In spite of the new games being extremely appealing for all Pokemon fans (me being one of them), it is undeniable that every game must have something disappointing for some person or the other. The same goes to Pokemon Heartgold/Soulsilver. So, is there anything in particular which disappointed you?

I personally was slightly disappointed at some of the Pokemon sprites, such as Pinsir's and Scyther's. However, that didn't ruin my extremely positive view upon the games.

(You can have a look at the Pokemon sprites here)

The 3-D. It's awful in this game.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great game, but there are spots where I should easily be able to walk on behind something, but I can't! *Hopes they fix it for the European release*
Also the fact that you can't fly directly from Johto to Kanto, or vice-versa.

I thought that limitation on the flying was pointless, because you can just fly to the Pokémon League then fly again to the place you want to go to.

The fact they didn't change any of gym leaders teams, no mention of Agatha, Lorelei, or Leaf, the put way to many pokemon in the safari zone, the Gen IV evo's didn't get new sprites despite being in the Johto Dex, and the thing with the golden leaf.

Some people might consider my grievance to be pointless. I didn't like the fact that you can begin trading with DPP immediately after you get a Pokedex. I really think that ruined a good challenge and it allows for some unfair sequence breaking. Having said that, I am a Metroid looney, so I should be happy with sequence breaking. But not in this game.

I dunno, only things I don't like that I saw are probably some of the sprites and that they they Krystal out and the Ruins of Alph unown signal "????" for some reason I thought it sounded better on G/S/C

heh, tell me about it. She looks like a failed cowboyish person with a weird big hat.

I'm like, the only supporter of Kotone. I mean, come on, guys! She's dressed as Mario, for chrissakes! What's NOT to love! >:3

Kotone isn't bad and I like the costumes of both Gold and Kotone. I was disappointed with some sprites and the fact that the Battle Frontier didn't change a bit! Although the gym leaders got their teams stronger, yet I expected more from Nintendo. I also hate the fact that Celebi isn't a Wi-Fi event, unless I am wrong.

Yeah, but what if people make somewhat-vulgar Miis, like the Mario Kart icons?

What disappointed me? The game was too short after I finished it.

Battle Frontier has bored me since Emerald for some reason. I should try harder to get into it.

As for the Pokéthlon, I keep forgetting that exists. I often just fire up the game, do a bug-catching contest, and power down.

Bug-catching contest is, and has always been, Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday.

Awww im a big fan of the battle frontier =w= Very useful way to get items and challenging as well. I just wish they would have a building that allows 6 pokemon. Ive beaten all the battle frontiers brains on platinum but getting to the 2nd battle with them to get the gold pass is near impossible with only 3 pokemon, since eventually they'll be a trainer that counters it completely .-.

I think they should just all-out the 3D like Colosseum (except with Stadium-level graphics because it's the DS) instead of just this grid-style 2.5D.

:/

After beating Clair, the player can obtain level 100 Pokemon and they will be obedient. Like, wtf? :/ That depletes the purpose of beating the other 8 gym leaders. Just trade in Infernape from Pearl and blow through the game.

There are loads of wild Pokémon, and if you enter a battle with a Pokémon with intimidate, it takes nearly half a minute to run. Even longer if both Pokémon have intimidate, and even longer if one (or both) of them is shiny.

xD To be honest, one of the disappointments for me was the lack of a VS Sprite Animation before battle for Pokémon Trainer Red. It just seems completely out of the ordinary to not give him one, especially when they gave Sakaki one.

Note:To avoid confusion, "Sakaki" is called "Giovanni" in the English games.

Someone on Deviantart made one that I think could work quite well as an official one, though:

http://da-suspect.deviantart.com/art...rait-137324029

The "walk behind things" is also in the gen4 games.

------ <---walking limit


------ <---Actual back of the building

It's annoying.

And I love making the hikers look like Zombies. xD (in gen4)

as far as HG/SS goes, I haven't gotten it yet. So IRDK anything...

I am also slightly disappointed about the absence of the Pokémon Contests. Although I am not a fan of those contests, I still think that HG/SS would've been completely perfect if they were added.

That all you're three starters aren't lv.100 magikarps thats move sets were flare blitz, sky uppercut, fly,and close combat....and a focus sash. Nah! I wish that you can do all the regions from Kanto to Shinnoh. I know that would keep you occupied for HOURS. I can't wait for a Pokemon handheld experience where you can go through all the regions. THAT...WOULD...BE....AWESOME! I would love it. Too bad.

the more work u have to do. i mean 16 BADGES?!?!?! r they serious?! isnt 8 enough?

I bring this up because I saw it roughly mentioned, but Platinum's lack of polish in the movement permissions really annoyed me - buildings that, when you are far enough left or right of them, clearly have a good two steps of open space, however you can't access that area. This was polished near perfectly in Emerald, and was reasonable in Diamond/Pearl, so we kinda went backwards. I'm assuming HGSS is better.

Some problems that, from the news, I've found slightly annoying are the fact that the Safari Zone was brought back so en masse (it may as well be impossible to actually make heads or tails of what Pokémon can be found where with what items).

I also was considerably disappointed by the fact that the game doesn't use weather effects very well (for someone who has actually played the game, I would love you to contradict me on this).

The GB player, although a genius idea, was off every now and then.
Some tunes were right on, when others failed as hard as they tried.

The only thing that has dissapointed me is that they got rid of the "pedo man" outside the celadon gym i remember back in the day he said something like"this gym is great its full of ladys/women" now he says "this gym is great its full of strong trainers" that is one thing i miss from the old school Gold/Silver compared to the new ones.....

You know what disappoints me now? The fact that they disallowed the ability to purchase coins with money in the Game Corner :/

What disappointed me the most was the sprites. Poor Jolteon.

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Originally Posted by Shadow You know what disappoints me now? The fact that they disallowed the ability to purchase coins with money in the Game Corner :/

What has disappointed me?
T~T That I can only battle Erika on Sunday mornings. Otherwise, I would make it my duty to battle her at least once a day. 8D;

Also, Cycling Road transitional building, your hat outline kind of melts with the desk outline. Though, my character is Lyra, so I'm not sure if Ethan/Gold has the same problem.

I'm disappointed that you have to fly to Victory Road to go from Kanto to Johto or vice-versa.

I'd rather do it in 1 trip...

The Gym Leaders need to be harder and there needs to be more trainers to train with. I went through the entire Lake of Rage and Team Rocket's hideout by that tree in Mahogany just to train for Jasmine (fighting every trainer). One that was finished, my Pokemon were Lv. 28-30. It took me a few tries to beat Jasmine still.

@Mario: Vs. Seeker would be nice.

The "game corner"~ is not a game corner. == it's a stupid voltorb flip corner T^T
ONLY ONE GAME... NO SLOTS... no options to buy coins with money T^T I had to play for so long to get my dratini........ But now I have an epic Dragonite who loves me so much.. Return is like uber KO ;D

AND how everyone else said.. you can't fly directly Johto-Kanto or vice versa... so lame ==".

No Wi-Fi with that Pokealanthon thing. (Sorry for the spelling)

After playing Voltorb Flip a lot, I'm not mad that they took slots out, rather that the payout in Voltorb Flip isn't high enough. It should've been higher to compensate for the fact you can't buy coins.

Also, it's beginning to tick me off how I can't just track down the Gym Leaders for rematches. I need their phone numbers! I'm bored as hell and I need to grind levels!

Tiny maps, and a lack of quest reminders. Sometimes I have no idea where to go, too, because the game sucks at this stuff.

The game corner. Where are the slots? The guy in the game corner sounds like Vic on George Lopez.

"Play and make my heart pound with excitement"
-game corner guy

"Come, dominos is a mans game. Come show me what kind of man you are chico."
-vic

I didn't like the Game cor...

*sees all the other posts*

Nevermind...

I agree. The Pokeathlon should have a Wi-Fi facility.

Am I the only one who thought the Pokeathlon was just bad in general? It may be the poor calibration on my DS, but those minigames were just downright annoying. I wish they left Contests in.

But I think I'm in the minority here, so I guess you can disregard me.

Over all, the legendary events did disappoint me the most.

I'm hoping you guys will not turn this into a Pokéathlon discussion thread?
Seriously, you can talk about it in this thread.

I miss my Slot Machines.

A few aesthetic details also made me a bit dissappointed.

1. You have how many buttons on the DS that don't serve any function? And only two items can be assigned to a face button? I would like to have my Bike, Super Rod, and GB Player all assigned to three different face buttons.

2. Music doesn't change from day to night like it did in DPP. In DPP, this gave a bit more of a realistic "oh wow, time actually passes while I'm playing this game" feel. Although you could tell when the sun is rising/setting/not out, it still ruined the experience a bit for me with the exclusion of specific themes for times of day.

3. This isn't really aesthetic, just... Why is it so hard to get in contact with Gym Leaders for rematches? In Platinum you just went to the Battleground and they'd alternate. Now we have to hunt them down for their numbers and call them at certain times of certain days.

They made the Fire-Trainers fat........ That hurt me inside.

Today I started catching Dittos, and noticed a huge flaw in the new PC system. It is now insanely difficult to re-arrange Pokemon based on numerical order, because you can't move a Pokemon to a box that is full. Before I could just keep switching Pokemon with each other, but now I must find a new way to do it. Plus re-arranging Pokemon just seems awkward in general with the touchscreen. :/ They even got rid of the multi-grab feature, which was incredibly stupid. It is now extremely tedious to move Pokemon in bulk.

So called "Game Corner"
Spam Calls
Have to call Gym Leaders on a certain day, on a certain time (Usually Noon, Wednesday for me...WHICH IS WHEN I'M NOT FREE) and I hate waiting, honestly

HHmmm..

nothing actually...wait. I got one.
I use to be disappointed at Dragonite's sprite. But then it grew on me.

Actually now that I think of it, I hated some of the HG/SS sprites, but you can never make them to everyone's liking.

One of the biggest grievances I had was how easy the Johto portion of the game was, and by exstension how difficult it was. Most of the Trainers (including Gym Leaders) were pathetically simple to defeat, and the wild Pokemon? Don't make me laugh. As a result, I would breeze through large portions of the game thinking that this is way too easy. However, when I get to an opponent who's level is higher than mine, grinding becomes infuriatingly difficult because there was no one strong enough to give my Pokemon decent XP, despite the fact that all of my Pokemon except one was traded over from Platinum (I trade my entire team over to each new game I get as level 1 infants) and thus received an XP bonus.

I can understand why some people lament the loss of the slots. Voltorb Flip should have been an addition, not a replacement. However, I've never liked the Game Corner in any case, so this is one oversight I can ignore.

The Pokeathlon should not have replaced the contests either. I will always prefer to compete in the athletic events as opposed to the show events, but removing contests entirely makes little to no sense.

The Flying issue is also annoying, and I don't like the way the 2.5D graphics make it difficult to know what I can and cannot walk behind. I also found some of the dialogue difficult to swallow, and cutscene immobility has always frustrated me, but these have always been a part of the games, so eh...There're other issues, but those are my biggest.

The game did a lot of stuff right (I never want to bike or Fly anywhere because I love having my Pokemon follow me) but it also made a lot of mistakes I didn't think it would. I hope Nintendo learns from these before Black and White go out.

How easy it is to be very underleveled at the 8th gym

Frikkin running into a wild pokemon every 5 seconds!!!

The Johto leaders weren't bad. They were quite challenging. What is currently disappointing me is the short routes between the Kanto leaders. My Pokemon are so under leveled and I can't find a place to rain properly!

Eh. I didn't like Jolteon's sprite. That's basically it, and there are a few sprites I really hated...but I can't think of one other than Jolteon's. Dx

Salamence's overworld is AWFUL.

I miss kris.
I would have even settled for a cameo.

Let me say this nicely and calmly...THE LACK OF TRAINING SPOTS. There are about... hmm... 2 places to grind for the elite 4. And they are both crappy. You can barely get EXP in trainer battles, you have to rely on Gym Leaders, which are impossible to grind for the Jhotto elite 4. When I got to the elite 4 in my 1st runthrough, I was a team of level 30s. NEEDS. MORE. EXP. *breaths in, and out* Im done.

I always train at the Victory Road,it's a nice place.

What disappointed me was the way that you have to Fly from the Pokemon league then to whatever region you want to go to, Why not just fly on both regions without doing that???

The Game Corner, it was an Epic fail.
I checked out the Japanese Version, and it HAD a Game Corner.
For some reason the English version has a useless old man who wants to play one mini game with you.. grr.

Also, Victory Road.
No Trainers? (Ok I know this was also in G/S/C)
But some good training before the League would have been helpful.

Otherwise HG/SS is my Wife.

Flying from Johto to Kanto, and the Moltres sprite ;P

Oh yeah I also didn't like the new game corner game... (You know with the voltorbs, lol)

EDITED by The Spirit of Time. Next time, don't double post. Edit your previous post. It can cause infractions.

I hate the fact that Victory Road lacks trainers. I like to battle trainers.

I hate that you need to fly to the victory road and then to the other region your going to. You can also go to Goldenrod though and take the magnet train.

I was disappointed that the battle frontier was EXACTLY the same as platinum. Come on Nintendo, be a little more creative.