Along the way you’ll discover Apricorns, the return of Team Rocket, Baby Pokemon, the Elite Four and so much more. After you’ve chosen your Pokemon, it’s time to cover the Johto circuit and take down their eight gym leaders. You have a choice of three starters: Totodile, Cyndaquil or Chikorita. Here you take the part of a tweener about to set out on their own Pokemon journey. To the west of Kanto (the location of Pokemon RGBY) is a land known as Johto. Team Rocket has disbanded and a new day has dawned. Red became the Kanto Pokemon Champion and then quickly disappears.

Pokemon Heart Gold & Soul Silver takes place three years after the events of Pokemon RGBY (Red/Green/Blue/Yellow). With the remakes adding a ton of new content, do they manage to surpass the originals? The second generation of Pokemon RPG’s are universally considered the best in the history of the franchise.

That being said, it’s time to see what a return trip to Johto holds for you. Although I’ve certainly reviewed Pokemon games in the past and given them less than flattering scores ( Emerald, Trozei, Dash, Battle Revolution), people new to me (or DHGF in general) are definitely welcome to take this review with a grain of salt. At the same time though, it means you’re about to read a review of a game that the author in question makes money off of. It’s these personal and professional ties that have allowed me to be an official “leak” for Pokemon information as well as letting me tease my staff here with games months before they’re even announced to the Japanese audience.

For those new to the site, I pull in two different Pokemon related paychecks. By the Japanese launch day I had FAQ’s and Strategy Guides for both sets of Gym Leaders and the Elite Four written up which have since been copied and pasted across the Internet. I was the first to break the announcement of its release ANYWHERE (which can be seen from to N4G.com).

As most of the audience here at Diehard GameFAN know, I’ve had copies of Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver for a quite some time before the Japanese release date. Well, it’s finally here – the day I know most of our readers have been waiting for: the release of Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver.

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