>>50532968Kanto itself isn't good. It's what it stands for that's good. FrLg and LGPE both miss the charm of the original games.
The plotline is boring and generic, the designs are almost all very tame. For its time however, tropes weren't really established like these in games yet and thus gets a free pass. The whimsical journey you get to take is still echoed in every game since.
Kanto in the Johto postgame isn't good. It's quite bland. But in a time where Johto was going to be the last game, they crammed Kanto in to massively expand the playtime, something a TON of Gameboy and GBC games simply can't match in terms of game length and content.