed to do for G/S/C.

 

[juiccbox]

I love kanto, but Johto has cemented it’s place in my heart as my second favorite region, next to unova. I like the ancient japanese architecture and vibe of it, as well as all the cool Pokémon and characters it offers.
It’s also hella satisfying to see what happens after the events of kanto.

 

[Venomshock]

Johto had a lot of cool places to visit like National Park during the Bug Catching Contests and the Battle Tower so I thought it was the superior region.

 

[Leonhart]

Johto had a lot of cool places to visit like National Park during the Bug Catching Contests and the Battle Tower so I thought it was the superior region.

The Bug-Catching Contest was one of my favorite events in Jouto, although it was a poor substitute for the Safari Zone. I really wonder why Game Freak cut the Kanto Safari Zone at the last minute given that a beta version exists in the internal data of G/S/C.