Originally posted by Skreeny
Originally posted by Keitaro
Honestly, Gold and Silver had a much deeper plot than most people actually realize... its just that there's so many little details that get over looked, and many that didn't even make sense until later games. But as it turns out the game was incredibly deep and had a huge deal of symbolism to it.
Care to explain? I saw a lot of atmosphere, but not much story.
Also, in probably a year's worth of looking, I've never seen Serebii post any actual fake news. Unsourced, sure, but I haven't seen any of it actually come out as wrong.
Well...the Mewtwo/Latios thing was wrong, and before Diamond and Pearl came out they jumped the gun and confirmed a faked set of starters as being the real things, for one...other than that I don't know what she means ; I don't really follow that site much.
The storyline was definitely there, it had more to it than the originals did imho. It did have a lot of shinto references, many I'm still figuring out, not to mention a lot of hidden ones involving the Unown and their symbolism within the continuity. Also, with the events of Fire Red/RSE, the storylines were expanded to kind of explain a few additional details.
My biggest theory is this one: there's an active volcano on One Isle in FRLG, which is said to be likely to go off at any minute--its filled with Slugma. RSE takes place at the same time or within the same time frame as FRLG, assume that Groudon and Kyogre causing global weather catastrophies triggered the volcano to go off--it makes the most sense, after all. It explains why in GSC, Cinibar is destroyed by a "nearby volcano". Now as we all know, there was no such thing. But we learn in FRLG that One Isle is incredibly close to Cinibar, as revealed by the events of the storyline. Also after the aftermath of the volcano, Slugma are strewn all about the area where the volcano hit around Fuschia City. We can assume they were blown over there during the blast, or formed out of the residual magma since they are made of pure lava anyway--the area of the volcanic aftermath is also the only area in the Kanto/Johto regions other than One Island where Slugma can be found. That's just one of my major theories, anyway.
We also learn that in GSC, the two birds--Lugia and Ho-Oh, fled after Brass Tower burned down (Entei, Raikou, and Suicune were said to have perished, hence why they were stone), and later return at the end of the game to their respective locations. Well, as you know, you find these two birds as optional events in FRLG. We can assume that they fled to the two locations in that game in the mean while--being as they were optional events we can say that canonically, Red either never encountered them, or was not able to capture them, and they returned back to Johto. Same logic as to why the three birds of Kanto are floating around Sinnoh--when Red fails to capture them, they flee. As they aren't present in GSC, we can assume he either caught them or they took off. He doesn't use them, which doesn't tell us very much, but their presence in Sinnoh would imply that they managed to get away from him...guess he never had much luck with legendaries. Or maybe thats the point, canonically they are supposed to come off as some sort of unattainable beast--legendary, for a reason. The fact that you as a player can catch them may just have little bearing on the actual storyline as they hope to portray it ;x
He may have not captured Mewtwo as well, since in GSC, Mewtwo's cave was sealed off for being "too dangerous". Now other than Mewtwo, all that place really had were a bunch of Parasect, Electrode, Golbat, and a few Wobuffet. Nothing you haven't encountered before and definitely far from the most ferocious Pokemon. Perhaps we can conclude from this that the cave was sealed off to prevent Mewtwo from escaping, or from anyone getting hurt.
The final thing I can say that expands upon the storyline is the Mew Event in Emerald, and this one is not just speculation like the rest--if you read the Journals and various photographs in the buildings on Cinibar island in FRLG/RBY, you'd be able to determine eventually that Mr. Fuji is responsible for creating Mewtwo. We also learn that there is a sign on Mew's island, which is signed by Fuji and claimed to be the place he originally found him--going by what the Journals said, we can conclude that this is the only non-Japanese location accessable in a Pokemon game--its South America. Russia is also mentioned by a Rocket Grunt in GSC (he claims his failure will have him shipped over to their branch over there), but that location is obviously inaccessable.
If you need me to expand on anything just ask. There's a lot of speculation involved but a lot of these things are the most logical conclusions you can reach when you peice the facts together.
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