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>first Masuda game
>removed backwards compatibility
>removed day/night
>introduced natures
>introduced EVs
>first game with legendary plot cancer
>first game with intentional joke villains
>first game with friendly, meek rivals
>first game with 3 fucking water HMs
The only thing this game had going for it is Abilities and Doubles, but they even fucked the latter up by not setting them as the standard beforehand.