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Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green were announced to be coming to Nintendo Switch late last week, and I got loads of question about what the differences between versions are.
Really, the only major difference between the two versions are Pokemon, although that might be more important this time around as it’s unclear how we’ll be able to trade between versions.
The different Pokemon are:
Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green are remakes of the original Pokemon games. The games have been updated to use the Gen 3 battle system, there’s a tonne of new moves from newer games, you can now breed Pokemon and there’s also the ability to choose male/female protagonist. It added new content in new islands, post-game content and a bunch of new connectivity options (that probably won’t extend to these games).