Untitled

I don't like lyra, but I've never really said why on here.

So when has was announced I was so happy, gen 2 was my favorite Gen and what made me such a pokemon lover. I was so excited to play through johto again.

Of all the games I've played, it was crystal that was most important to me growing up. It's the first time I really connected to my character and team. I remember all 5 of my main team, their nicknames, and even the delibird I used for fly, and my first shiny pokemon.

I usually pick female trainers because I am a girl and usually identify with them more, and was so excited to play as Kris.

Then came lyra. I think she is badly designed. She looks ridiculous. Lyra dresses like something you'd find at the end of one of those toddler leashes held by those soccer moms. She replaced Kris, but gold stayed?

So I did picked up HeartGold anyway and just played through as gold. But I wasn't attached to my character and by extension, my team. I tried to keep playing, make it fun for myself, but even trying to recreate my old team didn't hold me. I quit before the elite 4.

And none of the excuses Nintendo gave for the change work. They said it was because they wanted to separate hgss from crystal version, but they took the ENTIRE suicune plot and euscine character from it. But no one ever seems to acknowledge that.

So that's how Lyra ruined hgss for me.

And that's ignoring how important Kris was overall.

Kris was hugely important for girls in gaming, she's the reason second gen is the first time I FELT like a pokemon trainer, not just a player controlling the dude. I'm sure it was the same for a lot of girls back then.

With how rare female PCs were back then, Kris was an important step forward in including girls as gamers. i cannot stress enough just how important she is and how much of an impact she made. i feel like if they didn't make her, we wouldn't have had a female pc for a long time, simply because they didn't bother. We may not have had a May, or a Dawn, who knows how long it would have taken.

And Masters just disregards her more as a johto protagonist. She doesn't get any special lines with silver, even though gold and Lyra do, it honestly feels like they were just looking for any more characters they could add to the gatcha game

But so few people even care, or even remember or acknowledge Kris or how bad a break she got. Lyra has almost completely replaced her in everything johto.