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>Go to play Gen 4 in 2021+.11/12
>Notice how dated the graphics were even for a DS game
>Notice how slow it is
>"WTF? Why is there only 500 Pokemon? What about my bro Espurr?"
>Already played Emerald so there is no point in going to the battle frontier again
>Postgame is a glorified bossrush
>Music is underwhelming until you can change it back to 8 bit
>Followmons are only 8 different sprites that hop unnaturally
>Battles are extremely static
>No overworld Pokemon outside followmons
>"Okay..maybe the online used to be good..":The battle system was awful and wasn't ranked
>Maingame takes forever with several gym leaders being useless
>Story is pretty forgettable outside of Champion randomly showing up
>Director didn't even try to make a coherent world, preferring to make every room cluttered with nonsensical designs that break immersion
>TMs are limited
>No way to change abilities
>Hidden abilities don't exist
>"Oh maybe I could put weakness poli...oh right..."
>Movepools are under developed
>No open world area
>The amount of moves available is underwhelming
>Zero new battle facilities
>Hands out too many legendaries to where the hunt gets boring after the 8th one
>Battles are stale because there's no special things to do in them and there is zero no modes to try out
>HMs
>"Followmon" is just a sprite that has its wings go up and down
>Regional forms don't exist
>1D characters with barely any development
>Decide to go back to playing gen 8
