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Gens 1 & 2 exuded a certain atmosphere that none of the other games do at all, they felt like different games. Dunno why the series got so linear and suffered shoehorned plots, the best parts of the old games imho were the mysteries surrounding the optional legendaries. You had to go looking for them in the corners of the gameworld, going the extra mile to find them, then you either caught them or they got away.