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>Unique and fun replacement for gym battles over a decade before Game Freak tried it in Sun and Moon
>The evil organization of the team is actually evil (for real) and not a bunch of Saturday morning cartoon villains, as they do a bunch of genuinely awful shit, including but not limitted to literally physically attack people both with Pokemon and by themselves
>Amazing plot
>Protagonist has a backstory, a character arc, and is actually kind of interesting
>Game is funny without using le twitter audience longboi meme humor
>All Pokemon are to scale and have unique animations
>Region manages to take great influence from the location its based off of and fits well into the Pokemon world without being a fucking copy paste of a real life area
>Is actually challenging
Why didn't this game set the fucking standard for Pokemon going forward? It's been 16 years, anons...
