Hey GAF. It is time for us to settle something definitively and once & for all here.
Or not.
So, I recently received a $10 credit from Amazon for botching one of my orders. I was thinking of using it to buy a code for the VC re-release of Pokemon Gold/Silver next month. Only problem is, I can't decide between Gold or Silver.
Yes, there are version-exclusive Pokemon, but this is a moot point for me because there are cool exclusives for each game. So, what this choice boils down to is sprites. As you may or may not know, Gold and Silver are the only paired games to feature two completely different sets of Pokemon sprites in each of them. Why GameFreak decided to do extra work for no reason is a mystery. But, since these are the images we will be staring at for our entire 20+ hours of gameplay, we must decide: which set is better?
This is definitely something where it seems like people could have strong differing opinions. There are some clear examples, I think, where an individual Pokemon's sprite is better in Gold than in Silver:
What wrong, Silver Blastoise? Y u fall down?
And also examples where a Silver sprite is clearly better than Gold:
What are you doing with your legs, Gold Hitmonlee. You're a martial artist, you do kicks. Stop embarrassing yourself.
Which set is better overall? For reference, here all the full sprite sheets for Gold and for Silver, so you can compare them side by side (EDIT: The difference in color saturation is just this website. Both games have the same colors). I played Silver growing up and so was a little biased towards that, but looking at them now I feel like the Gold sprites may overall be better.
What does GAF think?