>>46455095>Is this still the “best”?One of, your personal best will fall down to personal preference. Here are the best games and a short synopsis of each.
>Heart Gold and SOUL Silver: LOTS of content; between everything available I'm confident you could play this game for years, following Pokemon., great aesthetic, world is fun to explore and is pretty much the prettiest the Pokemon world has looked besides maybe Unova, the most open ended game in the series between gyms 9-18 and gyms 5-7. The encounter design is a weak point. Also it has the best menus in the series hands down like holy FUCK I'm mad to this day the gen 5 and 6 and 7 games didn't use it. >Platinum: Wonderful mazelike region design with lots of region to trek onto old routes, great dungeons, just really feels like you're trekking through an unforgiving world with the help of your bros. LOTS of legendaries to catch. Battle zone and battle frontier and the rematch house are great. Battle frontier also available in HGSS. The game's major flaw is a slow start and an overall sluggish pace. 