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Yes... and thank goodness they did. I cannot tell you how upset I was when I bought LeafGreen, built my team with a Zubat in it, and found out that I couldn't evolve my Golbat until after I got the National Dex. To make matters worse they teased me by bringing up the evolution screen and saying something like, "Huh? Golbat cannot evolve?" Every single time Golbat leveled up. I fixed the problem by having Golbat hold an Everstone, but I still had to wait until I actually got the stone. The reason that I couldn't evolve my Golbat (because I didn't have the National Dex) doesn't make sense.

Personally, I think that the whole National Dex road block is a real pain in the hind-quarter. I'm not sure what gave them the idea that it was okay to limit our ability to trade between games, but it certainly was something that I was peeved at. This road block was one of the reasons to I got frustrated at my Pearl version and sold it.

I was excited for the whole dongle feature where if you put an older gameboy advance version you unlocked certain Pokemon from those games on the routes. This made my obsolete games useful. Think of how upset I was when I found out I had to wait. I suppose the thinking is that most people just collect the pokemon and that it would be okay to make us wait, but this is not the case for me. I don't just collect the pokemon, and I don't really even play the game beyond the elite four. I restart my entire game and start a new one with a totally new team, one by one training each different line. Each time is a new experience for me, though certain things get repetitive (such as the story).

I am sure glad that HeartGold and SoulSilver allowed you to trade inbetween them and Diamond/Pearl/Platinum as soon as you got your regular Pokedex. If they didn't allow it I would have probably screamed, frustrated with the backwards thinking that decision would have made. Now I am happy.

Sorry for my little rant, it just spilled out. Flarsable, if they changed the Johto-list to encompass pokemon that are evolutions or pre-evolutions of the pokemon in the original game I am fine with that. In fact, I would be fine with them adding pokemon that have no relationship whatsoever to the pokemon from the old Johto dex as it doesn't really matter. Though you would be correct in saying that doing so would make little sense outside the fact that the anime does it all the time.

What I have found with my own copy of SoulSilver is that you cannot return your front pokemon and thus they will follow you no matter what (except for big pokemon in small areas). Now this is disappointing for me. Though I do like the feature, I was hoping that it was optional. Just as it is in the anime. You don't see any of Brock's Pokemon out of their Pokeballs most of the time. And if it is optional, I haven't found the way to turn the feature off yet. Oh well, win some you lose some.