“Pokemon Crystal Kaizo” is a Completed GBC Rom Hack made by SinisterHoodedFigure. This is a tougher version of Pokemon Blue with all 251 Pokemon available, numerous redesigned areas, and much more!
Pokemon Crystal Kaizo Completed GBC Rom Hack
- Creator: SinisterHoodedFigure
- New Update by: CreamElDudJafar
- Base ROM: Crystal
- Language: English
- Latest Version: Feb 5, 2025
- Last Updated on: February 05, 2025
- Status: Completed
Also Check Out: Pokemon Blue Kaizo
Description
Pokemon Crystal Kaizo is a significantly more challenging hack of Pokemon Crystal, where you can obtain all 251 Pokemon in Second Generation.
Numerous areas have been redesigned, many dungeons and routes are more treacherous than before. Every non-boss trainer in the game has an AI boost, and the default movesets are made to be far more threatening. Team Rocket members and especially Team Rocket leaders are a considerable threat.
Wild Pokemon distribution is vastly improved, with levels fairly close to trainers. You can catch quite a variety of pokemon early on. In addition, the odd egg from the daycare man can yield one shiny pokemon, which could be either one of the starters, Dratini, Larvitar, one of two Tyrogues with different attack DVs, Magby, Smoochum, Elekid, or an Eevee.
Apart from Slowking, who evolves by water stone, you can evolve trade evolutions by level up. Eevee evolves into Espeon and Umbreon using Sun Stones and Moon Stones respectively. You can purchase stones as early as goldenrod, where the game will start to pick up on the difficulty.
Every major Boss in the game has shiny pokemon, and apart from the early rival fights, every boss in the game has a full team of six, with dangerous movepools, healing items, and as time goes on, held items. Initially the Gym Leaders will stick to their specialty types, but as soon as you get to the Rival in Ecruteak, they will start to use diverse pokemon with a few of these specialty types, using moves corresponding to that type as coverage or status, and sometimes, counters. These major bosses include Team Rocket Executives, the Elite Four, and Champions.
After seven badges, you will face against very powerful enemies with fully evolved and dangerous pokemon, and you will eventually reach level 100 after the eight badge. The Rival at the end of Victory Road may catch you off guard, and the Elite Four and Champion will probably be the most difficult part of the game.
Post-game will be slightly less intense than victory road, apart from Kanto Gym leaders, who will be on part with the Champion in terms of difficulty. However, there are 4 superbosses, including Leader Blue, who will be far more difficult than the others. The other three include the Trainer House, Red on Mt. Silver, and one obscure Rival fight at the indigo plateau, that only appears on Mondays and Wednesdays only after you beat him in Mt. Moon.
A major update involves Revives, Max Revives, and Revival Herbs; they cannot be used during battle. They can only be used outside of it, so there are consequences to losing your pokemon in battle, in which you cannot revive them while you are battling, only when it is over.
Added the Team Rocket Battle Music to Executives and Scientists. As well as ethers in shops, some graphic changes, and bicycling in Goldenrod Underground and Team Rocket Hideout.
Features
- The Odd Egg: The Odd Egg you recieve from the daycare man gives you nothing but a shiny Pokemon; which could be one of the starters, dratini, larvitar, magby, smoochum, elekid, eevee, or one of two tyrogues.
- Map Redesigns: All of the maps have been redesigned. In each route, you will encounter a diverse variety of Wild Pokemon. Navigating dungeons will be a prominent ordeal throughout the game. There are also some areas that were not present in the original crystal, acting as easter eggs.
- Major Bosses and Other Trainers: All bosses will have shiny pokemon in their rosters, and apart from a couple of rival fights, all of them have full teams of six, each with improved rosters and movepools from the original. In addition, many of them will have held items. Another thing to note is that there won’t be duplicate Pokemon within the same boss roster, so many bosses will have some wildcards, which are capable of acting as counters to their specialty weakness, can use moves related to their specialty type, or even both. Including Team Rocket Executives and Elite Four Members and Champions
- In addition, all other trainers have better pokémon, along with improved AI from the original, making every trainer in the game a bit more dangerous.
- Don’t forget about the Rival Superboss at the elite four on Mondays and Wednesdays; though he only appears after you beat the rival at Mt. Moon.
- 251 Pokemon: You will encounter all 251 Pokemon, or if you face a secret boss, 252, throughout your adventure, though you will only be able to capture 251 Pokemon. It should be noted that certain pokémon will only be available when you have access to Mt. Silver, so that you can trade these pokémon for legendaries that weren’t present in the original Pokemon Crystal.
- Trade Evolutions: With the exception of Slowking, who evolves by a Water Stone, all trade evolutions evolve by level up.
- Evolution Stones: In addition, you can purchase evolution stones very early on, in the goldenrod department store.
- One thing to note is that eevee can evolve into espeon through the use of a sun stone, while umbreon evolves through the use of a moon stone. It appears that you are unable to evolve them as displayed in the images.
- Bug Catching Contest: You can catch a much bigger variety of bug pokémon in the national park. If you look hard enough, you could find something special.
- Revives, Max Revives, and Revival Herbs are disabled during ingame battles: Now, during a trainer battle, this displays that you won’t be able to use revives during battle, making important battles, like gym leaders, have actual consequences when you losing your pokemon, making the game more difficult, and truly “Kaizo”.
- Unlike nuzlockes, you can still use revives outside of battle, but only outside of it, so don’t forget to heal and save. Slightly worried about the post game battles, which gets really difficult, so this update may be a brief one, depending on responses.
- Executives and Scientists Battle Music and Purchasable Ethers: The newest update has ethers sold in stores, starting from Goldenrod City. Use them wisely. You can also bike in the Goldenrod Underground, as well as Team Rocket’s Hideout. Some minor errors have been fixed (though I don’t understand why I see Leftovers acting like a really big berry in some videos; it never happens to me.) Finally, the Team Rocket Executives and Scientists have the Team Rocket Battle Music like they should have had in Gold, Silver, and ESPECIALLY Crystal (There’s no excuse for Gamefreak there not to fix that).
What’s new in Feb 05, 2025 Update
- Crystal Kaizo now has it when you use a repel and it wears off it will ask to use another.
- HMs are deletable.
- All stones to evolve eevee now say Able (Umbreon and Espeon Sun/Moon stones in the past would say Unable but would still evolve).
- Rare Candies in Indigo Plateau Mart for 1 dollar.
- Game Name now displays in Hall of Fame movie credit screen.
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