>>26861767>Added new character,Wow!!! A character that does nothing for the whole game and that you fight -once-! Fucking awesome. Scott was more of a character than him.
>more legendary encountersThat's not true. Only change is Suicune being a NPC instead of a runner.
>You get actually get stuff from phonecallsPic related.
>Ice path was completely re madeIn graphics. That's it.
>Completely reworking spritesYou mean like every Pokemon game with sprites until BW? Fuck, many Pokemon even had their original sprite.
>First ever endless battle facilityPoint taken.
>the rest of the postI'm not even gonna bother. Since you like watching from Bulbapedia so much, do actually look at the Emerald page and compare the worthy things added in both.
You'll see that outside the Battle Tower Crystal comes out with absolutely nothing.