Pokémon Gold And Silver Celebrates 25 Years With Commemorative Plush

It is going to be sweet when they announce the remakes.

I believe you mean to say posable wings.

@Jokerwolf There is zero chance that new remakes would be better than HeartGold/SoulSilver.

@nessisonett There will be more remakes, not much we can do.

Looking at title of article, for a moment there, I thought they surprise-announced Switch remakes!😄

I would pay a second mortgage to see a Legends Johto. Best game map and OST of all time.

Inb4 someone positions them to do THAT salute.

For $50? Hahaha no.

@KY502ShinyHunter I'll agree on the music. I love Johto despite its ridiculous leveling curve. The trainers calling you up and the passengers on the ship help mitigate that issue.

@Erigen Gold und Silber?

Oh God they're horrible.

@Champalimo Direktor Gould und Stadtrat Sivlerr, and their lapdog Schnitzel (Suicune).

$50 for the set doesn’t seem so bad. I’d definitely love to buy them for my brother for a gift. He absolutely holds these games in such high regard from his childhood…Whenever he plays them he can’t help but tell me every little thing he can remember.

EDIT: Damn, I completely read the article wrong and thought it was a set of two for $50. Each of them for that price is just so not worth it. Maybe I’ll buy him a Shadow Lugia off AliExpress instead…

@Liam_Doolan Yeah I just realized I completely read that wrong….

I just ordered both as my Christmas present to myself.

They won't be coming out of the bags they come in though sadly. They'll sell out soon enough and will only go up in price tbh.

I love Pokemon Gold and Silver I swear, but these two weren't a patch on the OG Legendary birds in my estimation. The amount of love Lugia gets in particular is mind-boggling for something that looks that derpy. Is it because of the film or am I genuinely missing something?

There was truly something magical about GSC that is hard to put into words. The GBC aesthetic with it's iconic soundtrack and locations has stuck with me even 25 years later. And as amazing as HGSS were as remakes, I more often find myself going back to the original games when I want to revisit Johto.

Time flies.

Are they bringing the other items from the Gold and Silver anniversary set to the west?

@Thief The graphics had a bit more charm in the originals and the 8-bit music was much catchier. Well, that's why I return to them more.

@JohnnyMind Lugia is supposed to be silver and their colour schemes are based more on their game's colour theme than their original designs.

@Jokerwolf Fingers crossed!! There have been a lot of rumours about Gold/Siilver/ Crystal 3D remakes this year and Junichi Masuda and Shigeru Ohmori have said they believe Johto will return in the future as a sequel to the 'Let's Go' games or in another form.

Should have brought out plushies of the starters along with some of the cute ones like Marill, Teddirusa, Togepi, Misdrevus, Wooper and Bellossom

@JohnnyMind I was saying the plush of Lugia is silver. They don't look like their sprites (normal, or shiny), because they've been coloured based on the name of their respective games.

@nessisonett Honestly, it's been enough years that I would gladly sacrifice just a bit of content to experience Johto in a full 3D presentation, with completely reimagined landscapes and towns. The expansion pass can add everything back and then some, but going from the old 16-bit era to the latest Switch 2 visuals will be such a massive leap that a 1:1 content comparison will not be the priority for me.

@Ulysses That implies that the 3D presentation would look more impressive than DS graphics which in Game Freak’s case just isn’t so.

@Rooty Part of that is due to Lugia being designed by Takeshi Shudo who wasn't part of GameFreak but the main driving force behind the anime. They were designed to be motherly but after the movie came out it drove Shudo into a depressive spiral that unfortunately they succumbed to. It can be personal to a lot of people.

Ho-Oh even says its classic catchphrase, 'Pose me'!

@DollyrotsFan1 My hope is that if they go down the let's go route they give players the option between that and classic play style. If they had done that in let's go it would have made it more appealing to a lot of people.

@Erigen Lol! That's funny.

God forbid we get a mainline Pokemon game on NSO.

@Jokerwolf Yeah. That could be fun. I remember they done something similar to that with the Wonderboy 3: The Dragon's Trap remake and you could switch between the modern graphics and music and the classic graphics and music.