>>54757265>they suck ass with amateur designThis is 100% correct. Radical red is only good for it having all 9 gens of pokemon and ease of access to QOL.
Celadon to Saffron runs like this:
>Fight Erika>Fight Giovanni after game corner dungeon>Get silph scope>Fight Rival in Silph Co>Fight Archer and Arianna with Brenden in Silph Co>Fight Giovanni again at the top of Silph Co>Fight Sabrina>Go fight Marowak and get PokeFluteIt feels like a cluster fuck considering you don't have any new areas to really explore and you travel one town over to do all this. Oh and if you try to go South after waking Snorlax your character STOPS and says something like "I feel like I should do something somewhere, etc." So you can't put it off for a bit and go exploring. Its all back to back to back named fights in dungeons all within a 5 level spread because they cap you 1-2 levels per boss at this point. Feels like a train wreck point in the game.