Pokemon: Top Five of the Game Series

3. Pokemon Silver

The second gen games of the series were Pokemon: Gold and Silver, featuring the same basic structure in terms of story and adventure content: the player is making their rite of passage Pokemon Trainer journey with the goal being to win the badges required in order to battle through to the Elite Four and beat them, and then beat the reigning regional Pokemon Champion.

In addition to the traditional coming-of-age adventure there is also the story line and its mysteries, completing the Pokedex by capturing, evolving, and trading all 251 Pokemon, and defeating the bad guys to save the day!

With 100 new species of Pokemon to be captured and trained, the game includes a wide selection of previously discovered Pokemon that probably includes some of your favorites of the previous gen, which while we could not know it then, became something of a tradition in the generations that followed it.

Among the new features in Silver was the introduction of the Legendary wandering Pokemon Entei, Suicine, and Raikou, as well as new Pokeballs, the new “held items” ability for Pokemon (including most notably Pokeberries), and the Pokegear System, which added new information technology assets to the games. Two new Pokemon Types were added to the world of Pokemon: Dark Type and Steel Type, along with a plethora of new moves and the division of the Special Attack Type into Special Attack and Special Defense stats.

Probably the most important new addition to the games -- and the core reason for this making it to slot three on the list -- is the addition of Pokemon Breeding in the form of the Pokemon Daycare system and egg-based breeding!

While the case can be made that, being the second generation in the series it is only natural that the expansion of both the story and the open world in the game was to be expected, it was that very broad expansion, as well as the decision to pack in lots of new things to do in order to fill that grand new world, which makes Silver an enduring choice as favorite game ever for a lot of Pokemon Trainers even now.

Posted: 7th Feb 2014 by CMBF
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