Remakes of great games tend to be hit or miss. Sometimes they're amazing, giving the developers a chance to make the game they wanted to, but couldn't due to issues with time, funding, or technology. Other remakes simply flat-line, blaspheming everything the original ever stood for. Fortunately, Pokemon HG/SS falls into the former category, serving up sweet seconds of some of the best games in the franchise.

To the seven or eight of you worrying whether Pokemon HG/SS does the original game justice, rest assured. Pokemon HG/SS does more than succeed as a remake—it excels. Both games take the best of the old, the best of the new, and meld them together gloriously in what is easily one of the best remakes of all time.

For those of you not in the know, the original Pokemon Gold and Silver versions came out roughly ten years ago. One of the best games in the series (RANDOM FACT: to this day, Pokemon Silver stands as my favorite Game Boy title EVAR!), both games took the addictive formula of the first generation Pokemon games and perfected it, reshaping something great into something legendary.

Of course, perfecting perfection isn’t easy. Heck, it barely makes sense. But few games come closer than Pokemon HG/SS.

Brace yourself, children—I’m about to rave like a drooling fanboy.

PerryPiekarski via bingegamer.net »