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My kid plays it now and love it, though the pace test my patient some evenings.
Game entry
Pokémon Crystal Version
2000 · JRPG, Action RPG, Action-adventure · Game Boy Color, Nintendo 3DS · Nintendo
GameForever voters place Pokémon Crystal Version no. 288 in the world ranking, with 1,773 ELO points and 69% of wins across 297 duels settled. Against The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the opponent it meets most often, the tally stands at 1 wins to 4 losses in 5 duels. Its best rank by family puts it at no. 11 out of 91 (2000).
World rank
no. 288
ELO score
1,773
Wins
69%
Duels played
297
About Pokémon Crystal Version
Pokémon Crystal is a special edition of Pokémon Gold and Silver. It added the option to play as a female character, expanded upon the storyline and made slight aesthetic changes to the still-intact core experience of becoming a Pokémon Master.
ELO progression
Score moved from 1,500 to 1,773 ELO points over the last 215 days.
Head-to-head
Direct record on the most played match-ups.
- against The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 20% 5 duels played · 27 points behind
- against Dragon Age: Origins 60% 5 duels played · 16 points ahead
- against Assassin's Creed Origins 75% 4 duels played · 86 points ahead
- against Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch 100% 3 duels played · 131 points ahead
- against God of War 33% 3 duels played · 114 points behind
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Around this spot
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The standing
Where Pokémon Crystal Version ranks
The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Pokémon Crystal Version stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 11 out of 91 (2000).
| Ranking | Position | Games competing |
|---|---|---|
| World ranking | 288 | 5,110 |
| JRPG | 26 | 232 |
| 2000s | 93 | 1,304 |
| 2000 | 11 | 91 |
The community
The debate
42 comments
JazlynMaster
My kid plays it now and love it, though the pace test my patient some evenings.
Coop_Ferrer
Replying to Neon_Thiel
¿Y tú también acabaste jugando esa versión más veces que las otras solo por ese pequeño detalle? A mí me pasó, y comparado con juegos mucho más grandes sigue siendo el que más veces he vuelto a encender.
Neon_Thiel
Sounds familiar, did your kid ever ask why the girl option wasn't there from the start?
IronRunner
Le mot patient résume bien le débat de fond, franchement, même si le classement s'en fiche royalement de ça.
Donato_1990
The menu navigation alone cost me 20 hours I'll never get back honestly.
QuestKnight
moi aussi les menus m'ont usé, mais ça change quoi au fond du jeu, non ?
Isabel_19
It still holds up as a comfort game, the systems are simple but they work, and there's something nice about the pace not demanding much from you. I wouldn't call it a top tier pick against bigger RPGs though, it's just doing something different.
CoopRider14
Comfort game contre des mastodontes narratifs, la comparaison ne joue jamais vraiment en sa faveur.
rossi_celina
J'ai l'impression que ce côté comfort game, justement, devrait le sortir de ces duels plutôt que l'y maintenir.
Nova_Corwin
The turn order and item menus feel every bit their age, load times too, yet the core battle logic still reads clean compared to a lot of what replaced it since.
Save_Gerlach
People keep pitting this against open world giants and I get why it loses, different scale entirely, but 66% win rate over 207 duels says the voters disagree with the doubters.
SammieDragon
not sure why win rate needs defending honestly, isn't 66% over 207 duels exactly the kind of number that ends this debate on its own?